GBIF Awards
Three award programmes recognize excellence and innovation that demonstrate the utility and relevance of biodiversity data

GBIF's award programmes seek to recognize excellence and innovation in the application of biodiversity data to critical scientific and social issues. The GBIF Secretariat currently administers three awards:
- the Graduate Researchers Award
- the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
- the newly established GBIF Node Awards
Prior its relaunch in 2014-2015 as an incentive challenge, the Secretariat also presented the Ebbe Nielsen Prize, recognizing an individual who demonstrated excellence in combining biodiversity informatics and biosystematics research.
GBIF Awards

Graduate Researchers Award
2026 Global deadline: 29 May

Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
Deadline: 26 June 2026
GBIF Node Awards
Deadline: 15 August 2025 (closed)



