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    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:

    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)