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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Are you an open data champion?
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The 2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge will award up to €34,000 in prizes to the most innovative entries that rely on open biodiversity data or open-source tools from the GBIF network to advance open
science.<br>
Between 9 May and 5 September, individuals and teams can prepare tools and techniques that improve the access, usefulness and quality of open biodiversity data and submit them to this open-ended incentive competition. Challenge entries may choose to develop
new applications, visualizations, methods, workflows or analyses, or build on and extend existing tools and features.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">More information available at:
<a href="https://www.gbif.org/news/1GQURfK5jS4Iq4O06Y0EK4/2018-gbif-ebbe-nielsen-challenge-seeks-open-data-innovations-for-biodiversity">
https://www.gbif.org/news/1GQURfK5jS4Iq4O06Y0EK4/2018-gbif-ebbe-nielsen-challenge-seeks-open-data-innovations-for-biodiversity</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Send questions or requests for clarifications to
<a href="mailto:ENChallenge@gbif.org">ENChallenge@gbif.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">With Best Regards<br>
Maheva<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">...........................<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Maheva Bagard Laursen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Programme coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">GBIF Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Universitetsparken 15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">2100 Copenhagen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Denmark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Phone: +45-35335978<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">e-mail: <a href="mailto:mblaursen@gbif.org">
<span style="color:blue">mblaursen@gbif.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Skype: mahevalaursen <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.gbif.org/"><span style="color:blue">www.gbif.org</span></a>
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