The GBIF Governing Board has established the Young Researchers Award to foster innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students who are deploying GBIF-enabled data in master’s and doctoral studies.
Graduate students must be enrolled in a masters or doctoral programme at a university to be eligible to submit a research proposal to the GBIF Young Researcher Award programme. Students must apply through and be nominated by a Head of Delegation (HoD) of a GBIF Participant country. The list of GBIF Participants is available at: http://www.gbif.org/contact/directoryofcontacts.
This year, the programme intends to make two awards of 4,000 Euros each, one to a master’s student and one to a doctoral student.
The deadline for submissions of proposals is 3 March 2015.