<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-aju" style="display:flex;float:none;height:80px;padding:0px 16px;min-width:40px;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-aCi" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear members of the Belgian GBIF mailing list,</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;min-width:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:initial;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:td" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem;overflow-x:hidden"><div id="gmail-:wk" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="direction:initial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:auto hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:22px">Call opens for submissions to 2024 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge</span><br></div><div><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">The <a href="https://www.gbif.org/news/1uT1VeEizvCuXgwpicaciq/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(23,92,161);text-decoration-line:none">call for submissions</a> to the 2024<strong> </strong><a href="https://www.gbif.org/ebbe" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(23,92,161);text-decoration-line:none">Ebbe Nielsen Challenge</a> is now open with the aim of recognizing innovative tools, both new and existing, that leverage biodiversity data from the GBIF network to advance open science in support of research and policy.<br><br>An expert jury will judge entries on their relevance, novelty and quality to select a pool of winners to share a prize pool of up to €20,000.<br><br><em>Submission deadline</em><br><strong>14 August 2024, 23:59 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)</strong></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><strong><br></strong></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><strong>More info: </strong><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/gbif/2024-ebbe-nielsen-challenge-call-12707084?e=14166f07ab" target="_blank">https://mailchi.mp/gbif/2024-ebbe-nielsen-challenge-call-12707084?e=14166f07ab</a></span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Kind regards,</span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dimitri</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.biodiversity.be" target="_blank">Belgian BiodiversityPlatform </a></span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Dimitri Brosens </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(73,74,76);font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif"><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116" target="_blank">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116</a></span></p><div></div><span style="color:rgb(73,74,76);font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"></span><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#f79646">Biodiversity Research
Liaison Officer</span></p><p><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><font color="#38761d">GBIF Node Manager</font></span></p><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://oscibio.inbo.be/blog/" target="_blank">Open science lab for biodiversity</a></span><br></div>

Research Institute for Nature and Forest<br>Havenlaan 88 bus 73<br>1070 Brussels<p><span style="font-size:10pt">ORCID: </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px">0000-0002-0846-9116</span></p><p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://www.inbo.be/" target="_blank">www.inbo.be</a><br></span><a href="http://www.biodiversity.be/" style="font-size:10pt" target="_blank">www.biodiversity.be</a><br><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><a href="mailto:d.brosens@biodiversity.be" target="_blank">d.brosens@biodiversity.be</a></span></p><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#45818e" size="1"><b>WATCH OUR BELGIAN BIODIVERSITY PLATFORM MOVIES ON:</b></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#45818e" size="1"><a href="http://vimeo.com/114955090" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/114955090</a> (data publication activities)</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#45818e" size="1"><a href="http://vimeo.com/114955160" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/114955160</a> (science-policy activities)</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#45818e" size="1"><a href="http://vimeo.com/114955193" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/114955193</a> (our general mission)</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><img src="https://www.biodiversity.be/5127/download" width="200" height="95"><br></div><p><img width="420" height="63" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zn3bglHVAwANM9nw-I1rTKSOUUrjJcMXc0mF_xQs2IPnf4OQtojwXbzXotGUK0Kn1_JGWJuCs"> </p><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br><br></div>

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