New GBIF Prizes: Ebbe Nielsen and Young Researcher

GBIF presently welcomes nominations and proposals for both the Ebbe Nielsen Prize and Young Researcher Awards. 

You can download the calls here (Ebbe Nielsen) and here (Young Researcher Award).

good luck! 

GBIF invites nominations for the 2012 Ebbe Nielsen Prize, awarded annually to a person or team who demonstrates excellence in combining biodiversity informatics and biosystematics research.

The €30,000 award is intended to allow the recipient(s) to engage in biosystematics/biodiversity informatics research outside his/her/their country of residence for a period of 3-6 months.

GBIF invites proposals from graduate students for the 2012 Young Researchers Award. This prize intends to foster innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics.

Two awards of €4,000 will be available to graduate students in a master’s or doctoral programme at a university in a GBIF Voting Participant or Associate Participant country.

You can read more on the GBIF website  here (Ebbe Nielsen) and here (Young Researcher Award).