The Young Researchers Award (YRA) is an annual award aimed at fostering innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by encouraging graduate students to use GBIF-mediated data.
Two awards of €4,000 are available to graduate students in a master’s or doctoral programme.
Students must apply through a Head of Delegation of a GBIF Participant country (see the complete list of GBIF Participants), who will forward a maximum of two nominations to the GBIF Secretariat by 15 July 2016.
Review
The GBIF Science Committee will review the nominations and adjudicate the Young Researchers Awards by end of August 2016, with announcement of the awardees at the Governing Board meeting in October 2016 in Brazil.
Review criteria for the proposed research include:
• its originality and innovation;
• its use of and strategic significance for GBIF- enabled data, and
• its measureable effectiveness and impact in advancing biodiversity informatics and/or the conservation of biological diversity.
Declined proposals may be updated and re-submitted in subsequent years’ competitions for the Young Researcher Award.
Awardees are expected to disseminate research results via peer-reviewed publications, presentations at professional meetings, and other media, clearly acknowledging GBIF support.