Events

As every year, the GBIF Secretariat, on behalf of the network of National Participants (including Spain), has opened the call for applications for the Young Investigator Award 2021. This call is aimed at graduate students who wish to work with GBIF biodiversity data in their master's or doctoral studies. The main objective is to recognize and encourage innovative research and discoveries in the field of biodiversity informatics by graduate students. This year the program will award two prizes of €5,...

Many open data initiatives have taken advantage of the end of the summer and the return to school to launch competitions to promote the creation of value services based on open data. In addition to the recent launch of the Aporta 2020 Challenge, which on this occasion focuses on solving the challenges associated with the education sector, new editions of competitions such as BiscayAPP, the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge and the Castilla y León Open Data Competition have just closed their registration...

One more year, the Aporta Initiative launches the Aporta Challenge, a competition aimed at promoting the creation of solutions based on public sector information, which help solve challenges in specific sectors that affect society as a whole. This time, the chosen sector is education. A teaching model based on data and disruptive technologies The current context of a global pandemic has marked a before and after in the education sector. Although there has been talk for years about the benefits of...

The BiscayTIK Foundation and the Biscay Provincial Council are organising the BiscayAPP challenge, whose the main aim is to reward the best proposals for web or mobile applications that provide some kind of service for organisations and citizens through the use of open data. The additional purpose of this challenge is to disseminate the resources of the Council as vectors for the attraction and promotion of Biscay. What requirements must be met? Any natural or legal person may submit one or more...