News 2025

The call for proposals for the 2026 GBIF Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP) is now open. CESP co-funds collaborative projects led by GBIF participant nodes to strengthen capacity for mobilizing, managing, and using biodiversity data across the network.Participants should submit short concept notes through the GBIF Grants Portal by January [...]

A Swedish translation of the policy brief Why countries need the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): lessons from Belgium is now available. The brief uses Belgium’s long-term engagement in GBIF to show how national participation in a global biodiversity data infrastructure strengthens research, supports policy and management, and enables wide reuse of openly shared species occurrence data.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have launched the VectorNet Data Portal, providing a central access point to validated European occurrence data for vectors such as mosquitoes, ticks, sand flies, and biting midges. The portal leverages GBIF’s hosted portal infrastructure [...]

GBIF Sweden will participate in the upcoming webinar “Open Data – a Resource for Academia,” organized by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and DIGG, the Agency for Digital Government. The event will take place on 17 October 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and will be held online.

We are pleased to announce that Veronika A. Johansson, Node Manager for GBIF Sweden, has been elected Deputy Regional Representative for the Europe and Central Asia region of GBIF.The election followed the agreed procedures for the region, and with her candidacy confirmed, Veronika will begin her two-year term on 1 [...]

A new version of ChatIPT, a chatbot developed by GBIF Norway, is now available for testing. The tool is designed to help non-technical users publish biodiversity data to GBIF, lowering the threshold for researchers, students, and institutions that may not have prior experience with data publishing.ChatIPT provides an accessible interface [...]

Use of GBIF-mediated data in science continues to grow across both disciplines and geography. In the first three months of 2025 alone, GBIF logged a 27 per cent increase in papers using open biodiversity data compared to the same period the year before.The newly released GBIF Science Review No. 12 [...]

GBIF Sweden is pleased to announce that we have been awarded funding from GBIF’s Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP) for the project Biodiversity data capacity building in Lithuania.

A new study published in Nature Scientific Data presents unprecedented insights into insect biodiversity in Sweden and Madagascar. The results, emerging from the Insect Biome Atlas (IBA) project, demonstrate the vast diversity of insect life through a large-scale DNA metabarcoding survey. All data from the study are now openly available through the GBIF network.

May 22 marks the International Day for Biological Diversity – a moment to reflect on the importance of preserving the diversity of life on Earth, from species and ecosystems to genetic resources. This year’s theme, “Be Part of the Plan”, reminds us that everyone – from researchers and decision-makers to [...]

A new service developed by GBIF.org introduces Biodiversity Data Cubes, offering a powerful and flexible way to access and analyze species occurrence data using SQL-based queries.

GBIF Sweden is pleased to support Biodiversity Beyond Linnaeus, an initiative by the Museum of Evolution (Evolutionsmuseet) at Uppsala University to strengthen research, collection care, and public engagement with biodiversity. The project aims to revitalize the museum’s collections, increase their accessibility through digitization, and link them to global infrastructures such [...]

GBIF Sweden is contributing to global One Health efforts by supporting the mobilization and publication of datasets on disease vectors, such as mosquitoes and ticks. This initiative is coordinated by the GBIF Secretariat’s Thematic Help Desk on Vector Data, which focuses on improving access to openly available, high-quality data that [...]

Today, 25 March, marks the launch of Researchdata.se, a new national web portal designed to make it easier for researchers to find, share, and reuse research data across various disciplines.

GBIF Sweden will participate in the upcoming SciLifeLab course “Best Practices for Reference Genome Generation”

GBIF Sweden is actively working to bridge the gap between biodiversity and the private sector by improving access to biodiversity data for businesses. Leveraging biodiversity data enables companies to make more sustainable decisions while also contributing to research and a deeper understanding of ecological systems by sharing their own data. [...]

Deadline to nominate graduate students whose innovative research relies on biodiversity data: 13 June 2025

Call to submit entries to GBIF's annual incentive competition with €20,000 in prizes. Deadline: 7 September 2025