News 2026

GBIF Sweden recently contributed to a regional capacity-building workshop in Lithuania, bringing together researchers, data managers and institutions working to mobilize biodiversity data for research and policy.The workshop was organized within the framework of GBIF’s Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP), which supports the development of skills, networks and infrastructure for [...]

A new national initiative, the Swedish Metabarcoding Network (SMN), has been launched to bring together researchers and data producers working with eDNA and metabarcoding across Sweden. The network aims to improve the accessibility and reuse of metabarcoding data by supporting publication of processed biodiversity data in FAIR formats.

The Swedish Museum of Natural History is recruiting a new Director for the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI).

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has opened the call for submissions for the 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge. The challenge promotes innovative uses of open biodiversity data by recognizing the development of tools, workflows, and applications that improve the access, integration, analysis, or reuse of biodiversity information.The Ebbe Nielsen Challenge [...]

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has opened the call for nominations for the 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award. The award recognizes outstanding research by master’s and PhD students whose work uses GBIF-mediated biodiversity data and demonstrates innovation and discovery in biodiversity science and biodiversity informatics.The award is presented annually [...]

The first Biodiversity Monitoring Week (BioMonWeek 2026) will be held in Montpellier, France, from 4 to 8 May 2026. The event is conceived as a new European platform for biodiversity monitoring, bringing together experts from research, policy, public authorities, NGOs, the private sector, and citizen science to strengthen coordination and [...]