Five new proposals have been selected to receive funding through the Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP) for projects to be carried out over the next year aimed at addressing specific needs identified by GBIF Participants by facilitating collaboration at regional and global levels.
Collectively involving institutions from 14 participant countries and organizations, the projects were selected among 12 proposals and cover activities from node mentoring to extending knowledge and strengthening skills of data holders and publishers through workshops and documentation.
In total, the five selected projects will receive funding of €74,000 from CESP and more than €140,000 in co-funding:
| Project | Lead | Partners | Funding from CESP | Co-funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mentoring of GBIF Cameroon by GBIF Benin and GBIF France | GBIF Cameroon | GBIF Benin GBIF France |
€14,989 | €30,894 |
| Extending knowledge on biodiversity data quality and publication in the Spanish-speaking community | GBIF Argentina | Biodiversidata GBIF Colombia GBIF Costa Rica VertNet |
€14,800 | €27,240 |
| Filling taxonomic and geographic gaps in open data by strengthening skills of the Brazilian zoological collections network | Brazilian Society of Zoology (Associação Brasileira de Zoologia) | Direcção Geral do Ambiente de STP GBIF Angola GBIF Brazil GBIF Portugal Institute of Engineering and Marine Sciences, Technical University of the Atlantic Universidade Eduardo Mondlane |
€15,000 | €50,197 |
| Enhancing capacity of the South Sudan Node | GBIF South Sudan | GBIF Kenya | €14,994 | €5,081 |
| Mentoring of GBIF Armenia by GBIF France | GBIF Armenia | GBIF France | €14,260 | €27,000 |
The annual CESP calls provide co-funding to GBIF Participants for capacity enhancement projects based on combinations of mentoring activities, regional training workshops and documentation—all part of the suite of capacity enhancement activities provided by GBIF, to enable effective mobilization and use of biodiversity information.