Applications for the 5th edition of the MapBiomas Award are open until April 7, 2023
Entries are now open for the 5th edition of the MapBiomas Award, which will distribute R$80,000 among the winners. What's new this year is the inclusion of two categories: DFeatured Applications in Schools and Actions to Reduce Deforestation. Registration is free and can be done until April 7, 2023 here on the site. The results will be announced in June next year.
Held in partnership with the Ciência Hoje Institute, the MapBiomas Award aims to recognize, encourage and expand the use of data from any of the project's modules or initiatives in Brazil and abroad, by students, teachers, researchers, members of the government, the business sector and civil society in work that develops solutions and contributes to the production of knowledge.
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The new category of Highlight Applications in Schools opens up space for works that use data from any MapBiomas initiative in basic education (nursery, primary or secondary) in teaching materials and lessons, for example, as well as other curricular and extracurricular activities or teaching resources in schools. The special category Actions to Reduce Deforestation aims to recognize works that use data from any MapBiomas initiative to support actions to reduce, combat and monitor deforestation.
For Julia Shimbo, MapBiomas' scientific coordinator, the expansion of the award's categories is intended to reflect the growing diversity of use of open data produced under different initiatives and projects: MapBiomas Brasil, MapBiomas Amazônia, MapBiomas Chaco, MapBiomas Bosque Atlantico, MapBiomas Pampa Sul-Americano, MapBiomas Indonesia, MapBiomas Alerta, MapBiomas Fogo, MapBiomas Água, MapBiomas Árida or the GeoCovid MapBiomas portal. "MapBiomas was born on the principle that science should be open, accessible and usable in order to generate a positive impact. Each edition of the award proves this premise to be true: the use of the data generated by MapBiomas has grown and diversified year after year. That's why, since last year, we have created new categories to recognize and encourage use beyond the scientific community," he explains.
With the new additions, this edition will have a record six categories: General, Youth, Application in Public Policies, Application in Business, Application in Schools and Actions to Combat Deforestation. A total of eight papers will be chosen for their consistency, relevance, originality, innovation and potential for technical-scientific, socio-economic, environmental and public policy impact.
Entries for the MapBiomas Prize can include unpublished work or work produced throughout 2022, such as studies, articles, monographs, dissertations, theses or reports, either individually or as co-authors, by students at school, technical level, undergraduate or postgraduate level, teachers, professionals from private companies or NGOs, public managers, etc. For the categories of public policy, business, schools and actions to combat deforestation, entries do not need to be in the format of a scientific article. There are no age or education restrictions, except for the Young category, which only accepts works by authors who are up to 30 years old and have not yet graduated or will graduate in 2022.