The MapBiomas Award reaches its 8th edition, reaffirming its commitment to science, socio-environmental justice, and the promotion of diversity. In addition to recognizing initiatives that use MapBiomas data to advance conservation, sustainable management, and the fight against climate change, this year introduces a new category: the Special Category Traditional Peoples and Communities. Created to honor researchers historically underrepresented in science, this category highlights the work of Indigenous peoples, quilombolas, and members of other traditional communities.
The award is open to students, researchers, professors, consultants, NGOs, private sector professionals, and public managers. A wide range of work can be submitted: studies, articles, dissertations, reports, and other initiatives that demonstrate the qualified use of MapBiomas data.
If you are creating positive impact through data and want to turn knowledge into action, this is your opportunity! Join this network of transformation. Read the call for submissions and apply to the 8th edition of the MapBiomas Award!
Learn more about the categories
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Any work eligible for the MapBiomas Award can compete in this category. Works submitted in other categories automatically also compete in the General Category. -
Only works whose author(s) are up to 30 years old and have either not yet completed their undergraduate degree or graduated in 2023. -
Papers that use data from any MapBiomas initiative in public policy projects. -
Papers that use data from any MapBiomas initiative in businesses that contribute to the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. -
Papers that use data from any MapBiomas initiative to support actions to reduce, combat and monitor deforestation. -
Works that use data from any MapBiomas initiative in basic education (kindergarten, elementary or high school), such as, for example, in teaching materials, classes and other curricular and extracurricular activities or teaching resources in schools. -
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Award
Awards for each category were distributed as follows:
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General Category
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1st
PLACE
Value of R$ 15,000.00 Fifteen thousand reais
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2nd
PLACE
Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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1st
PLACE
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Young Category
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1st
PLACE
Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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2nd
PLACE
Value of R$ 5,000.00 Five thousand reais
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1st
PLACE
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Highlight Applications in Public Policies
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Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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Highlight Applications in Business
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Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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Highlight Applications in Schools
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Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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Actions to Reduce Deforestation
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Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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Climate Emergencies Category
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Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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Peoples and Traditional Communities Category
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Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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All winners will be awarded an annual subscription to Revista Ciência Hoje Digital, in addition to a scholarship to take a course on Geoprocessing of satellite images using Google Earth Engine promoted by Solved, and the production of a short video (up to 2 minutes ) about the winning work.
If you have any questions, please send an email to premio@mapbiomas.org
Previous editions
All winners of previous editions
