Mapbiomas Award
Launch of the 5th Edition of the MapBiomas Award
The 5th Edition of the MapBiomas Award, held in partnership with Instituto Ciência Today, it aims to stimulate applications and works that use data from any MapBiomas initiative, module or product, including initiatives from other countries like MapBiomas Amazônia, Chaco, Bosque Atlântico, Pampa South American and Indonesia. To understand a little more about the initiatives, visit: brasil.mapbiomas.org/initiatives.
MapBiomas will award 8 (eight) works, in a total of prizes of BRL 80,000 (eighty thousand reais). In this edition, in addition to the General, Young, Highlight Applications in Public Policies and in Business, the works can compete for two new categories: Applications in Schools and Combat Actions to Deforestation.
The deadline for submitting papers is March 31, 2023.
Discover the categories
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Any work eligible for the MapBiomas Award can compete in this category.
Only works whose author is up to 30 years old and has not yet completed graduation or graduated during 2022. -
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.
Award
Winners in each category will be awarded 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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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
