An expert panel has picked four node collaborations to share more than €73,500 in funding through the 2025 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP). The annual grant programme—funded through GBIF's core budget—encourages collaboration, mentoring and knowledge-sharing across the GBIF Participant network with the aim of strengthening biodiversity data mobilization capacity and skills at regional and global scales.
The selected projects were chosen through a competitive process that identified areas best aligned with the objectives of the 2025 Nodes implementation plan. Together, these projects address a range of biodiversity data priorities through activities including:
- Promoting the implementation of the FAIR principles
- Enhancing data mobilization capacity in underrepresented regions
- Hosting knowledge-exchange forums, workshops and conferences
- Enhancing data-sharing networks within the private sector
- Training stakeholders in data collection, analysis and sharing
- Expanding awareness and usage of camera traps
- Translating biodiversity resources
- Developing new training materials
2025 CESP projects
| Project name | Lead participant and partners | CESP funding |
|---|---|---|
| Increasing the use of camera traps for biodiversity monitoring through translated materials in Latin America | GBIF Uruguay GBIF Colombia • GBIF Costa Rica • GBIF Mexico |
€18,600 |
| Biodiversity data capacity building in Lithuania | GBIF Sweden Vilnius University, Life Sciences Center, Institute of Biosciences, Department of Zoology • Nature Research Center • Vilnius and Kaunas Tadas Ivanauskas Museum of Zoology |
€15,800 |
| Engaging the private sector for biodiversity data mobilization across Southern Africa | GBIF Zimbabwe GBIF Malawi • Endangered Wildlife Trust • GBIF Colombia • GBIF Netherlands |
€19,100 |
| Expanding FAIR biodiversity data practices in Central Asia via regional workshops and collaborative networks | GBIF Uzbekistan GBIF Norway • GBIF Tajikistan • Karaganda Buketov University • Astana Botanical Garden Institute of Biology, KNAS • Ministry of Health and Medical Industry • National Herbarium Fund of Turkmenistan (ASH) • Bukhara State University • Namangan State University • Tashkent State Pedagogic University named after Nizami • Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan • Jizzakh State Pedagogical University • Kokand State Pedagogical Institute • Institute of Agrobiotechnologies and Food Safety |
€20,000 |
About the Capacity Enhancement Support Programme
The Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP) provides annual funding to support activities that include mentoring, regional training and events, and the development of documentation. Since the programme's establishment in 2014, GBIF has awarded more than €850,000 to 61 capacity enhancement projects that have leveraged more than €1 million in co-funding.