GBIF is implementing a Campaign strategy for tackling projects of high priority to user groups, funders and Participants. Campaigns are an important new instrument for GBIF to achieve extended societal and scientific benefits with biodiversity data, and go beyond what the GBIF work programme and budget can reach.

Because Campaigns should be driven by groups of GBIF Participants, and be mainly externally funded, only a group led by Participants can propose a Campaign. However, interested parties may wish to contact Participant delegations to discuss potential campaigns with them.

Participant delegations should send Campaign pre-proposals to gbif@gbif.org by 31 March 2007.

Such pre-proposals should be prepared according to the Call for Pre-proposals, which contains a link to a document that provides guidelines concerning the characteristics of a GBIF Campaign.