Participate and win prizes!
Instagram contest bases
- During the BioMARató there will be 4 Instagram draws that will be coordinated from the @biomarato account.
- To participate in the draws you must be over 18 years old.
- All steps will be checked.
- No link will be required to register and the winner will be notified only through the @biomarato account and never through any other profile.
- A gift “voucher” will be delivered to the person by direct message and they will have to contact the entity.
- The draw will be held with the AppsSorteos platform and will be published in Story format.
- Any person with a work relationship with the ICM-CSIC or the mobilizing and collaborating entities will not be eligible for the raffle prize.
Who is eligible for the prizes?
Anyone who meets the following requirements can participate in the BioMARathon:
- Be over 18 years old
- Have a user on the MINKA citizen science platform
- Have participated in the BioMARató 2024 by uploading a minimum of 10 different observations of marine and coastal biodiversity to MINKA and that these have reached the research level and have been included in the MINKA platform project
- Having made the observations between May 1, 2024 and October 15, 2024 on the coasts of Catalonia, in the provinces of Barcelona, Tarragona and Girona.
- Observations must be uploaded to the platform through a personal account.
- Each participant can only qualify for one prize.
The following are excluded and will not be eligible for the prizes:
- Natural persons who upload their observations to MINKA on the account of an entity, company or other type of institution and not on a personal individual account.
- Natural persons employed or linked at work with any of the organizing or collaborating institutions of the BioMARató.
Categories and prizes
Global
Participating people providing more observations who have obtained the research degree and who are located anywhere on the coast of Catalonia
1st PRIZE
Gift voucher valued at €200 to buy equipment at a Cressi brand store.
2nd PRIZE
Gift voucher valued at €100 to buy equipment at a Cressi brand store.
3rd PRIZE
Gift voucher valued at €50 to buy equipment at a Cressi brand store.
Barcelona province
Participating people providing more observations with a research degree and who are located in the province of Barcelona
1st PRIZE
1 diving excursion to observe gorgonians in Barcelona with FECDAS (*if the winning person does not have the required qualifications, a snorkeling excursion will be made in the baths of the Forum).
2nd PRIZE
2 scuba diving lessons in Barcelona with a marine biology workshop included, with Anellides and Free and Divers (*between May and October 2025).
3rd PRIZE
1 copy of the “BCN FISHES” board game, courtesy of Annellides.
1 copy of “Barcelonès Marine Participatory Guide”, courtesy of Anèllides.
Tarragona province
Participating people providing more observations with a research degree and who are located in the province of Tarragona
1st PRIZE
1 place for the phanerógam sampling training course (Posidonia oceanica and Cymodocea nodosa) with scientific immersion within the ENDÈMICS PROJECT (study of phanerógams on the Vendrell beaches, in collaboration with Rovira i Virgili University, the technical team of protected marine areas of MITECO and the Vendrell City Council). Courtesy of the Oceanic Association.
1 place for the “Introduction to Marine Biology” course, with Plankton Diving.
2nd PRIZE
1 place for guided diving from a boat with the Oceanic Association (between May and October 2025).
2 places for scuba diving with Plankton Diving (between May and October 2025).
3rd PRIZE
1 place for guided diving from the beach with the Oceanic Association (between May and October 2025).
2 places for guided snorkeling with Plankton Diving (between May and October 2025).
Girona province
Participating people providing more observations with a research degree and who are located in the province of Girona
1st PRIZE
1 place for a diving trip to the Medes Islands with the ANERIS project (FECDAS) (*advanced qualification required)
2nd PRIZE
1 place for a diving trip to Platja d’Aro with the ANERIS project (FECDAS) (*advanced qualification required)
3rd PRIZE
1 copy of the book “Practical guide for photographing nudibranchs from the Spanish coast: 247 species from the Mediterranean, Cantabrian coast, North Atlantic and Canary Islands” by Xavier Salvador (researcher at ICM-CSIC)
Random
Random prize draw at the end of the season among all participating individuals who have not won an overall or provincial prize
1 place for the scientific diving course taught by the FECDAS (*advanced qualification required)
5 places in the underwater photography online course taught by biologist Xavier Salvador (ICM-CSIC).
7 places for guided snorkelling with the research team of the ICM-CSIC organizer of the BioMARató (the award winners will be able to choose which of the three provinces they want to go to)
BioMARató 2024 bases
The owner of this competition is the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) of the Superior Council of Scientific Research, hereinafter the organizers, whose purpose is to draw prizes among the participants of the BioMARató.
All natural persons who meet the conditions established in the following bases may participate:
All natural persons who have a user on the MINKA citizen science platform (www.minka-sdg.org) and who have participated in the BioMARató 2024 by uploading a minimum of 10 different observations of marine and coastal biodiversity and have included in the following project within MINKA.
These observations must be made between May 6 and October 15, 2024 on the coast of Catalonia, in the provinces of Barcelona, Tarragona and Girona.
The purpose of these rules is to establish the essential terms and conditions for the development and participation of this competition.
The participants, by the mere fact of participating in this contest, unconditionally and fully accept the rules, as well as the criteria of the organizers for the resolution of any issue arising from the interpretation and execution of these rules.
The bases are published on the BioMARató’s own URL: www.biomarato.com
The communication of the competition will be carried out through the official channels of Facebook, Instagram, newsletter and the web pages of the organizers.
Only natural persons with users within the MINKA citizen science platform can choose to win some of the prizes in this competition.
RESTRICTIONS:
The following are excluded from this competition and will not be eligible for prizes:
Those natural persons who upload their observations to MINKA on the account of an entity, company or other type of institution and not an individual account.
Natural persons employed or linked at work with any of the organizing or collaborating institutions of the BioMARató 2024.
The participation period is from May 6, 2024 at 12:01 a.m. to October 15, 2024 at 11:59 p.m., Spanish Peninsular Time. Once the BioMARató has ended, observations made within the dates of the BioMARató can be uploaded, during the 15 days following its end.
Five categories of participation are established:
Province of Barcelona: participants contributing more observations who have obtained the research degree and who are located in the province of Barcelona
Girona province: participants providing more observations who have obtained the research degree and who are located in the province of Girona
Tarragona province: participants providing more observations who have obtained the research degree and who are located in the province of Tarragona
Global: participants contributing more observations who have obtained the research degree and who are located anywhere on the coast of Catalonia
Random prizes at the end of the season: all participants of the BioMARató 2024, except those who have already obtained a prize in the other classifications.
Individuals who wish to participate must upload a minimum of 10 observations of marine or coastal species made on the coast of Catalonia. These observations must be from different organizations and must be made between May 6 and October 15, 2024. Likewise, these observations must be uploaded by the participant to the MINKA citizen science platform and that these observations have achieved the research degree. If you upload multiple observations of the same specimen individually instead of unifying the photos in a single observation, these may be marked as random and not counted in this contest.
The jury will be made up of a representative from each of the collaborating entities of BioMARató 2024, with 4 members in total.
For the selection of the winners, the jury will take into account:
Barcelona category: total number of observations in the province of Barcelona that have achieved the research degree within the MINKA citizen science platform.
Girona category: total number of observations in the province of Girona that have reached the research level within the MINKA citizen science platform
Tarragona category: total number of observations of different species in the province of Tarragona and which have achieved the research degree within the MINKA citizen science platform.
Global Category: total number of observations on the coast of Catalonia that have reached the level of research within the MINKA citizen science platform.
The authenticity of the observations and the absence of plagiarism or usurpation of these observations to another user is assumed. Any breach of these requirements will be sufficient reason for the exclusion of comments from the competition and the MINKA platform and a warning to the participant.
The decision will be final, and the mere fact of participating in the contest implies full acceptance and compliance with it.
The organizers will publish the names of the winners on the BioMARató website (www.biomarato.com) and will contact the winners through the MINKA citizen science platform.
The organizers will announce the winners at the end of October or the beginning of November and the award ceremony will take place at the award ceremony organized by the organizing bodies of the BioMARató. If the winners could not attend the collection of prizes during the delivery ceremony on that day, they will have to contact the organizers to schedule a new delivery date, paying the shipping costs if they were borne by the award winner
The organizers will also select reserves for all categories, especially for random prizes, in case the winners cannot be contacted or if they breach any term of these rules, whose names may be published on the website on 6 November 2024 and you will be notified of your winning status via message within the MINKA Citizen Science Platform.
The winners will have a period of 5 working days, from the notification of their award status, to contact the organizers, and express their acceptance of the prize obtained, at which time they will be informed of the procedure to formalize the award.
It will be essential for the acceptance of the prize that the winners send a communication as they accept the prize. If the acceptance period has passed without the recipient having contacted the organizers, it will be understood that they renounce the prize without any compensation for this resignation.
In the event that one of the winners does not proceed to accept the prize in accordance with the established procedure, or if it is detected that he has breached any of the participation requirements set out in these rules, the organizers will proceed to inform the alternate that he has been selected as the new winner of the contest. Once the new winner is published, the procedure will be in accordance with that established for the first winner.
In the event that, having resorted to substitutes, none of the selected has accepted the prize or they are invalid under the criteria of these rules, the competition is considered deserted on November 30, 2024.
Likewise, if any of the winners or, if applicable, the substitutes could not be located/contacted, the contest will be held by default on November 30, 2024.
In the case of the categories of the provinces of Barcelona, Tarragona and Girona, the same participant cannot win more than one prize in one of these categories. In the event that a participant is the winner in two different categories within the Barcelona, Girona and Tarragona categories, the members of the jury will decide in which single category the winner is, always choosing the one with the best position for the prize winner.
A random prize will be drawn from among all contest participants who meet the criteria described herein. These random prizes will be drawn once a week, specifically they will be drawn on Monday of each week from July 8 to September 27, 2024.
The organizers will contact the winner of the monthly random prize through the MINKA platform and the winners will be published on the BioMARató website on the same day of the draw. The winners will have a period of 5 working days, from the notification of their award status, to get in touch with the organizers, and express their acceptance of the prize obtained, at which time you will be informed of the procedure to formalize the award
It will be essential for the acceptance of the prize that the winners send a communication as they accept the prize. If the acceptance period has passed without the recipient having contacted the organizers, it will be understood that they renounce the prize without any compensation for this resignation.
In the event that one of the winners does not proceed to accept the prize in accordance with the established procedure, or if it is detected that he has breached any of the participation requirements set out in these rules, the organizers will proceed to inform the alternate that he has been selected as the new winner of the contest.
Once the new winner is published, the procedure will be in accordance with that established for the first winner.
Each participant can win a maximum of 1 prize: corresponding to the Random permit category, a prize in the provincial categories (Barcelona, Girona and Tarragona) or a prize in the Global category. The winners in each category will be published on the BioMARató website, as well as in other materials explaining the results of the BioMARató project, such as infographics, articles, etc.
Girona Awards: The three winners with the most observations with a research degree will receive the following awards:
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Barcelona Awards: The three winners with the most observations with a research degree will receive the following awards:
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Tarragona Prizes: The three winners with the most research grade observations will receive the following prizes:
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Global Awards: The three winners with the most research grade observations will receive the following awards:
soon
Random Prizes:
soon
The acceptance of any of the prizes of this competition implies the assignment, with an exclusive and transferable character, without territorial or temporal limitation and free of charge, to the organizers of all rights of use, distribution, exploitation, export, diffusion, publication or by any other means and through any support that the organizers consider appropriate for the observations linked to obtaining the prize.
This information may be used both in the scope of this competition and in any other promotion in which it is considered appropriate to refer to this competition, for advertising or promotional purposes, including its publication on the websites and social networks of the organizers and in any media, without the right to any financial consideration.
The organizers are exonerated from all responsibility in the event of a malfunction of the electronic communication networks that prevent the normal development of the draw for reasons outside the company and especially for external acts of bad faith. Nor will the organizing company be responsible for transmission problems or loss of data not attributable to it.
The organizers reserve the right to justifiably eliminate any participant who defrauds, alters or disables the proper functioning and normal and regulatory course of the present, as well as the resolution of any issue arising from the present activity.
The organizers reserve the right to modify the conditions of this draw prior to appropriate authorizations or corresponding administrative communications.
The organizers reserve the right to make any changes, suspend or extend this promotion whenever there is a cause that justifies it, including non-compliance with the levels of participation foreseen when preparing the BioMARató promotion campaign 2024, without this implying a duty of compensation of any kind.
Winners General 2023
- Miquel Pontes
- Josep de Gea
- Edu Alcaniz
Winners Girona 2023
- Miquel Pontes
- Josep de Gea
- Enric Badosa
Winners Barcelona 2023
- Edu Alcaniz
- Nuria González
- Jose Manuel Astals
Guanyadors Tarragona 2023
- Monique Mendoza
- Eva Ramírez
- Guillem Mayor
Random winners 2023
- Sorteig 14 juliol: 1 Guia de camp: Fauna i flora de la mar Mediterrània – Enric Ballesteros i Toni Llobet – Usuari MINKA guanyador: Jaume
- Sorteig 21 juliol: 1 plaça al curs online de fotografia subaquàtica amb Xavier Salvador – Usuari MINKA guanyador: Alexander_odf
- Sorteig 24 juliol: 1 plaça al curs online de fotografia subaquàtica amb Xavier Salvador – Usuari MINKA guanyador: Ealcaniz
- Sorteig 28 juliol: 1 Guia de camp: Fauna i flora de la mar Mediterrània – Enric Ballesteros i Toni Llobet Usuari MINKA guanyador: adriacompte
- Sorteig 4 agost: 1 plaça al curs online de fotografia subaquàtica amb Xavier Salvador –Usuari MINKA guanyador: miquel17300
- Sorteig 11 agost: 1 Guia de camp: Fauna i flora de la mar Mediterrània – Enric Ballesteros i Toni Llobet –Usuari MINKA guanyador: monyant
- Sorteig 18 agost: 1 plaça al curs online de fotografia subaquàtica amb Xavier Salvador –Usuari MINKA guanyador: nuriasireni
- Sorteig 25 agost: 1 Guia de camp: Fauna i flora de la mar Mediterrània – Enric Ballesteros i Toni Llobet –Usuari MINKA guanyador: okeanoslife
- Sorteig 1 setembre: 1 Guia de camp: Fauna i flora de la mar Mediterrània – Enric Ballesteros i Toni Llobet-Usuari MINKA guanyador: josepdegea
- Sorteig 15 setembre: 1 plaça al curs de busseig científic de FECDAS (es requereix titulació de busseig) –Usuari MINKA guanyador: nooaa06
- Sorteig 18 setembre: 1 plaça al curs online de fotografia subaquàtica amb Xavier Salvador –Usuari MINKA guanyador: azcaratetomas
- Sorteig 22 setembre: 1 Guia de camp: Fauna i flora de la mar Mediterrània – Enric Ballesteros i Toni Llobet –Usuari MINKA guanyador: mpontes