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---
title: TerraMind Community
emoji: 🌍 🧠
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# TerraMind Innovators Award 🌍✨  

A **bi-monthly challenge** spotlighting the boldest, most imaginative ways to push TerraMind beyond “just another fine-tune”. 
Whether you’re prototyping a new multi-modal workflow, exploring Thinking-in-Modalities, or inventing a never-seen geospatial application, we want you to share it with everyone.

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## 🎯 What’s in it for you?
* **€1 000 cash** for each round winner (June, August, October, December).  
* **Grand Final Prize** — Community prestige and more, decided in January from the four round winners.  
* Potential publication in a joint wrap-up paper with all winners and broad visibility across IBM, ESA, and the EO community.

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## 🗓️ 2025 Timeline  

| Round | Submission deadline (Anywhere-on-Earth) | Pitch & Winner Announcement |
|-------|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------|
| 1 | **30 Jun 2025** | Early July |
| 2 | **31 Aug 2025** | Early September |
| 3 | **31 Oct 2025** | Early November |
| 4 | **31 Dec 2025** | Early January 2026 |
| **Grand Final** | — | Mid-January 2026 |

You can **submit or update** an entry at any time; it simply rolls into the next open round until it wins or the challenge ends.

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## 🚀 What we’re looking for

1. **Originality & Impact** – the primary judging criteria. Show us something genuinely new or game-changing for the geospatial community.  
2. **Technical Quality** – sound methodology, thoughtful experiments, clear visuals.  
3. **Extension of TerraMind** – creative use of multi-modal inputs, generative outputs, TiM chains, etc.  
4. **Open Science & Reproducibility** – **mandatory**. Share code, models, and data splits (or a clear plan for restricted data).

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## 📬 How to submit
1. Start a **new discussion** in the [Community](https://huggingface.co/spaces/ibm-esa-geospatial/community/discussions) tab and describe your solution.
2. Keep it under **1 000 words** – include images, tables, and a clear **contact email**.
3. Link your repository, longer blog, or paper.
4. That’s it – we’ll reach out if you’re selected for the pitch.

We shared an example [here](todo).

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## 🏆 Selection process
* After each deadline, the jury short-lists **three** entries for a short online pitch (10 min presentation + 10 min discussion).  
* One winner is declared; non-winners remain eligible for later rounds.
* The four round winners face off in the **Grand Final** for the overall prize.

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## 📝 Rules

* **Use TerraMind:** your solution **must** leverage the TerraMind model.
* **One win per team / individual:** you can only win **one** round, but feel free to keep sharing new ideas with the community.
* **Grand-final refinement:** each round winner may refine their project before the final prize decision.


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## 👩‍⚖️ Jury
Experts from IBM, ESA, and independent researchers with backgrounds in geospatial AI.

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### Need a spark?

Check out the ideas of the [Community](https://huggingface.co/spaces/ibm-esa-geospatial/community/discussions) and leave a reaction or comment if you like them.

### Have a question?
Open a new discussion titled **`[Question] topic`** in the Community tab.

Ready? **Share your breakthrough and claim the next TerraMind Innovators Award!**