19 June 2024
The call for proposals for Open Science Infrastructure is now open. Interested parties can apply for funding for the improvement or development or of digital infrastructures that support open science. With a budget of 12.5 million euros, it is Open Science NL's largest funding programme to date.
"We are happy to launch this ambitious call. It is a broad programme that can meet many different needs of the community," says Open Science NL director Hans de Jonge. Besides the scope, there is another new aspect to the call, he says. "It is the first call in which we explicitly ask applicants to jointly focus on improvements of solutions which already exist. This not only helps make the current infrastructures more connected and sustainable, but also creates an opportunity for people to collaborate and exchange ideas and share expertise. This leads to improved solutions that we hope will significantly advance the open science movement in the Netherlands and benefit the entire community.”
With the programme, Open Science NL aims to help the research community in the Netherlands address the various needs that exist in the field of digital infrastructure. The programme focuses on the full breadth of the open science agenda. There is room for both generic applications, i.e., not specific to a domain or scientific discipline, and applications addressing the needs of a specific research domain.
Applications may be aimed at specific research outputs, such as:
- open acces publications;
- research software;
- data;
- hardware;
- creative products;
- replication studies;
- etcetera.
But applications related to specific open science practices are also welcome, e.g. focusing on:
- citizen science;
- societal engagement;
- reproducibility;
- pre-registration;
- open peer review;
- etcetera.
Read more here