Deadline: 3 August 2018
The Wellcome Trust is seeking applications for its Open Research Fund to support researchers to develop and test innovative ways of making health research open, accessible and reusable.
Funding Information
Open Research Fund funding of up to £50,000 for up to one year.
Activities
- making outputs findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) eg implementing new approaches and standards to help researchers in the same discipline
- developing open platforms or tools eg for combining or repurposing datasets and other research outputs from different locations or disciplines, or for mining vast quantities of research data and content
- improving research reproducibility eg developing tools to package data with code, assessing the reproducibility of published findings or testing new reporting standards
- speeding up ways to find and share data eg using open lab notebooks to share research and collaborate in real-time (or near real-time)
- looking at the role blockchain technology could play in managing and disseminating research outputs and assigning credit
- testing new metrics that offer transparent and fair ways to evaluate open research
- embedding incentives that encourage researchers to adopt open research approaches during research and to share their research outputs
- developing crowdsourcing approaches to increase participation in research eg annotating complex datasets or enabling co-design and development of research projects.
Benefits
- salaries
- development costs
- licensing and computational costs
- activities to manage and share research data, software or materials resulting from their proposed activities
- dissemination and engagement costs
- costs of evaluating their project
- travel costs
- contingency costs, as long as these are reasonable and applicant can justify them
- VAT on fees where the VAT can’t be reclaimed.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can apply to the Open Research Fund if applicant wants to develop, pilot and evaluate innovative approaches to making health research more open.
- These awards are open to individuals or teams of up to six members from anywhere in the world.
- Applicant can apply if applicant are based at:
- an academic research organisation
- a not-for-profit body
- a private sector organisation.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted through the Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker (WTGT).
For more information, please visit Wellcome Trust.