Funding Opportunity: Wellcome Trust Open Research Fund
URL: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/open-research-fund
OBJECTIVES: To support projects that will incentivize researchers to make their health research more open, accessible and reusable. Applicants must propose to trial new tools, resources or ways of working to do this. Examples could include the following:
- Develop and test new metrics to track the impact of making a full range of research outputs open and accessible.
- Pilot new approaches to recognize and reward open research contributions in research assessment processes – including recruitment, promotion, tenure and funding
- Test novel approaches to stimulate or nudge behavior change within or across research fields – for example, developing rewards to recognize good practice.
- Develop and evaluate approaches to embed open research behaviors within organizations or research fields – for example, trialing novel approaches for training researchers or supporting networks of open research ‘champions’.
FUNDING INFORMATION: Up to up to £100,000 for up to two years (inclusive of 15% in indirect costs)
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS: These awards are open to individuals or teams of up to six members, based anywhere in the world. They are not available to individuals or groups whose data is already freely available.
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
As there is not an institutional limit on proposals, the Office of Research will not be holding an internal selection process. Joe Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu) in the Office of Foundation Relations can be contacted with questions.
DEADLINES:
Sponsor Deadlines:
- March 12, 2021: deadline for submission of concept notes
- April 12, 2021: invitations to submit proposals extended
- May 21, 2021: deadline for proposals