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SUMMARY:[ Wellcome Trust - Open Research Fund | Research Funding]
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180807
DTSTAMP:20260507T002117Z
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CATEGORIES:Call for proposal
DESCRIPTION:The Open Research Fund of the Wellcome Trust supports research
 ers who want to develop\, pilot and evaluate innovative approaches to make
  health research open\, accessible and reusable. To be eligible\, you must
  propose to trial innovative tools\, resources or ways of working and to e
 valuate the impact\, benefits and risks of your work. Both new and existin
 g activities will be considered. Interdisciplinary\, intersectoral and tra
 nsnational proposals are encouraged.\n \nExamples of eligible activities:
 \n\n	making outputs findable\, accessible\, interoperable and reusable (FA
 IR)\n	developing open platforms or tools\n	improving research reproducibil
 ity\n	speeding up ways to find and share data\n	looking at the role blockc
 hain technology could play\n	testing new metrics to evaluate open research
 \n	embedding incentives to adopt open research approaches\n	developing cro
 wdsourcing to increase participation in research\n\n \nWho can apply:\n\n
 \n	Researchers with a PhD or equivalent based at an academic research orga
 nisation\, a not-for-profit body\, a private sector organisation anywhere 
 in the world.\n	Individual researchers or teams (up to 6 members).\n\n \n
 Funding & Duration: up to £ 50\,000 for up to 1 year.\n\n\n	Eligible cost
 s: salaries (incl. the PI’s)\; development costs\; licensing and computa
 tional costs\; activities to manage and share data\, software or materials
 \; dissemination and engagement costs\; costs of evaluating your project\;
  contingency costs\; VAT.\n	Non eligible costs: publication costs (incl. o
 pen access)\; overheads\; maintenance and support for ongoing running cost
 s of an existing database\, software tool or other resource\, unless this 
 involves the development of significant new functionality to benefit open 
 research.\n\n \nApplication: apply through the online portal following th
 ese instructions.\n \nDeadline: 7 August 2018\, 17:00 BST (once a year)\n
 Decision: October 2018\n \nFor more information and application\, please 
 have a look at the call webpage.
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