[ Wellcome Trust - Open Research Fund | Research Funding]

The Open Research Fund of the Wellcome Trust supports researchers 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 evaluate the impact, benefits and risks of your work. Both new and existing activities will be considered. Interdisciplinary, intersectoral and transnational proposals are encouraged.
 
Examples of eligible activities:

• making outputs findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR)
• developing open platforms or tools
• improving research reproducibility
• speeding up ways to find and share data
• looking at the role blockchain technology could play
• testing new metrics to evaluate open research
• embedding incentives to adopt open research approaches
• developing crowdsourcing to increase participation in research

• Researchers with a PhD or equivalent based at an academic research organisation, a not-for-profit body, a private sector organisation anywhere in the world.
• Individual researchers or teams (up to 6 members).

• Eligible costs: salaries (incl. the PI’s); development costs; licensing and computational costs; activities to manage and share data, software or materials; dissemination and engagement costs; costs of evaluating your project; contingency costs; VAT.
• Non eligible costs: publication costs (incl. open access); overheads; maintenance and support for ongoing running costs of an existing database, software tool or other resource, unless this involves the development of significant new functionality to benefit open research.