Institutional Open Science Capacity Grant
Support for institutions to adopt open science practices — open access, open data, open methods and open educational resources.
About this call
Open science makes research more transparent, reproducible and useful. This grant concept supports institutions to develop open science policies and to build the skills and infrastructure for open access publishing, open data and open methods.
What this call aims to achieve
Expected outcomes
- An adopted institutional open science policy
Impact framework
- Inputs
- Open science expertise; policy templates; training.
- Activities
- Open science readiness assessment; policy development; training; infrastructure guidance.
- Outputs
- Policies adopted; researchers trained.
- Outcomes
- Greater openness and transparency in institutional research.
- Long-term impact
- More trustworthy, accessible and impactful research.
How we will measure it
- Institutions adopting open science policies
- Researchers trained
- Share of outputs made openly available
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