CFP: Open Science Infrastructure

The Dutch national programme for Open Sciene (Open Science NL) has opened a call for funding of Open Science Infrastructure. This call focuses on the development of digital infrastructures that support open science practices. It covers the entire spectrum of open science and is deliberately broad in scope to be inclusive of the community’s diverse digital infrastructure needs.

Applicants can focus on specific types of infrastructure (e.g. non-profit, community-led open access publication platforms/infrastructure), specific types of research outputs (e.g. research software, data, publications, hardware, creative outputs, replication studies, etc.) or specific open science practices (e.g. citizen science, societal engagement, reproducibility, preregistration, open peer review, etc.). Furthermore, applications can be generic (domain- and discipline-agnostic), as well as limited to specific domain(s) of research.  

Who can apply

Applicants (main and co-applicants) must have a permanent or temporary contract (that covers at least the project duration) at one of the following organisations: 

• universities located in the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
• university medical centres;
• institutes affiliated to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) or NWO;
• Netherlands Cancer Institute;
• the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen;
• Naturalis Biodiversity Center;
• Advanced Research Centre for NanoLithography (ARCNL);
• Princess Máxima Center;
• SURF;
• Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC);
• The National Library of the Netherlands;
• Universities of Applied Sciences, as stated in article 1.8 of the Wet op het hoger onderwijs en wetenschappelijk onderzoek (WHW).

What to apply for

 Within this programme there are two types of applications: 

• Application type 1: small projects for improvements and/or extensions of existing infrastructure, or pilots for setting up new infrastructure. Maximum funding of € 250,000 and maximum project duration 2 years;
• Application type 2: large projects for improvements and/or extensions of existing infrastructure. Minimum funding of € 250,000 and maximum funding € 1,500,000 and maximum project duration of 4 years.

The application must provide a detailed substantiation of all the costs for which funding is being requested. An outline of the different types of costs and an overview of eligible and ineligible costs for funding are given in section 7.1 of the Call for proposals.

1.  small applications of max € 250,000 and 2 years; co-applicants are optional    and/or
2. large applications of max € 1,500,000 and 4 years; co-applicants (at least one other institution) are mandatory 

When to apply

• The deadline for submitting preproposals is 5 November 2024, before 14:00 CET.
• The deadline for submitting applications is 22 April 2025, before 14:00 CEST.

More information

You can find all the information about this call on the Open Science NL website.