Interesting idea, would be interested to learn more (what about parts of the rainforest?)
I think this is the part I would like to see change the most, I don’t think these funds need to be operated in this way. Historically, the most talented analysts/traders have been attracted to the top NYC investment banks/funds because of their own desire for wealth accumulation. I’d like to see commune/community focused funds (or more of them), managed for the profit of communities.
Here is a spreadsheet of funders for independent research and open science project that @sivashchenko shared with me earlier this year. If anybody sees anything that looks promising, please do point it out to the community.
Here is a second, shorter list of science funders (2nd tab) from the Open Philanthropy projects’ overview of the Open Science landscape.
Lot’s of Open Science funding under Horizon Europe:
This session at OSFair could be of interest (SEPT 21, 16.30 - 18.00 CEST)
THE PERILS OF BEING INVISIBLE. COLLECTIVE FUNDING MODELS FOR OPEN SCIENCE INFRASTRUCTURE.
Honorary mention by Slowpen Science Collective (https://yseulthb.github.io/). We have been listed as part of the Open Science Movement! SlowScience.pdf (1.5 MB)
There is an honorary mention of @alex.lancaster @arika.virapongse Anne Thessen’s 2018 joint paper in this as well.
This is an interesting set of awards. The submission deadline for all categories pass in March, but it will be interesting to see what sort of projects get awards.
The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research aims to provide recognition and publicity for outstanding efforts that enhance the rigor, reliability, robustness, and transparency of research in the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and stimulate awareness and activities fostering research quality among scientists, institutions, funders, and politicians. To acknowledge the outstanding role early career researchers (ECRs) have in promoting research quality, ECRs will be invited to propose projects that foster research quality and value. Projects will be competitively selected for funding and internationally showcased.
Just came across this:
Free lists of grants and fellowships around the world available online
Three searchable databases provide information on global opportunities for graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty members.
And the winners of The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research were:
Looks like a good opportunity for OS projects in the US. H/t @arika.virapongse
The FAIROS RCN program seeks to create three-year Research Coordination Networks (RCNs) which will foster catalytic improvements in scientific communities focusing on the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse, see Program Description for more information) guiding principles and Open Science best practices (inclusively summarized by the combined phrase FAIROS for purposes of this program). This program will support a broad range of activities by these new RCNs to advance the means by which investigators can share information and ideas, coordinate ongoing or planned research activities, foster synthesis and new collaborations, develop community standards, and in other ways advance science and education through communication and sharing of research products through FAIROS strategies.
Options from the NSF to support science, infrastructure, and eduction for reproducibility and replicability.
eLife maintains a list of funding calls and travel grants for ECR researchers. Not OS focused, but could have some good opportunities.
Funding for software projects
This database focuses on funding calls or programs that are targeted at research software and/or those who develop and maintain it (such as research software engineers).
This is also interesting
Not exactly OS related but may be of interest to some:
Call for Letters of Inquiry: Historical Research on the Practices and Institutions of Social and Natural Science
Submission Deadline: Thursday, March 16, 2023
Grants of $75,000 - $250,000 to be awarded for original research in the history of science, technology, economics, and social science, focusing on areas of broad programmatic interest to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Not exactly OS related but may be of interest to some:
Call for Letters of Inquiry: Historical Research on the Practices and Institutions of Social and Natural Science
Submission Deadline: Thursday, March 16, 2023
Grants of $75,000 - $250,000 to be awarded for original research in the history of science, technology, economics, and social science, focusing on areas of broad programmatic interest to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
How can our scientific institutions most effectively encourage progress on society’s most important challenges? The field of metascience aims to develop rigorous, quantitative evidence on this question. If you have ideas of how to do that, we’d like to hear from you.
We have $50,000 that we’re going to contribute to projects here on Experiment. We will back eligible projects up to $10,000 (and you are welcome to try to raise more using the crowdfunding aspect of Experiment, too). The funds will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, so the sooner you fill out a project application the better (use the “start a project” link below).
Lots of Open Science projects funded by the NWO:
Some current funding opportunities from NASA: