Dutch public universities can now apply for funding to establish or advance locally based Digital Competence Centres

In the era of extensive digital output of science and the movement towards Open Science, applicable (international, domain specific) standards such as driven by the FAIR Data Principles are crucial. Research software should be sustainable, maintained and shared, and researchers should be able to use and rely on state-of-the-art infrastructure, such as calculating storage facilities and data/software repositories. However, the… Continue reading

Nominate data for the Dutch Data Prize

Are you a researcher or know someone with a dataset who’s eligible for the Dutch Data Prize? Nominations can be made until 1 Juni 2020. To be eligible the data needs to be in a ‘trustworthy digital repository’; open access available, or the documentation of the dataset explains why this is not possible and under which conditions interested parties can… Continue reading

ZonMw’s COVID19 research program online

The Dutch funder organisation ZonMW has fast-track calls for COVID19 funding. If you haven’t visited their website to see if your research is eligible for funding please do so. The (2nd) ZonMW program has 3 focus areas: Predictive diagnostics & treatment Care and prevention Societal dynamics More info can be found here.

Open Science Festival: call for proposals until 10-3-2020

The National Open Science Festival takes place August 27, 2020 in Wageningen, NL. It is a great place for researchers to learn (more) about Open Science. Learn and share your knowledge & best practices. Do you have ideas for a proposal? Send it in until March 10, 2020. Interactive sessions can include topics such as tools for practicing open science;… Continue reading

Call for proposals for ‘Enabling Technologies Hotels’

ZonMw & NWO have opened the 5th funding call in the framework of the ‘Enabling Technologies Hotels’ (ETH) program that is run in close collaboration with DTL. Scientists from a Dutch public research organization within Life Sciences and Health (LSH), Agri & Food and Horticulture & Starting Materials can apply for funding to get access to advanced life sciences technologies… Continue reading

Call for Nominations for the 2019 WDS ‘Data Stewardship Award’

Early career researchers can now be nominated for the World Data System ‘Data Stewardship Award’ until 29 July 2019. This annual prize rewards the improvement of scientific data stewardship through (1) engagement with the community, (2) academic achievements, and (3) innovations. More information can be found here.

Researchers can now gain access to Enabling Technologies Hotels (ETH) within the calls ‘Microplastics & Health’, ‘Photosynthesis’ and ‘Green III’

ZonMw and NWO initiated embedding access to Enabling Technologies Hotels (ETH) into the calls ‘Microplastics & Health’, ‘Photosynthesis’ and ‘Green III’. This pilot paves the way to include access to hotels into even more calls from ZonMw and NWO in the years to come. A regular ETH call is expected to open this summer. Once more information is available, it… Continue reading

Interdisciplinary consortia can submit proposals for NWO’s ‘Research along routes by Consortia 2019’ by May 9th 2019

Interdisciplinary consortia, covering any of the 25 themes of the ‘Dutch National Research Agenda’, can apply for funding through NWO’s second call NWA-ORC 2019. Initiatives, aligning with the NWA-ORC program, need to be submitted by May 9th. The deadline for pre-proposals is June 6th 2019. Pre-proposals should fulfill the three criteria of i) high quality research, ii) high quality consortium… Continue reading

Submit your ‘Big Science’ proposal by May 9th to the eScience Centre (eTEC-BIG)

Are you a researcher dealing with the complexity of big data, or are you in need of data analytics, professional data management and/or related computational methods (‘Big Science’)? To address compute-intensive and/or data-driven research problems you can apply for funding from the Netherlands eScience Center. The deadline for the submission of pre-proposals is Thursday 9 May 2019 and Thursday 29… Continue reading