FAIR Data Fund 2021: Call for Applications

The call for appli­ca­tions opens March 1st. 

Description

The FAIR Data Fund, organ­ised by 4TU.ResearchData, offers researchers an oppor­tu­ni­ty to apply for finan­cial aid to cov­er the costs of mak­ing their data find­able, acces­si­ble, inter­op­er­a­ble and reusable (The FAIR prin­ci­ples).

The max­i­mum finan­cial con­tri­bu­tion is €3.500 per appli­cant. The call for appli­ca­tions opens on Mon­day 1st March and ends on Wednes­day 31st March 2021. Appli­cants will be noti­fied of the out­comes by Fri­day 30th April. 

What efforts can be funded?

The FAIR data fund is for excep­tion­al sit­u­a­tions where there are no oth­er resources avail­able to make data FAIR. The fund is not intend­ed to replace data man­age­ment costs nor­mal­ly bud­get­ed for in grant pro­pos­als.

Exam­ples of activ­i­ties which can be fund­ed by the FAIR Data Fund:

• Iden­ti­fy­ing and imple­ment­ing appro­pri­ate meta­da­ta stan­dards to make data FAIR
• Gen­er­at­ing (meta)data doc­u­men­ta­tion or adding rel­e­vant doc­u­men­ta­tion to datasets
• Anonymi­sa­tion or aggre­ga­tion of con­fi­den­tial data to make them pub­lish­able
• Shift­ing from a pro­pri­etary to open data for­mat to make data inter­op­er­a­ble 
• Cre­at­ing com­pelling data visu­al­i­sa­tions or oth­er mate­ri­als to make datasets more acces­si­ble and reusable
• Pro­mo­tion activ­i­ty of a FAIR dataset that aims to increase its impact and reuse (e.g. deliv­er­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion about the FAIR dataset and 4TU.ResearchData at a con­fer­ence). 

Eligibility

Please read the eli­gi­bil­i­ty cri­te­ria below before sub­mit­ting your appli­ca­tion. 

• Only researchers from 4TU.ResearchData part­ners; TU Delft, TU Eind­hoven, and/or the Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente can apply.
• The research dataset to be FAIR­i­fied must have been collected/created in affil­i­a­tion with TU Delft, TU Eind­hoven, and/or the Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente.
• Appli­cants should present a detailed descrip­tion of activ­i­ties need­ed to make the dataset FAIR with a bud­get esti­ma­tion (a down­load­able bud­get tem­plate will be pro­vid­ed). 
  • If this includes the hir­ing of assis­tants, the appli­cant must pro­vide details of the required hours per task and the hourly cost. 
• Appli­cants should indi­cate an esti­mat­ed time dead­line by which they expect the process of mak­ing their data FAIR will be com­plete for fol­low-up by 4TU.ResearchData.
• The dataset(s) must be deposit­ed in 4TU.ResearchData.
• Appli­cants should agree to have an inter­view with a staff mem­ber at 4TU.ResearchData to have their appli­ca­tion and research data show­cased on the 4TU.ResearchData web­site, online com­mu­ni­ty plat­form and social media chan­nels.
• Appli­cants should pro­vide 1–2 sen­tences describ­ing their appli­ca­tion which will be pub­lished on the 4TU.ResearchData web­site, online com­mu­ni­ty plat­form and social media chan­nels.
• To pro­mote diver­si­ty, suc­cess­ful appli­cants (or their research groups) are not eli­gi­ble to re-apply for three years since the time of their fund­ed appli­ca­tion.
• Oth­er resources (finan­cial, or in-kind) are not oth­er­wise avail­able to make the data FAIR 

The full details of the FAIR Data Fund, includ­ing instruc­tions for appli­cants, is now avail­able on the 4TU.ResearchData web­site.

For more infor­ma­tion on how to apply: