Fair data fund 2027 Pre-announcement

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I am hap­py to announce that the Fair Data Fund will run again in 2027! This is a pre-announce­ment. We will be open for sub­mis­sions at the end of Sep­tem­ber and close in mid-Novem­ber.

The Fair Data Fund has been offered by 4TU.ResearchData for 6 years, and it is one of our favorite ways to give back to our 4TU com­mu­ni­ty. With the FDF, researchers can apply for fund­ing up to €5000 to trans­form their exist­ing datasets and soft­ware into FAIR com­pli­ant research prod­ucts.

Any researchers at one of our 4TU part­ner insti­tutes — UT, TU/e, WUR, and TU Delft — are eli­gi­ble to apply for the FDF.

As a FDF grantee, you will receive fund­ing and one year’s sup­port from our 4TU.ResearchData team to help you achieve your FAIR goals. Check out some of our use cas­es from pre­vi­ous FDF sto­ries to get a sense of what is pos­si­ble, but keep in mind we are here to think along with you dur­ing the process. Don’t be afraid to pro­pose some­thing uncon­ven­tion­al!

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Addi­tion­al Infor­ma­tion

Appli­cants must have a demon­stra­ble rela­tion­ship with TU Delft, Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente, Eind­hoven Uni­ver­si­ty, and Wagenin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty and Research. Addi­tion­al­ly, the dataset must have been cre­at­ed in affil­i­a­tion with one of these insti­tu­tions. The max­i­mum finan­cial con­tri­bu­tion is €5000.

Efforts to make data FAIR that can be fund­ed include:

• 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 data visu­al­i­sa­tions (or oth­er mate­ri­als) to make datasets acces­si­ble and reusable
• Pro­mo­tion of a FAIR dataset to increase its impact and reuse (e.g. deliv­er­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion about a FAIR dataset and 4TU.ResearchData at a con­fer­ence).

Refin­ing datasets to make them FAIR and avail­able to oth­ers may:

• Increase the qual­i­ty and val­ue of the data.
• Make them reusable over an extend­ed peri­od of time.
• Increase the vis­i­bil­i­ty and the impact of the research.

Detailed eli­gi­bil­i­ty cri­te­ria, con­di­tions, and gen­er­al process infor­ma­tion will be released at the end of Sep­tem­ber when appli­ca­tions offi­cial­ly open, but will not dif­fer sub­stan­tial­ly from for­mer edi­tions.

For ques­tions, please con­tact m.c.burke@tudelft.nl.