How to Get Funding By Caring About Research Software (I)
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ADORE also provides a toolkit, that may be interesting for you to take a look at in terms of securing funding as well as getting your organisation to do the right thing.
\nSince we were already speaking of the German Research Foundation (DFG), let’s take a look at the developments here. If you’re not interested in Germany, feel free to skip this section.
The DFG published a handout in 2024 on Handling of Research Software in the DFG’s Funding Activities. This handout gives advice on software/code considerations when applying for funding from DFG. Also check out the Information for applicants: the (further) development of research software as part of project funding, if you’re applying for funding from DFG. In their Guidelines for Reviews the DFG asks their reviewers to assess the “achievement of a researcher […] in its entirety” (including software), so that’s also pretty useful to know.
The EU has also noticed that software is important. In their Open Science policy practices such as “providing immediate and unrestricted open access to scientific publications, research data, models, algorithms, software, protocols, notebooks, workflows, and all other research outputs”. Many of those relate to code and software (marked in bold).
The EU funding programme Horizon Europe evaluates research proposals based on the “quality and appropriateness of the open science practice” (see Factsheet: Open science in Horizon Europe). Horizon Europe also funded EVERSE, a project focused research software and code excellence with an substantial funding volume (6,789,468.75 Euros for a 36 months project, see here).
The following opportunities are a collection of things I found myself plus funding listed in the current version of the ADORE toolkit.
\nFunding I found:
\nAdopted list from the ADORE toolkit:
\nFor even more, see: Research Software Funding Opportunities from the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the NumFOCUS fundraising list (see issues).
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\nThat’s all for now. Stay tuned for next week’s post with case studies and practical tips for securing funding.
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All the best,
\nHeidi
\nP.S. My posts are now easily citable and have a DOI thanks to The Rogue Scholar.
\nDOI: 10.59350/d30cx-62c89 |
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Heidi Seibold, Bayerstr. 77C, Munich, 80335 | \n\n |
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