45 projects strengthen Dutch open science infrastructure | Open Science NL

In its largest funding round to date, Open Science NL awards 45 projects that strengthen infrastructure for open science in the Netherlands. The projects make scholarly data, software and publications more accessible and help make science more accessible, transparent and inclusive.

The awarded projects cover the full spectrum of open science: from the expansion of the Research Software Directory and the federation of institutional repositories that improve the discoverability of Dutch research outputs, to an open infrastructure that connects fragmented colonial archives to reconstruct the lives of enslaved individuals. From an infrastructure that makes data from the world’s largest telescopes openly available, to AI tools that improve the reproducibility of research results. The diversity of the 45 projects reflects the breadth of the open science field itself.

The projects focus on both existing and new infrastructure, and on both discipline-specific and generic infrastructures. In total, 25 smaller projects will receive grants of up to 250,000 euros, with a total budget of 6 million euros. In addition, 20 large projects will each receive up to 1.5 million euros, with a total budget of 29.5 million euros. This means that respectively 22 and 30 per cent of the pre-proposals submitted to Open Science NL have been funded.

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