Congratulations to the 45 grantees of the @OpenScienceNL infrastructure round! With 35M euros allocated, this is major news.
This post is however reaching out to candidate individuals and teams who did *not* submit to the final (second) round after submitting a preproposal.
Mastodon hive mind, can you help me trace them? I'd like to hear about those projects.
I have some thoughts on how allocation of resources to open science initiatives could be improved. https://jscaux.org/blog/post/2025/12/18/open-science-nl-art-of-retrospective-duping/
@jscaux thanks for sharing Jean-Sébastien!
Feel very seen by this comment rn
> failed funding applications however have very real consequences for real people employed by initiatives actually doing open science on the ground