Funding & Supporters

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OLS is supported through a mix of philantropic support, personal donations, grant funding, and partnerships with institutions.

Funding

In the table below, we list our funding from philantropies, grants, and institutional patrnerships.

Personal donations come from mentors, experts and other contributors of OLS who chose to donate the honoraria for their work to our general funds, as well as fundraising campaigns, e.g. during cohort graduations.

Funder Amount Duration Date of Award Purpose Proposal
Software Sustainability Institute 3000 GBP 15 months January 2019 Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship award to Dr. Malvika Sharan, to lead open source efforts for exploring and developing training strategies effective for the low-income research environment Proposal
Code for Science and Society 10000 USD 13 months December 2020 Code for Science and Society Event Fund awarded to organize and host the virtual event, Open Life Science Training and Mentoring Proposal
The Alan Turing Institute 10000 GBP 10 months (OLS cohorts 3 and 4) Februrary 2021 Development and delivery of the Open Life Science cohort-based mentoring and training program that upskills researchers in open and reproducible research and empowers them to become open science ambassadors in their communities. Proposal
de.NBI 2000 EUR   October 2021 Ally Skills workshop organization  
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 574946 USD 2 years January 2022 Support for OLS in their education and capacity building efforts through trainings, developing curricula, and maturing their governance structure. Proposal
Wellcome Trust 99999 GBP 2 years July 2022 Systematic evaluation of community development through open science training and incentivising contextual mentorship in health research Proposal
EOSC-Life 20000 EUR     FAIRify OLS and support EOSC-Life community members to build open science teams. Proposal
The Alan Turing Institute 64599 GBP   Feb 2023 Evidence-based policy to widen participation in open data science. Proposal
nasa 1.2 million across two grants USD 3 years July 2023 TOPS Open Science training cohorts Proposal
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 228131 USD 2 years Aug 2022 Community leadership and management for Catalyst Proposal

Funders

This program has been funded by the following funding organisations!

Software Sustainability Institute

United Kingdom

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Code for Science and Society

United Kingdom

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The Alan Turing Institute

United Kingdom

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de.NBI

Germany

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

United States

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Wellcome Trust

United Kingdom

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EOSC-Life

Europe

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The Alan Turing Institute

United Kingdom

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nasa

United States

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

United States

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Supporters

This program is made possible thanks to our supporters!

Backofen Lab

Germany

Backofen Lab in OLS

EMBL Bio-IT

Germany

EMBL Bio-IT in OLS

de.NBI

Germany

de.NBI in OLS

ELIXIR

Europe

ELIXIR in OLS

Freiburg Galaxy Team

Germany

Freiburg Galaxy Team in OLS

Mozilla Open Leaders

Global

Mozilla Open Leaders in OLS

The Turing Way

United Kingdom

The Turing Way in OLS

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Freiburg

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in OLS

University of Manchester

United Kingdom

University of Manchester in OLS

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