With the Open Incubator, a.k.a the greenhouse, we offer hands-on support to empower the next generation of open leaders in research. This might be for people who have completed Open Seeds and now want to say “what next for my project?”, or it might be individuals.
What makes us different
Current work streams
Catalyst
Funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, this project aims to develop a collaborative service to facilitate access to cloud infrastructure for biomedical research communities in Latin America and Africa. You can read more about it in the submitted proposal
Key personnel
Taj is the project manager under the supervison of Emmy, PI for this project
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
Role in OLS:
Programme Manager & Catalyst (contract)
Fellowship Programmes
Our flagship Fellowship is the Resident Fellow programmes.
Facilitators Training and Transcription Services
During our online training cohorts, we teach facilitators to manage and run cohort calls. They lead efforts in preparing cohort call notes, co-hosting cohort calls and ensuring the sharing of call recordings and resources through OLS channels.
Fiscal Hosting
We are helping early stage organizations with fiscal hosting. If you are interested, please contact directors at we-are-ols.org to discuss.
Grant Writing Training
This will come soon. Please let us know if you’d like to fund the development of the curriculum!
Consultancy and Open Research Advice
We offer different Consultancy services:
- Accessibility Consulting (specially related to running online inclusive calls),
- Ally skills,
- Organisational Leadership.