RDA TIGER Cascading Grants
30 November 2024 @ 11:59 pm
1. Call description and supported activities
This open call seeks applications from individuals and legal entities that are eligible for Horizon Europe funding who wish to receive financial support to enhance the activities or the adoption of the results of the RDA Working Groups (WGs). This call invites the following types of applications:
- RDA WGs for projects that support the WG plan of action (at any stage of the WG lifecycle), adoption or testing of the WG outputs. The grant funds can be used to cover the personnel and travel costs of the Group’s existing members, stipends or salaries of new team members, conference and open access fees and fees of external experts (e.g., to solve specific legal, IPR or standardisation-related questions). See the section “Eligibility Criteria” for more details.
- Organisations that wish to adopt an RDA output. Specifically, the grant funds can be used to support the adoption, testing, harmonisation, and/or implementation of RDA Recommendations or Outputs2.
- Technical Implementation, prototyping and proof-of-concept using RDA recommendations to achieve interoperability of open science solutions, especially in the EOSC context.
- RDA WGs launching a formal standardisation process to have the WG recommendations adopted or used as input by an established technical standards organisation.
Applications are received up until 30 November 2024 (AoE)3. The selected projects are expected to be launched in early 2025 and need to be concluded by the end of October 2025.
2. How is this call different from the Open Call for RDA TIGER services?
The RDA TIGER support services (Facilitation, Communications, Landscape Analysis, Output Support) are provided by consortium members, where the supported WGs receive services provided by the RDA TIGER project staff or experts engaged by the project partners. The Open Call for these types of support services is continuous and is facilitated by a separate process with four selection rounds per year.
This open call for cascading grants is intended to give the recipients more flexibility and a wider range of options in supporting the work of the WG, including facilitating the adoption of WG outputs. Depending on the stage of your WG, you can consider applying for various activities through the open call as described in section 1.
Important things to note:
- Project(s) funded by this Open Call will need to be completed by the end of October 2025.
- The standardisation-related grants are expected to present a roadmap that shows how the standardisation process can be completed after the completion of the activities funded by the grant.
3. About RDA TIGER
RDA TIGER is a project funded by the European Commission (GA 101094406). It supports RDA Working Groups that concretely align, harmonise, and standardise Open Science developments and technologies globally. The services it provides will facilitate and support coherent and consistent working group definitions and increase the impact of the key European initiatives on the global level. More information can be found at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-tiger/.
The project will directly contribute to the European Open Science Cloud Partnership by supporting (via the Working Groups) the international engagement and alignment of policies, technologies, methodologies, practices and other outputs of EOSC-related and other European Open Science developments.
4. Application process
One person should be selected as the grant holder and representative, also in case of a consortium consisting of more than one legal entity applying for funding. To apply, please take the following steps:
- Download and fill in the Application Form (docx format), save the completed form a a PDF with the proposal name in the name of the time.
- Register your proposal information using the online form.
- Upload the completed application to B2DROP using the link provided to you after you complete the proposal information entry.