In its largest funding round to date, with a 35 million euro budget, Open Science NL awards 45 projects that strengthen infrastructure for open science in the Netherlands, including four projects led by VU Amsterdam. In addition, four VU researchers will receive funding to conduct replication studies.
Infrastructure for open science in the Netherlands
Open Science NL has awarded funding to 45 projects that strengthen the infrastructures for open research. The projects make scholarly data, software and publications more accessible and help make science more accessible, transparent and inclusive. These are the awarded projects led by VU Amsterdam:
- Yoda as connecting infrastructure for seamless open science – Marcel Ras (UB)
- DURF - Dutch Repository Federation – Maurice Vanderfeesten (UB)
- Fast estimation of classical and new latent variable models in R – Mauricio Garnier Villarreal (FSH)
- Observatory for Political Texts, Images and MultimediA (OPTIMA) – Kasper Welbers (FSH)
Replication studies
In another call, 27 applicants received grants to replicate earlier research. They will reanalyse original data, repeat experiments, and replicate studies with slight variations to the original design. A total amount of 5.2 million euros was granted.
By critically testing earlier results, the researchers contribute to verifiable and robust knowledge, and increase the transparency and reliability of scientific research. These are the granted VU projects:
- Bias Revisited: Replicating Information Bias Theories in Three European Media Systems – Martin Tanis (FSH)
- Intrinsic honesty and the prevalence of rule violations across societies - A Replication Study – Giuliana Spadaro (FBMS)
- Brain-talk to anti-cancer immune response – Guus Smit (BETA)
- Role of the Reynolds number in determining the style of subduction-induced mantle flow – Wouter Schellart (BETA)
