Fourteen applications, including two from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, have been awarded by NWO. The awarded projects fall under the 2023 call 'Thematic Digital Competence Centres' (TDCCs).
Research Transparency Check
Main applicant: Professor of Philanthropy René Bekkers
We propose to develop Research Transparency Check, including software that provides an automatic assessment and suggestions for the improvement of the transparency of data and methods in research reports before they are published. Research Transparency Check serves people at universities and research institutes, academic journals, and funding agencies. We engage seven data communities for the development of transparency criteria, and checklists for documentation of these criteria specific to the most common sources of data used in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
A FAIR tool framework for bioinformatics services, tools and workflows in digital Life Sciences and Health (LSH) research
Main applicant: bioinformatician Halima Mouhib
Various tools and services are available for Life Science and Health data research, but users cannot easily find them or assess their quality. As a result, they are not used, or even similar tools are redeveloped. Together with developers, experts and users, we develop a toolkit for finding suitable tools and services. This is applied to existing tools and those under development, and can be used with new tools in the future. With examples, training, interactive work sessions and collaboration with established platforms and communities, tools and services become sustainably accessible to end users and (further) development cycles for developers.
Read more on the other projects on the website of NWO.