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!
More about Software Sustainability Institute
The Software Sustainability Institute cultivates better, more sustainable, research software to enable world-class research.
More about Code for Science and Society
Code for Science & Society works to advance the power of data to improve the social and economic lives of all people through education, scientific research, and technology development.
More about The Alan Turing Institute
The Alan Turing Institute is committed to training new generations of data science and AI leaders with the necessary breadth and depth of technical and ethical skills to match the UK’s growing industrial and societal needs
The German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure
More about Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) works across focus areas — Science, Education, Community and alongside our Justice & Opportunity partners. They pair technology, with grantmaking, impact investing, and collaboration to help accelerate the pace of progress towards an equitable future.
The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on mental health, climate change, and infectious disease based in London, in the United Kingdom.
EOSC-Life brings together the 13 Life Science ‘ESFRI’ research infrastructures (LS RIs) to create an open, digital and collaborative space for biological and medical research.
More about The Alan Turing Institute
The Alan Turing Institute is committed to training new generations of data science and AI leaders with the necessary breadth and depth of technical and ethical skills to match the UK’s growing industrial and societal needs
More about Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) works across focus areas — Science, Education, Community and alongside our Justice & Opportunity partners. They pair technology, with grantmaking, impact investing, and collaboration to help accelerate the pace of progress towards an equitable future.
Supporters
This program is made possible thanks to our supporters!
Backofen Lab in University of Freiburg is Bérénice’s current affiliation.
The Bio-IT is a bioinformatics community project at EMBL, Heidelberg. Its previous and current members (Toby Hodges and Renato Alves) supported the early development of OLS and continue to serve as mentors and Experts.
de.NBI (the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure) is supporting Bérénice’s involvement in OLS as part of her training work.
The program organisers are associated with ELIXIR member institutes and several mentors and experts are from different ELIXIR nodes.
Freiburg Galaxy team is supporting Bérénice’s involvement in OLS as part of her training work.
This program is developed as a part of Mozilla Open Leaders X (MOLx) chohort. Thanks to our champion Abby (Abigail Cabunoc Mayes) from Mozilla Foundation for providing support in designing this program.
Malvika is a community manager of this project. Turing Way is also collaborating organisation under the project OLS for Turing that aims to build mentor-mentee relationships in the Turing community.
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in OLS
University of Freiburg is Bérénice’s current affiliation.
University of Manchester in OLS
The University of Manchester is Yo’s Ph.D. research affiliation.