Funding opportunities

Here we list all the current funding opportunities for FAIR- and open science- related project in Photon and Neutron Science.

OSCARS upcoming

• Target group: Everyone
• Timeline:
• 1st call opens on 15 March 2024 and closes on 14 May 2024
• 2nd call opens in November 2024 and closes in January 2025
• Budget: 100 to 250 k€ per project (~3.5M€ total for PaN)
• Duration: 1 to 2 years
• Criteria:
• FAIRness and openness
• beyond the state of the art
• impact on multiple RIs and better cross-cluster
• use or connect with current EOSC resources: in our case, refer specifically to outcomes
• More details on the expected proposals can be found in the project's website
• Proposals envisioned so far:
• ML training on PaN open data

ML training on PaN open data

cross-RI

• Domain(s):
  • 3. Photon/neutron sources-based experimental research
• Consortium composition: ALBA
• Duration and Financial support: 250 k€ for 2 years
• Description: To apply efficient deep learning crystal segmentation approach to a new crystallography technique, this project will collect, structure, curate and publish experimental data of segmented crystals.
• Scientific impacts: FT-SSX is an emerging technique in photon facilities, this work would benefit the global community currently building around it. It would also serve as a blueprint for other ML applications to be built around open data.
• Digital resources:
  • roadmap for ML-ready open data in PaN
  • metadata framework
  • federated PaN search API
  • PaN open data search portal
  • PaN training catalogue
• PaN container registry and workflow publication

PaN container registry and workflow publication

cross-domain

• Domain(s):
  • 3. Photon/neutron sources-based experimental research
  • 4. Life sciences
• Description: Extend the PaN software catalog to a container registry, hosting the applications to be published in VISA. Link to workflowhub or a PaN fork to enable the publiction of workflows using individual software from the registry.
• Digital resources:
  • Workflowhub.eu
  • PaN software catalog
• VISA enhancements

VISA enhancements

open science service cross-RI

• Domain(s):
  • 3. Photon/neutron sources-based experimental research
• Consortium composition: ILL
• Duration and Financial support: 250 k€ for 2 years
• Description: Discussed in the VISA collaboration - details upcoming
• Digital resources:
  • VISA
• Apply DDI-CDI framework to PaN data

Apply DDI-CDI framework to PaN data

interoperability cross-RI

• Domain(s):
  • 3. Photon/neutron sources-based experimental research
• Consortium composition: CODATA, STFC, HZB
• Duration and Financial support: 250 k€ for 2 years
• Description: The project idea is to apply the DDI-CDI framework to PaN data in order to improve interoperability.
• Scientific impacts: Facilitate the combination of diverse PaN data and accross discipline. There might be some interest from the other clusters, e.g. life science, particularly if biological sanple metadata are included.
• Digital resources:
  • DDI-CDI metadata specification
• Enhanced metadata capture

Enhanced metadata capture

• Description: More info
• Sample PIDs

Sample PIDs

• Description: More info
• Other brainstorming ideas
• Wayforlight in EOSC
• PaNET continuation use case
• Carbon footprint of data
• Ukraine's research reconstruction
• Curriculum in PaN-training
• Active DMPs in PaN
• More data DOI citation
• Something on electronic log-books
• Better PID use in proposal systems
• Record provenance information
• Create a controlled vocabulary for the top level classification of sample types
• Instrument PIDs
• Extend Nexus software
• Standardisation of ALPS-II (APPLe?) metadata framework
• Agile scheduling system for facilities allocating instrument time via calls for proposal, offered as a service in EOSC
• Central VISA in EOSC with data analysis transparently taking place where the data is
• Extend the PaN federated search API to (electron-) microscopy, to allow for multi-modal analysis