Up to 20 microgrants of USD 500 are available to organisations to run STEM workshops or short courses, to be held by May 31 2023.
The goal of the workshops or short courses should be to teach, deploy, or experiment with open science hardware tools and their related software applications, at any level of difficulty to any audience, in a hands-on manner, to participants that will put that knowledge to practical and immediate use. If this event kicks off or is part of a series of similar events, that would be preferred. See Selection Criteria below for more on what we are looking for.
Applications are accepted now until Saturday March 25.
Examples of such events are:
- Citizen/community science workshop teaching how and why to
operate, deploy, retrieve a data logger. - Starting an open science hardware club or initiative at your school, university or maker space.
- Teaching open science hardware principles to high school students to encourage them to share future projects – Funding for existing science club events focused on open science hardware.
To be eligible,
- The applicant must be an organisation (funds cannot be disbursed
to individuals); - The event aligns with the GOSH manifesto and ethos;
- The organisation and event are not in a location that is under a
US embargo (sorry about that).
To apply,
Post to this thread, addressing every one of these 9 points with a short paragraph each at most. Earlier application posts are chosen over later ones if a tie breaker is needed during the selection process.
- Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).
- Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.
- Email address by which you may be contacted.
- What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?
- Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.
- Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.
- What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?
- What you will use the grant for, roughly.
- Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense
of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.
Timeline
Applications are accepted now until the end of Saturday March 25 2023 anywhere on earth.
Then the review process begins, and lasts until the end of Saturday April 1. We’ll formally reject ineligible applications at this time. All applicants are obliged to be involved in reviewing the remaining applications, details on this simple process involving the selection criteria below will be provided later.
Results of the review process will be announced on Tuesday April 4.
Your event must have occurred by Wednesday May 31,
After your event, please update us (via the forum) on how it went, and this can fulfill in part the item 9 above for your next application.
Selection criteria
These are the criteria by which applications are evaluated during the review process.
- Meets programme criteria: the proposal is for the described target audience and purpose, it involves open hardware and its use for science.
- Value and impact of the event: you think the activities have a high chance of success in promoting open hardware for science with their target audience.
- Ongoing impact: The proposal described activities that are intended and likely to lead to ongoing projects, courses or communities developing or using open science hardware (prioritised compared to one-off events).
- Feasibility: The proposal seems accomplishable given the described timeline, goals, and budget. Budget seems reasonable and includes estimated costs, requested costs, and costs covered by other sources. All expenses are justified.