Deadline: 29. October 2025
Available funding: 300,000NOK
Application:
DLN supports data management according to the FAIR principles. This includes secure management of sensitive data. We have strengthened our work and support on data management, and hope the DLN projects will use this opportunity for support and advice on how to improve their data management. To make this easier, we strongly advice project leaders to appoint a responsible person for data management in the research project. Several projects have done this already. These persons will be our major contact points towards the project on data management and they will be followed up more extensively.
We have now set aside funding to support projects on data management and welcome requests from the research projects (including partner projects). The limit for applied support is set to 300,000NOK for the whole call. However, the support per project will depend on the total number of applications. We do welcome applications from single projects, but will prioritise collaborative efforts between projects, if needed. Applications will be ranked by general benefit for the research community.
Horizon Europe, the Research Council of Norway, and the European Research Council (ERC) require researchers to prepare Data Management Plans (DMPs), follow FAIR principles, and ensure secure storage, documentation, and long-term preservation to enable reproducible and reusable research.
Key policies:
- Research Council of Norway policy
- Horizon Europe policy
- ERC Open Science & RDM policy
- Marie Curie Postdoc action handbook
Practical guidance:
Examples of what we can support:
- Collaborative developments between two or more projects, e.g. developments of templates for data management, standard operating procedures, best practices, exchange of know how (meetings/workshops on data management)
- Competence development of the appointed responsible data manager, including funding for certification
- Manual help on FAIR data management. Resources for such support will likely have to involve several projects combined, but can be applied for separately
- Storage for large amounts of data or sensitive data on dedicated platforms
- Small research data management software development projects
Applications should be short and to the point, answer the requirements below and in the application form, including a tentative budget showing how the resources applied for will be used together with own contributions from the project(s).
IMPORTANT:
The following requirements must be fulfilled and included to receive funding:
- The invoice for the support has to be issued before 31st December 2025
- A responsible person (named) must be appointed for data management in the project
- A short description of how data management is executed in the project must be provided (see on-line application form)
Please do not hesitate to contact us (korbinian.bosl@uib.no)!
