My group The Dat project is building an EU grant consortium to respond to this call: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/5083-ict-12-2016.html. The deadline is April 12th.
We are a highly technical project that builds decentralized technologies for scientific reproducibility and data governance -- think BitTorrent and Git, but open source, and more secure. We are currently 3 people, one in Denmark and 2 in the US.
We are seeking a project manager based in Europe, ideally with some grant writing and/or budget experience to join our consortium to help us write and prepare EU grant documents. We are currently working from fixed budget grants and do not have the capability to immediately pay someone for this role. However this grant will include a long term position (for the length of the grant, at least 1 year) as a grant level project manager and coordinator. So unfortunately we have no way to pay someone now, the best we can do is offer a really interesting project working on important grant funded public infrastructure.
So in summary, we cannot pay you for the next month but if we get the grant you will be in the budget for the duration of the grant.
Our project has received two grants from the Sloan and Knight foundation. These have been somewhat smaller than the EU grant (around 20 pages). From what we understand this grant will require approximately 60 pages, though over half are more or less boilerplate.
The project we are proposing is to build a system for decentralized, peer to peer data sharing network for public interest datasets to ensure long term access to scientific research and open government data that improves data access speeds, data reproducibility and makes archiving data easier.
Our consortium will be made up of partner organizations that each cover one of the following:
- Open source software development of our system (our group, group A)
- Social science research on our system (group B)
- Ethical and privacy research on our system (group C)
- Open source software development of metadata search and standards on top of our system (group D)
We have been talking with potential partners, the last piece is to find someone to help us manage the grant process.
Our ideal candidate would be someone based in Europe, who is passionate about scientific open access, open data, and open source, has project management and/or grant writing experience, and is willing to start working with us ASAP on the grant process. A bonus for us administratively would be if you work at an existing institution that would you could join the consortium on behalf of.
If you are interested, email max@maxogden.com.
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