Several META/e members have been awarded two grants under the NWO OpenScienceNL programme as part of the Netherlands Metascience Coalition. The funded projects bring together twenty researchers from twelve Dutch universities and will, over the next two years, assess and improve the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies at Dutch research‑performing organisations. The two successful proposals were submitted collaboratively by the Coalition, which was formed specifically in response to the OpenScienceNL call with the explicit goal of collaborating rather than competing.
Alongside these grant awards, our members Sajedeh Rasti and Daniël Lakens — coordinators of the Netherlands Metascience Coalition — have released a new preprint, “Collaborative Grant Writing: A Successful Case of Coordination in a Funding Application”, reflecting on how this coordinated approach was developed and on its benefits and challenges. The work demonstrates that alternative, more cooperative models of grant writing are not only possible, but highly promising for metascience and open science research. The preprint is available here: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fmnc5_v2.