DARE UK communities funding (Oct/Nov 2024)

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Detail

https://dareuk.org.uk/new-funding-opportunity-for-dare-uk-community-groups-applications-now-open/
Deadline: 19 Nov 2024

Available funding: DARE UK is offering two separate funding opportunities:

DARE UK community interest groups

Interest groups can apply for up to £60,000 in funding to support community engagement, management, and networking activities for a 14-month period from February 2025 to the end of March 2026.

DARE UK community working groups

Working groups can apply for up to £75,000 in funding to produce specific, community-defined outputs within a 12-month period from February 2025 to the end of January 2026.

Timelines

Both funding calls will open on 2 October 2024 , run concurrently, and close on 1719 November 2024. An applicant webinar will also be held on 15 October 2024, offering interested applicants the chance to learn more about the funding opportunities and ask any questions they may have.

Actions

Find hosting institution for CMWG grant
Advertise to UK TRE community, encourage them to apply for their own working/interest groups.

Who can help

No response

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General consensus so far: fund one (or two?) people to do focussed CMWG work, don't spread funding too thinly across multiple people.

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https://dareuk.org.uk/news-and-events/new-funding-opportunity-for-dare-uk-community-groups-applications-now-open/

Existing groups should complete an interest groups funding application form or working groups funding application form, while new groups must complete an interest group charter or working group charter alongside the relevant application form.

For more information about eligibility and the funding application process, please download the interest group call specification document or the working group call specification document.

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Working Groups application form

• Planned Working Group outputs and outcomes requiring funding, and approach to achieving these
• Applicant and team capability to deliver. Why are you the right team to successfully deliver the proposed work?
• Project plan. Provide a project plan (e.g.in the form of a Gannt chart), including any milestones. Note that your funded activities will need to commence no earlier than 3 February 2025 and that you will need to complete all funded activities by end of January 2026.
• Resources and cost justification. What will you need to deliver your proposed work and how much will it cost?

Interest Groups application form

• Planned Interest Group outputs and outcomes requiring funding and approach to achieving these
• Applicant and team capability to deliver. Why are you the right team to successfully deliver the proposed work?
• Project plan. Provide a project plan (e.g.in the form of a Gannt chart), including any milestones. Note that your funded activities will need to commence no earlier than 3 February 2025 and that you will need to complete all funded activities end of March 2026
• Resources and cost justification. What will you need to deliver your proposed work and how much will it cost?

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https://dareuk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Funding-Call-Specification-DARE-UK-Working-Groups-Updated.pdf

Funds of up to £75,000 are now being made available for new DARE UK Working Groups, out of a total
fund of £225,000.

Drawing together a diverse network of researchers and relevant stakeholders, DARE UK Working Groups work together to:
• Take forward and produce specific outputs to address identified technical and governance barriers to enable better data connectivity and cross-domain analysis.
• Review, evaluate and make recommendations on different tools and technologies, data standards, or governance models for more secure and efficient cross-domain linkage and analysis of sensitive data.
• Organise community events and/or workshops to enable knowledge exchange and/or gain wider community and stakeholder input into Working Group outputs.

Examples of Working Group outputs include, but are not limited to:
• Recommendation documents/green papers
• Open-source software (including documentation)
• Metadata schema(s)
• Best practice standards
• Academic papers

https://dareuk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Funding-Call-Specification-DARE-UK-Interest-Groups-Updated.pdf

Funds of up to £60,000 are now being made available for bootstrapping new or maintaining existing DARE
UK Interest Groups out of a maximum total fund of £250,000.

• Propose community-based solutions to address identified technical and governance barriers to enable better data connectivity and cross-domain analysis, which can be taken forward by Working Groups.
• Scope and coalesce consensus for community needs around different tools and technologies, data standards, or governance models for more secure and efficient cross-domain linkage and analysis of sensitive data.
• Support the sustainability of software and technologies and drive community adoption and
integration of technology prototypes by community testing, feedback and integration of tools
produced by Working Groups and other relevant data research infrastructure work.
• Develop community resource hubs that gather, curate, and share information and best practice in different domains across the sensitive data ecosystem.
• Organise community events and conferences to enable knowledge exchange and catalyse new collaborations, for example, new Working Groups.
• Carry out activities to connect the public, industry and other stakeholders with the sensitive data infrastructure and research base.
• Shape future research directions enabled by connecting different kinds of sensitive data at scale

So there’s funding for 3 WGs and 4 IGs. Also note CMWG is an interest group according to https://dareuk.org.uk/how-we-work/community-groups/interest-groups/ which does make sense, since we’re an ongoing group and not a time-limited group.