Coalition on Open Models Education | NGI Grant Application

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We are slowly building a coalition for open models education, an application was sent on October 2 to the Next Generation Internet [(re)search] program/grant.

The aim of NGI is to develop open technologies for the « next generation Internet ». Their grant is part of Horizon Europe, a European program for research.

The core of the project submitted is to continue building the « Brick of Knowledge on Open Models » (open-models.org) and its ecosystem, while working on open models education more broadly and supporting organization in the implementation of their internal trainings.

[Still in french, but the internationalisation is part of the project.]

Implementations start with consortium members, moving on to other organizations with an emphasis on higher education and research institutions. A generic brick for everyone, with the organisations developing their own materials according to their specific needs.

This might be an atypical candidacy, as it's not a software but an open educational resource, maybe a future digital common for education on Open Education, Open Science, Open (Source) Software, Open Hardware... All of these various practices of sharing and collaboration around digital resources.

The Brick is a knowledge tool to try to get a global understanding of these digital phenomenons.

We're applying as a consortium of 3 members:

• Digital Research Academy, a network of trainers for digital skills in research with a focus on open science & openness(/open models).
• Open Knowledge Association, with their project of building eco-campuses for the studies and experimentation of open technologies.
• Myself, a kind of open models trainer and a brick maintainer

After (or in parallel with) their own training implementation, the goal would be to try to work together for other organizations by finding common interests based on our respective activities. Possibly working with the NGI network, some universities or various open models actors!

If you're interested in open models (education) and in this exploration of the Internet, your contributions could be appreciated. Get in touch with us if you would like to be an experimental structure, working for yourself on open models education with our support!

We will try to be as open as possible, it's both about open models education and experimentation. A sort of citizen-science to build and share our knowledge on openness, being an exploratory work on the Internet.

Our first coalition meeting will probably be at the beginning of November, we're probably going to open it up to external people: https://github.com/Open-Models/ngi-coalition/blob/main/activity/meetings/first-coalition-meeting.md

To follow the coalition activity: https://github.com/Open-Models/ngi-coalition

Hoping the best for this application/project!

Application history: #377

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The CEO of Tree Of Science [~(open) science tooling] see the project and proposed to share a feedback session on its own consortium experiment. Maybe something in a near future.

When I mentioned problems with the management of the consortium, I was of course referring to the consortium in which Tree of Science (DocEnhance) was involved, not to your application. The main problems are the inconsistent allocation of hours to each partner (17 at DocEnhance) and the Work Package (WP) managers who don't involve the associated partners, either by not organising any working meetings at all or by only asking for validation of a piece of work or a strategy that has already been established. For my part, I had to draw up a 60-page report to identify and correct all the errors in the pilot training course in which I was 'involved'. Even though it was based on an existing face-to-face course, I realised that the Norwegian trainers didn't even know what a preprint or a data paper was...

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Application rejected.

NGI reply

Dear team,

I hope this message finds you well. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we reach out to you regarding the updates for your project.

Firstly, we would like to extend our sincere apologies for any confusion or inconvenience caused by the oversight in our communication tool that did not deliver the updates when it should. We understand the importance of timely and accurate updates, and we regret any frustration this may have caused. Also please, keep in mind we received a huge number of applications in this round.

Upon reviewing the status updates from the minimum quality check, we regret to inform you that your project did not progress to the next stage.

The specific feedback received on your project is as follows:

"The project is out of scope"

We have the 4th Open Call launching 1st of January, in case you want to consider re-applying.

Thank you.

Best

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