The Open Research Funders Group Open & Equitable Program strives to promote transparent, fair, and inclusive practices in research grantmaking and resulting outputs. This includes designing equitable funding programs and incentivizing open scholarship practices to ensure inclusivity.

To achieve this goal, we work on two fronts.

Model Funding Program

This program is designed to assist research funders in identifying and implementing strategic interventions that promote transparency, inclusivity, and trustworthiness in the grantmaking process and resulting research outputs.

Open Scholarship seed awards

These awards aim to encourage open scholarship engagement among networks that have traditionally faced barriers to participation.