Project OSCARS – cascading grants!

OSCARS - Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research and Society

The OSCARS project brings together ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures organised in five "Science Clusters", (environmental science, life science, astronomy and particle physics, neutron and light source science and social science and humanities) that have cooperated over the last four years to rise the efficiency and productivity of researchers by providing open data services and infrastructures for discovering, accessing, and reusing data.

Cascading-grant open calls

To support the research communities to take up open science and foster the involvement of scientists in EOSC, OSCARS will launch two Open Calls (in total worth about 16 million Euro) to select third-parties for the development of new, innovative Open Science projects or services, that together will drive the uptake of FAIR-data-intensive research throughout the European Research Area (ERA). Projects can be proposed in the field of any of the Science Clusters by any researcher, or group of researchers, through a cascading grant mechanism. The first Open Call will be launched in March 2024.

Masaryk University is affiliated partner in the OSCARS project consortium.