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OSCARS 1st Open Call: Funded Projects

Submitted by Karina Berger on

The successful applicants of the first OSCARS Cascading Grant Call for Open Science have been announced and can be viewed on the OSCARS website. Each selected proposal will be funded with a lump sum between 100,000 and 250,000 EUR and has to be implemented in a period between 12 and 24 months. A second call is expected to be opened in January 2025. Overall, OSCARS Open Calls have a total worth of around 16 million EUR. 

The Open Calls are integral to the ambitious four-year project, which aims to foster the uptake of Open Science in Europe by developing long-term interdisciplinary FAIR data services and working practices. CLARIN is proud to be participating in OSCARS as part of the SSHOC cluster, together with DARIAH and CESSDA.


CLARIN is delighted to note the success of several project proposals that are immediately relevant, by either involving CLARIN nodes, making use of CLARIN resources or services, or aiming to publish their resulting data and methods via the infrastructure.

 

  • The MORCDA project, or Making Open Research Data Suitable for Comparative Discourse Analysis, aims to bridge the gap between comparative discourse researchers and Open Research Data (ORD) communities, enhancing multilingual analysis and supporting democratic discourse across Europe. 

 

  • Opravidlo 2.0, or Public Online Proofreading Service, seeks to operationalise and improve an existing online proofreading platform by integrating AI with expert linguistic rules. As a result, Opravidlo 2.0 improves its text correction accuracy and facilitates communication in Czech for both native speakers and foreigners.  

 

  • The DraCorOS project aims at Fostering Open Science in Digital Humanities by aligning the DraCor platform of drama corpora with . By doing so, it promotes a culture of Open Science, improving accessibility, reproducibility and engagement with data-driven research while supporting small and under-resourced European languages.
  • The ParlaCAP project has as its goal to create a comprehensive dataset for comparative political research, thus contributing to enhancing transparency and accountability in legislative discourse across Europe. This is done by using advanced natural language processing to analyse and compare agenda setting across 27 parliaments via the ParlaMint dataset, the result of a flagship CLARIN project. 

 

  • OASIS, or the Open Audiovisual Science Innovation Scheme, promotes the analysis, enhancement, archiving, and dissemination of video corpora for research within the Humanities and Social Sciences, thus contributing to the development of innovative tools for video research. 

In addition, the following projects are relevant to the SSHOC community and the Open Science domain more generally: AMIS - Advanced Metadata Intelligent System, FASCA - Facilitating Scholarly Communication Analysis through GoTriple Pipeline, OSPARK Bootcamp - Open Science Promotion and Advocacy for Research Knowledge Bootcamp, CODEMETASOFT - a framework to streamline the management, enrichment, and propagation of RS metadata.

The second round of the OSCARS Open Call for Open Science Projects and Services has been postponed to 15 January 2025. More information can be found here