Towards inclusive funding practices for early career researchers

Funding bodies have different practices in place to assess fellowship and grant proposals. Some of these are not beneficial for early career researchers (ECRs), and some are. In this initiative, we investigated which aspects of funding assessment can and should be improved, and emphasise how these good practices will lead to fair funding in general, and more specific for ECRs. Our aim is to create awareness amongst ECRs of good practices regarding fair funding, and to have a discussion with funding organizations, stakeholders and the scientific community as a whole to promote fair funding practices and drive policy changes.

资助机构在评估奖学金和资助提案方面采取不同的实践措施。其中，部分措施对早期职业研究者（ECRs）并无益处，而另一些则有益。在本项研究中，我们探讨了哪些方面的资助评估可以且应当得到改进，并强调这些良好的实践如何引领一般性的公平资助，以及对于ECRs的特定意义。我们的目标是提高ECRs对公平资助良好实践的认知，并与资助机构、利益相关者和整个科学界进行讨论，以促进公平资助实践并推动政策变革。