Do you have a project that might help grow the Open Humans ecosystem?

You may qualify for $5000 USD to support your work!

Projects can work with members in a variety of exciting ways – help members add new data sources, or share new ways to explore existing data!

For example...

• Share a data report or visualization!

• Help members import a new type of data

• Connect to an existing community or study

Check out previous awardees on our project grant awards page!

Ideas

Data interpretations

• GPS data + something else (activity data? GIS?)

• Genetic data ancestry interpretation

• Other genome reports, browsers, and/or visualizations

Data sources

• Time tracking app data (e.g. RescueTime)

• Diet logging app data

• Sleep tracking app data

• Continuous glucose monitor data (Dexcom API)

• Google Fit

• Google search history (via Takeout)

• Google location history (via Takeout)

• Social media (Facebook or Twitter)

• Surveys/tools to record phenotype, traits, health history

• Psych profiling (e.g. Big Five personality traits)

Applying for grants

No application deadline: This opportunity remains open while funds last.

Who can apply: This is open to both US-based and international individuals. No institutional or organizational affiliation is required.

Individuals and teams are invited to apply for a project grant of up to $5000 if they plan to do one or more of the following:

• provide valuable new/novel data sources

• raise significant awareness of the project

• attract new members (e.g. by providing an analysis or visualization of data) who will continue to contribute to the ecosystem in the future after your project rolls out

We strongly encourage applicants to learn more about projects on Open Humans, so they understand the technical format we expect.

Unless otherwise agreed upon, funded projects are expected to meet the following guidelines:

• The project should be deployed on Open Humans within 6 months of funding – "approved" and available to Open Humans members.

• The project is expected to remain available for at least 6 months after deployment and be responsive to bug reports and other issues.

• The project should enable others to replicate it and create derivatives, through documentation and open-source licensing (e.g. BSD, MIT, Apache, or GPL).

• Grants will be distributed in three parts: one-third upon grant award, one-third upon deployment, and one-third after the 6 month period is complete.