Open Life Science (OLS) has been awarded the Wellcome Trust Open Research Fund worth £99,999 as well as USD $574,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative over the next two years.

OLS is a mentoring and training program, run by SSI Fellows Yo Yehudi and Malvika Sharan, along with Bérénice Batut and Emmy Tsang, which helps individuals and stakeholders in research to become Open Science ambassadors.

The funding from the Wellcome Trust will support a funded position for a programme coordinator and researcher, as well as pay for the overhead cost for the next four cohorts. Their main goal is to conduct a research-based assessment, decolonisation and dissemination of their resources for adoption and reuse across different open science communities.

In addition to this funding, OLS has received a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative which will provide the opportunity to improve sustainability for the organisation and community, and allow enough time to focus on planning for the longer term. Over the next two years they will deliver four open research mentoring and training cohorts, develop a new Open Source Software module for their curriculum, and be able to recompense their mentors, call facilitators and the core team. Thanks to the funding Yo Yehudi started as Open Life Science's Executive Director on 1st February to help drive the initiatives in this grant - congratulations Yo!

If you'd like to work with OLS over the next two years on the following then contact the team:

• Open-source research tools developers, maintainers and users - co-design a module and curriculum.
• Governance planning and establishment - help to build and strengthen diverse pathways to community leadership, to ensure accountability and capacity to continue to serve OLS and other open communities.
• Collaborations - Are you working in research or a related domain, and interested in collaborating, forming institutional partnerships, or hiring OLS' services?

You can read more about the OLS teams' goals for their Wellcome Trust funding and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding.