Crowd sourcing for the biological sciences

Observers

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has been invited to observe the call for proposals.

Funding total

Not yet awarded.

Number of projects funded

Not yet awarded.

Purpose

To develop and deploy crowd sourcing approaches to complex, large-scale scientific problems within the remit of the BBSRC and that have relevance to one or more of the BBSRC strategic priorities.

Key aims

Applications should demonstrate:

A large and complex problem that lends itself to a crowd sourced solution and that would be difficult to solve in other ways
A strong scientific rationale for tackling the problem
A strong rationale for adopting a crowd sourced approach when considered against other possible methodologies such as the use of supercomputing
A problem that falls within our remit and that has relevance to one or more of our strategic research priorities
A clear strategy for engaging and managing the 'crowd' whether human and/or computational.

Peter Burlinson - Strategy and scientific enquiries (including remit enquiries)
peter.burlinson@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01793 413393
fax: 01793 413234

Gisela Tebbutt - Peer review and administration enquiries
gisela.tebbutt@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01793 442159