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.