Abstract

In the Netherlands there is no central overview of (inter)national awarded grants. There are several databases for grants but these are operated separately by funders. We have developed a tailormade independent dashboard where organisations can combine information from various funders. In the platform, users can reconcile the organizational IDs that are used by different funders, thus helping the system to map identifiers to the correct entities.
The platform contains various visualization options, filters, and cross-sections of the data, thereby generating versatile insights in awarded grants and the ability to funding benchmark performance.
ScienceBase will be accessible across Europe, though coverage of funder data will differ but contain at least the projects from Cordis. The variety of insights gained through ScienceBase will enhance the usage of persistent identifiers for grants and funded projects, thereby contributing to the important move towards Open Science practices. For individual organisations the visualization can be used as valuable management information and to monitor the performance of funding acquisition activities in time.