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A year ago Sajedeh Rasti and I reached out to 20 Dutch metascientists and asked: Instead of competing for this upcoming grant, how about we collaborate, determine priorities, and combine our expertise? Both grants were funded. We discuss our experience in a new preprint.

The preprint is available on Psyarxiv: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/fmnc5_v2

We had not heard of people trying collaborative grant writing like this before. If you have experiences with this format you would like to share, let us know!

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Esther de Groot 2d ago

@lakens not exactly the same approach but we did something in the same line of thinking, taking out the competition. It is published https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38801544/ Will definitely read and share your approach #researchfunding #grants #collaborativeadvantage

Advancing collaboration in health professions education in the general practice domain, developing a national research agenda - PubMed

Using Q-methodology turned out to be valuable for compiling a national research agenda for GP-HPE research. The research process helped to cross boundaries between researchers in different institutions, thus putting inter-institutional collaborative advantage center stage. Our approach could provide …

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Daniel Lakens 1d ago

@EsGroot Thanks for sharing! We are also interested in groups who have engaged in resesrch prioritisation - and indeed, hopefully this can inspire people in your community to collectively apply for grants, instead of competing!

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Dan Goodman 2d ago

@lakens I don't know how widely this approach would work, but this story is truly inspiring. We don't have to compete with our colleagues, we can just choose to cooperate instead. Bravo!

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Daniel Lakens 1d ago

@neuralreckoning thanks! I also don't know the preconditiins for this to work yet, but I consider this a highlight of my career, and I am curious to see where it can go!