The cornerstone of Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Accelerating Research on Consciousness (ARC) priority involves projects built around its signature approach to grantmaking: Structured Adversarial Collaboration. This project from Matthew Buys' team at DataCite aims to provide strategic support for scientific researchers on consciousness involved or interested in these projects. 

Early results from these projects indicate potential for game-changing contributions to the field. Recognizing the complexity of research on consciousness, the support the team plans to provide will help these findings be more easily and openly communicated to a broad audience.

Project activities will include market research, development of an online resource, and community engagement. The team will develop a website-based resource that facilitates open science, clear communication, and efficient data sharing. This resource will leverage innovative open infrastructure to help researchers efficiently share a range of research outputs with a broad audience. The broader community will be engaged through a range of collaborative activities to include meetings, a competition with prizes, and a website that is easy to navigate whilst providing advanced features that automate data sharing.

The anticipated impact will be to communicate the findings of the existing research projects to a much wider audience while reducing the communications workload on the research teams, thereby increasing the efficiency of their work and contributing to the overall rigor of the consciousness portfolio.