How to Apply

Applications are open to early-career researchers passionate about open, collaborative consciousness science.

 Application window: March 19 – April 13, 2026  ·  Decisions communicated: April 22 – 27, 2026
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Applications are submitted via Google Forms covering your background, research interests, and motivation.

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Eligibility

Who Can Apply?

Eligible Applicants

  • ▸PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and ECRs who received their PhD no more than 10 years ago
  • ▸Motivated to collaborate across disciplines and career stages
  • ▸Committed to open science and FAIR outputs
  • ▸Able to attend both workshop days in Santiago, July 4–5, plus pre-event Zoom call (May 11–16)
  • ▸Sufficient technical capacity to analyse datasets, or strong willingness to develop these skills

Not Eligible

Undergraduate and Master's students

Selection

Selection Process

Applications are reviewed in two stages. We are looking for a pool of participants that collectively represent a broad range of skills.

Stage 1

Initial Screen

Confirms attendance, career stage, years since PhD, and volume of open outputs relative to time in academia.

Stage 2

Further Review

  • ▸Commitment to open research outputs, given career stage
  • ▸Evidence of collaborative research or willingness for team-based science
  • ▸Technical, analytical, or theoretical capacity to work with open datasets
Prizes

The Consciousness Commons Prizes

Participating teams are eligible to compete for $25,000 in total seed funding to support continuation of their preregistered projects.

Scientific Excellence in Consciousness Research

Recognises strong scientific merit, rigorous methodology, and effective cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Open Science

Recognises excellence in implementing open science practices, FAIR data reuse, and reproducible workflows.

Collaboration

Recognises particularly effective collaborative teams across institutions and disciplines.

Prize Eligibility Requirements

  • ▸Form or join a Mind-Matched team during the pre-event phase
  • ▸Submit a formal OSF preregistration during or within one week of the workshop
  • ▸Demonstrate FAIR data reuse (PIDs, ORCIDs, open-source code with registered DOI)
  • ▸Base the project on an openly available dataset at time of submission
  • ▸Have at least one PI representative at a research institution that can receive grant funding (PI must hold a PhD; no institutions under Canadian or US sanctions)
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Deadline: April 13, 2026. Questions? Contact the organizers.

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