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 parts:
-  - caption: Results
+  - caption: Long manuscript
     chapters:
-    - file: results/global_community-based_training_program
-    - file: results/training_materials_video_library
-    - file: results/overview_microgrant_honoraria_process
+    - file: results/results
+      sections:
+        - file: results/global_community-based_training_program
+        - file: results/training_materials_video_library
+        - file: results/overview_microgrant_honoraria_process
+        - file: results/participants_mentors_feedback
+        - file: results/case_studies_impact_stories
   - caption: Supplementary Data
     chapters:
     - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-1-application-template
     - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-2-review-rubric
     - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-3-mid-term-participant-survey
     - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-4-post-cohort-participant-survey
     - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-5-post-cohort-mentor-survey
+    - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-6-mentee-impact-1
+    - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-7-mentee-impact-2
+    - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-8-mentee-impact-3
+    - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-9-mentor-impact-1
+    - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-10-mentor-impact-2
+    - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-11-community-incubating-impact-1
+    - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-12-community-incubating-impact-2
+    - file: supplementary/supplementary-data-13-community-incubating-impact-3
 

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+# Case Studies and Impact Stories from the OLS Community
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+Below we provide case studies drafted by the members of the OLS community who have participated in an Open Seeds cohort between 2020 and 2023.

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+# Supplementary Data 10: Impact on Mentor Case Study - Perspective from Mentor in Mid/Senior Career Stage
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+Since 2020, Dr Hans-Rudolf Hotz has contributed to four Open Seeds programs (OLS-2, OLS-3, OLS-4, and OLS-6). As an experienced bioinformatician, academic researcher and advocate for open science, Dr Hotz mentored individuals leading projects in India and Europe. As an engaged member in OLS, he shared best practices for mentorship with other mentors and contributed to the improvement of the program itself.
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+He found his participation in OLS mutually rewarding and summarized his mentorship experience as "engaging with open science at multiple levels."  Since the mentees were matched with his professional and personal experience, he was able to provide technical support alongside clarifying general concepts and practices. As he guided his mentees through the program, he identified that a common issue for most mentees was not lack of motivation but lack of time in their day-to-day work to practice open science. Usually, mentees in Open Seeds participated with projects that were their side projects, with only minor overlap with the projects in their day job. Rather than trying to complete a project, which was often impossible for some participants, Dr Hotz supported his mentees to set priorities where they can reflect on open science practices learned through cohort calls. 
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+Since the Open Seeds' initial cohorts took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Hotz commended the online format and the opportunity to be in regular contact with new and familiar colleagues via the program. He remains excited about returning as a mentor in the future cohorts.

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+# Supplementary Data 11: Case Study on Incubating International Communities of Practice - Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya Initiative
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+In 2020, a project on bioinformatics skills and capacity building by Michael Landi, David Kiragu, Margaret Wanjiku, and Festus Nyasimi was selected as part of the inaugural program of Open Seeds OLS-1. As postgraduate students specializing in bioinformatics, they identified a significant knowledge and mentorship gap within their local academic and research environments in Kenya. Their participation in open science training through OLS-1 served as a crucial step toward scoping their plan to establish a bioinformatics hub in their region that can engage Early Career Researchers and minimize the gaps identified by the team. At the end of their training, they launched their project Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya Initiative (BHKi, https://bhki.org/), which, through OLS’ Seed Funding, was registered as a non-profit organization in 2021. Since its inception,  the hub has actively empowered their community in bioinformatics and open science through various activities such as industry talks, seminars, science cafes (journal club meetings where discussions focus on bioinformatics, scientific work, and techniques), and workshops. They received their first funding from Code for Science and Society (https://www.codeforsociety.org/) to organized the first-ever scientific conference, #BOSSCon2022, to mark the culmination of all their efforts. They collaborated with the OpenScienceKE project to organize a series of virtual events, raising awareness of and empowering researchers with skills and tools in open science and bioinformatics. In their publication, they summarize their training framework - Sensitize, Train, Hack, Sustain, and Collaborate (doi.org/10.3389/frma.2023.1070390). This model was also showcased at the BOSC/ISMB conference in 2022, an international travel fund for which was awarded to Festus by Open Bioinformatics Foundation. Festus has since moved to the USA to pursue PhD in genomics and continues to serve on the hub’s leadership team.
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+Since 2020, BHKi has continued to collaborate with and involve in the OLS community. Newly onboarded members of BHKi have joined subsequent programs and previous graduates support Open Seeds as mentors and facilitators. One of the hub's initiatives, a university outreach program for undergraduate learners in life science was awarded seed funding from OLS in 2021, supporting BHKi to reach five local universities and engage with more than 500 undergraduates who are now part of the community. In OLS-8, BHKi was involved in piloting OLS-Africa in collaboration with an initiative in South Africa. In addition to online training and mentoring, OLS-Africa mentees based in Kenya received personalized face-to-face mentorship support from the hub to provide safe spaces to discuss different aspects of being researchers and network with others locally. Outside Open Seeds, the BHKi team is a key partner of OLS in delivering facilitation training and transcription services. The hub is represented by Laurah Nyasita in the OLS governance advisory committee, and Pauline Karega, who is now a PhD researcher in the UK, engages with training and research activities in OLS. 
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+Through Open Seeds, BHKi has expanded its reach and capabilities, playing a critical role in enhancing capacity building and promoting open science principles within Kenya and beyond. Beyond the hub, the growth and influence of BHKi members as open science ambassadors highlight the long term impact of the OLS community. The hub members are actively developing their training capacity to engage bioinformatics learners at both novice and advanced level to mobilize researchers in harnessing the potential of data and Artificial Intelligence. 

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+# Supplementary Data 12: Case Study on Incubating International Communities of Practice - RSE Asia Association
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+The [Research Software Engineering (RSE) Asia Association](https://rse-asia.github.io/RSE_Asia/) project was led by Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal and Jyoti Bhogal as part of their participation in Open Seeds OLS-4. On 14th October 2021, which is also the first [International RSE Day](https://researchsoftware.org/council/intl-rse-day.html), they launched the association with the mission to promote and build the research software engineering community and profession in the Asian region while also fostering global collaborations. Soon after, under the Pilot Mentoring program of the [Society of RSE (SocRSE)](https://society-rse.org/), Saranjeet started to build a community of practice around the RSE Asia Association. In Open Seeds OLS-5, Jyoti led the development of onboarding pathways to engage international volunteers with the mission of RSE Asia Association and adopted a Code of Conduct to ensure safe and inclusive engagement within the community. The association has successfully fostered one of the first communities focused on research software in the Asian region.
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+RSE Asia Association undertakes several activities, like hosting community calls, speaking at international events, carrying out outreach and training initiatives and collaborating with other open source/science communities to raise awareness of RSE in Asia. The association collaborates with the [RSE AU-NZ community](https://rse-aunz.org/), an initiative led by an Open Seeds mentor Rowland Mosbergen, who is also a member of OLS’ governance advisory committee. Together they have organized the RSE Asia Australia Unconferences in 2023 and 2024, engaging early career researchers from their respective regions and beyond with skills and practices of RSE. The team collaborates with [*The Turing Way*](https://book.the-turing-way.org/) community and have drafted chapters in the [Guide for Collaboration](https://book.the-turing-way.org/collaboration/collaboration) sharing experience from building RSE communities and working in remote and hybrid formats. In 2023, Saranjeet worked as Community Manager (Asia) for the Research Software Alliance (ReSA), led by Dr Michelle Barker, with the goal to share information on research software community news and initiatives from Asia with the international ReSA community and to develop awareness of ReSA in Asia. The association team participated in the [Asia Pacific Advanced Network](https://apan.net/about/)'s 53rd, 55th, and 56th meetings in Bangladesh (remotely), Nepal (in-person), and Sri Lanka (in-person), respectively, and in the [FAB23 conference](https://fab23.fabevent.org) in Bhutan (in-person) to spread the awareness of research software in the Asian region. For her work to shape RSE in Asia, Saranjeet was awarded an Impact award from SocRSE during their annual conference RSECon 2023 in the UK. Saranjeet was invited to attend an annual Collaboration Workshop hosted by the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) in 2023, and in 2024 she moved to the UK to join the RSE team at the Imperial College London. Jyoti, who now leads the association, is supported by Saranjeet as they transition the association to a Fiscally Sponsored Community within OLS.
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+RSE Asia Association members continue to engage with Open Seeds in different roles, with Saranjeet representing the association in the OLS’ governance advisory committee. As advocates of open science, the association not only follows the open science principles but unpacks and evolves the concepts to make it easy for the researchers and contributors from the Global South/majority to become part of the global open science movement.
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+# Supplementary Data 13. Case Study on Incubating International Communities of Practice - Open Phytoliths
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+In 2020, Emma Karoune joined the second cohort of Open Seeds (OLS-2) with the project ‘Open Science in Phytolith Research’. Emma had been working as an independent researcher transitioning back into academia after working in the education sector and taking a number of career breaks for maternal leave. She wanted to specialise in open research and her participation in OLS-2 gave her the opportunity and training to significantly move towards this goal. She knew from her previous experience working in phytolith research and archaeology more generally that the implementation of open research in these disciplines was limited and there was therefore a large gap to be filled in this area. 
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+Emma had started to conduct an assessment of open science practices in phytolith research articles, which she went on to publish as two papers (Karoune 2020, Karoune 2022). Through contacting other researchers as part of this research project and through development of this project in OLS-2, she brought together a group of researchers with similar interests and formed a working group (Carla Lancelotti, Marco Madella, Juan José García-Granero, Javier Ruiz-Pérez). Together they developed an initial project, the FAIR Phytoliths Project, and were supported by OLS leaders and mentors to apply for their first grant application (EOSC-Life Open Call), which was successful. This project went on to secure further funding from EOSC-Life for a series of training workshops, they published two journal articles (Kerfant et al. 2023, Ruiz-Pérez et al. 2024a) and they have been highlighted as an outstanding open research project by being used as an example project for the OSCARS grants call. 
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+To build a community around this work called Open Phytoliths, the FAIR Phytoliths Team initiated a committee, the International Committee on Open Phytolith Science (ICOPS), as part of the International Phytolith Society. This committee was formed to work on increasing the knowledge and implementation of open science practices in phytolith research. The first committee meeting took place on 3rd December 2021 and the committee is now formed of 11 researchers who come from all world regions. Outputs include multilingual training resources and website, an open publishing guide, and a project to develop the first phytolith ontology. 
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+OLS has been and continues to be pivotal to the success of this initiative through training of the FAIR Phytoliths Team in OLS-3 to enable implementation of an open source approach, training and development of ICOPS committee members in OLS-5 and more recently supporting writing of funding applications for the next stage of their work so that they become a Fiscally Sponsored Community within OLS. 
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+The training and mentorship received through OLS has enabled members of this team to become successful open leaders. Emma Karoune has gone on to secure a permanent position at The Alan Turing Institute as a Senior Researcher (Research Community Building) and works on cross-disciplinary data science projects including The Turing Way. Celine Kerfant, Postdoctoral Fellow on the FAIR Phytolith project, secured a further Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue aspects of the groups work and other members of the team have implemented open approaches in their own work (Ruiz-Pérez et al. 2024b) and the work of their wider lab group (D’Agostini et al. 2023). There have also been significant changes in the phytolith research community and related communities such as being invited to give a keynote speech about ICOPS at the International Meeting of Phytolith Research in August 2023 and there being sessions on open and fair data at upcoming archaeobotany conferences in 2025. 
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+# Supplementary Data 6: Impact on Mentee Case Study - Soil Biophysics Laboratory:_ An Early-Career Researcher Perspective_
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+In Open Seeds OLS-6 (2023), Dr. Sara Acevedo and Carolina Giraldo, members of the Soil Biophysics Laboratory (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile) joined the Open Seeds program. Although the members of the laboratory already used the programming language R for data analysis, they did not share their data analysis code openly. Furthermore, since soil physicists are unacquainted with the functionalities of FAIR software and data, they had not already shared in a findable, accessible, reusable, and reproducible manner. Application to open, reproducible and FAIR approaches in soil hydrologic research can have a positive impact on this scientific domain [[https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-647-2022](https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-647-2022)].
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+Through their participation in Open Seeds, the laboratory members combined their programming expertise with open source and reproducibility approaches, in developing an R package called InfiltrodiscR [[https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8001894](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8001894)]. At the time of writing this paper, a manuscript detailing the use of the package is under review, with code shared online via GitHub under X Licence.
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+This case study demonstrates the impact of the OLS program in improving reproducibility practices and interests in adopting open science in the soil science community.

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+# Supplementary Data 7: Impact on Mentee Case Study - Collaborative meta-research project:  A Mid-Career Researcher Perspective
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+Dr Malgorzata Lagisz (University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia) joined Open Seeds OLS-6 to learn about best practices for managing diverse and dispersed virtual research teams. Through her participation in the cohort-based training, she aimed to assess the transparency and equity of early- and mid-career research awards in ecology and evolution. She designed and successfully completed a collaborative meta-research project, with a peer-reviewed article published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution (Lagisz et. al., 2023) receiving substantial attention from the scientific community. Following this project, Dr Lagisz was invited to provide advice on revising award descriptions and policies by two international learned societies, with a goal to make them more transparent and inclusive. She was also invited to write an opinion piece for Nature on the topic of scientific awards (Lagisz M, 2023).
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+Since her participation in Open Seeds, Dr Lagisz has continued and scaled her project as a cross-disciplinary study focusing on "Best Paper" awards (typically awarded by journals or scientific societies for a single published article). This follow-up project engaged 21 collaborators from 6 continents. These collaborators represented diverse disciplines, personal backgrounds and career stages. Remarkably, several of the project contributors were recruited via OLS platforms. The manuscript presenting the result of this project is currently under review for a journal publication and is also freely available as a preprint (Lagisz M. et al. 2023).
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+This case study demonstrates the impact of the OLS program in terms of enabling innovative and inclusive meta-research projects while promoting open science practices and values. 

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+# Supplementary Data 8: Impact on Mentee Case Study - Mapping Open Science in Latin America: A Community Organization Perspective
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+In Open Seeds OLS-7, Patricia A. Loto, Jesica Formoso and Irene Vazano, members of MetaDocencia (a non-profit organization in Latin America) developed the project titled "Mapping Open Science Communities, Organizations, and Events across Latin America". The primary objective was to establish a collaborative repository of open science resources in Spanish, encompassing funding opportunities, communities, workshops, and other relevant materials.
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+The project started at a community meeting in Argentina, which was continued by the MetaDocencia team through their participation in Open Seeds. The team shared their work openly, adopted a reproducible workflow to manage their tools and data, supported contributions from online contributors and invited feedback from open science practitioners who had previously done this kind of mapping work. The project has attracted substantial attention from researchers and funders who are supporting the adoption of open science in Latin America. As of 2024, the project has received funding as one of the open science initiatives in MetaDocencia (https://www.metadocencia.org/proyecto/mapeo-comunidades/).
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+This case study demonstrates the impact of the Open Seeds in strengthening community capacity, which in this case supported continuation of an open science project in Latin America.