From request to review
Define the bounded proposal
For apply for an open science grant, record the requester, location, scope and responsible receiving office. The receipt identifies the clock and competent jurisdiction.
Gate: Location and competence are recorded
Owner: Science & Discovery CommissionReview methods and raw evidence
Assess research proposal; reconcile it with peer-review information and data and access plan. A missing document has an explicit alternative-evidence route rather than silent rejection.
Gate: Evidence is complete or an alternative is agreed
Owner: Science & Discovery CommissionObtain independent specialist findings
Ask Education & Knowledge Commission for the finding within its own powers. The consultation records the specific unresolved question, evidence version and requested response.
Gate: A specialist finding is recorded
Owner: Education & Knowledge CommissionResolve protection and future burdens
Null results and uncertainty belong in the public scientific record Publish or privately communicate the resolution, including dissent and consent limits.
Gate: The stated safeguard is resolved
Owner: Archives, Libraries & Memory CommissionIssue a conditional research decision
A transparent funding decision with reproducibility and access obligations. The decision also names the accountable official role, effective event, conditions, review office and follow-up duties.
Gate: Reasons, conditions and review route are available
Owner: Science & Discovery CommissionMonitor stop conditions and review
Preserve the source record, decision reasons and conditions for apply for an open science grant. A service complaint routes to the Ombudsman; a contested legal restriction routes to the Union Court.
Gate: Follow-up owner and record custody are named
Owner: Union Ombudsman
Exceptions and alternate routes
Required evidence is unavailable
Record the missing item and propose a witness, existing register reference or independently verified substitute. The completeness review remains open.
Interplanetary communication is interrupted
Record local receipt time and the delegated action available. Preserve a mirrored log for later reconciliation; do not invent a remote approval.
An adverse finding affects the requester
Provide the finding, allow a response, disclose the review route and preserve essential service continuity where applicable.
Institutional interfaces
Guarantees education continuity from childhood through advanced study, wherever people live.
Independently evaluates decisions with consequences for human dignity and future populations.
Preserves knowledge and civil records through deep time and infrastructural failure.
Start the record
Prepare a requestThe assessment behind the stage diagram
The panel declares conflicts, assesses method and feasibility, checks independent protection or ethical interfaces and records funding reasons. A grant is not a field-access permit.
Research question, competence and data plan show what can be learned and preserved. Public value includes null results, replication and accessible evidence.
Possible decisions and what follows
Award, conditional award, reserve assessment or rejection with reasons and review.
Project changes, evidence releases, milestones and successor custody remain attached to the award. Sponsor preference cannot suppress the agreed scientific record.
Duties after the finding
Keep the scope accurate
Tell the receiving office about a material change in location, activity, operator, record custodian or requested result. The original receipt remains in the history.
Respect source custody
Provide purpose-specific references and authorised representations. Personal, clinical, commercial and protected scientific records have different access scopes.
Respond to a qualified finding
Read the conditions and the institution that owns them. A request for further evidence identifies the specific unresolved issue and the route for an alternative.
Preserve the follow-up
Project changes, evidence releases, milestones and successor custody remain attached to the award. Sponsor preference cannot suppress the agreed scientific record.
Disagreement, assistance and evidence alternatives
A completeness query names the unresolved evidence and the alternative the receiving office can assess. An administrative complaint concerns service handling; a legal appeal concerns a finding and its competent remedy. A public petition asks a representative institution to examine a wider issue.