Become a partner lab.
Partner labs contribute open modules, datasets, challenges and supervision to Risk Academy courses. This page sets out who can apply, how admission works, how the network is governed and the open-licence terms, in plain language.
- Who can applyFive criteria
- AdmissionFive steps
- GovernancePlain terms
- IP and licencesOpen by default
- ApplyForm
An application is not an agreement
What a partner lab brings.
Any laboratory, research group or research centre at a university, institute or public research body can apply. Five things are checked.
Active research in a programme
Current, published work in the subject of at least one lab programme.
Capacity to teach
Named members who can author or review modules, or supervise a capstone, over the next year.
Open licences
Teaching material under CC BY 4.0, code under an open-source licence and data under CC0 or CC BY 4.0, with exceptions stated up front.
Research integrity
An institutional ethics route where human data are involved, and declared conflicts of interest.
A verifiable host
A host institution that can be matched to a public identifier such as ROR, and a lead who can apply for the lab.
Five steps from application to listing.
Each step leaves a record. A lab can withdraw at any step.
- 01
Application received
The form below sends the application; you receive a reference.
- Held by
- Labs intake
- Record
- Reference and date
- 02
Eligibility check
The host institution, the programme fit and the open-licence answer are checked. Missing details are asked for once.
- Held by
- Labs intake
- Record
- Checklist
- 03
Panel review
A review panel with subject reviewers from outside the applicant's institution assesses fit, capacity and integrity.
- Held by
- Labs review panel
- Record
- Assessment and declared interests
- 04
Decision with reasons
Admit, admit to a different programme, or decline. Every decision is recorded with its reasons and can be questioned once.
- Held by
- Labs review panel
- Record
- Decision and reasons
- 05
Profile and first contribution
With the lab's consent, its profile is published in the directory and a first contribution is agreed.
- Held by
- The lab and Labs editors
- Record
- Profile and contribution plan
How the network is run.
The lab network sits within Labs at The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) and follows its research integrity rules and lab research integrity page.
| Question | Plain answer |
|---|---|
| Who decides admission? | A Labs review panel of subject reviewers. Reviewers declare interests and step aside from applications they are connected to. |
| What does admission mean? | The lab is listed and can contribute. It is not a partnership agreement, an endorsement of the lab by GCRI or of GCRI by the lab, a fee or a funding promise. |
| How is joint work agreed? | Any joint work, funding or data sharing is set out in a separate written agreement before it starts. This page is not that agreement. |
| Can a lab leave? | Yes, at any time. Published modules stay available under their open licence with their authors named, as the licence allows. |
| What if something goes wrong? | Concerns about a module, a review or conduct go to integrity@therisk.global. Corrections are published as new versions, never as silent edits. |
Open terms, in plain language.
A summary for reading, not a legal text. The binding terms are in the contributor terms, the intellectual property and licensing pages, and any written agreement.
| What | Licence | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching material (lessons, exercises, briefs) | CC BY 4.0, or CC BY-SA 4.0 by agreement | Anyone may reuse and adapt it with attribution. The authors and their institution keep copyright. |
| Code (notebooks, scripts, models) | An open-source licence such as Apache 2.0 or MIT | Anyone may run, study and change it. The licence file travels with the code. |
| Data | CC0 1.0 or CC BY 4.0 | Reusable with no or minimal conditions. Personal data are never released openly. |
| Third-party material | Its own licence | Used only where its licence allows, cited, and never presented as the lab's or the Academy's. |
| Names and marks | The trademark policy | A lab's name appears only after admission and with consent. No party may use another's name or marks to suggest endorsement. |
Apply as a partner lab.
About ten minutes. Labels say which answers are required; the form checks each answer as you go and works without JavaScript.
- 01
Send the application
You receive a reference on screen and by email.
- 02
Eligibility check
We may ask for one missing detail.
- 03
Panel review
Starts when the review panel is constituted.
- 04
Decision with reasons
Sent to the address you give.
Received for processing means stored and queued for review, never accepted. Your answers are handled under the privacy notice and are not published.
Received for processing
Reference
Received for processing. Your reference is shown above. We review every application and write to you with the next step; a reference is not an acceptance.
This confirms that this site saved your answers. It is not a decision on what you sent.
Questions about becoming a partner lab.
Is there a fee?
Does our institution have to sign something to apply?
Can we keep some material closed?
Will our lab be named on GCRI pages?
Contribute evidence from this page.
Reports is the Consortium's quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
- EmailGateway GW-GCRISend it from this pageEvidence, a correction, a case, a method, a review, a translation or profile input. It arrives tagged with this page, so the editor who owns it receives it.
- ZenodoOpen depositDeposit it and submit to the communityPublish your own record on Zenodo with your ORCID iD, then submit it to the Reports community there. Curators review it; the DOI stays yours.
- ReportsGCRISee every way to contributeThe contribution types, how each is reviewed, what credit you receive, the licence and what is never accepted.
Never send personal data, sensitive infrastructure detail or anything you have no right to share. A contribution is reviewed before use; sending it confers no authorship or editorial rights, and sponsorship never buys a finding.
More in the lab network.
Apply once; contribute where you teach best.
The application names a programme and what you can contribute. A reference and a review follow.