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The 2025 Joint General Assembly, held at University College London, brought together the OSIRIS, TIER2, and iRISE consortia in a shared effort to embed reproducibility, inclusivity, and transparency across European research systems. Following the assembly, OSIRIS partners shared detailed reflections in a series of news items and videos on the OSIRIS website, offering in-depth analysis of the sessions, outcomes, and key themes. ...

The annual meetings of the three EU projects iRISE, OSIRIS and TIER2 took place last week (3-4 July), uniting stakeholder representatives and partners. The opening day brought participants together for a joint meeting focusing on cross-cutting themes identified by the consortia. Key topics included the next generation of careers in metascience, core outcomes for reproducibility interventions, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and recommendatio...

TIER2 will share insights on research reproducibility, responsible data practices, and the broader impacts of open science at Metascience 2025, taking place from 30 June to 2 July at University College London. On 30 June, a session “Cultures of openness: enabling & measuring the impacts of open science” (11:30–13:00) will feature Dr. Nicki Lisa Cole alongside experts from Wellcome, Aalto University, and Aligning Science Across Parkins...

On 23 June, Eleni Adamidi from the Athena Research Center will present the paper “A Virtual Laboratory for Managing Computational Experiments’’ at the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025), held in Columbus, Ohio. The event is aimed at bringing together domain experts, data management researchers, practitioners, and developers for the presentation and exchange of the latest research results on...

The new Georgian Reproducibility Network will host its kick-off meeting on 18 June 2025 at Tbilisi State Medical University. The RN launch is supported through TIER2’s RN Award, which aimed to facilitate the development of new Reproducibility Networks in Horizon Europe “Widening Participation” countries. Georgia was one of three countries, alongside Ukraine and Serbia, that was selected through the 2023 open call to strengthen a culture of openne...

The OSTrails maDMP Evaluation Webinar Series is hosting its first session on 12 June 2025, 12:30-14 CET. The series will focus on how Data Management Plans (DMPs) are assessed and designed across various research contexts and stakeholder requirements. Find out more and register here. The first webinar is organised in collaboration with TIER2 and it aims to address the challenges faced by funders in DMP evaluation, particularly in rela...

The TIER2 project invites you to a hands-on demonstration of the Reproducibility Monitoring Dashboard, designed to monitor the reproducibility and reusability of research outcomes across various topics, fields, projects, and funding calls. In this session, we will showcase the enhanced features and functionalities that have been developed based on valuable feedback from our first webinar. You'll ge...

On 27th November 2024, TIER2 and Taylor & Francis hosted a workshop at the 19th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing in Tromsø, Norway. The workshop focused on improving collaboration to address reproducibility challenges in research. The workshop, titled “Collaborating for reproducibility: How can we work together better?”, brought together 14 stakeholders, including publishers, researchers, librarians, funders, and policy-m...

Dr. Nicki Lisa Cole, TIER2 partner, will be a speaker at the upcoming symposium “Qualitative Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, and Synergies”, which will take place on 28 March 2025 at The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her presentation on "Why the open science movement needs qualitative researchers", will focus on the critical role qualitative research plays in the open science movement. She will speak about the tendency...

The "Building and Maintaining Trust with Open Research" webinar will take place on 5 March 2025. This session will show authors how they can increase the trustworthiness of their research in multiple ways, with a special focus on open research practices and how these correspond to making scholarly publishing more reliable and responsible. This webinar brings together expert panellists, who will present on the various aspects of transparency, r...

TIER2's Pilot 8, The Editorial Reference Handbook, was highlighted during the 19th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) 2025, held in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 19 February 2025. The IDCC conference focused on reflecting on the past twenty years of digital curation while looking forward to the future, emphasising lessons learned and the directions ahead. Dr. Rebecca Taylor-Grant, a partner at TIER2, presented the initiativ...

On 25 March, TIER2 is hosting a workshop as part of the Berlin University Alliance’s event “Yes, we are open! Designing Artificial Intelligence Responsibly”. This interactive two-hour session, conducted in English, will examine the role of reproducibility and Open Science in responsible AI research. The workshop is aimed at starting a discussion on balancing innovation with transparency and exploring AI’s potential to enhance reproducibility...