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On 7 March at 15 CET, the Center for Open Science (COS) is hosting a free virtual symposium co-organised with Sven Ulpts and co-sponsored by TIER2. Critical Perspectives on the Metascience Reform Movement will feature a diverse lineup of experts addressing critical topics in scientific research and reform. Throughout the event, attendees will explore various themes, including the social dynamics driving new research processes, the practi...

The Year of Open Science Culminating Conference, organised by the Center for Open Science in collaboration with NASA, is set to take place on 21 and 22 March. The event will highlight the achievements, coalition-building endeavours, and ongoing initiatives stemming from the 2023 Year of Open Science. Its primary objective is to bring together participating organisations, U. S. federal agencies, funders, international policymake...

In September, TIER2’s partners – Athena RC – participated in the BIO3 Forum, an international conference on Biomedicine, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology that aimed to foster collaboration in industry and academia. During the event, the researchers were able to present their plans in the context of the TIER2 project, focusing on the activities related to the computational reproducibility Pilot through a poster titled "Containerisati...

TIER2 is planning a session called "Challenges and Opportunities for Open Qualitative Research" (A. 3) at the annual Science, Technology and Society Conference (STS) hosted by TU Graz (Austria) in May 2024. We invite abstract submissions here by 22 January 2024. Тhe dual session – consisting of standard conference presentations followed by a workshop – aims to gather practitioners and critics of Open Qualitative Researcher (OQR) to add...

TIER2 was represented at the 21st Plenary of the Research Data Alliance in Salzburg (23. 10-26. 10), commemorating the reestablishing of their Reproducibility Interest Group. The event was held as a part of the fourth International Data Week 2023 edition. Susanna Sansone from FAIRsharing was there to participate in the insightful discussions and sessions, and to present TIER2 and its impact in the struggle for increased scientific integrity and ...

Multiple TIER2 partners attended and gave presentations at the STI conference last week. Thomas Klebel from Know Center presented research on “Modelling the effect of funding selectivity on the uptake of data sharing in the academic community”, investigating issues of equity. Sven Ulpts from Aarhus University also presented a poster on “Mapping the Narrow Reproducibility Discourse”, exploring how the discourse around the reproducibility reform “t...

Joeri Tijdink (VUmc) and Serge Horbach (Aarhus University) represented TIER2 and took part in the European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO) 2023 Congress on Research Integrity Practice in Paris last week (06. 09 - 08. 09). They discussed TIER2 with researchers from other projects, held a symposium on funding reforms and innovating funding practices with transparency, and Joeri also presented on topics related to the importance...

Last week the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting took place with the aim to review ELIXIR’s achievements and activities so far and discuss plans for the future. The event featured various lectures, workshops and poster sessions on the topics from FAIR data and Machine Learning to national funding for ELIXIR Node operations. TIER2’s partner – Athena Research Center (ARC) – was amongst the attendees with a poster presentation on "Improving reproducibility...

Consortium members gathered on the 1st and 2nd of February 2023 for TIER2’s official kick-off meeting. The two-day event was hosted at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and featured insightful presentations of the five work packages, lively discussions and planning of specific tasks and outcomes, and of course – spending the time connecting with like-minded colleagues in person (and online). Consortium members at Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamT...