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TIER2 wishes you Happy Holidays and a Joyful New Year, full of reproducible research!

As the holidays are approaching, we would like to take a moment to appreciate the accomplishments we achieved in 2023 and thank our hardworking project partners. Watch our latest video showcasing our 2023 journey in under one minute!

We're happy to announce the release of TIER2's very first e-newsletter! Discover more about our project and explore all our 2023 activities and results, as well as upcoming milestones. Access the newsletter here, and make sure to SUBSCRIBE to have the next bi-annual issue land directly in your inbox!...

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 partners OpenAIRE and FAIRsharing have extended their collaboration by integrating FAIRsharing content on policy and standards records within the ARGOS DMP platform - an important step in pursuing TIER2’s goals for introducing Reproducibility Management Plans (RMPs). ARGOS is the OpenAIRE service for Data Management Plans (DMPs). It is based on the open source OpenDMP software and is accessible from the OpenAIR...

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 ...

TIER2 is proud to announce the two awarded consortia based in Ukraine and Georgia who will receive the monetary awards from the Reproducibility Network open call this summer. Multiple scientific consortia from Horizon Europe “Widening Participation” countries submitted applications describing their plans and motivations for establishing a Reproducibility Network in their home country which TIER2 would support with a €5000 prize. After a rou...

We are excited to announce the start of our new social media campaign. #ReproResearch will bring weekly posts presenting relevant research in the fields of reproducibility, science integrity, and other topics in the wider domain of metascience. We hope to bring value to the TIER2 community by highlighting cornerstone research which serves as a theoretical basis of our project activities, and promoting rigorous scientific practices in aca...

A new project derived pre-print is out in MetaArXiv Preprints. The article “Knowledge Production Modes: The Relevance and Feasibility of ‘Reproducibility” authored by Jesper Schneider and Sven Ulpts from Aarhus University delves into the ways scientists generate knowledge, the current methods used for ensuring integrity, their applicability in different fields, and how they interact with reproducibility on a broad scale. Part of TIER2’s broade...

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...

The new Danish Reproducibility Network (DKRN) was officially launched at an event in Copenhagen on 24th of August. DKRN is now part of the growing international network of Reproducibility Networks, peer-led consortia which work at a national level to promote, facilitate and educate about open, reproducible and robust research through collaboration on projects and events. The packed programme was bookended by two invited talks from members of TIER...