Symposium: Critical Perspectives on the Metascience Reform Movement
2024-03-07 15:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Zagreb)
Metascience is often defined as the scientific investigation of science itself with the aim to improve science. This ‘improving’ part of metascience has been called a reform movement. While the intention to improve science is generally laudable, metascience and the associated movement(s) are not without their critics. The metascience reform movement has for instance been characterized as among other things, neoliberal, positivistic, atheoretical, technological, moralizing, bureaucratic, homogenizing, mechanistic, quantitative, psychological (psychologizing), social, civilizing, bullying, exclusive, coercive, activist, and normative. In this symposium some of those critical perspectives will be presented and discussed.
Welcome
6:00 am PST / 9:00 am EST / 3:00 pm CEST
Opening remarks from Tim Errington, COS’s Senior Director of Research, and Sven Ulpts, PhD Fellow, Aarhus University, Department of Political Science – Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy.
Shamed Into Good Science
6:10 am PST / 9:10 am EST / 3:10 pm CESTScientific reform has proposed various improvements to the research process, some of which have been put into place. These proposals, or innovations, include preregistration, registered reports, post-registration, (data) sharing infrastructures and -platforms and more. However, beyond the ‘process innovations’, scientific reform also generated new forms of collaboration towards knowledge-making in which novel approaches to harnessing trust and distrust are built into the collaboration, including but not limited to ManyLabs approaches. The many “ManyLabs” in existence display diverse and experimental epistemic and moral strategies and ideals for scientific organisation and practice. I will speak about the social processes that drive these new processes and colaborations.
The Invisible Workload of Open Research
6:35 am PST / 9:35 am EST / 3:35 pm CEST
It is acknowledged that conducting open research requires additional time and effort compared to conducting ‘closed’ research. However, this additional work is often discussed only in abstract terms, a discourse which ignores the practicalities of how researchers are expected to find the time to engage with these practices in the context of their broader role as multifaceted academics. There is a clear danger that additional expectations to engage in open practices add to the workload of often already overburdened academics and research professionals. Using theories of administrative burden and workload creep, I discuss individual and systematic responsibilities to mitigate this.
Why Replication Is Underrated
7:00 am PST / 10:00 am EST / 4:00 pm CEST
I will argue that replication is underrated because it can do more epistemic work than is usually acknowledged. In the current philosophical and metascientific literature replication is depicted as a backward-looking tool: it is used to increase trust in published data. I will argue that replication also plays an important forward-looking role, as it can help researchers to build trust in novel data that is being generated. To understand this forward-looking role it is important to build a better understanding of the ways in which replication is deeply integrated into everyday research practice (Guttinger 2019; Peterson and Panofsky 2021).
Communities of Practice in the Science Reform Movement – Recognizing and Mobilizing Diverse Contributions to Science Reform
7:30 am PST / 10:30 am EST / 4:30 pm CEST
When people write and talk about science reform, they refer to a movement, or a single community of practice centered on improving how science is done and shared. An ethnography and subsequent network analysis I conducted on the online part of the movement reveals evidence of a much more complex research and activism landscape, however. My work indicated that while there indeed exists a singular purpose, or ‘joint enterprise’ which unites much of the science reform’s activity, the group of people driving the movement tend to organise into smaller clusters within the broader landscape. They group together based on different priorities, methodologies and even philosophies of science; a constellation of small communities of practice. My talk presents this preliminary research, and outlines some interesting implications it might have for considering the future of the reform movement.
The Decline of Scientific Individualism?
7:55 am PST / 10:55 am EST / 4:55 pm CEST
A number of metascience innovations—such as the Psych Science Accelerator, Many Analysts projects, the Multi-PART study, and cloud labs—involve an explicit move away from individuals or small teams as the basic unit of scientific research. This talk will ask whether metascience as a movement might be hastening the decline of scientific individualism (if such a decline is indeed taking place!), and what epistemic and social risks might be associated with these changing work practices.
Meta Makeover: Ditching Dogmas and Raising Standards of Evidence
8:20 am PST / 11:20 am EST / 5:20 pm CEST
Metascience and scientific reform have initiated a social movement toward procedural changes in scientific practice. Prioritization of prescriptive recommendations (e.g., preregistration, replication) over theoretical understanding or evidence-based solutions has led to uncritical, even dogmatic interpretations of reforms. Evidential standards are relaxed when evaluating metascientific results that endorse reforms. Self-serving and self-congratulatory narratives have led to premature metascience hubris. Without intellectual humility, however, there is no hope for meaningful progress. I suggest it is time to course correct, time for (meta)scientists to ditch dogmas and heuristics, and refocus on science.

Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in practice
2024-07-03 10:00 - 18:00 | Online via Zoom
Have any doubts or questions about your obligations as a Horizon Europe (HE) grant holder in terms of Open Access to publications and Research Data Management? We will present the HE requirements, followed by some time for your questions to our experts. You will also get a preview of the main tools and services OpenAIRE provides to help project coordinators and research support staff on the requirements’ compliance.Learn about:
Mandatory and recommended Open Science requirements in HE.
Compliance with the HE Open Access to publications mandate.
Managing and sharing Research Data in HE projects.
Delivering Data Management Plans and reporting publications and datasets in HE.
OpenAIRE tools and services to support HE projects.
OpenAIRE is a not-for-profit organisation that is supported by several HE grants. This webinar is organised as part of an effort to make Open Science practices easier to understand and implement.

EOSC Symposium 2024
2024-10-21 13:00 - 2024-10-23 16:30
Summary
The EOSC Symposium 2024 will be a critical event on the path to EOSC post-2027. It will take place under the patronage of the German Minister for Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger. The event is being organised by the EOSC Association, the EOSC-A German Mandated Organisation, NFDI, the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW), an EOSC-A Member, and with the support of the Horizon Europe project EOSC Focus.
Description
In order to capitalise on the synergies between the EOSC and NFDI communities, NFDI will hold a meeting with representatives of its 26 consortia back-to-back to the EOSC Symposium to facilitate collaboration between the target groups.
The EOSC Symposium 2024 will be hosted in Berlin at the H4 Hotel Alexanderplatz.

2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science Projects & Services
2024-11-15 11:00 - 12:30
Summary
On Friday, 15 November 2024, from 11:00 to 12:30 CET, join us online for the launch of the 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects and services.
Description
This Open Call is the last of the two calls (total worth ~16 million EUR) foreseen in the frame of OSCARS to support research communities from any scientific domain to take up open science and foster the involvement of scientists in EOSC.
The 1st OSCARS Open Call concluded in July resulting in a total of 58 projects being selected for funding. Some of them will be presented during the event.
Participants will learn more about the scope and content of the call, and will have the chance to raise any question about its scope, content, conditions, and the application process.
Researchers from all scientific disciplines are welcome to apply to the 2nd OSCARS Open Call before January 15th, 2025, with proposals for the development of Open Science projects or services, that together will drive the uptake of FAIR-data-intensive research throughout the European Research Area (ERA).
Projects are funded with a lump sum between 100,000 and 250,000 EUR, and can be proposed in the fields of any of the Science Clusters and beyond, by any researcher or group of researchers.
By the end of OSCARS, it is expected that a series of valuable scientific results and new services will be available, leading to an increased uptake of Open Science by researchers and to promote cross-border and cross-domain cooperation in the long run.
Why attend?
To learn about OSCARS and the funding opportunity given by the 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects and services.
To ask any question about the call, and get useful answers to increase the chances of submitting a successful proposal.
Who should attend?
Researchers from all scientific disciplines
Data scientists
Members of research infrastructures
To register, visit the official OSCARS webpage.

I4NG Workshop: Open Science and Reproducible Research in RStudio and Jupyter Notebook​
2024-11-28 00:00 - 2024-11-29 23:59
Summary
As part of the Infra4NExtGen project ADP is hosting a workshop in which participants will learn the basics of Open Science and reproducible research by lgetting to know workflows in RStudio, Jupyter Notebooks and GIT. The workshop is held from 9-11:30 the first day, 9:30 to 13:30 the second day. Speaker 1 : Assoc. Prof. Dr. Franz Eder, Department of Political Science (University of Innsbruck) – Speaker 2 : Anita Bodlos, MA (University of Innsbruck)
Description
In the first part of this two-day workshop, participants will learn the basics of open science and reproducible research. They will learn the difference between replicability and computational reproducibility, know what FAIR data is, and be aware of how to handle personal and sensitive data. In the second part, the participants learn the basic reproducible research workflow for the three main stages of research (i.e. data acquisition, data processing, and data analysis) by using tools such as RStudio, Jupyter Notebooks, and the version control system GIT. Participants will know how to organize a research project using RStudio and Jupyter Notebooks, how to use Quarto and Markdown for documenting the research steps, how to organize files and folders, and how to use the version control system GIT for collaboration.

I4NG Hackathon: Transform your ideas into graphs! Visualization of research data
2024-12-03 09:00 - 2024-12-05 15:00
Summary
The hackathon ‘Transform your ideas into graphs! Visualization of research data’ is three-day online event hosted by the Infra4NextGen project. Each team of participants will cooperatively produce visualizations of European Social Survey (ESS)/CROss-National Online Survey (CRONOS) Panel data and showcase their results. Participants can use any software or tools of their choice to create their visualizations. Registration closes on Sunday 24 November 2024.
Description
Why participate?
Create the best visualizations and win prizes totaling 4,000 Euros.
Develop and apply your data visualisation skills.
In-depth and hands-on opportunity to improve your skills in visualising your research outcomes.
Networking: Connect with fellow researchers and professionals in your community.
All participants will receive a certificate of participation.
For whom?
researchers in the Social Sciences
PhD students in the Social Sciences
researchers interested in ESS and CRONOS data
Please note that the Hackathon is not for learning, but for applying data visualization skills. For training on data visualization, we recommend attending one of the following events:
Webinar: Data Visualization with R and Jupyter (19 November 2024)
Workshop: Open Science and Reproducible Research in RStudio and Jupyter Notebook (27-28 November 2024)
How? Register as a team or individually! If you sign up individually but want to work in a group, we will help you form a team during the event, depending on your research interests!

Launch Event – 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science Projects & Services
2025-01-15 11:00 - 12:30
Summary
On Friday, 15 January 2025, from 11:00 to 12:30 CET, join us online for the launch of the 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects and services.
Description
This Open Call is the last of the two calls (total worth ~16 million EUR) foreseen in the frame of OSCARS to support research communities from any scientific domain to take up open science and foster the involvement of scientists in EOSC.
The 1st OSCARS Open Call concluded in July resulting in a total of 58 projects being selected for funding. Some of them will be presented during the event.
Participants will learn more about the scope and content of the call, and will have the chance to raise any question about its scope, content, conditions, and the application process.
Researchers from all scientific disciplines are welcome to apply to the 2nd OSCARS Open Call before March 17th, 2025, with proposals for the development of Open Science projects or services, that together will drive the uptake of FAIR-data-intensive research throughout the European Research Area (ERA).
Projects are funded with a lump sum between 100,000 and 250,000 EUR, and can be proposed in the fields of any of the Science Clusters and beyond, by any researcher or group of researchers.
By the end of OSCARS, it is expected that a series of valuable scientific results and new services will be available, leading to an increased uptake of Open Science by researchers and to promote cross-border and cross-domain cooperation in the long run.
Why attend?
To learn about OSCARS and the funding opportunity given by the 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects and services.
To ask any question about the call, and get useful answers to increase the chances of submitting a successful proposal.
Who should attend?
Researchers from all scientific disciplines
Data scientists
Members of research infrastructures
Browse the PROGRAMME of the event here
REGISTER HERE before Monday, 13th January 2025, 12:00 pm CET

Prioritizing Children: Child-Centred Approach to Research, Policymaking and Wellbeing
2025-01-28 11:00 - 12:30
The webinar seeks to explore the transformative potential of child-centred research methodologies, where children are recognized as competent actors and co-creators in shaping their own lives. Through insightful presentations and discussions, we will explore how adopting child-centred approaches can lead to more meaningful research outcomes and positively impact policy and practice.
Speakers
SØREN SINDBERG JENSEN, PhD, University of Southern Denmark, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Design, Media and Educational Science
BARBARA GORNIK, PhD, Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Social Studies
BIANCA BAßLER, PhD; LISA ROSEN, PhD; FENNA TOM DIECK, M.A., University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Institute for General Educational Science, Department of Intercultural Education
Discussion and Q&A session will follow (moderated by Mateja Sedmak).
The event is organized by the Institute for Social Studies, Science and Research Centre Koper as a part of COORDINATE project. To register for the webinar, please click on the following link: registration.
The webinar will take place via Zoom platform.

I4NG Webinar: Data Protection in Research – EU Regulations, Open Science & Anonymization
2025-02-05 10:00 - 11:30
Summary
In this webinar, we will focus on European data protection legislation (GDPR) for researchers processing personal data, the challenges that arise from Open Science requirements and how data reuse can be facilitated.
Description
In this webinar, we will outline relevant aspects of European data protection legislation (GDPR) for researchers processing personal data and the challenges that arise from Open Science requirements. We will describe important aspects of consent forms which frequently are the legal basis for processing personal data in Social Sciences. Then, we will explain how researchers can anonymize data for archiving, publication, and re-use.
Speakers: Anita Bodlos (UIBK/AUSSDA), Lisa Hirsch (UNIVIE/AUSSDA)
Sign up here!

International Love Data Week
2025-02-10 00:00 - 2025-02-14 23:59
The 2025 theme is “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?” Take a minute to think about who owns data compared to who uses data. Different groups – like researchers, the government, companies, or organizations – may collect data. They could own it, share it, publish it online, or combine it. This year’s Love Data Week wants us to ask ‘Whose Data is it Anyway?’ This helps us remember to think about where the data came from before using it. Use this theme to have fun with your audience using data games or game shows. You could also use it to help people learn more about data literacy. Or you could talk about being responsible when dealing with important issues involving data.
Events and activities
View all 2025 Love Data Week events and activities happening locally and virtually around the world.

Human motivation in research environments, 12th online meeting of the RItrainPlus Community of Practice
2025-03-13 12:00 - 13:00
Summary
We are excited to invite you to the 12th online meeting of the RItrainPlus Community of Practice. The webinar is aimed at managers, operators and other professionals in Research Infrastructures and Core Facilities.
Description
Human motivation is a key factor for successful professional development.The theory of self-determination, promoted by professors Edward Deci and Richard Ryan, and based on positive psychology, states that human beings share a core of psychological needs that are reflected in different personal and professional contexts.In this session, we will discuss the relevance of intrinsic or autonomous motivation compared to extrinsic or controlled motivation, as well as the fundamental elements that concern:
the sense of volition and having the experience of choice (autonomy);
the ability to master the specific environment (competence);
and feeling related to others (relatedness).
We will also address the process that allows us to move towards an internalization of motivation and what strategies we can use to place it at the centre of our professional experience. Finally, we will analyse several examples that allow us to contextualize intrinsic motivation and its three components in professional spaces linked to research management.
Speakers:
Juan Luis Fuentes (Complutense University of Madrid)
Moderator: Concha Gil (Complutense University of Madrid)
Join the meeting (13th of March 2025, 12.00-13.30 CET) through the RitrainPlus Community of Practice Facebook group or view the Zoom recording.
You can join the event also via Zoom.

GESIS Spring Seminar 2025
2025-03-17 00:00 - 2025-04-04 23:59

Metadata management in the real world: Open Science in France – Data Policy can make a difference
2025-03-19 15:00 - 16:30
Summary
Join Closer for their next Metadata management in the real-world webinar exploring open science in France and its impact on data policy.
Description
In the next of our ‘Metadata management in the real world’ webinar series, we’ve invited speakers Arianna Caporali and Alina Danciu to showcase their insights on the progression of open science in France and its impact on data sharing within the social sciences and humanities (SSH) community.
Arianna Caporali – Ministère chargé de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche / French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR)
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research’s recent report, How far have we got in implementing our open science policy? Results of the survey among higher education and research institutions highlights the advancement of open science in France over the last six years.
Arianna Caporali, from the Ministry, and one of the reports’ authors will take us through the background to the French policy before discussing the reports’ main findings, and key learnings about the role of higher education and research institutions in open science policy.
Alina Danciu – Centre de données socio-politiques / Socio-Political Data Center (CDSP), Sciences Po (CNRS)
One of the French Socio-Political Data Center’s (CDSP) main missions is to serve the French and international social sciences and humanities (SSH) communities by facilitating the reuse of surveys and data, both quantitative and qualitative, in the fields of sociology and political science.
Alina Danciu will explore the impact of the policy on data sharing and prospects for further progress. She will also focus on the call for projects for Réso 2024 (Research on Open Science Practices and Stakes) of the French National Research Agency, one of the first to be open to data managers as well as principal investigators.
If you have any questions or require further information, please contact CLOSER Projects and Events Assistant, Becky England.
CLOSER Data Managers Network
This webinar is organised as part of the CLOSER Data Managers Network which is comprised of professionals working on study data management. The network is open to studies that form part of CLOSER and/or CLOSER Discovery, as well as professionals from the wider data management community.
For more information, or to enquire about joining the CLOSER Data Managers Network, please contact CLOSER Project Officer, Aidan Riley.

Infra4NextGen Webinar: Using social surveys to answer research questions
2025-04-07 11:00 - 12:00
Summary
How can social scientists design and focus their research to ensure they can answer questions using existing data? How do researchers find relevant data for a specific project? In this webinar, three research fellows working on the Infra4NextGen project will share their experience in navigating the wealth of publicly available survey data.
Description
Yuliya Kazakova (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute), David Consolazio (University of Milan) and Ruxandra Comănaru (City St George’s, University of London) will draw on their hands-on experience with this project to discuss how to refine research questions and where to find answers.
The webinar will cover strategies to design a social research question and focus on how to answer it. This will consider both a bottoms up approach (what data is available in this field to study the concepts of interest?) and a top-down one (where and how can I find relevant data for a specific topic?)
What to expect:
A brief theoretical overview of strategies to design a good research question
Learn where to find European survey data: European Social Survey (ESS), European Values Study (EVS), Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS), and Eurobarometer
Using online tools to do preliminary analysis (e.g., the ESS Data Portal, GGP teaching datasets and others)
By the end of the seminar, you should be able to:
Recognise if your question is too broad or whether it is specific enough
Distil the question into concepts
Look for indicators to link to your concepts in existing data sources
Undertake basic data analysis using online tools
Please note that we will not be discussing specific analysis techniques but rather direct you to existing platforms that can be a good starting point for the more complex analysis.
About the speakers:
Dr Yuliya Kazakova is a research fellow for GGP based at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI KNAW). Her work centres on the ‘Make it Equal‘ and ‘Make it Strong‘ pillars in the Infra4NextGen project. This involves close collaboration with leading European academics, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre experts, and the Youth Board to engage young Europeans in data-driven discussion on key issues for future generations. Yuliya’s research interests lie in the field of health economics together with the evaluation of public policies with a particular focus on childhood health, childhood poverty and maternal employment.
Dr David Consolazio is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. Within the Infra4NextGen project, he works mainly on the ‘Make it Digital‘ and ‘Make it Healthy‘ pillars. David’s research interests lie at the intersection of sociology, epidemiology, and urban studies, focusing on the interplay of individual and contextual-level factors in shaping health and social outcomes, with particular attention on the social determinants of health and residential segregation phenomena.
Dr Ruxandra Comănaru is a research fellow at the European Social Survey HQ based at City St George’s, University of London. She is primarily working on the ‘Make it Green‘ pillar within the Infra4NextGen project, as well as coordinating the collaboration between the other strands of the project. Ruxandra’s research interests include the design and adaptation of surveys for mixed modes of data collection, with a focus on enhancing the methodological accuracy of self-completion methods. She is also interested in questionnaire design, translation and cultural equivalence of research concepts.

Secondary Publication Rights for research. What are the options to openly publish your research?
2025-05-19 10:00 - 12:00
Across Europe, researchers may have the legal right to make their work openly accessible – even if published behind a paywall – thanks to Secondary Publication Rights (SPRs). Yet many are unaware of this right or unsure how to take advantage of it.

Join us at an online event on Monday 19 May at 10-12 CEST to learn how SPRs work and how these rights are implemented in Europe (in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Bulgaria). Hear real-world experiences from researchers and librarians and explore how SPRs can support open science and increase the visibility of your work.

The event is open to all but particularly designed for researchers, and the university professionals who support them,including librarians, repository managers, and research administrators.

Register to attend here!

Organised by INSPIRING ERA in collaboration with the IP4OS project as part of a series of online events to support the implementation of the European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda.

Understanding Secondary Publication Rights – Promoting Open Access through Legal Tools
2025-05-22 13:00 - 14:00
The monthly IP4OS webinar series continues with a third webinar on the topic of Understanding Secondary Publication Rights – Promoting Open Access through Legal Tools.

How can researchers legally republish their work for wider public access? Join us for a seminar on secondary publication rights, a key mechanism for increasing the visibility and accessibility of scholarly publications. We will explore the legal foundations of these rights, their relevance in national and international contexts, and how institutions and researchers can implement them effectively. The seminar will also address recent policy developments and provide practical guidance on how to navigate publisher agreements.

This session is aimed at researchers, librarians, legal scholars, and policymakers interested in open access, copyright, and scholarly communication.

Date: 22 MayTime: 1 PM (CET)Location: Online

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xdXUrbflSBOJZELGLZhBVQ#/registration

Please note that prior registration is necessary for admission to the webinar.

50th Annual Conference of IASSIST
2025-06-03 00:00 - 2025-06-06 23:59

Rethinking How To Evaluate DMPs: Funder’s Edition
2025-06-12 12:30 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom
Summary

This is the first OSTrails webinar in the maDMP Evaluation Webinar Series, which explores how Data Management Plans (DMPs) are assessed and designed across diverse research contexts and stakeholder needs.

Description

In this edition, we are partnering with the TIER2 project—an initiative focused on enhancing reproducibility in DMPs—to share insights from our community engagement activities.

This webinar is dedicated to research funders, with a special focus on the Horizon Europe DMP template as a case study. We will present the DMP Evaluation Framework, developed to support the semi-automated assessment of structured, machine-actionable DMPs.

The session will demonstrate its practical application and invite funders to provide feedback through a short survey, helping us further refine and validate our approach.

Webinar Details

Collect feedback to improve the framework and inform the development of tools for more efficient, consistent assessment.

Date: 12 June 2025 | 12:30 CEST

Speaker: Elli Papadopoulou, ARC

Target audience:

Research Funding Organisations

Research Funding Consortia

Objectives:

Introduce a structured framework for evaluating the quality and completeness of Data Management Plans (DMPs).

Discuss current challenges for funders in DMP evaluation and how they relate to research planning, feasibility, and compliance.

Engage funders in identifying priorities and expectations when reviewing DMPs that could be addressed in OSTrails.

Introduction of the TTRAM Matrix Webinar
2025-06-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
Summary

The FIDELIS project aims to support and guide repositories in becoming more trustworthy. Before effective support can be developed and delivered, we need to better understand repositories’ activities and functions and the dimensions of trustworthiness.

Description

Preservation, trust, and repository are all concepts that need some clarification. There is a need to reach consensus on the characteristics that trustworthy digital repositories (TDRs) should possess in the EOSC context.

To this end, FIDELIS is iteratively developing the Transparent Trustworthy Repository Attributes Matrix (TTRAM). At the most simple and basic level, TTRAM provides a structure and reference for the FIDELIS and EDEN projects and for the emerging FIDELIS network and can act as a reference model for wider alignment and cooperation across repositories in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

TTRAM will support:

Collecting information in a logical and reusable way,

Understanding the wide variety of repository types and the curation practices being undertaken by repositories,

Sharing structured information for consultation and use,

Designing and implementing a functional network of mutual support and aligned practice.

The FIDELIS team held a webinar for invited participants on April 4th, 2025 to introduce the first draft of the TTRAM and get initial feedback.

Instead, the upcoming webinar will provide the most recent version of TTRAM and will allow for a wider pool of interested parties to provide feedback on the next iteration. The webinar will take place on 17th of June, from 12:00 to 13:30 CEST.

Webinar: Data-driven insights for a green, digital, healthy, strong and equal Europe
2025-07-01 10:00 - 11:00
Summary

Speakers: Lisa Hirsch and Julia Geistberger (University of Vienna) This webinar will feature the most insightful results from the second Infra4NextGen Hackathon: Analysing CRONOS data and communicating key insights to policy makers.

Description

Lisa Hirsch and Julia Geistberger (University of Vienna) will showcase how Hackathon participants transformed data into recommendations for fostering sustainable policies.

Using data from our CROss-National Online Survey 3 (CRONOS-3) Panel, Hackathon entrants are tasked with communicating data analyses for policy audiences.

They will focus on research that is relevant for each of the five NextGenEU themes: Make it Digital, Make it Equal, Make it Green, Make it Healthy, and Make it Strong.

Attendees to this webinar will gain valuable insights into the intersection of data science, policy-making, and effective communication.

After completing this webinar, participants will:

Know examples of effective communication of research findings

Be familiar with the 5 NextGenEU pillars

Understand how CRONOS data can inform evidence-based policy decisions

Open Science Café: CROSSDA – Hrvatski arhiv podataka za društvene znanosti
2025-07-01 12:00 - 13:00
Centar za otvorenu znanost i upravljanje znanstvenim informacijama (COZ) Sveučilišne knjižnice Rijeka organizira još jedan Open Science Café koji će se održati u utorak, 1. srpnja 2025. godine u 12:00 sati na platformi MS Teams. Predstavljanje arhiva CROSSDA održat će Marijana Glavica, voditeljica arhiva CROSSDA i Vedran Halamić, stručnjak za anonimizaciju i upravljanje podacima u arhivu CROSSDA.

CROSSDA je nacionalna istraživačka infrastruktura koja se bavi dugoročnim očuvanjem i pružanjem na korištenje istraživačkih podataka u društvenim znanostima. Svoj rad temelji na međunarodnim standardima i najboljim praksama koji se njeguju unutar konzorcija CESSDA ERIC, pan-europske istraživačke infrastrukture koja povezuje arhive podataka za društvene znanosti diljem Europe. Skupovi podataka opremaju se bogatom dokumentacijom i standardiziranim metapodatkovnim opisima, a istraživačima se pruža podrška u upravljanju podacima tijekom cijelog istraživačkog ciklusa. CROSSDA promiče otvoreni pristup podacima. Za podatke čija je otvorena distribucija rizična, primjenjuju se posebne licencije koje dopuštaju njihovo korištenje u znanstvene ili nastavne svrhe. Na taj se način osigurava da svi podaci budu dostupni u skladu s načelima FAIR.

U predavanju ćemo objasniti proceduru pohrane podataka u arhiv CROSSDA i kako treba podatke prirediti za pohranu. Demonstrirat ćemo predaju podataka i metapodataka i pojasniti kako osoblje arhiva osigurava njihovu kvalitetu. Predstavit ćemo standardne ugovore između pohranitelja i arhiva u kojima se definiraju licencije za korištenje pohranjenih baza podataka. Pokazat ćemo kako pronaći podatke pohranjene u arhivu CROSSDA, u drugim europskim arhivima te one koji nastaju u međunarodnim komparativnim istraživanjima. Objasnit ćemo kako zatražiti pristup zaštićenim podacima i ukazati na Opće uvjete korištenja podataka koje korisnici moraju prihvatiti prije korištenja podataka. Na kraju, naglasit ćemo i važnost citiranja podataka u skladu sa smjernicama konzorcija CESSDA, što je ključno za priznavanje autorstva i transparentnost istraživanja.

Marijana Glavica, prof. psih., zaposlena je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu gdje trenutno obavlja dužnost voditeljice Hrvatskog arhiva podataka za društvene znanosti (CROSSDA) – nacionalne javne infrastrukture za istraživačke podatke. Iskustvo i stručnost u upravljanju podacima i njihovom arhiviranju stekla je kroz sudjelovanje u nekoliko međunarodnih projekata u suradnji s Konzorcijem europskih arhiva podataka za društvene znanosti (CESSDA ERIC) te kroz pohađanje brojnih radionica i predavanja na tu temu.

Vedran Halamić, mag. soc., diplomirao je na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, gdje je i zaposlen od 2020. godine u Hrvatskom arhivu podataka za društvene znanosti (CROSSDA). Unutar arhiva CROSSDA obavlja poslove vezane za anonimizaciju i upravljanje podacima te sudjeluje u izvođenju kolegija vezanih za obradu i analizu podataka.

Pozivamo istraživače i sve zainteresirane da nam se pridruže u razgovoru!

Za sudjelovanje se možete prijaviti ovdje.

Poveznica za sudjelovanje: Join the meeting now

Veselimo se druženju!

Letak: Open Science Café

ESRA 2025 Conference
2025-07-14 00:00 - 2025-07-18 23:59 | Marinus Ruppert Building of Utrecht University
Summary

ESRA hosts its main conference every two years to bring together applied survey researchers, methodologists, and statisticians from Europe and beyond. The conference shocases the latest survey research and offers a number of professional development opportunities, including short courses and awards. It is traditionally hosted at in university buildings to keep registration fees to a minimum. ESRA aims to be as inclusive as possible, promoting in particular the participation of doctoral students and other early-career researchers.

Description

The 11th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) will take place from 14th July to 18th July 2025. The conference will be hosted by Utrecht University in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The conference theme is “Promises and problems of new and alternative data sources and data formats for survey research. Methodological challenges and substantive conclusions”.

The deadline for abstracts have passed.

GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology
2025-07-23 00:00 - 2025-08-15 23:59
Summary

Join us for the 2025 edition of our Summer School in Survey Methodology and participate in our one-week courses in Cologne!

Description

Registration is open!

Courses will take place either at GESIS Cologne, online via Zoom, or in a hybrid format (both onsite and online participation possible). Online courses will be held live at Central European Summer Time (CEST) and will not be recorded.

If you are interested in survey design and implementation, you will have the opportunity to start with an introductory course on survey design, explore web surveys or conjoint survey experiments, or take your skills to the next level with our advanced questionnaire design course. For those interested in data analysis techniques, we offer courses on causal inference and small area estimation methods for survey researchers, as well as data science techniques for analyzing both survey and big data. Finally, you can also learn about survey sampling and weighting or handling missing data with multiple imputation.

In addition to our one-week courses, we offer online/hybrid two-to-three-day short courses. This year, you can discover all of the stages of designing effective questionnaires for cross-cultural surveys, and you can enhance your knowledge of causal inference with DAGs. If you are looking to build your software skills, you can choose between our courses on introduction to Stata or R.

Since 2012, GESIS has been organizing a Summer School covering survey methodology, research design, and data collection and analysis. Initially held exclusively at GESIS in Cologne, Germany, it expanded to online options in 2020. This setup brings together lecturers and participants from all over the world and many different fields, fostering a collaborative, global learning environment.

Program

Week 1 (23–25 July) – Short Courses

Introduction to R for Data Analysis [onsite | 23–24 July]

Introduction to Stata for Data Management and Analysis [hybrid | 23–24 July]

Developing, Translating, and Pretesting Questionnaires for Cross-cultural Surveys[online | 23–25 July]

Week 2 (28 July–01 August)

Advanced Questionnaire Design [onsite]

Survey Sampling and Weighting [onsite]

Designing and Implementing Web Surveys [onsite]

Causal Inference with Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)[online | 29–31 July]

Week 3 (04–08 August)

Causal Inference in the Social Sciences [onsite]

Data Science Techniques for Survey Researchers [onsite]

Introduction to Conjoint Survey Experiments [onsite]

Week 4 (11–15 August)

Missing Data and Multiple Imputation [onsite]

Introduction to Survey Design [onsite]

Introduction to Small Area Estimation [onsite]

Scholarships, ECTS Credits & More

4 Scholarships are available to Summer School participants for one-week courses.Grants are disbursed by the European Survey Research Association(ESRA).

Reasons to attend

As a graduate or PhD student, post-doc, junior or senior researcher, or survey professional, you will:

receive high quality training in state-of-the-art techniques and methods of survey research,

obtain a comprehensive overview of different survey methods or delve deeply into niche topics of interest to you,

acquire essential skills in how to design, plan, conduct, and document all kinds of surveys,

gain insights into survey data collection processes,

learn techniques for analyzing survey data and assessing data quality,

network with peers from different fields and from all over the world to discuss research and share ideas.

GESIS is happy to assist you!

Should you be unsure which course is the right one for you, please do not hesitate to contact GESIS.

Prerequisites

Each course has specific prerequisites, which will be detailed on the course webpages.

In addition, you are expected to:

have a good command of English.

have a basic knowledge of empirical research methods,

Shaping the Future of Data Stewardship: Personas, Skills, and Career Pathways [Workshop]
2025-09-02 00:00 - 2025-09-03 23:59
Summary

We warmly invite you to join this interactive RDA (Research Data Alliance) workshop focused on strengthening the professional ecosystem around data stewardship. Together, we will: Co-develop data steward personas to reflect the diversity of roles. Define core competencies and identify training needs. Design a data stewardship curriculum aligned with career stages and domains. Explore sustainable institutional models and career pathways for data stewards.

Description

Our shared goal is to build a common understanding of the evolving role of data stewards and contribute to the development of a professional, well-supported, and sustainable data stewardship community.

Target Audience

Data stewards, research data managers, librarians, data curators

Research policy officers or those designing/careering data steward roles

Participants from the Professionalising Data Stewardship IG and related RDA groups

Location

Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana

Organisers

IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities
2025-09-08 00:00 - 2025-09-10 23:59
Summary

The IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities (IEEE CH) is an annual event co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society. It focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of technologies applied to Social Science and Humanities (SSH) that includes Arts, Heritage, History, Archeology, Linguistics, Libraries, and so forth.

Description

SSH Is now considered as a Critical and Complex Human-Cyber-Physical Ecosystem that need protection, valorization and resilience for the future generations. The conference explores novel concepts, technologies, solutions and applications to along the digital continuum including digitization, curation, protection, reuse and disseminate Digital Cultural Assets. The IEEE CSR 2025 conference will be held in Florence, Italy, during September 8–10, 2025.

Important Dates

Call for papers

Paper submission deadline: April 10, 2025

Authors’ notification: May 2, 2025

Camera-ready submission: May 15, 2025

Early registration deadline: May 20, 2025

Conference dates: Sept 8–10, 2025

Call for Workhsop

Proposal submission deadline: February 28, 2025

(send to emanuele.bellini@ieee.org)

Proponents’ notification: March 2, 2025

Paper submission deadline: April 10, 2025

Authors’ notification: May 2, 2025

Camera-ready submission: May 15, 2025

Early registration deadline: May 20, 2025

Workshop dates: Sept 8–10, 2025For more info: info@ieee-ch.org

IEEE

Open Science Fair 2025
2025-09-15 00:00 - 2025-09-17 23:59
Summary

In an era where global challenges demand collective intelligence, Open Science Fair 2025 will spotlight the power of global, international and cross-regional partnerships in shaping the future of Open Science. True progress requires collaboration that transcends borders, disciplines, and institutions—uniting diverse perspectives to drive meaningful change.

Description

This year’s OSFair will explore how diverse forms of collaboration can accelerate discovery, enhance knowledge accessibility, and create a more transparent and equitable research ecosystem. By fostering open and inclusive cooperation across continents, we can build a stronger, more connected scientific community.

Join us from September 15th to 17th at CERN in Geneva as we come together to co-create the future of Open Science! Whether you’re an advocate, practitioner, or newcomer, OSFair 2025 is your platform to connect and contribute.

Stay tuned for announcements on more specific topics, speakers, sessions, participation and sponsorship opportunities!

Keep up with all OSFair 2025 news and updates on the event’s official Social Media accounts on LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Mastodon.

Who?

OS FAIR 2025 is organised as an emblematic initiative of OpenAIRE, a not-for-profit organisation to ensure a permanent open scholarly communication infrastructure to support European research. This year the event will be co-organised with and hosted by CERN Open Science Office.

What?

OS FAIR 2025 aims to bring together and empower open science communities and services; to identify common practices related to open science; to see what are the best synergies to deliver and operate services that work for many; and to bring experiences from all around the world and learn from each other.

Call for contributions

This year’s Open Science Fair will explore how diverse forms of collaboration can accelerate discovery, enhance knowledge accessibility, and create a more transparent and equitable research ecosystem. By fostering open and inclusive cooperation across continents, we can build a stronger, more connected scientific community.

The OS FAIR welcomes all actors of the research communities and infrastructures, including: librarians, repository managers, content providers, service providers, research administrators, facilitators of research, learned societies, publishers, policy makers and funders, citizen science groups and initiatives, and innovators in scholarly communication.

Read more here.

Conference topics

Fusing Forces – Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration

Cross-cutting themes:

AI in Open Science | Policies for Equity & inclusion

Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact

Measuring Open Science impact

Societal and economic benefits

Influence of Open Science for policy change

AI-driven monitoring

Open, but at What Cost? Research Security & Open Science

Balancing openness and security

Dual-use and ethical risks

AI risks in Open Science

Global competitiveness & openness

Trust and governance

Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures

Repositories and metadata

Diamond Open Access

AI-enhanced infrastructures

Sustaining Open Science infrastructure

Federated and national infrastructures

Rethinking Research Assessment

Beyond impact factors

Collaborative assessment models

Open Science & career progression

Policy perspectives on assessment reform

AI in peer review

Open Science for All: Skills & Community

Open Science in education

Training Open Science skills

Community engagement

AI literacy for researchers, support staff, funders

RC33 Eleventh Social Science Methodology Conference
2025-09-22 00:00 - 2025-09-25 23:59
Summary

Registration for the conference will be open from April until June 30th, 2025, to take advantage of the reduced early registration fee, while registrations will definitively close on August 30, 2025.

Description

Event fees: https://rc33.org/11icssm-fee/

Keynote speakers:

Juan Piovani

Juan Piovani holds a PhD in Methodology of the Social Sciences (Sapienza Università di Roma) and a MSc in Advanced Social Research Methods and Statistics (City, University of London). Currently, Juan is coordinator of the Latin American Network of Social Sciences Methodology (RedMet), Full professor of Social Research Methods (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) and Principal researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina.

Mike Savage

Mike Savage is Professorial Research Fellow at the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. He is an expert in the study of social class and inequality, and has pioneered new research methods and innovative data sources throughout his career.

Sophie Woodward

Sophie Woodward is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, the Vice Director of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) and the Co-Director of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives.

Vera Toepoel

Dr. Vera Toepoel is head of the Methodology Department at Statistics Netherlands. Her work focuses on survey methodology, and innovations in particular. She has been the President of RC33 and the President of the European Survey Research Association.

Nina Baur

Enrica Amaturo

Best paper awards: https://rc33.org/11icssm-awards/Submission deadline: 31. March.
