CROSSDA

Train the Trainer: Anonymisation for data sharing in practice
2022-10-04 13:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Zagreb)
Summary
The goal of this event is to show trainers the tools they need to teach the fundamentals of data anonymisation and disclosure control in training sessions while also giving them hands-on experience with current open source technologies (sdcMicro).
Description
Over the past few years, there has been a noticeable growth in both the need for and the volume of data from surveys, registers, or other sources that hold information about individuals and/or institutions. At the same time, rules and privacy protection principles have placed regulations on who can access and use personal data. Therefore, application of statistical disclosure control measures (anonymisation) to the data prior to its release is required for proper and secure data sharing.
In the first part, Jan Dalsten Sørensen from the Danish National Archives (DNA) will guide you through our anonymisation process and the thoughts behind it. The DNA contains a large collection of data, collected from both scientific research and from the public administration. Of course, anonymisation is a great tool to utilise the great scientific potential in these data without compromising the integrity of the data subjects personal information. However, it is not always easy to handle in practice. In this part of the event you will learn more about how we work in a dialogue-based way with the staff involved in the anonymisation process.
Second part of the event will consist of two 45-minute sessions and a Q&A session afterward. In this part of the workshop the focus will shift towards available techniques and how to apply them using sdcMicro, a free, R-based open-source package.
Some of the concepts and techniques that will be presented include k-anonymity, top/bottom coding and aggregation with practical examples and recommendations on incorporating anonymisation into research designs.
The audience will be given access to the exercises and presentations that were utilised for future reuse.
Preliminary programme:
13:00 – 13:10 Welcome13:10 – 13:55 Anonymisation in practice at the Danish National Archives13:55 – 14:00 Break14:00 – 14:45 Basic concepts of anonymisation14:45 – 14:55 Break14:55 – 15:40 Working with sdcMicro15:40 – 16:00 Q&A
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How to Ensure Researchers Share Their FAIR Data: Practical Tips and Tools (Train-the-Trainer Workshop)
2022-10-27 10:00 - 15:30
Summary
Want to ensure researchers share their FAIR data? The Austrian Social Science Data Archive, the Czech Social Science Data Archive, and UK Data Service are jointly organising an interactive train-the-trainer event to empower professional practitioners and support staff in ensuring researchers make their data available for re-use.
Description
We invite you to join us on October 27th for our train-the-trainer event where we will be covering critical elements of data sharing and available tools and resources for supporting Open Science including:
Data Management PlanningConsent and Ethical considerationsLegislation and Licence frameworks
The workshop will consist of presentations, demos, a roundtable discussion on ethical considerations, and a showcase of licence frameworks at different European archives fostering an exchange of experiences focused on learnt lessons. We will be facilitating group and individual exercises with all worksheets to be made available for reuse in your own events.
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DARIAH Innovation Forum #2 in Dublin: Bringing Together DARIAH and the Industries
2022-11-04 11:30 - 21:00
The second DARIAH Innovation Forum will take place on 3 November, from 9:30 to 19:00 GMT in Dublin, Ireland (hybrid event).
During this packed 1-day event panel presentations, a keynote and an innovation challenge will highlight DARIAH’s relations with traditional and digital industries.Scope The 2022 Innovation Forum will focus on the question of how a research infrastructure such as DARIAH can play a greater role in facilitating the arts and humanities to have groundbreaking impact on technological development, creating truly human-centred innovation and policy, and an ethical and engaging marketplace for culture. Innovation Challenge The results of the Arts and Humanities Innovation Challenge will be shared. It’s an open competition for experts in the arts and humanities. Submit your solutions to a culturally embedded, but ultimately economically relevant, ‘wicked’ problem. Deadline: 17 October!
The event is free but registration is required.

Journal and Data Archive Collaboration Forum
2022-11-08 14:00 - 16:30
Summary
The availability of research data underlying articles published in journals is becoming a common practice in scientific communication. The European Commission and other funders of scientific research have set high expectations for scientists towards openness and availability of scientific work and results. Scientific publishers, through journals and scholarly publications are the main point of realising open science in practice.
Description
This event is part of the continuous Journals Outreach initiative (https://www.cessda.eu/Training/Journals-outreach), bringing together CESSDA service providers (SPs) with Social Science & Humanities Journals. The target audience is publishers, editors and researchers interested in CESSDA coordinated data services for journals. The event will also be an opportunity for publishers/journals to highlight new initiatives in research data services linked to scientific publications.
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Programme
14:00-14:20 Activities of the CESSDA Journals Outreach group; Profiles of CESSDA Service Providers related to accepting data linked to journals / Serafeim Alvanides
Moderator: Brian Kleiner14:20-14:40 Data showcases: the data journal in a multimodal world / Peter Doorn, Leen Breure
14:40-15:00 An Introduction to Open Research Europe, focusing on Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) / Ruth Fisher
15:00-15:10 Break
Moderator: Marijana Glavica
15:10-15:30 FAIRsharing: An ecosystem of research standards and databases for enabling FAIR data / Allyson Lister
15:30-15:50 The Research Data Journal: objectives and processess / Ulbe Bosma
15:50-16:10 The CURE (Curation for Reproducibility) Consortium / Limor Peer
Moderator: Janez Strebe
16:10-16:30 General discussion

How to become a computational social scientist
2022-11-22 11:00 - 18:00
Scientific research and teaching are increasingly influenced by computational tools, methods and paradigms. The social sciences are no different, with many new forms of social data only available or practical through computational means (Kitchen, 2014).
While social science research has always been marked by technological approaches to some degree, the field of computational social science involves the use of tools, data and methods that require a different skill set and mindset.
This free workshop is an introduction to computational social science. It offers attendees a chance to understand and discuss what computational social science is, what it is good for, how to become a computational social scientist, and the basic steps to follow in an ideal computational social science research project.
The workshop intersperses instruction with discussion and gives participants the chance to develop a research project idea through several steps. The workshop is suitable for absolute beginners and NO CODING SKILLS are required.
Presenters: Dr J. Kasmire
Kitchen, R. (2014). Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts. Big Data & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951714528481.
Level: Any level, from absolute beginner to statistics whizExperience/knowledge required: No specific knowledge required, but it will make much more sense if you currently (or plan to) conduct social science researchTarget audience: Social scientists who are interested in or confused by what computational and empirical social science is about, or who know they want to start doing more computational work but don’t know how to get started
We will be using Mentimeter to ask questions in this workshop so you may benefit from having a second device ready for this, such as a smartphone.
This event is part of our UK Data Service introductory training series: Autumn 2022.

GESIS Meet the experts: “Linking surveys with electoral integrity assessments to explain political trust”
2022-12-08 13:00 - 18:00
This talk presents a linking approach that combines expert assessments on electoral integrity with survey data to study how electoral integrity affects the way in which election results translate into citizen attitudes towards the political system. It introduces a causal mechanism that links political losing to political trust via evaluations of electoral fairness: citizens who voted for the losing camp are more likely to view the electoral process as unfair than citizens who voted for the winning camp, resulting in political distrust. It further suggests that the effects of political losing depend on the level of electoral integrity. In conditions where elections are conducted in a free and fair manner, even those who voted for the losing camp have little reason to suspect foul play. Whenever there are actual indications of electoral malpractice, however, political losers have much more reason to doubt the integrity of the electoral process than those who are content with the election outcome. The analysis makes use of a unique dataset that ex-post harmonizes survey data from three cross-national survey projects (Asian Barometer Survey, European Social Survey, Latinobarómetro) and links this survey data with expert assessments of electoral integrity provided by the Varieties-of-Democracy (V-Dem) project to cover 45 democracies in Europe, East Asia, and Latin America. The talk details how respondents (in the survey data) were matched to elections (in the V-Dem data) and discusses challenges arising from survey fieldwork periods not being aligned with election cycles.
Speaker:
Dr. Marlene Mauk

1st ISSP User Conference “Social Inequality”
2022-12-12 12:30 - 18:00
Since 1986, the ISSP has provided high-quality data on attitudes and behaviors on important societal issues such as family, health, work, religion, the role of government, social inequality, the environment, national identity and citizenship, social networks, or leisure and sports.
The newly launched ISSP User Conference Series is designed to provide a platform for the various global research activities based on cross-national ISSP data. It aims to stimulate exchanges between individual researchers, to expand the ISSP research community, to increase the ISSP’s visibility and to inform the global policy discussions on important societal issues.
The ISSP User Conference will be held once a year and will focus on a different main theme each year, starting with Social Inequality in 2022.

Reproducibility and confidential or proprietary data: can it be done?
2022-12-13 18:15
CRRESS invites you to join our December webinar “Reproducibility and confidential or proprietary data: can it be done?“. Paulo Guimarães (Banco de Portugal, BPLIM), John Horton (MIT), Lars Vilhuber (Cornell University) compose the panel. Aleksandr Michuda (Cornell University) will moderate the session.
The fourth panel of CRRESS, The Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics and the Social Sciences, will be held on December 13, 2022. Exceptionally, we begin at 12:15 PM Eastern Time, earlier than other series sessions.
Register to join the session on Zoom.
What happens to reproducibility when data are confidential or proprietary? Many journals can only ask that detailed access procedures be provided in a ReadMe file, but what mechanisms could be used to conduct computational reproducibility checks on such data? Should authors temporarily share their data with the journal for the purposes of reproducibility verification, even if they are not part of the public data replication package? Is it feasible to use a network of “insiders” to run code provided as part of a data replication package to assess reproducibility? Could a “certified run” be used?
The Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics and the Social Sciences (CRRESS) is a monthly series of virtual and in-person panels on the topics of reproducibility, replicability, and transparency in the social sciences. Each month, a panel of experts will discuss a particular topic with relevance to the overall theme of reproducibility and transparency. We invite anyone with an interest in social science research to attend.
CRRESS is led by Lars Vilhuber and Aleksandr Michuda, Cornell University, who organize the panels together with Ian Schmutte (UGA) and Marie Connolly (UQAM). Funding by the National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. Participation is free, but registration is required. Learn more at https://labordynamicsinstitute.github.io/crress/.

Teaching with census data
2023-01-17 11:00 - 18:00
Census 2021 will provide demographic, employment, housing and other characteristics about local populations at neighbourhood level. This free workshop is designed to enable those teaching undergraduate students to use this local material to explore substantive questions related to their discipline. The aims of the workshop are to enable participants to be able to:
Appreciate the geography of local areas and the data that is provided from the census.Be able to access, prepare and present census data.Develop appropriate exercises for students to engage in practical exploration, analysis and reporting on substantive topics of interest.
The workshop will use Microsoft Excel software and provide supporting materials to enable students to develop basic skills in data analysis and reporting the results in charts and tables.
The workshop will also outline more advanced techniques to combine other neighbourhood-based information and prepare materials to combine with GIS software to produce maps.
Presenter: Nigel de Noronha, UK Data Service (University of Manchester)

Safe Researcher Training
2023-01-19 11:00 - 18:00
This Safe Researcher Training (SRT) course is intended for researchers who will be, or are in the process of, applying for access to controlled data in the UK Data Service Secure Lab. It is also suitable for researchers who will be accessing controlled data in other secure environments, such as the ONS Secure Research Service or HMRC Datalab, where the requirements of access mandate attendance on a Safe Researcher Training course. It is not suitable for inexperienced researchers whose project applications are unlikely to be approved, such as undergraduates applying for dissertation projects.
Researchers who are applying for Accredited Researcher (AR) status to access data through legal gateways, such as the Digital Economy Act (DEA), must attend and pass this course before they can be awarded AR status.
This course covers:
Data security and personal responsibility, including legal and procedural breaches and penalties, and the ‘5 Safes’ security model.Statistical Disclosure Control – how to make statistical outputs safe for release and the principles employed.Using the Secure Lab – how to use the environment efficiently and effectively (includes preparation of data imports and statistical outputs).
Researchers who attend the course will be sent a link after the training to complete an online assessment. Access to Secure Lab will only be granted to researchers who successfully pass the assessment and complete the rest of the application process.
To request to attend this session, please contact secure.training@ukdataservice.ac.uk. When submitting your request, please specify in the email if you currently fall into one or more of the below categories:
Applying for AR status through the ONS Research Accreditation Service.Applying, or preparing an application, to access controlled data in the UK Data Service Secure Lab.Applying to access controlled data in the ONS Secure Research Service.Applying to access controlled data in the HMRC Datalab.Applying to access controlled data through Administrative Data Research UK (ADR-UK).
We will be verifying the information you provide with the relevant service(s). If you do not fall into the above categories, you can still request a place but this will be chargeable.

Pohrana i objava istraživačkih podataka u arhivu CROSSDA – radionica u okviru projekta COORDINATE za zaposlenike Instituta Ivo Pilar
2023-02-08 11:00 - 12:00
U okviru projekta COORDINATE, koji vodi Manchester Metropolitan University i u kojem sudjeluju Institut Ivo Pilar (voditelj Toni Babarović) i CROSSDA – Hrvatski arhiv podataka za društvene znanosti / Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu (voditeljica Marijana Glavica), organiziramo radionicu o pohrani i objavi podataka u arhivu CROSSDA. Jedan od zadataka unutar projekta je identificirati te u arhiv CROSSDA pokušati pohraniti skupove istraživačkih podataka relevantnih za temu projekta COORDINATE – podataka koji se tiču dobrobiti djece i mladih.

Radionica je namijenjena primarno voditeljima i suradnicima kvantitativnih istraživanja koji su tijekom svibnja i lipnja 2022. dostavili podatke za projekte prepoznate kao relevantne i adekvatne za potencijalno arhiviranje, ali na radionicu su pozvani i svi drugi zaposlenici Instituta, istraživači u području društvenih znanosti, zainteresirani za usluge arhiva CROSSDA.

Cilj radionice je upoznati istraživače s procedurama pohrane i objave podataka u arhivu CROSSDA te ih motivirati na pohranu podataka.

Objasnit ćemo osnovne preduvjete za pohranu: prikupljanje dokumentacije, čišćenje podataka te osiguravanje potrebne razine anonimizacije.

Demonstrirat ćemo sustav za objavu podataka data.crossda.hr i proći kroz metapodatke koje je potrebno unijeti.

Objasnit ćemo standardne licence koje se koriste pri objavi podataka: otvoreni pristup i pristup ograničen samo za znanstvene svrhe te u svrhu podučavanja.

Dotaknut ćemo se pravnih (GDPR, autorska prava) i etičkih pitanja.

Razgovarat ćemo o nedoumicama i preprekama koje se mogu pojaviti prilikom pohrane i objave podataka.

4th Symposium on Big Data and Research Syntheses in Psychology with a special focus on Machine Learning & Open Science
2023-05-08 00:00 - 2023-05-10 23:59
You are invited to participate in the 4th symposium on big data and research syntheses in psychology to be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (May 8–10, 2023).We are pleased to collaborate with Europe’s Journal of Psychology (EJOP):Selected contributions from the symposium will be invited for full-text submission to a special thematic section of EJOP!The 2023 edition builds on the success of our prior events:
Research Synthesis and Big Data in Psychology, May 17-21, 2021, online
Research Synthesis incl. Pre-Conference Symposium: Big Data in Psychology, May 27-31, 2019, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Twin Conference Research Synthesis / Big Data in Psychology 2018, June 7-9, 2018, Trier, Germany
The symposium will address the question:Psychological research in times of big data: How can machine learning and open science help to cope with the information overload?What big data and research syntheses have in common is the challenge of dealing with large, novel, and ever-growing amounts of data in psychology. On the one hand, data from social media, as well as sensor data, are of growing interest in psychology. On the other hand, science is producing more publications and at a higher rate, making it increasingly difficult to keep track of the current state of knowledge.In recent years, machine learning has become a key tool to address these challenges. Methodological advancements along with freely available software, as well as advances in data storage and computational capacities, make it possible to deal with data of large volume, velocity, and variety. There are also promising applications for summarizing scientific evidence, for example, through automation in screening a large and dynamically growing body of literature.At the same time, open science plays an important role: On the one hand, to create more efficient workflows by sharing data, methodological documentation, technical tools and analysis scripts within science. Especially when applying machine learning methods, transparent documentation and provision of the analysis code are indispensable for their reproducibility. On the other hand, to make scientific evidence accessible and usable by communicating it to the outside world in a way that is understandable to laypersons. The symposium is scheduled to take place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in May 2023 and will last three days. On the first day, introductions to open science and machine learning will provide the basics to the audience. The second day addresses different applications of machine learning, with a focus on the areas of sensor data and social media, as well as automation of research syntheses. Finally, the third day is devoted to the importance and purposeful practices of open science: To improve workflows within science and make findings more available and understandable to the world beyond academia.

48th Annual Conference of IASSIST – Diversity in Research: Social Justice from Data
2023-05-30 00:00 - 2023-06-02 23:59
Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 30 – June 2, 2023
Host institution: IASSIST with representation from the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Rutgers University, and Temple University.
Registration is NOW OPEN!
Go the registration page to get more information and register.
Program
The theme of the conference is Diversity in Research: Social Justice from Data.
The full program is now available.
Registration
Registration is now open. Go the registration page to get more information and register. Information on the Conference Hotel and rate is available on the hotel page.
Come and join us for the Best. IASSIST. Ever.
Call for Papers and Workshops
The Call for Submissions page describes the theme in further detail. Submissions have closed and notifications of acceptance have been sent out.

Learn From Our Users: Registration and Registry Basics on the OSF
2023-11-07 19:00
Have you heard about registrations, preregistration, or OSF Registries? Are you confused? You’re not alone. We’re here to discuss the basics of how these open scholarship tools and software products work, with a focus on existing use-cases and users. Join us if you support researchers as a program officer, a funder, or a research coordinator. Join us if you’re a researcher looking to understand the fundamentals of how the OSF platform supports these tools and workflows.

Helping Others Use Your Data: Lessons From the Field of Neuroscience
2023-11-08 17:00 - 18:00
So you’ve created an amazing dataset that you would love for other researchers to have access to. What’s next? Join experts from NeuroImaging Data Model (NIDM) and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics to learn about metadata: what it is, why it is important, and how the OSF and other tools can make it easy for you to include it with your project materials so others can find the data you’ve worked so hard to curate.

Learn From Our Users: Projects and Collection Basics on the OSF
2023-11-14 19:00
Have you heard about the OSF, projects, or OSF Collections? Are you confused? No problem! We’re here to discuss the basics of how these open scholarship tools and workflows work, with a focus on existing OSF project and Collections use-cases and the people that utilize them. Join us if you support researchers as a program officer, a funder, or a research coordinator. Join us if you’re a researcher looking to understand the fundamentals of how the OSF platform supports the project and OSF Collection workflows.

JEDI 2023 Annual Meeting: Improving Published Research
2023-11-15 23:00 - 2023-11-16 00:30
The Journal Editors Discussion Interface is pleased to announce its 2023 Annual Meeting events:
Panel 1: Experiences with Correcting the Scientific Record
15.11.2023. / 23:00 CET / duration 90 min
Join a group of experts as they delve into the practical aspects of rectifying or withdrawing publications, offering valuable experiences and perspectives on the motivations and complexities involved.
Panel 2: Transparency & Innovation in Peer Review
16.11.2023. / 17:00 CET / duration 90 min
Explore the evolving landscape of peer review with the panelists as they discuss challenges and opportunities related to transparency, open reviewer identities, open content in reviews, new ways to provide post-publication evaluations of scholarly manuscripts, and more.
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Learn From Our Users: Institutional Basics on the OSF
2023-11-28 19:00
If you work at a research institution and support researchers as a librarian, or you work to support researchers in a research office, this webinar is for you. You might be grappling with how to support sharing of data management plans, data, and metadata to comply with new policies. OSF Institutional membership might be a solution for some of your support needs. Join us as we focus on how other institutions have utilized the OSF and how the OSF software infrastructure works for you and your research community.

Symposium: Critical Perspectives on the Metascience Reform Movement
2024-03-07 15:00 - 18:30
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
