Programme: Celebrating openness. Impact of open science - 20 February 2025

Join the event on 20 February 2025 to celebrate the many ways in which academics make their research and teaching more accessible and transparent.

Location: House of Connections, Grote Markt 21, Groningen

The event kicks off with a Keynote from Ellen Carbo from ZonMw. Her talk. ‘Open(ing) the Science’, will share her perspectives on how Open Science is instrumental in academic research, education and policy, and how funding agencies perceive the role of Open Science. 

Following the keynote, Lightning Talks will be presented of the winners of the Open Research Award 2024. Bettina van Hoven will showcase the project, This Abled City: Participatory Research on Accessibility with People with Disabilities, where they explored how accessibility and mobility shape the experience of people with disabilities in the city. This project was done in collaboration with societal partner ‘s Heeren Loo.

Marianthi Tangili will present her project. Identification of age-related CpG sites from longitudinal avian methylomes, which aimed to provide a clean, reproducible dataset for other researchers in the field.

Last but not least, Nadja Brait will be presenting online her project, An open-source solution for finding ancient viral integrations in genomic data.

A networking lunch will follow the Lightning Talks. We will be providing catering so please register to make sure we will have enough. (You can also not network and enjoy your lunch in peace.)

Following the lunch, we will have a Panel Discussion on Impact of Open Science in Academic Policy. With David Cheruiyot representing Young Academy Groningen and Eva Teuling representing Science LinX, we will discuss how different Open Science practices are being implemented in Groningen, how they influence academic policy and what the future holds.

Timetable

Organizer: Open Science Community Groningen in collabroation with University of Groningen Library