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TIER2 will share insights on research reproducibility, responsible data practices, and the broader impacts of open science at Metascience 2025, taking place from 30 June to 2 July at University College London. On 30 June, a session “Cultures of openness: enabling & measuring the impacts of open science” (11:30–13:00) will feature Dr. Nicki Lisa Cole alongside experts from Wellcome, Aalto University, and Aligning Science Across Parkins...

On 23 June, Eleni Adamidi from the Athena Research Center will present the paper “A Virtual Laboratory for Managing Computational Experiments’’ at the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025), held in Columbus, Ohio. The event is aimed at bringing together domain experts, data management researchers, practitioners, and developers for the presentation and exchange of the latest research results on...

The new Georgian Reproducibility Network will host its kick-off meeting on 18 June 2025 at Tbilisi State Medical University. The RN launch is supported through TIER2’s RN Award, which aimed to facilitate the development of new Reproducibility Networks in Horizon Europe “Widening Participation” countries. Georgia was one of three countries, alongside Ukraine and Serbia, that was selected through the 2023 open call to strengthen a culture of openne...

A new TIER2 paper outlines practical ways academic publishers can strengthen enforcement of data sharing policies to improve the reproducibility of research. While journals have supported Open Science through data sharing policies for over a decade, challenges remain in ensuring compliance. The enforcement of these policies requires additional time, expertise, and resources within editorial workflows, which can be complex and varied. To shed m...

The OSTrails maDMP Evaluation Webinar Series is hosting its first session on 12 June 2025, 12:30-14 CET. The series will focus on how Data Management Plans (DMPs) are assessed and designed across various research contexts and stakeholder requirements. Find out more and register here. The first webinar is organised in collaboration with TIER2 and it aims to address the challenges faced by funders in DMP evaluation, particularly in rela...

The Horizon Europe projects OSIRIS, iRISE, and TIER2 have established a collaborative partnership aimed at addressing key challenges in research integrity, reproducibility, and transparency. The tripartite initiative was highlighted in a video recorded during a joint discussion at the project’s joint annual meeting last year. In an open conversation, the project coordinators—Inge Stegeman (OSIRIS), Emily Sena and Sarah McCann (iRIS...

We are pleased to share our new position paper highlighting TIER2's contributions to research reproducibility and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The publication showcases how TIER2 addresses research reproducibility challenges by developing innovative tools, fostering community engagement, and advancing policy development, while connecting grassroots reproducibility movements with a Europe-wide Open Science infrastructure such as EOSC. ...

The TIER2 project invites you to a hands-on demonstration of the Reproducibility Monitoring Dashboard, designed to monitor the reproducibility and reusability of research outcomes across various topics, fields, projects, and funding calls. In this session, we will showcase the enhanced features and functionalities that have been developed based on valuable feedback from our first webinar. You'll ge...

As scientific research increasingly relies on computer-based experiments, ensuring reproducibility and managing detailed metadata has become more difficult. To help solve this, a new tool called SCHEMA lab has been developed by TIER2 partners from the Athena Research Center. SCHEMA lab is an open-source virtual laboratory that empowers researchers to create, manage, and monitor containerised computational experiments with ease. It focuses...

A new scoping review, supported by TIER2 and OSIRIS, has examined the literature on how open science interventions affect the reproducibility and replicability of research across disciplines. The authors highlight that, although various ‘efforts underscore a shared commitment towards reproducibility within much of the academic landscape, the extent to which practices and interventions have been empirically investigated for thei...

A new TIER2 paper, published in Wiley’s AI Magazine, addresses the reproducibility challenges and opportunities in machine-learning-based research. Despite growing concern and appeals from machine learning (ML) researchers, the general community continues to take the matter of reproducibility lightly. Even with a surge in related literature, no comprehensive overview exists of the barriers and drivers that shape reproducibility in the field. ...

On 27th November 2024, TIER2 and Taylor & Francis hosted a workshop at the 19th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing in Tromsø, Norway. The workshop focused on improving collaboration to address reproducibility challenges in research. The workshop, titled “Collaborating for reproducibility: How can we work together better?”, brought together 14 stakeholders, including publishers, researchers, librarians, funders, and policy-m...