Workshop report from the Recognition and Rewards Festival in Utrecht

Maatje Sophia Duine

    Zitierhinweis: Duine, Maaike (2023) Recognizing the diversity of Open Science Practices across different research communities. Open Access Blog Berlin. DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/v8ac3-nm507

 

On April 13, 2023 the third [Recognition & Rewards
Festival](https://recognitionrewards.nl/2023/04/19/report-recognition-rewards-festival/)
took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The conference was organized by
the Dutch Recognition & Rewards Programme which aims to modernize the
system of recognizing and rewarding academics as defined in the
[Programme´s Position
Paper](https://recognitionrewards.nl/about/position-paper/). This year,
the conference theme "Rethinking Assessment", was discussed in a
[plenary programme and 21 different
workshops](https://recognitionrewards.nl/recap-recognition-rewards-festival-2023/).

In the plenary programme, perspectives from multiple stakeholder
communities were discussed in panel sessions and introduced in columns.
Hieke Huistra (Utrecht University) stressed in her column the importance
of permanent contracts for academics. Robbert Dijkgraaf (Dutch minister
of Education, Culture and Science) discussed with Onur Sahin (Utrecht
University) and Charisma Hehakaya (UMC Utrecht) how to include the
perspectives of Early Career Researchers in the discussion on reforming
research assessment, as well as incorporating insights from people who
have left academia. Rianne Letschert (chair of the Coalition for
Advancing Research Assessment) emphasized how collaboration across
different disciplinary communities is necessary to enable research
assessment reforms and consent on multiple levels.

In addition to the plenary programme, [21
workshops](https://recognitionrewards.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Recap-of-the-workshops_Website.pdf)
were organized. Workshop themes varied from assessing teacher quality
and societal impact to enabling diversity and rewarding
interdisciplinary collaborations, and many more. One of the workshops
focused on recognising team science; acknowledging teams or consortia of
academics for their joint work is one of the subject areas of the R&R
Programme. Workshop topics included: how to define a team
(collaboration, common goal, trust) and how team leaders could encourage
their employees to make the most of their careers. Additionally,
questions on how to assess team science came up. What would be metrics
and indicators for team assessment? Is it even necessary and possible?
One of the participants mentioned that e.g. PhD students don't want yet
another box to tick; they want to focus on doing research.

In the workshop we organized as part of the [BUA Open Science Dashboards
Project](https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/open-access-berlin/2022/05/12/das-bua-open-science-dashboard-projekt-die-entwicklung-disziplinspezifischer-open-science-indikatoren/),
meaningful metrics and indicators were part of the discussion as well.
The workshop focused on recognizing the diversity of Open Science (OS)
practices across different research communities. Even though stimulating
and encouraging all aspects of Open Science are part of the R&R
Programme, how to recognize and reward these OS Practices has yet to be
defined. The workshop´s goal was not to develop or use dashboards as
tools for research assessment but rather to initiate the discussion on
how to make sure that when Open Science practices are assessed,
disciplinary differences and multiple perspectives are taken into
account.

The 16 workshop participants represented various stakeholder
communities, including publishers and OS coordinators at universities,
and representatives from the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL). We
asked them to assess existing dashboards, like the [EC Open Science
Monitor](https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/open-science/open-science-monitor_en)
and [French Open Science
Monitor](https://frenchopensciencemonitor.esr.gouv.fr/), and to discuss
what they liked and disliked about the dashboards, how meaningful
indicators could be developed for other OS practices, and how to avoid a
single focus on research outputs.

Some observations were made on the dashboards' formats and content, such
as the quality of the data (it is not always made clear how
comprehensive and complete the used datasets are), dashboards should be
updated regularly to remain relevant and when it is called a dashboard,
interactive possibilities are expected, and not just static graphs. Data
from open infrastructures is preferred over commercial infrastructures.
The objective of a monitor or dashboard should also be made clear, e.g.
the goal of the EC Open Science Monitor is not made clear and content is
outdated. It seems like it is just a random collection, but what is the
strategy behind it? What is the ambition of OS within the EU? Can the
dashboard support policy development? It was discussed if it would be
useful for the EU to develop and guide OS monitoring for all European
countries. How would that work? And do we actually need a European
approach? Comparing OS activities is not the objective so are
tailor-made dashboards for specific institutions and/or disciplines more
useful?

The discussion continued on the objectives of monitoring OS activities.
Dashboards should be tools to support OS practices, not an end in
themselves. If the objective is to get recognition for OS practices, how
can you assess the wide range of activities and avoid comparison? A part
of the Recognition & Rewards Programme is to recognize teaching tracks,
how can you develop indicators for that? When the focus is on research
assessment you need context, could we create context dashboards? Ways to
incorporate a more qualitative approach should be included when
developing indicators. Would it be possible to include a broader
perspective and develop indicators for career paths and societal
engagement as suggested in the R&R Programme? It was also discussed that
it would be valuable to assess whether the entire process of research
projects is open. At CWTS they are working on persistent identifiers for
projects and these could be helpful in monitoring the openness of the
different stages in a research project. Additionally, this could open up
ways to recognize and reward all project contributors.

As the plenary programme and the workshops made clear: we are just at
the beginning of reforming research assessment and the discussions
showcased that 'one-size-fits all' OS Monitoring and research assessment
do not work. Context is key. Only that way, we can ensure that Open
Science is promoted as a positive research culture in all research
disciplines and that each scientist is rewarded for openness in their
work.


Zitierhinweis: Duine, Maaike (2023) Recognizing the diversity of Open Science Practices across different research communities. Open Access Blog Berlin. DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/v8ac3-nm507    On April 13, 2023 the third Recognition &amp; Rewards Festival took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The conference was organized by the Dutch Recognition &amp;

Recognizing the diversity of Open Science Practices across different research communities

Auf dem Weg zur Open-Research-Strategie für Berlin

Maxi Kindling

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zu finden +++

**Termin: 4. Mai 2023, 17-19 Uhr mit anschließendem gemeinsamem Ausklang
bei Getränken und Snacks**

**Ort: Henry-Ford-Bau an der Freien Universität Berlin (Garystraße 35),
**Hörsaal C**** **(2. Etage)**

Die im Jahr 2015 durch das Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus verabschiedete
Open-Access-Strategie war ein Meilenstein für die Berliner
Wissenschaftslandschaft.

Wissenschaftlich begleitet und unterstützt durch die Politik wurden die
Chancen der digitalen wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation aufgegriffen, um
die Ergebnisse öffentlich finanzierter Forschung allen Interessierten
uneingeschränkt verfügbar zu machen. Das Land Berlin hat diesen Weg
seitdem weiter durch vielfältige Maßnahmen unterstützt. In den
vergangenen Jahren hat sich die Entwicklung hin zu offener Wissenschaft
massiv beschleunigt. Globale Krisen haben gezeigt, wie wichtig die
schnelle, offene und verlässliche Bereitstellung von
Forschungsergebnissen ist. Die Lehre aus der Covid-19-Pandemie ist: Den
weltweiten Herausforderungen wird nur durch gemeinsames Handeln und
gemeinsame Strategien für größtmögliche Offenheit im gesamten
Forschungsprozess zu begegnen sein.

Im Jahr 2023 wird daher die Open-Access-Strategie des Landes Berlin zu
einer Strategie für offene Wissenschaft (Open-Research-Strategie)
weiterentwickelt. Sie umfasst verschiedene Handlungsfelder wie Open
Access zu wissenschaftlichen Publikationen, Open Research Data, offene
Infrastrukturen sowie den Bereich der dauerhaften Zugänglichmachung
digitaler Kulturobjekte.

Die Open-Research-Strategie Berlin beinhaltet eine gemeinsame
Zielrichtung, basierend auf einer Verständigung über die Werte und
Prinzipien für faire und nachhaltige offene Wissenschaft. Ein Anliegen
des Open-Acces-Büros Berlin ist es, die Überlegungen zu dieser Strategie
in einem offenen Prozess mit der Berliner Wissenschaftslandschaft weiter
zu entwickeln.

Den Auftakt bildet die öffentliche Diskussionsveranstaltung, in der
insbesondere die wissenschaftspolitischen Perspektiven auf die
Entwicklung einer Strategie zusammengebracht und diskutiert werden
sollen. Dazu wurden wissenschaftspolitische Sprecher\*innen der
demokratischen Parteien angefragt, die sich in ihren Wahlprogrammen zur
Wiederholungswahl zu Themen der Öffnung der Wissenschaft geäußert haben
(Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, CDU, Die Linke, SPD; siehe unser Blogbeitrag
„[Wie viel offene Wissenschaft ist
drin](https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/open-access-berlin/2023/02/09/wiederholungswahl-in-berlin-2023/)?").  
  
Die Diskussion wird gemeinsam veranstaltet vom [Open-Access-Büro
Berlin](http://www.open-access-berlin.de/) und dem [Lehrstuhl
Informationsmanagement am Institut für Bibliotheks- und
Informationswissenschaft](https://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de/de/forschung/infomanagement)
der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

**Zusammensetzung des Podiums:**

- (Senatorin für Wissenschaft, Gesundheit und Pflege Dr. Ina Czyborra,
  SPD, Teilnahme leider kurzfristig abgesagt)
- Laura Neugebauer, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Teilnahme bestätigt)
- Tobias Schulze, Die Linke (Teilnahme bestätigt)  
    
  sowie
- Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dirnagl, Charité -- Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Dr. Maxi Kindling, Leiterin Open-Access-Büro Berlin (c/o Freie
  Universität Berlin)
- Prof. Dr. Heinz Pampel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Einstein Center
  for the Digital Future/Helmholtz Open Science Office
  (Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft)  
    
  Moderiert von:
- Dr. Christina Riesenweber, Kommissarische Leiterin Open Access und
  wissenschaftliches Publizieren, Universitätsbibliothek der Freien
  Universität Berlin

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 Termin: 4. Mai 2023, 17-19 Uhr mit anschließendem gemeinsamem Ausklang bei Getränken und Snacks


 Ort: Henry-Ford-Bau an der Freien Universität Berlin (Garystraße 35),
 
 Hörsaal C
 


 (2. Etage)

Die im Jahr 2015 durch das Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus verabschiedete Open-Access-Strategie war ein Meilenstein

Berlin goes Open Research!?! Wir diskutieren mit Berliner Wissenschaftspolitiker*innen (4. Mai 2023)

Maike Neufend

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