OSF2022NL: Netherlands National Open Science Festival 2022 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 1, 2022 |
Conference website | http://www.opensciencefestival.nl |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=osf2022nl |
Abstract registration deadline | June 25, 2022 |
Submission deadline | June 25, 2022 |
Meet | Care | Inspire | Care
Please note that the call for sessions and workshops is closed.
1. Call for Open Science Awards
The 2022 Open Science Awards focuses on societal engagement. Do you have an example of how you have engaged with society and/or societal partners as part of your research process(es) that you want to share to inspire others?
Please submit your use case by 24 June 2022.
The Open Science Awards recognise and reward researchers or research students who have used Open Science to make their research more accessible, transparent or reproducible. This year the focus is on Societal Engagement, one of the key pillars of Open Science. The call is open to all researchers and PhD students from Dutch universities/ universities of applied sciences and research institutes.
As defined in the UNESCO Recommendations for Open Science, societal engagement and the engagement of societal actors refers to “extended collaboration between scientists and societal actors beyond the scientific community, by opening up practices and tools that are part of the research cycle and by making the scientific process more inclusive and accessible to the broader inquiring society based on new forms of collaboration and work such as crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and scientific volunteering.”
Methods for achieving societal engagement can include:
citizen and community involvement in the generation of knowledge; dialogue between scientists, policymakers and practitioners, entrepreneurs and community members during the research process such that they can voice their concerns, needs and aspirations;citizen science and the co-creative participation of citizens or societal partners at any stage of the research process;inclusion of other knowledge systems, lay knowledge or traditional knowledge within the research process.Application is by means of a case study describing the way in which you engaged with society or societal partners during your research. We encourage the submission of case studies that explore the challenges and difficulties as well as those that celebrate positive experiences and successful outcomes. We are looking for inspiring accounts of researchers’ motivations for including society and/or societal partners as part of the research process, which offer reasoned assessments of the pros and cons of doing so, and are honest about where things didn’t work or could have been done differently.
The Open Science Festival programme committee will rank the submissions and the top five use cases will each receive a prize of €250. The awards will be handed over to the winners at the Open Science Festival in Amsterdam 1 September 2022.
Applicants can also look at the Open Science Use Cases from edition #OSF2021NL or the Reading University Open Research Award Use Cases resulting from a similar call for case studies -although with a focus on overall Open Science Practices- which inspired us to do the same.
2. Call for Marketplace
Do you have a project or initiative with a clear link to open science you want to present during the National Open Science Festival? Do you want to share with the community what your organisation is working on with regard to Open Science? You’re welcome to do so at the Festival’s Marketplace!
Submissions are open for projects, consortia or any other organisations for demonstrating their work and outputs during the Marketplace Lunch.
3. Call for sessions and workshops - CLOSED
For the National Open Science Festival on 1 September 2022, the program committee invites researchers to design and lead an interactive workshop or session to be held in-person at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Please submit your proposal by 16 May 2022, noon. Leads from approved sessions will be contacted from 1 June 2022 onwards.
In the morning, there’s space for workshops (duration: 110 minutes, 6 slots) and a few sessions (duration: 45 min). In the afternoon, there will be two rounds of sessions (duration: 45 minutes, 12 slots).
We particularly invite proposals for sessions that are interactive and rooted in local initiatives. Therefore, proposals that encourage the participation of attendees will be favoured over proposals with more than 50% of the time reserved for speakers (unless a convincing reason for this format is given). If you want to simply present an initiative we ask you to apply for the call for the Lunch Marketplace.
We are especially interested in contributions that focus on topics such as:
- Practical skill sessions, for instance about preprints, preregistration, use of tools or platforms for practicing open science across the research cycle;
- Open Access in your domain;
- How to involve citizens in your research;
- How to build team science and how to collaborate with not so obvious others;
- Open/FAIR Software;
- Putting FAIR and open data into practice;
- Setting up and maintaining open communities;
- Working-sprints with peers on a specific open topic;
- Network meetings (even if the network has not been formalised yet);
- Proposals that look beyond disciplinary and National boundaries;
- Societal engagement
Please do not feel limited to only these topics.
Every submission will be reviewed by the programme committee based on its relevance to Open Science in the Netherlands and hence is subject for acceptance.
Please note that in order to visit and/or host a session, you are required to register at the Open Science Festival (registration opens on 4 April, no entrance fee). The number of tickets saved for active researchers amounts to 175 out of the total of 250 tickets.