Programme

Preliminary programme overview

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Keynote lecture and Networking Dinner – Input Talk

The RRiA Unconference 2025 will be opened on Monday, September 22^nd, 2025 with the Keynote Lecture by Mariann Martone, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego, United States.
The Networking Dinner event on Tuesday, September 23^rd, 2025 will be opened with an inspiring Input Talk by Helena Jambor and Christopher Schmied, winners of the Einstein Foundation Early Career Award 2024 with the project PixelQuality – best practices for publishing images.

Pre-conference workshops

After registration for the unconference, attendees may select one of the following pre-conference workshops to participate in at no extra-cost, on Monday, September 22^nd, 2025:

RRiA pre-conference workshop WS01
Strategizing for Impact: Change Management for Transforming Research Culture
Facilitated by Anne Merks, co-lead of Transformation Management at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin

RRiA pre-conference workshop WS02
Design Thinking
Facilitated by Frederike Engelhardt, Design Thinking expert and co-founder of the innovation consultancy Innoki, Berlin

RRiA pre-conference workshop WS03
How to use principles of behaviour change in improving research culture
Facilitated by Sadie Boniface, Principal Research Fellow at University College London and Research Lead at the Centre for Behaviour Change, and Dr Emma Francis, Research Fellow at the Centre for Behaviour Change

Please note:

• The pre-conference workshops are an additional offer of the RRiA organisers to participants of the Unconference. There is only a limited number of seats for participating on the workshops. These will be assigned as first come, first served.
• Further details on each workshop will be published here very soon.

RRiA Projects

We were thrilled to get over 70 eligible submissions of projects from all over the world, to be discussed at the RRiA Unconference. In a very competitive selection process, following ten projects were selected:

RRiA project 01
Collaborative pilot of core reproducibility checks in research: applicability and deployment across scientific fields

Led by

• Rita Banzi, Center for Health Regulatory Policies, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri Milan, Italy
• Constant Vinatier, University of Rennes, Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail, Inserm, Rennes, France

RRiA project 02
Overcoming resistance: addressing 10 common objections to research assessment reform

Led by

• Miriam Kip, BIH QUEST Center at Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
• Robert Schulz, BIH QUEST Center at Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

RRiA project 03
An unconference mini-designathon: a participatory workshop to co-develop bottom-up funding models for researchers

Led by

• Yusuf Babatunde, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• Oluwakorede Adedeji, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

RRiA project 04
From evidence to action: engaging interest holders to maximize impact of preclinical systematic reviews

Led by

• Manoj Lalu, Methods and Implementation Research program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
• Matthew Jeffers, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

RRiA project 05
Stronger science starts here: preregistration and reporting in biomedical research

Led by

• Céline Heinl, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R), Berlin, Germany
• Julia Menon, Preclinicaltrials.eu, Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands

RRiA project 06
Describing REpresentation of Articles in Meta-Research (DREAMR)

Led by

• Stephanie Zellers, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Kaitlyn Hair, EPPI Centre, UCL Social Research Institute, University College London, United Kingdom

RRiA project 07
Tools and training to implement values-based assessment in academic evaluations

Led by

• Erin McKiernan, Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA)
• Greg Tananbaum, Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA)

RRiA project 08
Improving accessibility and comprehension of informed consent documents for clinical trial participants

Led by

• Eva Maria Zebedin-Brandl, Centre of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• Franz König, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

RRiA project 09
COmplete Reporting for Transparent Reproducibility Efforts (CORTRE): Building a community-accepted guideline to ensure complete reporting of reproducibility studies

Led by

• Rachel Heyard, Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Fabio Molo, Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland

RRiA project 10
From Vision to Action – Towards an action plan to improve research culture!

Led by

• Sean Sapcariu, Luxembourg National Research Fund, Luxenbourg
• Jolanta Šinkūnienė, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Please note:

• For organizational reasons, we assigned a number from 1 to 10 to each project. Please note that these numbers have no significance in terms of ranking or special preferences.
• Further details on each project will be published as soon as the registration is opened.
• To stay updated and get informed when the registration to the event opens, please register for our newsletter

Dedicated networking opportunities

In addition to meeting other attendees while working on each of the 10 projects, the unconference offers following networking events:

Welcome Reception
On Monday, September 22^nd, 2025, from 6 – 9 pm (directly after the Keynote lecture)

Networking Dinner
On Tuesday, September 23^rd, 2025, from 7 – 10 pm, in the impressive dinosaurs’ exhibition room at the Museum for Natural History (Museum für Naturkunde) in Berlin.

Please note:

• The Welcome Reception and the Networking Dinner are open to all registered attendees of the unconference, at no additional cost.