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Can a Checklist Improve Science? Join OSIRIS to find out!

What if improving science started with something as simple as a checklist, built by researchers, for researchers?
Meet the OSIRIS project: Open Science to Increase Reproducibility in Science, a European Union–funded initiative tackling one of the biggest challenges in modern research: making studies more reproducible, transparent, and trustworthy.
In this video, Rita Banzi and Constant Vinatier invite scientists across disciplines to contribute to the development of a practical, field-tested reproducibility checklist to help adopt better research practices. At the RRiA unconference in Berlin you can test the checklist, help refine it and be part of creative and collaborative efforts for future implementation studies.
Whether you are an early-career researcher or a seasoned expert, your insights matter! OSIRIS is more than a project; it’s a growing community shaping the future of reliable science across disciplines.

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The workshop, Overcoming Resistance: Addressing 10 Common Objections to Research Assessment Reform, focuses on equipping reform advocates with tools to counter prevalent objections to shifting from metric-based to quality-focused research assessments in hiring, promotion, and funding decisions. Recognizing that institutional change requires political will and informed debate, the project targets frequent criticisms—such as for example the objectivity of metrics, concerns over subjectivity and bias in qualitative assessments, or fears of competitive disadvantages. The workshop will generate a draft policy brief offering structured talking points, concise literature syntheses, and curated references to support reform efforts. These materials will be based on rapid literature assessments and collaborative discussions. The primary audience includes individuals in science management, administration, and research roles across career stages who are engaged in or advocating for reform.

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Are you tired of the current funding struggles? So are we. With traditional aid shrinking and rigid models failing to reach those who need it most, it’s time to shift the paradigm. Join us at the RRiA Unconference 2025 for a high-energy designathon where researchers, funders, and changemakers will co-create bold, bottom-up funding solutions that center trust, equity, and local ownership. Using creative tools like rapid ideation, card sorting, and storytelling, participants will collaborate in teams to ideate, debate, co-create, and pitch innovative funding models. Whether you’re an early-career researcher, senior researcher, policy expert, or simply tired of funding injustice, this session is your chance to reimagine the future of research financing. Are you prepared to develop a guide that outlines funding models that are designed by and for communities? Join us!

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Preclinical systematic reviews hold untapped potential to inform science and policy, but too often, they’re produced in isolation, with unclear relevance for decision-makers. How can we change that?

This project tackles this major gap by asking three simple but powerful questions:

• Who are the interest holders for preclinical systematic reviews?
• What information do they need from preclinical studies?
• How can we meaningfully engage them in the systematic review process?

We invite you to join our team as we collaboratively develop a white paper to answer these questions and offer practical guidance to make preclinical systematic reviews more relevant, inclusive, and actionable. Whether you’re a researcher, regulator, funder, or patient partner, your voice matters. Let’s build a stronger bridge between preclinical science and real-world decisions, together.

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The reproducibility in biomedical research is strongly impaired by questionable research practices, non-publication of null-hypothesis results and sketchy reporting. Preregistration and reporting guidelines have proven their benefits in increasing the transparency of research studies. However, the uptake of both tools is still slow in biomedicine.
By developing roadmaps for the different stakeholders of the research system, we want to boost the implementation of preregistration and reporting guidelines to foster good reporting from the beginning to the end of the study. By combining these two major tools of responsible research, we want to identify synergies and learn from each other’s experiences.
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Are you interested in equity, diversity, and inclusion, evidence synthesis, or generalizability? Join Project 6 “Describing Representation of Articles in Meta-Research“ in creating a user-friendly web application to create bibliometric sample characteristic tables for meta-research studies. We want to build a diverse project team and welcome any individuals with interests and expertise in EDI considerations, coding (R or Python preferred), systematic reviews and/or meta-research, as well as those with potential interest in using the tool. We will prepare tasks for those with and without interest or expertise in coding, and project members are invited to continue working with us after the Unconference. Join our project to engage with interesting discussions, contribute to accessible tool development, and support high-quality evidence synthesis. We hope our project will facilitate our understanding of generalizability in meta research conclusions and increase engagement with equity, diversity, and inclusion.  

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We will build upon our previously developed framework for values-based assessment in promotion, tenure, and other academic evaluations (https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/s4vc5). We will work with unconference participants to generate specific use cases that would show academics how to use this framework for different disciplines or evaluation types. Documented use cases would make this a scalable resource that could be adopted and adapted by other academics beyond the unconference to fit their needs.

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„Improving accessibility and comprehension of informed consent documents for clinical trial participants“: Informed consent is key to ethical clinical research. The increasing complexity and length of informed consent documents (ICDs) is a major concern. In fact, in our recent pilot study, we looked at ICDs for phase III drug trials across Europe and found that are highly variable in length, ranging from just 5 pages to up to 45 pages. In this workshop we will assess the needs of various stakeholders that work with ICDs and produce a list of key barriers and potential opportunities. By collaborative design we will develop a simplified template and practical guidance for tailoring ICDs. We see this workshop as a chance to help introducing a change in how we do informed consent — to make it more respectful, and truly understandable for everyone involved.

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CORTRE aims to establish a community-accepted reporting guideline for reproducibility studies, i.e., large-scale investigations evaluating the reproducibility of findings or entire fields. These studies are influential in shaping research policy and practice but currently lack widely accepted reporting standards. This project will bring together meta-researchers and guideline enthusiasts to collaboratively define an initial draft of reporting items and develop a study protocol, inspired by methods used for other guidelines (https://www.equator-network.org). Participants will be divided into methodologists, who will design the approach to reach community consensus, and topic experts, who will draft a preliminary list of reporting items. The guideline will be finalised post-unconference, following a pre-registered protocol and led by a core team composed of a subset of committed participants. The resulting guideline will support researchers, reviewers, and policy-makers in producing and evaluating reproducibility studies with consistency, fostering more robust and transparent meta-research.

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During our project, we will present and debate the Science Europe Vision on Research Cultures (https://scienceeurope.org/our-resources/a-vision-framework-for-research-cultures/), in order to develop a practical roadmap towards the vision and concrete initiatives for change.
We will get creative, experiment, and develop ideas together using collaborative methods, including: design thinking, backcasting, foresight analysis, and other activities that will use our brains.
We are looking for a diverse group of people who are willing to challenge the status quo, and co-create a new research culture for the future.
The outcomes of the workshop will directly feed into Science Europe’s work on research cultures, and shape the discussions and actions of over 25 research funding and performing organizations around Europe.
Join our workshop to change research culture together!

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