Quote by Hans de Jonge, Director of Open Science NL at NWO

"As open science becomes mainstream, it is more important than ever to base our actions on solid evidence", highlights @hldejonge.bsky.social .
Led by experts from 🇫🇷 🇫🇮 🇳🇱, GRIOS will identify enablers & barriers.
Does your organisation work to advance #OpenScience?
Let's talk! grios.org/contact

What works in promoting open science? We commissioned a monitoring framework to keep us on track!

Five citizen science hubs receive funding | Open Science NL Open Science NL has awarded five grants of €400,000 each to expand citizen science hubs at research organisations. These grants will help foster knowledge exchange and strengthen expertise and support...

🎤 Open Science NL awards €2M to expand #citizenscience across the Netherlands! Five new hubs (€400k each) will connect professional researchers with everyday citizens to tackle challenges in health, urban living, and biodiversity. Democracy meets science! 🇳🇱

www.openscience.nl/en/news/five... 👆

Welcoming the joint CoARA Action Plan by ZonMw & NWO, structured around the ten commitments to reform research assessment. It includes evidence‑based CVs, open science in proposals, awareness‑raising & leadership tools. Read more👇
www.nwo.nl/en/news/zonm...
#OpenScience #RecognitionAndRewards

The widespread adoption of #AI tools in research is creating a significant conflict with #OpenScience principles, for example because of the unclear nature of their training data, experts explain in this background article on our website 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/open...

NWO – Dutch Research Council - Software Heritage The Dutch Research council is a Software Heritage Bronze sponsor.

Great to see #NWO join #SoftwareHeritage, preserving research software for the future. At Open Science NL, we support open and sustainable research software as a key part of reproducible science: 'Software is a first-class research output.' Read the statement www.softwareheritage.org/2025/05/14/n...

Five citizen science hubs receive funding | Open Science NL Open Science NL has awarded five grants of €400,000 each to expand citizen science hubs at research organisations. These grants will help foster knowledge exchange and strengthen expertise and support...

Five new citizen science hubs across the Netherlands receive funding from Open Science NL. Each hub has a thematic focus and strengthens collaboration between science and society.
👉towards open, inclusive and impactful science:
openscience.nl/en/news/five-citizen-science-hubs-receive-funding

Let's talk about open access books | Open Science NL

New blog @opensciencenl.bsky.social: 'Let's talk about open access books: What lessons have we learned from the NWO Open Access Books Fund?'

www.openscience.nl/en/cases/let...

@oapenbooks.bsky.social #openaccess #openaccessbooks @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social

NWO supports initiative to give data the same status as publications | NWO The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced its support for Make Data Count, an initiative advocating for the recognition of research datasets as a primary scientific output. From 2025 to 2027, NWO...

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) is backing @makedatacount.bsky.social with €8,000 annually (2025–2027) to promote research dataset recognition.
Make Data Count develops open metrics to track dataset views, downloads & citations—ensuring data gets the credit it deserves.
www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-...

Budgets for infrastructure programme merged | Open Science NL Open Science NL has merged the available budgets for the Open Science Infrastructure programme, resulting in a total of €17.5 million available in the current round. Previously, this amount was to be ...

Update on our Open Science Infrastructure call: We’ve merged two budgets, increasing the cap of the current round to €17.5M (was €12.5M), allowing us to fund more proposals. There will be no extra round in 2025. More details: www.openscience.nl/en/researchp...

What a year! Open Science NL awarded over 20 million in 2024 | Open Science NL

Looking back to our first year of our current Work Programme 2024-2025. OSNL awarded over €20M to a range of initiatives, from citizen science to digital infrastructures and empowering communities —boosting #OpenScience across the Netherlands. Excited for 2025! www.openscience.nl/en/cases/wha...

New funding call: Want to contribute to transparency and reliability in research? Open Science NL offers funding for replication studies across all disciplines. Apply by 6 March 2025, with budgets of up to €200,000.
Find out more in the Call for Proposals 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/new-...

The Dutch Research Council / @opensciencenl.bsky.social will organise an info and Q&A session for the Call for Proposals #Diamond #Openaccess.

Wan to flip your (closed/hybrid) journal to a DOA model?

Learn more on the 21st of January 2025, 3-4pm CET.

Info: www.openscience.nl/en/meetings/...

What a year! Open Science NL awarded over 20 million in 2024 | Open Science NL

Our first post on Bluesky!
Kicking off with a blog by @martateperek.bsky.social: 2024 was a landmark year for Open Science NL. Through our first Work Programme, we awarded over €20M to a range of initiatives —boosting #OpenScience across NL. Excited for 2025!
www.openscience.nl/en/cases/wha...