New GhentCORR blog post on the reproducibility crisis in science 👇 Why so many published results look “too good to be true”?
ghentcorr.github.io/blog/2026/PC...

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🚨 Calling Flemish researchers interested in Open Science!🚨

Are you appointed for at least 50% of your time as an independent academic staff member at a Flemish university and would be willing to support an application for an International Coordination Action at FWO (lnkd.in/eiWWjFvj)?

Why do so many scientific findings fail to reproduce?
Join us for a short webinar on the reproducibility crisis in science
🗓️ 30 March, 15:00 CET
🎙️ With Denis Bourguet (INRAE / Peer Community In)
👉 Register & learn more: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0a27c7...

If you develop software for academic research as part of your work, the Research Software Engineering community could use your voice!
Share your experiences & help shape funding, training, policy, and support for the RSEs community. 💻 www.software.ac.uk/news/2026-in...

FRDN goes LDW26 The Flemish Research Data Network (FRDN) warmly invites you to celebrate research data during the international Love Data Week (9-13 Feb 2026). Explore the...

💙 Love Data Week 2026 is coming!
📅 Feb 9–13 | 🌐 Online & free

Join researchers, data stewards & open science fans for a week of talks and workshops on all things research data.

👉 Register now: fwo.idloom.events/love-data-we...

#LoveDataWeek #ResearchData #OpenScience

Continuing on the subject, Ghent University provides an OA journal platform, openjournals.ugent.be . Check out the research shared by the different journals!

Open Access Belgium Promoting Open Science

The last session of the Belgian Open Access week on Diamond OA just ended. Journals editors @clementdessy.bsky.social, Geoffrey Compère and Jonathan Dumont shared their experiences in setting up and maintaining an OA journal.
💻 Materials will be shared on openaccess.be

Want to know more? Check out the online support on Open Access in Horizon Europe on the website of Ghent University www.ugent.be/en/research/...

Open Access Week Belgium 2025 3 days – 3 Webinars This edition of Open Access Week is dedicated to researchers and their need for guidance through open access publication models and projects. Join together, take action, a…

It's International Open Access week, the time of the year to update your knowledge on Open Access! Check out the Belgian Open Access week
👁️‍🗨️ Next up are sessions on copyright - Wed. Oct 22 and Diamond Open Access – Fri. Oct. 24. You can still register! openaccessbelgium.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/o...

Open Access Week Belgium 2025 3 days – 3 Webinars This edition of Open Access Week is dedicated to researchers and their need for guidance through open access publication models and projects. Join together, take action, a…

It's International Open Access week, the time of the year to update your knowledge on Open Access! Check out the Belgian Open Access week.
🗣️ Today Victoria Tsoukala explained the Open Science requirements in Horizon Europe. The recording will be available soon!

☕ Curious about preregistration but not sure where to start? Join GhentCORR’s “Preregistration & Coffee” on Nov 4th at UGent. Learn from colleagues & share experiences—in a relaxed setting with coffee & cookies.
👉 Register: tinyurl.com/2jv94rcy
#GhentCORR #OpenScience #Reproducibility #UGent

📢 UGent researchers: curious about Open & Reproducible Research? Join the GhentCORR Launch Event!
🤝 Connect with peers
💡 Get inspired by other colleagues
🌱 Be part of a growing community

Register now: event.ugent.be/registration...

#GhentCORR #OpenScience #UGent #ReproducibleResearch

That’s a wrap on #LoveDataWeek! Thank you to our speakers and participants. Let’s keep making data FAIR! Stay tuned for the training materials and recordings of all sessions.

🔬 Last, but not least: session 6 of #LoveDataWeek!
A huge thanks to Claudia Draxl (NoMaD), Valeria Granata (Materials Cloud), Carles Bo (ioChem-BD), and Ian Bruno (CCDC) for sharing how researchers in (computational) materials science & Crystallography can make their data FAIR & accessible.

Is your research in Social Sciences, (Digital) Humanities, or Linguistics?
Find out how to share your data responsibly in these repositories, and learn from the repository managers how to make your data FAIR.
🔹 Trolling – Helene Andreassen & Huw Haugland-Grange
🔹 SODHA – István László Gyimes

We've now wrapped up Day 2 & Session 4 of #LoveDataWeek! 🎉 A big thank you to Jordan Byers (HEPData), Fabian Huch (Archive of Formal Proofs), and Aleksandra Wilczynska (4TU.ResearchData) for their insights on making research data FAIR in high energy physics, math, engineering & design

#LoveDataWeek continues with session 3 on repositories for Earth, Environmental & Climate Sciences, Ecology, or Biodiversity 🌍 and how they support making your data FAIR.
🔹 Pangaea – Janine Felder
🔹 GBIF – Dimitri Brosens
🔹 WDCC – Eileen Hertwig

We continue with Session 2 with deep dive into data sharing in Life Sciences! 🔬 🧬
Learn how to choose the right repository, get the most out of the ELIXIR infrastructure, and make your research FAIR & visible! 🌍📊
#LoveDataWeek
#OpenScience #FAIRdata #LifeSciences

🏠 Does your research data need a home? If no discipline-specific repository fits, the Ghent University Research Data Community on Zenodo is here for you!

Make your data FAIR and preserve it safely with support from our data curators. Join our session to learn more!
#OpenScience #FAIRdata #Zenodo

Choosing the right repository is key to making your data discoverable and reusable!
In our #LoveDataWeek programme, we have invited guest speakers from various domains & repositories to help you make informed decisions about how & where to share your data.

Knowledge clip: FAIR data principles YouTube video by UGent Open Science

🔎 Curious about how to make your data FAIR? Check out our knowledge clip on the FAIR data principles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uZx...
Let’s make data FAIR and reusable!

🎉 Kicking off ❤ #LoveDataWeek! ❤ This morning: Learn the basics about the FAIR principles and discover the Ghent University Research Data Community in Zenodo. Get started on your FAIR journey. Stay tuned all week for more! #OpenScience #FAIRdata

Why is it important to share data and why are data repositories so important in the dissemination of your research? 🤔 Join us 🗓️ Feb 10–13 to discover data repositories tailored to your discipline! Check our programme and register: ghentcorr.github.io/news/LoveDat.... ❤#LoveDataWeek!❤ #FAIRdata

The symposium 'Qualitative Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, and Synergies' brings together those working with qualitative data. DANS'er Ricarda Braukmann will lead a workshop about archiving & publishing qualitative data. Sign up 👉 https://edu.nl/j7qth

Excited for 💗#LoveDataWeek!💗? At Ghent University, we’re exploring how you can share your research data responsibly and make it FAIR. 🗓️ Feb 10–14. Register here: ghentcorr.github.io/news/LoveDat...

Thank you!

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Our team is now on Bluesky! 🎉 Follow us to stay updated on what our team is working on and join the dialogue about shaping the future of #ResearchDataManagement and #OpenScience