The National Open Science Festival at the University of Groningen: MEET | SHARE | INSPIRE | CARE Anna Hughes, Development and engagement manager, Jisc, recently attended the Netherlands National Open Science Festival at the University of Groningen. Held annually for the past five years, it is an ...

A bit late but here are my reflections form #NOSF2025 🪞

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PS. Thanks for @helenclare.bsky.social for being such an excellent conference companion!

Celebrating open science: key moments and photos from Groningen 2025 | Open Science NL The Open Science Festival 2025 took place on 24 October at University Medical Center Groningen, attracting some 400 attendees, including researchers, educators, professional research support staff and policymakers, all eager to share and learn about open science practices.

We look back on a truly successful Netherlands Open Science Festival in Groningen last Friday. Thanks to everyone who made it possible!
See the photos, find the Zenodo link for presentations, and upload your own materials.
www.openscience.nl/en/news/cele...
See you next year @TU Delft! #NOSF2025

Scholia

I created a @wikidata / @wdscholia page for the Leo Waaijers Open Science Award https://scholia.toolforge.org/award/Q136599626

#NOSF2025 #openscience

Just got home from the Netherlands #OpenScience Festival at the @rug.nl medical center. It was a wonderful edition, with more people attending than ever. So many are working on such great things. It’s really inspiring! #NOSF2025

But hey, who doesn’t want a sign like this in the garden?

Award ceremony for the Leo Waaijers award at the National Open Science Festival 2025 in Groningen, The Netherlands.

Congratulations to Chris Hartgerink for winning the Leo Waaijers award at the NL Open Science festival today, for his work on ResearchEquals!

#nosf2025.

It was an honour sharing the podium with the other nominees - we have an amazing open science community!

(photo by @oberman.bsky.social)

Pandoc - index

Because it came up in discussions during #nosf2025 today: Pandoc is a powerful document conversion tool that helps you prepare content for different purposes and publication contexts.

#OpenAccess #OER #OpenScience

https://pandoc.org/

Screen showing the list of 26 nominees for the Leo Waaijers award

Light up sign saying #Open Science in the auditorium area of the National Open Science Festival

It was very inspiring to join the other two shortlisted candidates for the Leo Waaijers award and represent the team in Groningem today. @wimpouw.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social Big congrats to winner Chris Hartgerink! #OpenScience #NOSF2025

Screenshot of part of the linked page with the INOSC logo, the full name below that, with 50+ communities in 27 countries and more than 2300 active participants. The maps show them to be located in Europe, Azia, Africa, and Amerca (North and South).

@riannefijten mentions the International Network of Open Science & Scholarship Communities (INOSC) which local open science community around the world, see https://osc-international.com/ and the map in the screenshot

#openscience #NOSF2025

Panel discussion on the Resilience of Open Science: geopolitical developments demonstrate the strength of Open Science: *because* of the openness of e.g. medical or climate research data, the scientific community can jump in to safeguard it, after executive […]

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A diagram for the CARR principles: Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, and Ethics.

Next workshop - Data Governance and Ethics Toolkit – Lessons from the CARE Principles with colleagues Borana Lushaj and Pascal Flohr. The toolkit can help universities to set up data governance for indigenous and other local communities. #NOSF2025

Screenshot of a local instance of the VHP4Safety platform (logo in the top left) showing information about BridgeDb (an ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability Resource): documentation/training material from the ELIXIR TeSS platform, but also the Dutch SURF taxila.nl. The info is presentated with two faceted search widgets, that allows to search within the BridgeDb documentation.

bringing together a few Dutch #openscience projects at #NOSF2025

We see the Dutch VHP4Safety project, @bridgedb, @elixir_europe TeSS, and the @SURF https://taxila.nl/

Flipchart with a hand-drawn outline of file formats and publication strategies in OER creation

I am grateful for our lively discussion in my workshop on creating & hosting Open Educational Resources. Across institutions and disciplines, we share the same challenges and experiment with similar solutions. There is no one-fits-all workflow or platform […]

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Photo of a group of people in frant of an orange National Open Science Festival board at the festival in Groningen in 2025. The group consists of 10 people from Maastricht University.

the @oscmaastricht at the #NOSF2025

Workbook Positionality Statements: A tool to Open Your Research Workbook and slides for a workshop on positionality statements and how those relate to making research processes open. The workbook is meant as a tool for participants with little or no background kno...

Followed a great workshop about posinionality as an OS tool for your research with Bogdana Huma, Daniela Gawehns, and Tamarinde Haven. Slides and workbook here:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #NOSF2025

Challenges remain to achieve global #OpenScience @unesco.org #nosf2025

Visit us in the very back of the booth station #nosf2025

@HLdeJonge , what if finders would explicitly allow, but separate funding, for some open science activities? Like apc coverage, but then actually supporting activities we like to see more?

#NOSF2025

Photo of the "Who participated?" slide showing that many countries around the world reported back to the UN about their progress in open science. It shows some statistics and a world map with retiring countries colored blue. The maps shows most continents are covered

Open Science is International!

#NOSF2025

Keynote #NOSF2025 reminding us WHY we do #OpenScience

#SDGs

Photo of a "Why Open Science" slide and the speaker in front of it. The slides list three main points: UN article 27, development of lagging societies, SDGs.

Keynote explaining "Why Open Science?" #NOSF2025

Exciting opening of the #NOSF2025 in Groningen with the announcement that the university will work towards ending dependency on non-EU software/applications by 2030. Bold move that I hope is followed by others 👏🏽

So many interesting folks at the #NOSF2025 in Groningen🤩 Great to see people interested in open science😊

Sustainability Resources | Resources This section contains a suite of resources for publishers, service providers and funders to support the sustainability of institutional publishing. Created by DIAMAS, these resources are a mixture of…

Plus @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social will be presenting a poster about @eudch.bsky.social #Sustainability #Resources

Visit the toolsuite on the #EDCH 👉 buff.ly/2kTClNB

Full #NOSF2025 programme 👉 buff.ly/0e2ZhVl

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Services - OPERAS OPERAS Services Addressing the needs of the research community in the Social Sciences and Humanities, OPERAS empowers researchers with services to discover open scholarly publications, improve…

Join @oapenbooks.bsky.social at @opensciencenl.bsky.social today for their poster presentation to introduce @operaseu.bsky.social National Node for the Netherlands 🚀

Find out more about the #OPERAS services for #SSH #AHSS #SHAPE 👉 buff.ly/cppHtDm

🔸 PRISM
🔸 GoTriple
🔸 VERA

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Today at #NOSF2025 the #TDCC-LSH team will present a poster about our work and organizes - together with TDCC-NES and TDCC-SSH a workshop about #interoperability! tdcc.nl/about-tddc/l... @opensciencenl.bsky.social

Today at #NOSF2025 data professionals can prioritise the most pressing training needs from their daily practice in the #RDNL workshop on building a national training and community platform. Meet the team in the workshop or at our poster!!
More info at researchdata.nl

in two hours, the National Open Science Festival #NOSF2025 will commence!

Looking forward to seeing many of you there. For those who can’t make it: the plenary sessions - my opening, the keynote by UNESCO’s Open Science chief and two panel discussions -will be live-streamed

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Heading to the Dutch National Open Science Festival #NOSF2025

Head shot of DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye Ramazan Turgut

#DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye Ramazan Turgut will be at the Information Market for the Netherland’s National Open Science Festival @opensciencenl.bsky.social #OpenScience #OSC2025 #NOSF2025
🔸October 24
🔸University of Groningen, Netherlands
www.open-science-conference.eu

I'll be presenting this poster #NOSF2025 so if you're going and want to find out more, come and find me 👋