Nominate a open science initiative for the Leo Waaijers Open Science Award 2025
On 24 October 2025, the second Leo Waaijers Open Science Award wil be presented at the Open Science Festival in Groningen. The Award is for an individual or group that has taken a bold, inspiring, innovative, mobilising and/or impactful initiative in the field of Open Science in recent years. This is an initiative of UKB. The aim of the award is to highlight Open Science initiatives and thereby encourage and inspire others. For this Award, we ask for nominations to be sent in.
PROCEDURE
Please complete the nomination form in full by 1 September. You can nominate yourself or someone else.
The jury will announce a first selection of nominations in mid-September, based on the criteria below. The winner will be announced on 24 October at the Open Science Festival in Groningen. The jury consists of Anna van ‘t Veer (Leiden), Hubert Krekels (WUR) and Maurits van der Graaf (Pleiade).
The criteria for the Award are:
- The Open Science initiative is (at least partly) of Dutch origin (an internationally focused initiative is allowed, of course);
- The initiative is not older than 5 years;
- Criteria for assessing the Open Science initiative: bold and/or inspiring and/or innovative and/or impactful and/or mobilising.
The prize consists of a memento. The prize winner will be communicated widely.
For questions, please contact Maurits van der Graaf
In the footsteps of Leo Waaijers
Leo Waaijers (1938 – 2023) was a tireless fighter for Open Access and for restoring the balance of power between public and private actors in the scientific domain. Leo was very active in the scientific information world for 35 years, bombarding it with innovative ideas, proposals and action plans. With the Leo Waaijers Award, UKB wants to inspire others to follow in his footsteps.