De shortlist voor de Leo Waaijers Open Science Award 2025 is bekend
Wie wordt de winnaar van de tweede Leo Waaijers Open Science Award?
De Leo Waaijers Open Science Award is een prijs van UKB met als doel Open Science te stimuleren. Dit jaar wordt de Award voor de tweede keer uitgereikt.
De Award is bedoeld voor een persoon of groep die in de afgelopen jaren een gedurfd, vernieuwend, mobiliserend en/of impactvol initiatief heeft genomen op het gebied van Open Science. Doel van de prijs is om Open Science initiatieven in het zonnetje te zetten en daardoor anderen te stimuleren en te inspireren.
Dit jaar heeft UKB 26 nominaties ontvangen – dit zijn er zes meer dan vorig jaar. Dit laat zien dat er veel en uiteenlopende Open Science-initiatieven worden ontplooid. De jury heeft de nominaties beoordeeld op vier criteria: gedurfd, inspirerend, vernieuwend en impactvol/mobiliserend. Op basis daarvan heeft de jury drie nominaties op de shortlist voor de Award geplaatst:
- Barcelona Declaration coordinating team: Ludo Waltman, Bianca Kramer en Cameron Neylon
- EnvisionBox team: Wim Pouw, Babajide Owoyele, James Trujillo, Aleksandra Ćwiek, Davide Ahmar, Šárka Kadavá
- ResearchEquals founder: Chris Hartgerink
De winnaar zal op 24 oktober met een korte ceremonie bekend worden gemaakt tijdens het Open Science Festival in Groningen.
De genomineerden van de shortlist stellen zich voor (ENG)
Barcelona Declaration coordinating team
The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information promotes community-driven action, based on a shared commitment: to make open research information the default. It asks for organizations performing, funding and evaluation research to (1) make openness of research information the default, (2) work with services and systems that support and enable open research information, (3) support the sustainability of infrastructures for open research information, and (4) work together to realize the transition from closed to open research information.
The Declaration was drafted at a workshop in Barcelona in November 2023. Over 25 research information experts took part in this workshop, representing organizations that carry out, fund, and evaluate research, as well as open infrastructure organizations. The Declaration was launched in April 2024.
Currently, over 120 organizations worldwide have signed the Declaration. In the Netherlands, the Declaration has been signed by six universities, as well as by UNL, NWO and ZonMW, Vereniging Hogescholen (VH) and the Taskforce for Applied Research SIA, the National Library of the Netherlands (KB), SURF and the Dutch Reproducibility Network (NLRN).
Together with other prospective signatory and supporter institutions in the Netherlands, the Dutch signatories exchange experiences, align strategies, and explore opportunities for joint action to make research information openly available and responsibly used.
EnvisionBox team
EnvisionBOX is a pedagogical open science platform that prioritizes accessibility by democratizing multimodal social signal processing and analysis through open-source tools, learning modules, and easy-look-up of relevant curated open datasets and diamond scholar-led journals available to researchers worldwide. Founded on principles of collaborative open exchange organized from the bottom up, the platform aims to transform how researchers can benefit from and contribute to open science. With over 30 practical coding modules covering everything from automatic gesture detection, 3D motion tracking, to speech analysis, EnvisionBOX bridges the gap between expert knowledge and accessible education, which is further supported by winter and summer schools. The platform’s community-driven approach has fostered a global network of learners who contribute modules, share experiences, and collectively advance the field of multimodal communication research. EnvisionBOX exemplifies the open science vision of breaking down barriers of intellectual and social capital between researchers and promoting transparent, equitable scientific practices, and we envision for the platform to be reused in other fields and to further grow by hosting lecture series, data challenges, open educational books, and much more.
ResearchEquals founder
I am thrilled to be shortlisted in Leo’s honor for my work on ResearchEquals. In 2017, process based publishing was merely an idea – five years of hard work later, ResearchEquals launched. Since then, hundreds of researchers joined to publish more than 250 research steps. Process based publishing is now possible, viable, and even desirable. Being shortlisted is an encouragement for the hard work to come – let this shortlist be an invitation for you to take action too.