About the project

Road2Openness is online

The six of us have been working on Road2Openness for almost a year now. With a well-attended online workshop discussion on April 29, 2022, which was also attended by representatives of the three participating universities Ernst Abbe University Jena, University of...

Workshop discussion

The release of the new assessment tool will take place on April 29, 2022 from 10 - 11-30 a.m. Since September 2021, the "Road2Openness" prototype has been developed by the team in cooperation with three universities - EAH-Jena, RWTH Aachen and the University of...

Selection of universities

Almost 40 universities applied to become pilot partners in the design of the road2openness self-assessment tool. The ten-member jury, consisting of the road2openness team and representatives of the Stifterverband, selected three universities as pilot partners after...

Call for proposals for universities

The call for universities to participate in the pilot project is currently open. As part of the program, they actively participate in the development of the assessment tool and are supported at the same time: with gathering information on Open Science practices and...

Road2Openness development starts

At the innOsci Future Labs last year, experts discussed how to systematically strengthen open science practices at universities. The idea of an assessment tool was developed as a prototype to record current open science activities at universities and to support them...