Julia Stern is receiving the award on behalf of the Bremen Open Science Initiative (BOSI) at the University of Bremen's Faculty of Human and Health Sciences, of which she is the founder and spokesperson. She and three other researchers from the YERUN network received the award during an online event on February 14. The YERUN Open Science Award recognizes projects that make science more transparent and accessible and support collaboration between scientific institutions, as well as between science and society.
“Science must be open. This means that scientific findings should not only be comprehensible and verifiable, but should also be freely accessible to everyone as far as is possible after publication,” states Professor Michal Kucera, Vice President for Research and Transfer at the University of Bremen. “I am delighted about the award for the Open Science Initiative in Bremen. The initiative's broad approach makes it a model for the entire university.”
More Openness in Research, Teaching, and Committees
The members of BOSI are committed to making science in research, teaching, and committee work more transparent, reproducible, and replicable. To this end, they want to strengthen networking within the faculty and beyond with local, national, and international institutions and initiatives. Specifically, the initiative aims to support the publication of research data and research articles under open access conditions, to raise students' awareness of open science when they are writing their theses, and to encourage committees such as appointment committees to assess performance more strongly in terms of quality, transparency, and sustainability.
YERUN (Young European Research Universities Network) is a network of 24 young, research-oriented universities from 17 countries in Europe. It is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. For the University of Bremen, being a member of YERUN is an essential part of its international orientation. As a YUFE partner university, the university actively pursues and shapes developments in science policy at the European level.
