OPUS Newsletter (12)

Welcome to the special edition of the OPUS Newsletter

Find out the latest OPUS activities

Last chance to register: Linking Open Science and Gender Equality Workshop

We invite researchers, professionals, policymakers, HR managers, and programme officers to:

• Critically reflect on the EU’s research evaluation recommendations

• Identify barriers to implementation across all levels

• Co-develop actionable recommendations for embedding openness, transparency, and equality in science

Upcoming OPUS Event

Shaping the Future of the Research: Opus Final Conference

Join us in Paris or online on July 9-10, 2025, for the OPUS Final Conference. This event marks a significant milestone in transforming research assessment by promoting Open Science practices.

Explore new metrics and real-world pilot implementations that incentivize Open Science, Generic Researcher Assessment Framework (RAF). Discover an evaluation system for researchers focusing on Open Science contributions, Pilot Program Insights. Hear from research institutions about their experiences in piloting research assessment reforms.

Ideal for policymakers, researchers, and institutional leaders seeking to shape the future of research assessment.

OPUS Stakeholder Consultation: Help Shape the Future of Research Assessment!

The OPUS project invites researchers, research managers, funders, and policy makers to give their feedback on a draft of the OPUS Researcher Assessment Framework (RAF). The RAF consists of a wide range of indicators to assess researchers in grant evaluations and career progression and goes beyond research publications to include other research, education, leadership, and societal impact activities as well as Open Science.

High-Level Panel on Advancing Open and Responsible Research and Innovation Practices

UNESCO will host a panel discussion titled “Supporting the Transition Towards More Open and Responsible Research and Innovation (ORRI) Practices”, bringing together leading voices in European research policy and practice. Scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 8 July 2025, from 14:30 to 17:00 CEST, the session will be held at UNESCO Headquarters, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris, France.

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The OPUS project is an EU-funded project implemented by an eighteen-organisations consortium led by The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN). The project commenced on 1 September 2022 with an implementation period of 36 months.

OPUS helps reform the assessment of research towards a system that incentivises and rewards researchers to take up Open Science (OS) practices of providing open access to research outputs, early and open sharing of research, participation in open peer-review, measures to ensure reproducibility of results, and involving all stakeholders in co-creation.

OS Ecosystem State-of-the-Art

OPUS conducted a comprehensive state-of-the-art on existing literature and initiatives for Open Science to reform research(er) assessment and incentivise and reward Open Science practices. It includes a stakeholder engagement plan

OS Interventions

OPUS developed indicators and interventions for Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) to implement a reformed research(er) assessment system that incentivises and rewards Open Science.

Pilots to Implement and Monitor Open Science

OPUS sets up, implements, and monitors the pilots’ open science practices in 3 RPOs and 2 RFOs, and conducts mutual learning exercises based on implementing the action plans.

Policy Brief

OPUS will develop and disseminate policy briefs on Open Science and a revised OS-CAM to assess research careers. The policy briefs will summarise the key findings of the project and link to the wider global context of Open Science.

^{Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.}