We are in the Age of a transition to Open Science. Open Science represents a cultural change in academia towards an open attitude and communication towards peers and society, open sharing of knowledge and results, open sharing of data and code. 

Open Science represents a paradigm shift towards recognizing team science and a renewed form of recognition and rewards of individuals in academia; the UU puts emphasis on an open academic culture and less on individual competition. Fast-forward to 2022 as the transition to Open Science is re-shaping our institute and its faculties we started the Open Science RoadShow at the UMC Utrecht. The intend of the Open Science RoadShow is to bring “Open Science to the People”. Instead of inviting people to come to one of the events, we will visit existing meeting-structures, for instance department, floor and work meetings, work-meetings, and leadship- and management meetings. We will organise interactive workshops, talks or discussions on a variety of topics, preferably chosen by the intended audience. 

Just before the Christmas Holidays of 2022 together with the respective hosts we organized two events:

• 01-12-2022 | 16:30-17:00 | live | Circulatory Health Floor Meeting (UMC Utrecht) Nico Poppelier ‘Steps towards Open Science and FAIR Data‘ 
• 22-12-2022 | 13:00-13:45 | digital | Julius Seminar (Julius Center) Rinze Benedictus & Sander W. van der Laan ‘TRIPLE & Career Profiles at the UMC Utrecht’

The Open Science RoadShow will continue in January until the 2023 Summer Holidays with the next three meetings scheduled at the Circulatory Health Floor Meeting (UMC Utrecht), but we will also be visiting the Julius Center, the Prinses Maxima Centrum, and various departments and divisions at the UMC Utrecht.

• 19-01-2023 | 16:00-16:30 | live | Circulatory Health Floor Meeting (UMC Utrecht) Marion van Vugt  ‘FAIR code: Introduction to git‘ 
• 16-02-2023 | 16:00-16:30 | live | Circulatory Health Floor Meeting (UMC Utrecht) t.b.d.
• 21-02-2023 | 09:00-10:00 | live | Research Meeting (WKZ) t.b.d.
• 9-03-2023 | 16:00-16:30 | live | Circulatory Health Floor Meeting (UMC Utrecht) t.b.d.

A Open Science landing-page

In the first quarter of 2023 we will also create an Open Science landing-page at mijnumc.nl. This will enable us to share links to the hybrid meetings. This landing-page will also be the go-to place to various resources created by the UMC Utrecht to bring Open Science from principle to practice.

The Future is Open Science.