The Living Norway Open Science Lab is our initiative to expand activities to and share knowhow created in the Living Norway Ecological Data Network with the broader Norwegian and international communities. The online part of the initiative had its primary activity period in 2022, and organized online seminars and workshops spanning countries, institutions, job roles, and career stages.
Lack of know-how and network support are among the main barriers for people to share data and practice science more openly. Living Norway invested in addressing this first through its Open Science Lab: an initiative to provide introductions to and training in open science practices and to connect people who share a common interest and passion for open, transparent, and reproducible ecological research.
Throughout 2022, the Open Science Lab has hosted monthly webinars and online workshops covering everything from general principles of open science to hands-on coding sessions involving tools for formatting data and making reproducible workflows. Over 150 researchers from 24 countries joined us, and all materials – including recordings – are openly available to everyone here.
From 2023 onwards, we banded together with our sister initiative “Living Norway Open Science Training” and shifted focus towards in-person training workshops, primarily in Norway. The workshops cover a range of topics including open science best practice and tools for publishing and working with FAIR data and writing transparent and reproducible workflows. We also developed a week-long intensive course that provides open science training for students in particular.
Upcoming events
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Chloé R. Nater coordinated online activities within the Open Science Lab
No workshop or course planned in your city / at your institution? We are keen to teach and engage with people in other places. Send an email to livingnorway@nina.no to get in touch and discuss bringing relevant workshops and training events under your roofs.