Are you—or do you know—someone making a difference through Open Science in computational social sciences research in the Netherlands?

ODISSEI is pleased to announce the Open Science Award 2025, celebrating outstanding contributions that promote transparency, reproducibility, and reusability in computational social science research. The award will recognise an individual or team who has gone above and beyond in making their research outputs—such as data, code, or tools—open, FAIR, and impactful.

Deadline for nominations is Friday, 26 September 2025, 18:00 CEST.

What Are We Looking For?

We are looking for nominees who demonstrate: 

• Positive impact on the community or research culture
• Innovative ways of enabling open, scientific collaboration 
• Reusability and reproducibility of research, especially when using restricted-access data
• Sharing of data, code, or research outputs which, in line with ODISSEI’s mission, is “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”

Who Can Be Nominated?

Individuals or teams:

• Working in computational social sciences
• Who have a demonstrable link to the Dutch research ecosystem

Both self-nominations and third-party nominations are welcome.

Evaluation

The nominations will be evaluated by a committee consisting of experts appointed by the ODISSEI Management Board.

Award Ceremony

The winner will be announced at the ODISSEI Conference 2025 on 4 November 2025. The winner(s) will receive an award, and will be invited to record an episode of the ODISSEI podcast to tell more about their Open Science contribution. 

For questions, contact angelica@odissei-data.nl.

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