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OPUS: Open Universal Science

The OPUS project fosters Open Science by reforming assessment systems in Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and Research Funding Organisations (RFOs). It promotes practices like open access, open peer review, and reproducibility. The project will develop interventions, metrics, and policies, tested in pilots and validated through a participatory approach, to transform researcher evaluation.

The Open and Universal Science (OPUS) project develops coordination and support measures to reform the assessment of research and researchers at Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) towards a system that incentivises and rewards researchers to take up Open Science practices.

OPUS will develop a set of interventions for Open Science toward a system that incentivises and rewards researchers to take up 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.

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 main goal is to develop coordination and support measures to reform the assessment of research(ers).

The specific objectives are:

Conduct a comprehensive state-of-the-art on existing literature and initiatives for Open Science
Develop a comprehensive set of interventions to implement Open Science at RPOs and RFOs
Develop realistic indicators and metrics to monitor and drive Open Science at RPOs and RFOs
Test the interventions and indicators and metrics via action plans in pilots at RPOs and RFOs
Utilise a stakeholder-driven feed-back loop to develop, monitor, refine, and validate actions
Synthesise outcomes into policy briefs and a revised OS-CAM2 for research(er) assessment