Shaping the Future of Open Science in Flanders: Insights, Achievements, and Aspirations

Network Day 2025

The Network Day 2025 will be held on the 22nd of May 2025 in Brussels, at the Herman Teirlinck Building on the Tour & Taxis site.

The Network Day will bring together members of the FRDN network to exchange their knowledge and experiences. With the completion of the first Open Science Policy Plan, this event is the perfect opportunity to highlight the network's key achievements and showcase inspiring practices and policy implementations from individual Flemish research institutions over the past five years, made possible through FOSB funding.

We will also look to the future of Open Science in Flanders, exploring the upcoming Flemish policy plan and international trends. In addition, international examples surrounding critical issues in Open Science will provide inspiration and stimulate discussion on the areas we want to focus on in the coming years.

We invite researchers, data stewards, policy makers, funders, project managers, IT and technical staff, legal officers and other stakeholders involved or interested in Open Science to participate and to share experiences and knowledge.

Call for contributions

We invite all FRDN network members to showcase Open Science achievements from their institution accomplished during the past policy period. These can be small or large, ranging from in-house information sessions you have organized, course materials you have written, collaborations with external partners you have initiated, to data infrastructures you have set up. We welcome any achievement you would like to share with our network of Open Science enthusiasts.

We offer two presentation formats:

• A 5-minute oral presentation in ‘PechaKucha’ format. This means 15 visual slides, whereby each slide progresses automatically after 20 seconds.
• A poster to be presented during lunch and the break times, with the opportunity for further explanation by the presenter.

You are welcome to contribute one or both types of presentation!

Contributions can be sent to FRDN@fwo.be. The deadline to submit contributions is Friday the 24th of January 2025.

Please provide the following information:

- Title and author(s)
- Institution(s)
- Type: poster and/or PechaKucha presentation
- Abstract: 250 words max

For the PechaKucha presentation, we ask staff from the same institution to collaborate as much as possible by submitting a single presentation. However, this is a suggestion and not a strict rule. Therefore, if you prefer to give two (max three) separate presentations to highlight different achievements (within the same institution), this is allowed. In case of many submissions and time constraints, we will contact submitting authors from the same institution shortly after the deadline.

Preliminary program

Network Day 2025 on the 22nd of May 2025 in Brussels.

9.00 - 9.30 Register & coffee
9.30 - 10.30 Welcome with FRDN highlights
10.30 - 11.00 Institutions showcase
11.00 - 11.20 Break
11.20 - 11.50 Institutions showcase
11.50 - 12.20 Future vision
12.20 - 13.15 Lunch with posters
13.15 - 14.45 International inspiration
14.45 - 15.00 Break
15.00 - 16.00 Interactive discussions in smaller groups
16.00 - 16.30 Groups report back
16.30 Reception

Registrations

Registrations will open on the 18th of March 2025.