Berlin Science Week

Every year the Berlin Science Week transforms the city into a vibrant festival of scientific ideas and debates. With over 180 participating organisations and more than 600 involved scientists, artists, politicians, and other inspiring initiators, Berlin Science Week captivates a diverse audience of over 30,000 participants. From our dynamic festival hubs, CAMPUS at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and Science & Culture FORUM at Holzmarkt 25, to various venues across the city, and online events from around the world, we ignite a lively platform for public exchange around topics of science and research and their role for a better tomorrow for all. Join the conversation, meet curious minds from around the world, and engage with new ideas and perspectives. Together with NFDIxCS, the DKZ.2R is organising an interactive exhibition at the “Museum für Naturkunde” on the first and second of November. We hope to meet you there!

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How To: Open Science

• A. Mielke
• Data , RDM , Open Science

Tired of Recreating someone else’s work? - How Open Science can accelerate research and overcome reinvention

Have you ever found papers on algorithms but their implementation is missing? Found an interesting analysis but there is no way to check the results, as you don’t have access to the data they were derived from? Ever thought you had a great idea for a project, just to find out a year later that you are not the only research group following that specific idea? Not having access to other people’s code, data, metrics or even their plans for research projects often leads to unnecessary delays and scientific redundancies. There is an easy solution to overcome (almost) all of these issues. It’s called Open Science! What is Open Science? The UNESCO defines Open Science as a construct of “movements and practices aiming to make multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone, to increase scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society, and to open the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation and communication to societal actors […]”. To ensure that everyone has access to scientific knowledge and infrastructure, Open Science focuses on four main concepts.

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FDM Workshop

The FDM Workshop is a multi-day event where participants work together on FDM tools and discover new features and application scenarios: from eLabFTW to Coscine and DataLab to LiaScript - in community-led sessions in English, participants can try out and exchange ideas.

The second FDM workshop is being held in cooperation with the state initiative fdm.nrw, our data literacy center DKZ.2R and the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University . The event begins with a kick-off event on Monday, 18.03.2024 from 15:00. This will be followed by two days of work. There will be 12 thematic sessions, which will largely take place in parallel and in English. The content and required prior knowledge (e.g. Python) can be found in the respective session abstracts on the fdm.nrw website.

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