Hello all, with this email we would like to inform you about a last-minute change in our programme: Prof. Chris Donkin is prevented at short notice and cannot attend our session on Friday (the day after tomorrow). As we think that the session would be most useful for all of us if Prof. Donkin participates, we have already rescheduled the session to July 29th, 2:30pm. So, please, just keep your ideas and thoughts on the paper if you have already read through it. IMPORTANT: On Friday we will still have a session (hybrid-meeting, as planned) and we are very happy that we found another great guest to join us for this session: Dr. Malika Ihle is the scientific coordinator of the LMU Open Science Center and will introduce us to this session's topic with her presentation at the beginning of the meeting: "Getting active – How can we foster Open Science within our university?" When? Friday, 8th of July 2022, 2:30pm-4:00pm Where? Room 3322 at Leopoldstraße 13, 80802 Munich or via Zoom: Meeting ID: 917 8852 1090 / Password: Replicate (https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/j/91788521090?pwd=QmJPeEZLcGtYeGlmeGFnazVoUVFzQT0...) Topic: "Getting active – How can we foster Open Science within our university?" Procedure: Dr. Malika Ihle (LMU Munich) will start with an introduction to the topic (roughly 20-30min). We will then continue with an open discussion in which you can contribute your own thoughts and questions. The session including the open discussion afterwards will focus on general and concrete ideas on how to promote Open Science at a local level. Instead of recommending a paper as the basis for our discussion, we would simply ask you to think about some ideas to the following key questions: 1. What are the most effective measures to enforce open science practices in your field? 2. What role do local Open Science initiatives (e.g. journal clubs) play in promoting Open Science? 3. What opportunities do you personally have to promote Open Science, and which might be most promising? Below, you can find a short abstract for the introductory presentation by Dr. Malika Ihle (LMU Open Science Center). We are looking forward to seeing you soon! Feel free to contact us if you have any questions and/or remarks. Your organisation team Laura Goetz, Stephan Nuding, Leonhard Schramm Getting active – How can we foster Open Science within our university? The Open Science movement was very successful in recent years and has found more and more supporters. However, there is still a lot to be done to achieve the desired goal of transparent research process becoming the norm in science. But what would be the next steps and the most efficient measures to accelerate this cultural change towards Open Science? And how can each individual contribute to achieving this goal? In this presentation, Dr. Malika Ihle will introduce a framework for fostering Open Science within the scientific community. She will discuss the different roles of bottom-up and top-down actions in the cultural change towards openness and transparency in science. Finally, she will talk about some specific ideas on how Open Science can be promoted at local level and what steps each individual could start with to growth their community. About the speaker Dr. Malika Ihle is the Scientific Coordinator of the LMU Open Science Center and supports its scientific board to promote and foster Open Research across all disciplines within the LMU and beyond. Before she joined the LMU, she worked for 2.5 years in a similar position at the University of Oxford where she coordinated Reproducible Research Oxford (RROx). Malika is an Open Science enthusiast and expert, always looking for new ideas to advance the Open Science movement. Her experience ranges from providing Open Science training to coordinating grassroots-initiatives and co-developing strategic plans for universities to roll out Open Science practices across faculties and departments. She holds an PhD in Biology and is a founding member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE).