Aboard Project | Roadmap to Embedding Open Research Practices in Ireland

"The ABOARD project will develop a roadmap for system-level incentivisation of Open Research practices; this will mean that the incentives that researchers encounter in all their major fields of activity (including recruitment, promotion, institutional research initiatives and engagement with external funders) will be aligned effectively.

The project wants to include the voice of researchers themselves which has been somewhat underrepresented in many of the conversations around incentivisation and rewards of Open Research practices as well as those concerning the use of responsible research metrics and responsible research assessment. 

The ABOARD project, brings together a strong consortium of those representing not only research performing organisations (RPOs) and funders, but also key researcher groups and will engage in deep, iterative dialogue with key stakeholders across the Irish research landscape.

Promoting and embedding Open Research practices is inextricably linked to the ongoing movement around a reform of research assessment. The ABOARD leads are also heading up the Irish National Chapter of CoARA, the Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment."