On September 22–24, 2025, OSIRIS joined the Responsible Research in Action Unconference in Berlin, hosted by the QUEST Center for Responsible Research at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité. The event broke away from the traditional conference format, resulting in the successful creation of an interactive, team-based environment focused on improving the research process. Dr. Rita Banzi, Coordinator of the OSIRIS activities at the Mario Negri Institute in Milan and a specialist contributing to the WP3 and WP5, shares insights from the project’s participation. During the event, interdisciplinary teams explored how to enhance research culture, rethink evaluation systems, and design innovative models of funding and collaboration, co-creating actionable solutions for the future of responsible research.

OSIRIS project work at the Unconference

During the unconference, OSIRIS launched its collaborative pilot study to put the project’s core reproducibility checks into practice. Nine scientists applied the list of items to published papers in their disciplines and assessed the list of checks for feasibility and potential areas for adaptation. Participants’ backgrounds included public health and epidemiology, physiology, animal health and food science, data management, psychology, language sciences, and evolutionary ecology.

The participants appreciated the availability of a comprehensive checklist for reproducibility but also reported challenges in interpreting some items, particularly those related to the planning phase, where possible overlap was noted among concepts such as study hypotheses, rationale and prior evidence, research questions, and objectives. They also observed that certain items might not be equally applicable across all types of research.

Researchers had diverse backgrounds and clearly highlighted that some refinements may be desirable when end-users apply the checklist in their specific context. They also provided valuable suggestions for revising the wording of some items that were heavily oriented toward experimental and quantitative science.

What’s next?

The collaborative pilot will now be enlarged to other researchers and fields, and the final output will be an elaboration and explanation guidance to support the list of checks used, along with concrete examples of ideal practices. Recommendations for adapting the checks to specific disciplines and research types will also be provided, if needed.

The project work in Berlin showed that OSIRIS is more than a project; it’s a growing community contributing to shaping the future of reliable science across disciplines. Follow us!

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