At the 2025 Joint General Assembly, Kim Wever, Co-Coordinator of iRISE, reflected on the project’s contributions to strengthening metascience training and evidence-based approaches to reproducibility.

Wever highlights how the partnership with OSIRIS and TIER2 enabled iRISE to build the SOLES platform on a strong and shared evidence base, using the OSIRIS and TIER2  joint scoping review as a starting point and extending it with machine learning techniques. This alignment has ensured that the three projects produce complementary, non-duplicative outputs.

She also describes the two-way exchange of expertise between the consortia. iRISE’s dedicated focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion has informed discussions across the partnership, while OSIRIS and TIER2 contributed early qualitative experience that strengthened iRISE’s methodological design for interviews and focus groups.

Looking toward the future, Wever sees the expanded network formed through the partnership as a foundation for new collaborations, project proposals, and shared initiatives. The connections made across the three consortia, she notes, are already generating ideas that will continue beyond the current funding cycle.

These insights reflect the shared commitment of OSIRIS, TIER2, and iRISE to strengthening reproducibility and building a more open, trustworthy European research system. Further updates and materials from the partnership will continue to be shared as the projects advance toward their final milestones.