The fourth University Innovation Week was organized between 1-4 October at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, with over 150 registered participants from fifteen different Hungarian companies, institutions, research networks and universities along the week-long event series.

The program aimed to promote MATE’s innovation portfolio and the respective research and development services to enhance cooperation with corporate partners, deepen participants’ knowledge of intellectual property and research management, and build professional contacts.

The primary focus of this year’s event was on the research management activities in higher education institutions. In line with this main focus, the event was kicked off on October 1st with the Research Management Workshop at the Szent István Campus in Gödöllő, organized in collaboration with the primary founder at Hungary, the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDIO).

After the opening remarks, colleagues of NRDIO introduced the program strategy for 2024 for developing the innovation ecosystem and gave an overview of available schemes. Next, participants learnt about MATE’s international activities, synergies and links with Horizon Europe projects. Amongst them, Monika Varga had an opportunity to present the OSIRIS project to a diverse audience, including researchers from various Hungarian universities and research institutions, research managers and funders. The presentation highlighted the importance of Open Science practices and reproducible research, which are essential prerequisites of research utilized in practice. The main focus was on the ongoing WP3 activities, where MATE colleagues are mainly involved. The presentation shared some preliminary insights about the computational reproducibility survey and the reproducibility checklist under development, which will be tested in the forthcoming period.

Afternoon sessions continued with short presentations about Hungarian universities and research institutions, including an extensive introduction about the Hungarian Chapter of CoARA.

The program of continuing days included a series of technical presentations and was closed with lectures about intellectual property rights in general and also in relation to AI.

Beyond the thematic workshops for researchers, these general events are important to spread the word about the OSIRIS project and activities not only for MATE researchers, who might use the developed interventions of OSIRIS but also for the participating stakeholders.

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