SCIROS “Sustaining and Innovating Open Research Infrastructures” Workshop at the University of Luxembourg

This week, I participated in the two-day SCIROS “Sustaining and Innovating Open Research Infrastructures” Workshop at the University of Luxembourg (24/03/25-25/03/25) with the OPERAS Innovation Lab and representatives from local innovation centres. We discussed the roles research infrastructures do and should play in Open Science and the challenges of innovating and sustaining Open Research Infrastructures (ORIs). We explored sustainable innovation frameworks and discussed the role of digital and physical spaces in collaboration. We focused on the next steps for strengthening SSH research infrastructures regarding governance and interdisciplinary collaboration. A recurring theme was the need for ORIs to become flexible enough to meet a diversity of research needs and for (meta)data to remain specific enough to deliver the level of detail needed for specific research agendas. We also discussed challenges with measuring the impact of open research infrastructures. We discussed the merits and limits of cost/benefit analyses with the potential for measurement biases and conservative estimates of the value of ORIs. We ended with a discussion about sustainable innovation ecosystems to understand various innovation management models.

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