25th RDA Plenary | 13 – 16 October 2025 | in-person in Brisbane, Australia

Co-created by the research community, the new Declaration defines the guiding principles, vision, and shared commitments for responsible open science — encouraging organisations to actively engage with them.

Collaborative research projects between elevator manufacturer KONE and Tampere University have resulted in doctoral dissertations, scientific articles, and popular texts for wider audiences with impact that reaches across society.

The rise of article processing charges (APCs) for open access scholarly articles has also attracted fraudsters. Responsible research assessment and free open access publishing could help eliminate incentives for dishonest practices.

Do you or does your background organisation have an ongoing Open Science project or initiative? Come and present it at the Open Science and Research Summer Conference!

The Finnish research community is invited to give their views on the update of the policy components for educational resources and research data by 21 March 2025.

The guidelines for describing research data are now available as an English translation. The guidelines are particularly intended to assist researchers in producing descriptive information about research data.

Open Science and Research Winter Conference 3–4 December in Turku saw exploring and experimenting with multilingualism and open science.

The Criteria for a Good Knowledge Base and How to Become a Citizen Scientist: A Beginner's Gudie have been translated to Swedish and English.