Open Science Day 2025
Venue: Hybrid at FUCHS-Festsaal (O138), Schloss Schneckenhof, University of Mannheim and via Zoom
Date: 28 October, 11 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Contact: Dr. David Philip Morgan, Dr. Philipp Zumstein
The seventh annual Open Science Day will take place on 28 October 2025. This year, BERD@NFDI and the Open Science Office have co-organized the Open Science Day to showcase, share, and discuss the diverse range of open science activities and experiences taking place at the University of Mannheim and beyond.
We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker this year is Vasilka Paunova, the legal counsel for BERD@NFDI, who will present Open and GDPR-Compliant Science – highlighting the legal challenges posed by Open Science and Research Data Management and potential solutions.
BERD@NFDI will address the role of Open Science and Research Data Management in business and economics research. We will cover incentives for doing Open Science and their impact on research in the social sciences, as well as shifting journal requirements for transparency in the political sciences. Our latest 2025 awardees will also present their funded projects and the Open Science practices they will use in their diverse research.
All members and researchers of the University of Mannheim and beyond are invited to join our Open Science Day.
We would be delighted if you are able to attend this event. If you are interested in attending, please sign up below:
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Program
Session 1 – Introduction and Keynote: 11 a.m.–Noon
Welcome: 11–11:10 a.m.
Vice-president for Research and Career Paths in Academia
Director of the University Library
Keynote Speaker – Open and GDPR-Compliant Science: 11:10 a.m.–Noon
Legal Counsel for BERD@NFDI & Research Data Center (FDZ)
Lunch & Coffee Break: Noon–1 p.m.
Session 2 – Incentives for Open Science: 1–2:30 p.m.
Opening Doors – Incentives and Impact of Open Science in Social Science Research: 1–1:20 p.m.
Faculty of Social Sciences, Health Psychology, University of Mannheim
From Audit to Action – Closing the Transparency Gap in Quantitative Social Science: 1:20–1:40 p.m.
Faculty of Social Sciences, Social Data Science, University of Mannheim
Poster Session & Coffee,
2025 Open Science Grant Awardees: 1:45–2:30 p.m.
The psychology of heat: A global big team science effort, Dr. Jana Berkessel (MZES)
SpatialBenchRAG: A Multimodal, Multilingual Benchmark for KG-grounded RAG over Diverse Geographies, Andreea Iana (Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim)
Do Open Large Language Models Conduct Content Analysis like Humans?, Dr. Indira Sen (Chair of Data Science in Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim)
Studying Radicalized Individuals and Their Passive Social Media Use: A Person-Centered and Privacy-Sensitive Approach, Frieder Rodewald & Nina Osenbrügge (GESS/MZES)
Session 3 – Open Science in Business and Economics Research (BERD@NFDI): 2:30–3:30 p.m.
Services for Professional Management of Research Data and Algorithms in Business and Economics: 2:30–3 p.m.
Community Involvement for BERD@NFDI
The BERD Data Portal – Connected. National. European: 3–3:30 p.m.
Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW)
Closing words
Dr. David Philip Morgan
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