Blogs
This page predominantly features blogs from NORF-funded research projects and initiatives, along with workshop summary reports.
NORFest 2025: IReL and OpenAIRE workshop
On 7 November, Day Two of NORFest 2025, OpenAIRE, IReL, and the NORF projects (ABOARD; MOSS-I and Sonraí, whose work touch on open research practices, infrastructures, or assessment) co-hosted a hands-on, discussion-driven workshop titled 'The Next Phase of Open...
NORFest 2025: ENGAGED project workshop summary
On 7 November 2025, Day Two of the National Open Research Forum (NORFest) 2025 in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), the NORF-funded ENGAGED project hosted a community engagement workshop titled 'New Faces: The Future of Open Research and Public Engagement'....
National Open Research Festival 2025 summary
Ireland’s National Open Research Festival (NORFest) 2025 took place on the 6-7 November, 2025 in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. This two-day booked-out event had over 150 guests in attendance. It shone a spotlight on global open science, cross-cutting policy...
Developing an EOSC-Compatible National PID Strategy for Ireland
In May of this year, Ireland’s National Open Research Forum and HEAnet (Ireland’s National Research and Education Network and EOSC Mandated Organisation) were awarded funding by the RDA Tiger Cascade Grant Scheme to develop a national PID recommendation aligned with...
Highlights from QSA*Net: May Events
The month of May was a busy one for the QSA*Net NORF-funded project, with three workshops engaging both national and international audiences and aimed at strengthening practices around Qualitative Secondary Analysis (QSA). Workshop at RUN-EU: Building Skills in QSA On...
NORF TROPIC winter school: Advancing open research practices
The NORF TROPIC winter school was a resounding success! Hosted from 27–29 January at Maynooth University by Dr Dermot Lynott, principal investigator of TROPIC and lead researcher Dr Dounia Lakhzoum, this dynamic event united researchers across disciplines and career...
Blog: ‘Standardising Funder Identifiers to ROR’
Read the recent University of Galway Library blog post by Dr Cillian Joy, Head of Open and Digital Research at the University of Galway Library, and member of the PID Task Force who helped prepare Ireland’s National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategy...
Project update: Pilot Training on Responsible Use of Research Metrics (RURM)
This blog post by Dr Colleen Thomas, Research Culture & Engagement Manager at University College Dublin (UCD), gives an update on the Pilot Training on Responsible Use of Research Metrics (RURM) project which is supported by the NORF Open Research Fund 2023...
‘Reform of Research Assessment: Impact on Doctoral Students’ Workshop summary
Event illustration by artist Beth McComish On Tuesday, 5 November 2024, the Higher Education Authority (HEA), National Research Integrity Forum (NRIF), together with the National Open Research Forum (NORF), the National Framework for Doctoral Education (NFDE) Advisory...
NORF All Projects Workshop 2024 summary
On 25 October 2024, the National Open Research Forum (NORF) hosted a meeting with the nineteen NORF-funded open research projects at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin.This event, which was predominantly in person, focused on progressing selected action areas...
NORFest 2025: IReL and OpenAIRE workshop
On 7 November, Day Two of NORFest 2025, OpenAIRE, IReL, and the NORF projects (ABOARD; MOSS-I and Sonraí, whose work touch on open research practices, infrastructures, or assessment) co-hosted a hands-on, discussion-driven workshop titled 'The Next Phase of Open...
NORFest 2025: ENGAGED project workshop summary
On 7 November 2025, Day Two of the National Open Research Forum (NORFest) 2025 in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), the NORF-funded ENGAGED project hosted a community engagement workshop titled 'New Faces: The Future of Open Research and Public Engagement'....
National Open Research Festival 2025 summary
Ireland’s National Open Research Festival (NORFest) 2025 took place on the 6-7 November, 2025 in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. This two-day booked-out event had over 150 guests in attendance. It shone a spotlight on global open science, cross-cutting policy...
DARIAH-IE wants to hear from Arts & Humanities researchers in Ireland
DARIAH-IE is a national infrastructure for the Arts & Humanities in Ireland. It is the Irish node of the European-wide a research infrastructure, DARIAH-EU, which aims to enhance and support digitally enabled research and teaching. As DARIAH-IE continues to...
Dr Dermot Lynott awarded Open Research & Scholarship Award
Congratulations to Dr Dermot Lynott, Maynooth University (MU), lead of the NORF-funded TROPIC (Training for Open Research in an Irish Context) project, who was recently awarded the inaugural Open Research & Scholarship Award from Maynooth University, in...