Events
This page features National Open Research Forum (NORF) and NORF-funded projects events, other relevant open research events both nationally and internationally, along with past events.
QSA*Net co-host event on Open Research Initiatives
On 22 October 2024, during Maynooth University’s Research Week, the NORF-funded project QSA*Net: Promoting Open Research in Qualitative Social Science co-hosted a hybrid event titled 'Current Open Research Initiatives at Maynooth University'. The recording is...
Save the date: Launch of the National Persistent Identifier Strategy and Roadmap
25 October, 10:00-10:45 | Online We are delighted to announce that Ireland's National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategy and Roadmap, Impact, Openness, Interoperability: Recommendations and a Roadmap for an Irish National PID Strategy, will be launched during a...
EOSC EU Node technical launch event on 10 October
10 October 2024, 08:30-12:15 | Online The European Commission is organising an EOSC EU Node technical launch event on Thursday, 10 October between 08:30-12:15. The aim of the event is to communicate the technical launch of the EOSC EU node, with a view to the EOSC...
Review of Open Research in Health Updates
Review of Open Research in Health Kalpana Shankar and Gail Sheppard of ROCHE (A Review of Open Research in Health) presented their work in progress at the Sonraí Conference at University College Cork 19-20 June (pictured) 2024. Kalpana also presented work in progress...
Advancing Ireland’s Open Repository Landscape: Webinar 1 and Where We Go From Here
On 30 June 2024, the National Open Access Repository Project hosted its first webinar, gathering key stakeholders, experts, and community members to discuss one of Ireland’s most important initiatives for enhancing open access to research. Funded by the National Open...
Connecting the evidence-for-policy and open research agendas
In this blog Patrice McCormack and Ian Marder of the NORF funded project, Embedding a culture of interdisciplinary open research in Ireland’s criminal justice sector through a national Researcher-Practitioner/Policymaker Partnership, report on the conference, “What next for Irish Public Policy Development?”, at ILAS Auditorium, University of Galway, 28 May 2024.
Commoning the Humanities and Social Sciences at RESSH2024
The Fourth Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities Conference (RESSH2024) took place in Galway on 23rd - 24th May 2024 as part of the NORF-funded project, Cultivating an Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences, led by Dr Lai Ma at...
TROPIC project presented at RESSH 2024 and Sonraí Data Stewardship Conferences
Talks by Dr. Dounia Lakhzoum, at RESSH 2024 in Galway, and by Dr. Dermot Lynott, at the Sonraí Data Stewardship Conference in Cork Dr. Dounia Lakhzoum presented some of the key findings from the NORF-Funded TRaining for OPen research in an Irish Context (TROPIC)...
QSA*Net Team Participating in the 51st SAI Annual Conference
Post-doctoral researcher, Dr. Rong Bao presenting the project poster at the conference Image 2: QSA*Net SAI Conference project poster The team working on the NORF-funded project, QSA*Net, were pleased to participate in the 51st Sociological Association of Ireland...
Webinar: Open Monograph Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences Hosted by Irish Open Access Publishers (IOAP) with support by National Open Research Forum (NORF)
In this post, Beth Tyrrell and Lai Ma of the NORF-funded project, “Cultivating Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences” describe a webinar they hosted on Open Monograph Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences on the 26th April 2024. The webinar brought together international experts and Irish publishing pioneers for a discussion on Open Access Monographs grounded in practical working solutions by adapting the Diamond OA model.
Putting Ireland on the map
On June 1, Ireland was represented at the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) 2026 Conference by a delegation from the University of Galway and IReL. Cillian Joy introduced the work underway at Open Repositories Ireland to build a national infrastructure...
Latest news from TROPIC and the Irish Reproducibility Network
Dr Dermot Lynott, project lead of the TROPIC project and chair of the Irish Reproducibility Network, presented at the Open Research and Research Integrity Workshop, hosted by the Department of Psychology, Mary Immaculate College. The event also included a focus on...
Open Research in the Humanities
The project team behind the Cultivating an Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences project has recently published an article in the special issue, "Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences" of the Journal of Electronic Publishing[1]. In...
CORD Partnership launches range of services to support research-policy-practice engagement in criminal justice
The Criminal Justice Open Research Dialogue (CORD) Partnership aims to embed a culture of interdisciplinary open research in criminal justice in Ireland. It achieves this by bringing together criminal justice researchers, policymakers and practitioners to decide...
New collaboration for NORF-funded Open Research networks in Ireland!
Sonraí, the Data Stewardship Network has teamed up with Open Repositories Ireland (ORI) and the Irish Reproducibility Network (IRN) to sign a Memorandum of Understanding from the 27 March 2026 that helps to strengthen Ireland’s Open Research ecosystem. Through this...