News
This page includes news from NORF, its associated research projects and initiatives and the broader open research community, featuring opportunities such as calls for papers and awards, both nationally and internationally.
Announcement of the 2025 NORF Open Research Fund Awards
The National Open Research Forum (NORF) is pleased to announce the funding of four open research networks under the 2025 NORF Open Research Fund: Diamond Capacity Hub Ireland Open Repositories Ireland Sonraí, Irish Data Stewardship Network TROPIC These networks were...
NORFest 2025 Registration Now Open
Ireland's National Open Research Festival (NORFest) 2025 will be held on 6-7 November 2025 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. This two-day event will spotlight global open science, cross-cutting policy agendas, and emerging themes in open research and innovation....
NORFest 2025 Programme Out Now!
The programme for the National Open Research Festival 2025 (#NORFest2025), which will be held on 6-7 November 2025 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin is now published. Programme highlights include: A keynote talk by Ms. Joy Owango, Founding Director of the Training...
ROCHE updates: Conference Highlights and Team News
The goal of A Review of Open Research in Health Ecosystems in Ireland (ROCHE) is to understand policies, practices, challenges and opportunities for open research in commercialisable research, particularly in Digital/Connected Health research and innovation in...
SCOIR Roadshow Series
As part of their national outreach under the SCOIR (Secondary rights, Copyright, Open Access, Institutional policies, and Rights retention) project, the team are thrilled to announce their Autumn Roadshow Series - a set of dynamic, in-person conversations around...
DARIAH-IE Endorses the National Action Plan for Open Research
DARIAH-IE is the Irish node of the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), an infrastructure supporting digitally enabled research and teaching across the Arts and Humanities. DARIAH-IE has officially endorsed Ireland’s...
NORFest 2025 Keynote Speaker Announcement: Ms. Joy Owango
We are thrilled to announce the keynote speaker for the National Open Research Festival, NORFest 2025: Ms. Joy Owango, Founding Director of the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa). NORFest 2025 will take place on 6-7 November 2025 at the Royal Irish Academy,...
ABOARD Self-Assessment Survey for RFOs: Summary Report
ABOARD are delighted to present the Summary Report of the ABOARD Self-Assessment Survey for for Research Funding Organizations (RFOs) in Ireland. The findings indicate that there is very high awareness of Open Research and Responsible Research Assessment practices...
Launch – Navigating Open Research: A guide for Early Career Researchers
Register for the launch webinar of Navigating Open Research, a new national guide designed to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland. Inspired by similar initiatives in France and the Netherlands, the CONUL Research Group - working in collaboration with the wider...
ENGAGED : Collective Intelligence Workshop at UL
At the recent ENGAGED Collective Intelligence workshop at the University of Limerick, participants were invited to explore the often-unseen architecture of research culture - the policies, infrastructure, incentives and supports that influence how public engagement in...
Managing an Open Repository? Here’s how Open Repositories of Ireland can help
The Open Repositories Ireland (ORI) invites managers of Open Access repositories who want to improve their repository's visibility to join the OpenAIRE Adopter Assistance Programme. Adopting the OpenAIRE version 4 metadata standard is a clear step towards repository...
iFrame workshop: Building the national RDM framework
We would like to invite you to participate in the final iFrame workshop on the 25th March at the Asiera offices (formerly HEAnet) in Dublin (93/94 North Wall Quay) The iFrame project is a NORF-funded investigation into the support for research data management in Irish...
Community voices shaping the ENGAGED roadmap
The ENGAGED project continues to be shaped through genuine co creation with the communities it serves. Across our collective intelligence workshops, NGOs, policy makers, citizen scientists, community partners, and people with lived experience have actively contributed...
Launch of the Irish Reproducibility Network
As part of the NORF-funded TROPIC II project, the end of January saw the official launch of the Irish Reproducibility Network, which is a national, peer-led network rooted in collaboration that connects researchers, librarians, and research offices to strengthen...
Research Output: Sharing Arts Practice FAIRly workshop 10 November 2025
The Sharing Arts Practice FAIRly project hosted its workshop on 10 November at the Glucksman Library, University of Limerick, disseminating its best practice guidelines on the digital preservation and dissemination of arts practice research outputs to colleagues in...