The preliminary programme for the National Open Research Festival 2023 (#NORFest2023) is now available. Programme highlights include:

• • A keynote talk titled “Opening Science” by Chelle Gentemann, programme scientist at NASA on NASA’s Open Science programme, and co-chair of the U.S. White House Science and Technology and Policy (OSTP) sub-working group on the Year of Open Science;
  • A panel on Early Career Researcher perspectives of open research and research assessment chaired by Yensi Flores Bueso, Steering Board member of the Coalition for the Advancement of Research Assessment (CoARA);
  • Lightning talks on initiatives supporting and fostering open research in Ireland; 
  • The launch of new projects awarded funding through the NORFOpen Research Fund 2023; and
  • Interactive workshops on different aspects of open research, including scholarly publishing, open access, peer review, data stewardship, open source software, and the European Open Science Cloud. 

Funding for NORFest2023 is provided by the Higher Education Authority (HEA). 

The preliminary programme is available here.