Call for nominees for Aalto University’s Open Science Award 2024
Nominate yourself, your colleague, a research group, a department, or a project for the award.
Open science is an important way to promote science and ensure that it will benefit the whole society and enable collaboration and innovation.
Aalto University supports open science in its research community and by doing so aims at gaining the benefits of openness: the societal impact of research increases, the speed of innovation grows, the high quality and transparency of science are ensured, and research results are openly accessible in helping to solve global problems.
Nominate yourself, your colleague, a research group, a department, or a project for the award.
New topics included! Registrations for autumn 2024 are open.
We interviewed the AMAD team, winners of the first Aalto Open Science Award.
We interviewed professor Riikka Puurunen, head of Catalysis research group at the School of Chemical Engineering, who received an honorary mention in the first Aalto Open Science Award.
We interviewed the Intelligent Robotics Research Group with the Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects project, 3rd place awardees of the first Aalto Open Science Award.
The goals of open science are responsible research and societal impact.
Open science means open access to scientific publications, research data, methods, software codes, educational resources, and infrastructures. It is a key instrument for increasing the impact of the research conducted at Aalto University.
Discover the results of Aalto University's open science activities coordinated by Open Science and ACRIS team. The figures are from February 2024.
Explore how open science and research is embedded in the work of Aalto University researchers.
Open access ensures that scientific publications are accessible to everyone free of charge.
Properly managed research data creates competitive edge and is an important part of a high-quality research process. Here you will find links to support, services and instructions for research data management.
Culture of Open Scholarship refers to e.g. responsible researcher and research assessment, services needed for open science and research and citizen science.
Open education and open educational resources are part of open science. Aalto University has a policy on open educational resources. There is also a national policy regarding open educational resources as well as open educational practices. In addition, the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation contains a number of recommendations for open education.
Researcher identifiers aim to reduce the problems caused by ambiguity in researcher names.
The National Research Information Hub and Research.fi portal offer a single source access to information on science and research in Finland.
Aalto University open publication archive consists of ACRIS Research Information System and Aaltodoc publications archive. Moreover, Aalto University offers other resources to support open access.