The Open Research Award seeks to showcase concepts and achievements by Eurac researchers who actively engage with tools and practices that make research more collaborative and equitable, and enhance knowledge sharing and dissemination.
The Open Research Award seeks to showcase concepts and achievements by Eurac researchers who actively engage with tools and practices that make research more collaborative and equitable, and enhance knowledge sharing and dissemination.
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My cookie preferencesFollowing successful editions in 2021 and 2023, the ORA returns in 2026 with three prizes endowed with €2.000 each.
Open research is imbued with the ambition to lower the social, cultural and technical barriers that prevent the sharing of knowledge. By embracing open scholarship, we amplify the positive impact of our research endeavours.
Nominations for the 2026 ORA will be evaluated by an independent jury consisting of:
Giacomo Bertoldi & Alice Crespi - Institute for Alpine Environment & Center for Climate Change and Transformation
Cli-DaRe mobilized students to digitize historical climate data for Italy from the early 20th century, releasing open long-term records for climatological research, while engaging and motivating young people on science
Arianna Bienati, Paolo Di Natale, Luca Ducceschi, Greta H. Franzini, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Lionel Nicolas, Egon W. Stemle & Andrea Leone-Pizzighella - Institute for Applied Linguistics
By building trusted infrastructures, metadata standards, reusable workflows, and by supporting field-sensitive mediation, the Language Technologies Group and the Institute for Applied Linguistics make research open, FAIR, responsible, and meaningful across Eurac Research and wider international research communities
Alexandra Budabin - Institute for Minority Rights
This open access edited book brought together 17 contributors to reshape and rethink minority studies by promoting the use of intersectionality. The process behind the creation of this volume exemplifies a compelling and replicable commitment to open science by embodying the values of community-building, intra and inter-institutional cooperation, and empowerment
Katharina Crepaz & Prackwieser Josef - Center for Autonomy Experience
This open access edited volume advances feminist and queer historiography through collaborative and transparent editorial practices, broad accessibility, and engagement beyond academia, fostering more inclusive and socially relevant historical research
Philippine Louail - Institute for Biomedicine
I develop open-source mass spectrometry software and reproducible computational workflows to harmonize metabolomics data. By leading standardization initiatives and creating open educational resources, I help researchers implement practical, transparent analysis.
Johanna Mitterhofer - Center for Migration and Societal Change
A realistic account of a qualitative social scientist with little time and a long to-do list surrounded by often sceptical colleagues, trying to do a better job in all aspects of Open Research – sometimes succeeding, other times failing
Mohamed (Sabry) Sarhan - Institute for Mummy Studies and Institute for Biomedicine
A microbiologist and bioinformatician turning rare genomic data into open, reusable resources, advancing ethical data sharing, global standards, and collaborative research across ancient DNA, microbiomes, and large-scale bioinformatics
Julia Seeeber & Michael Steinwandter - Institute for Alpine Environment
Our working group focuses on ALPine SOIL ecology and zoology, mainly in the European Alps, from the valley bottom to the high alpine zone. Our strengths are soil fauna diversity, litter decomposition, and trophic interactions
For any questions please contact:
Maria Bellantone at the Research Support Office will answer your questions about Open Access and RDM, including training requests, questions about funders’ and journals’ policies, internal and external funding for Open Access and the Open Research Award. The Research Support Office can also be contacted for more information about the Open Access and the Research Data Management Working Groups in Eurac Research.
For questions about the current research information system Converis and the institutional repository BIA, please contact Antje Messerschmidt at the Library.
