Helmholtz Open Science Office

The Helmholtz Open Science Office supports the Helmholtz Association as a service provider in shaping the cultural change towards Open Science. It is a partner of all stakeholders involved in this process within Helmholtz and promotes the visibility of Helmholtz on a national as well as international level within the context of Open Science in the spirit of the Helmholtz mission.

This website provides an overview of all activities of the Helmholtz Open Science Office. All relevant information is described and communicated here.

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PID Network Germany: Online Seminar "PIDs for research data"

February 15, 2023, 01 to 04:30 pm, Online

The project invites you to lightning talks on best practices and concrete use cases on PIDs for research data, followed by an interactive discussion.
Virtual Panel Discussion "Open Infrastructures for Open Science"

February 19, 2024, 03:30 to 5 pm, Online

Together with the Research and Teaching Group Information Management at the Institute of Library and Information Science (IBI) at Humboldt-Universität zu…
RDA Germany Conference 2024

February 20 to 21, 2024, Potsdam

The RDA Germany Conference is an annual week-long conference to promote exchange among the RDA DE community and to help make data reuse more efficient.

On Our Own Behalf: Leaving X

At the end of the year, we will discontinue our involvement on X (formerly known as Twitter).
Slides published: Online Workshop on the Monitoring of Research Data Publications

The speakers' presentation slides are now available and linked on the program.
101st Helmholtz Open Science Newsletter available

The 101st Helmholtz Open Science Newsletter has been published and is now available in German as well as in English. In this newsletter we give you an overview of the most important developments…
Recording & Slides of the 67th Online Seminar available

The recording and slides of the talks of the 67th Helmholtz Open Science Online Seminar on the “Open Research Knowledge Graph” are now available.
On our own behalf: Job Offer

The Helmholtz Open Science Office is hiring. Applications by December 18, 2023 (please use the online application form only).
Documentation available: Online Seminar on "PIDs for Persons" from 19.10.23

The documentation (in German only) of lightning talks, the interactive part and a summary of the discussion from the online seminar "PIDs for Persons", organized by the project PID Network Germany, is…

Open Science at Helmholtz

The mission of the Helmholtz Open Science Office is to promote the cultural change towards open science. Guided by the motto "Enabling open science practices in Helmholtz!" the Helmholtz Open Science…
Open Access

For open access, one of the Helmholtz Open Science Office's key endeavours is the promotion of the transformation from subscription-based access to open access.
Open Research Data

The Centers of the Helmholtz Association conduct data-intensive research with internationally significant large-scale facilities and digital information infrastructures. The Helmholtz Open Science…
Open Research Software

While open science calls for accessibility and reuse of scientific results, in many research areas, this can only be ensured if source code is made openly accessible in addition to the corresponding…