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Open Science Summer School from 15-19 Sept 2025

The LMU Open Science Center is organising a hybrid 5-day Open Science Summer School on 15-19 September 2025 to allow early career researchers of any scientific discipline to gain more trust in the research that they do, and make it as credible, reproducible, and transparent as it can be in the eyes of their peers, the public, and funding agencies.

The Summer School will consist of public lectures and hands-on workshops for selected applicants. This year’s iteration has two tracks to provide participants with two sets of skills: Track 1 “Open Science knowledge and skills” and Track 2 “Open Science instructor training”. The in-person part of the school will take place at the Philologicum Library (Ludwigstraße 25, Munich). The online part will be via Zoom.

For the programme and more information on the lectures and workshops click here. For information on application and registration click here.

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Anyone can register at any time before the end of the summer school to attend one, multiple, or all of the public lectures online. Register here: https://www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS25/

By registering, you will get a confirmation email with a Zoom Webinar link. You can request to receive a certificate of attendance if you attend all seven lectures while signed-in to Zoom.

Recording of the lectures, slides, and workshops material will be made accessible on the Open Science Framework repository under a CC BY 4.0 licence during the summer school and will be accessible anytime afterwards. Access the summer school material here: https://osf.io/m7h4c/

Track 1 workshops and events – Open Science knowledge and skills:

  • Introduction to R
  • FAIR research data management
  • Preregistration
  • Simulations of data and data analyses in R
  • Research Data Management (RDM) plans
  • Version control in RStudio with Git
  • Quarto
  • Reproducible R environment and code publishing

Track 2 workshops and events – Instructor Training:

  • Teaching Open Science – Didactics, tools and techniques
  • Leadership in Open Science