This event is part of the Coffee Lectures on Open Science Education.
Abstract: The Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT; https://forrt.org) is a global grassroots initiative fostering inclusive, ethical, and rigorous research education. With over 50 active projects and 1500+ contributors from 50+ countries, FORRT bridges metascience, pedagogy, and policy reform to democratize access to high-quality open science training and infrastructures.
Our talk will showcase FORRT’s diverse initiatives, including:
- The FORRT Curriculum: A centralized platform featuring lesson plans, slides, games, and syllabi—all open access and designed to support incremental adoption of open and reproducible practices in education.
- The Replication Hub: Home to the FReD database, the world’s largest curated replication archive, including tools like the FReD Annotator and Robustness Lighthouse to support researchers and educators.
- The Open Science Games Portal: A growing repository of pedagogically grounded games and playful activities designed to make learning open science principles engaging, interactive, and accessible. The games promote experiential learning and are ideal for workshops, classrooms, or public engagement events—lowering barriers to entry and supporting active, inclusive pedagogy.
- Equity and Inclusion Projects: Including our Neurodiversity resources, citational justice toolkit, and Mapping Open Science Organizations initiative—projects that underscore FORRT’s commitment to inclusive, justice-oriented research systems.
- Technological Innovations: Like JUST-OS, an AI-based open science assistant designed to help researchers navigate the complex open science landscape, and our modular Open Science Slides for educators.
- RESOLVE: A multi-work package initiative to map global epistemic inequities, support scholars in the Global South, and provide infrastructures such as the Missing Majority Dashboard and Open Science Participant Demographics tools.
Whether you're an educator, policymaker, student, or researcher, FORRT provides resources and collaboration opportunities to help you integrate open science into teaching, research, and governance. The talk will explore how you can get involved and help shape the future of ethical and reproducible science.
Speaker: Flavio Azevedo, Utrecht University / FORRT
Flavio Azevedo is a Brazilian assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University. His research primarily focuses on (1) the political psychology of ideological attitudes and their psychological underpinnings; and (2) integrating open science into higher education. He co-founded and direct FORRT —A Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training.