4TU.ResearchData involved in new projects to strengthen open science infrastructure

We are extreme­ly pleased to announce that 4TU.ResearchData is involved in sev­er­al new projects fund­ed by Open Sci­ence NL, the nation­al pro­gramme that aims to pro­mote and accel­er­ate the tran­si­tion to open sci­ence in the Nether­lands. 

At the end of 2025, Open Sci­ence NL award­ed fund­ing to 45 projects to strength­en infra­struc­ture for open sci­ence. The projects make schol­ar­ly data, soft­ware and pub­li­ca­tions more acces­si­ble and help make sci­ence more acces­si­ble and trans­par­ent.

4TU.ResearchData will be lead­ing a project on Enabling FAIR for AI in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Nether­lands eScience Cen­ter, Nikhef (Dutch Nation­al Insti­tute for Sub­atom­ic Physics) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente. The project aims to make research data and soft­ware eas­i­er to reuse and repro­duce, espe­cial­ly in AI. The project will also improve trans­paren­cy and long-term usabil­i­ty by enhanc­ing Dje­huty, the repos­i­to­ry plat­form used by 4TU.ResearchData and Nikhef. This will ben­e­fit researchers, data pro­fes­sion­als and pol­i­cy­mak­ers by pro­vid­ing bet­ter tools and guide­lines for shar­ing and using soft­ware respon­si­bly, par­tic­u­lar­ly soft­ware asso­ci­at­ed with AI mod­els. 

We also have an active role in anoth­er three of the fund­ed projects, name­ly:

• Towards a com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven and sus­tain­able Research Soft­ware Direc­to­ry, led by the Nether­lands eScience Cen­ter
• Yoda as con­nect­ing infra­struc­ture for seam­less open sci­ence, led by Vri­je Uni­ver­siteit Ams­ter­dam
• Geo­FAIR: Opti­miz­ing use of high impact geo­sci­en­tif­ic data by link­ing to avail­able inter­na­tion­al research infra­struc­ture, led by Utrecht Uni­ver­si­ty

Daniel Bangert, 4TU.ResearchData Direc­tor, says: 

“We are delight­ed to par­tic­i­pate in these new projects fund­ed by Open Sci­ence NL. This work will result in new and inno­v­a­tive fea­tures for the 4TU.ResearchData repos­i­to­ry and fur­ther tai­lor our infra­struc­ture to the needs of the nat­ur­al and engi­neer­ing sci­ences domain. We look for­ward to work­ing with our project part­ners and the broad­er com­mu­ni­ty to fur­ther strength­en open sci­ence prac­tices!”