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Novel Co-creation Initiative
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The ORION project has launched a funding call for novel co-creation initiatives to open up research in life sciences and biomedicine. This call will provide funding of up to 100,000€ for a project that brings together a variety of participants from across a range of sectors to co-create a new project or product based around life sciences research. The aim of this call is to make research activities in life sciences and biomedicine more open, transparent, accessible, relevant and impactful for research and for society. The call is very open and we encourage you to be as imaginative as possible. The deadline for project submission is on 30th September 2019.
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Ten regional Open Science projects receive grants from ORION
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The ORION partner South Moravian Centre for International Mobility, JCMM in Czech Republic has granted ten innovative projects €5.000 each, which were selected from their regional call for Open Science projects on local societal challenges. The call was open for master and doctoral students from local universities in Brno and 45 project proposals were received.
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From ideas to real life projects: ORION 2nd Annual Meeting
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“The ORION Open Science project has helped CEITEC both internally to introduce new processes within our institute, and externally to lead the way to Open Science in Central and Eastern Europe” said Jiri Nantl, Director of CEITEC Masaryk University in his welcome speech at the ORION Open Science 2ndAnnual meeting which took place in Brno, Czech Republic on 6-7 May 2019. All ORION partners and associate partners gathered to share and exchange knowledge and experience from project activities such as: stakeholder dialogues on Open Science, Citizen Science projects, public engagement and trainings conducted during the first two years of the project.
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SMOVE - Teenagers are sitting on science
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Do you know how much pupils move in Berlin and Brandenburg? And if and why some move more than others and on which factors this could depend? The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) would like to get to the bottom of this question together with students from Berlin and Brandenburg with the SMOVE study. SMOVE - Science that makes me move, is a Citizen Science project funded by ORION Open Science. The project aims to carry out an epidemiological study in cooperation with pupils and scientists to record sitting behaviour, activity behaviour, and what the influencing factors are for movement in pupils.
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Forthcoming activities
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1 July - Open Science Training, UkraineHow can you and your work benefit from the Open Science movement? This will be discussed at the "Open Science and your research" workshop run by the MDC at the Summer School in Ivano-Frankivsk.1-3 July - Summer Course on RRI, Santander, Spain
Join the Spanish Summer Course on RRI in Spain and how to implement it in health Research Institutes. The course is organised by the ORION Partner Instituto Salud Carlos III, ISCIII, Health Research Institute Marqués de Valdecilla (IDIVAL) and the International University Menendez Pelayo (UIMP). 2 July - Democratization of science - at all costs? Visby, SwedenVA (Public & Science) will present the results from the ORION survey " Public attitudes to life sciences research in six European countries" at the Almedalen Political Week in Visby. 5 July - Helmholtz PhD Retreat, Weil der Stadt, Germany The MDCwill participate in the PhD retreat of the Helmholtz International Graduate School and the Helmholtz Graduate School of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). During the retreat there will be student talks, poster sessions and invited internal/external speakers to talk about their research, industry recruiting and general topics. 14 July - Open Science Training, Porto, Portugal
This training workshop held by MDC on 14 July at the The XIV European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease conference will establish what Open Science is and why it is needed.
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Meet Maria Hagardt, International Relations & Communications Manager at VA (Public & Science). Maria is work package leader for Communication & Dissemination in ORION. Read more
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In short
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International course on epigenetics - 13 March, FranceMichela Bertero, CRG, gave a talk on the ORION Open Science project to students at the International course on epigenetics at the Institut Marie Curie in Paris. Cambridge Science Festival 2019 - 15 March, UK
Babraham Institute organised a discussion event “ Genome Editing: How far should we go?” at the Espresso Library as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. Why should the public be engaged in Science? 3 April, Sweden
Does the public wish to be involved in the process of scientific research? If yes – how? These questions were asked in the ORION public survey " Public attitudes to life sciences research in six European countries". The results from the study was presented and discussed at the Forum for Science Communication in Gothenburg.
When arts meet science - 3 April, Sweden
Luiza Bengtsson, MDC, showcased how scientists and artists can collaborate and build bridges to engage the public in science through arts via the ORION project "Would you like to live forever" at the " When arts meet science" seminar at the Forum for Science Communication in Gothenburg. BI Science morning - 15 May, UK
The new ORION Co-creation call was presented at the BI science morning which is an annual event organised by the Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation (KEC) team at Babraham. The aim with the event is to encourage collaborations between academia and industry. Genigma - From Co-creation to prototype, 23 May, Spain
The ORION Citizen Science project Genigma which will develop an app to discover genomic alterations in cancer cells had its' first beta test with gamers on 23 May. Stay tuned for more information via the Genigma website. Alliance4Life Annual Meeting - 10-12 June, Latvia
Michela Bertero, CRG held a key note address on RRI and Open Science at the 4th Annual meeting of the Alliance 4Life in Jurmala, Latvia. Long night of Science, 15 June, Germany
MDC participated in and opened its' doors at the Long Night of Science which took place in Berlin. The ORION and MDC artist in residency project " Would you like to live forever?" was very much appreciated by the visitors. Open Science trainings and workshops
The ORION Training team at MDC has held several workshops and trainings across Europe this spring; Institut Marie Curie in Paris 21 March, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona 8 April, and at the JCMM in Brno 2-3 May.
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About ORION Open Science
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The EU-funded ORION Open Science project aims to explore ways in which research performing and research funding organisations in life sciences and biomedicine can open up the way they fund, organise and do research. We will embed Open Science principles in the research process and involve citizens, policy makers and researchers in co-creation experiments, public dialogues, training and citizen science.
Find out more how you can get involved in the ORION project at our website. Don't miss to tune in for our Open Science Podcasts!
Follow us on social media! Stay updated about new project activities via Facebook: @ORIONOpenScience LinkedIn: ORIONOpenScience and Twitter: @ORION_opensci
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