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HEROES workshop in Geneva

A focus on Open Science Hardware Metaresearch The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF, an entity created by the Gathering for Open Science Hardware -GOSH - community) had organised a workshop in Geneva with the goal to discuss and update the GOSH roadmap. The workshop took place from the 21 to the 23d of January 2026. It was called HEROES for “Hardware Ecosystem Requirements for Open and Emerging Science”. A first roadmap was created 10 years ago at the first GOSH meeting, which was also organised in Geneva.

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Open.Make kickoff meeting.

On October 7th 2021, the Open.Make project kickoff meeting took place at the Charité campus in Mitte. The three research partners/labs, the project officer from the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) and three invited external partners presented and discussed their respective works. It was a successful meeting as it offered a broad overview of the benefits of open hardware in academia and beyond. While it was originally planned as fully in-person, the meeting had to be shifted to a hybrid meeting, as two participants could not come to the meeting location.

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Scope of the Open.Make project.

Original post (2021-09-27) has been updated (2023-12-14). The problem(s) Have you ever tried to follow instructions on how to assemble something and get stuck, either due to a lack of clarity or missing information? This can be annoying enough when you are trying to setup a new piece of furniture, but when your goal is to replicate someone’s research1, these annoyances create an additional burden. In the worst case, the research cannot be replicated and the research process is significantly slowed down.

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