At this years Metascience Conference 2025 GATE held a workshop "Implementing Open Science for Communities". 

Stakeholders from research, publication, and funding were introduced to GATE's process for collecting knowledge and developments related to Open Science and learned about the general guiding thoughts that emerged from the current data collection.

Guided by the GATE team and supported by an effective didactic framework for the workshop part, the participants engaged in lively discussions about the needs and challenges faced by their communities - specifically, Researchers and Data/Open Access Professionals. Based on data on Open Science capacities collected before the conference (among others from NFDI, CLARIN, ZBW, the OPTIMA Project, and EOSC via the GATE Service), their goal was to collaboratively develop targeted actions to advance Open Science within their communities and to plan how to apply these concrete impulses within their institutions. They suggested actions such as:

• To advance transparency and explainability, researchers increase their credibility and motivation for sharing by using Open-lab Workbooks providing best practice examples and documenting their progress.
• Establishing internal Code Checks in institutions used before publication reduce the likelihood of mistakes and support responsibility of researchers. 
• Working in trusted repositories in order to maintain data confidentiality.

• Leveraging federated data systems which analyse the data submitted, while ensuring a secure system and data confidentiality.

• Applying Persistent Identifiers (PID) which allow optimum traceability, possibly supplemented by AI-tools capturing additional information.
• Developing (AI) tools to support reproducibility checks (including the validity of data and the analysis).
• Establishing processes for funders and fundees to support Open Science.

Read the Workshop Report, which gives you more insights into innovative ideas for targeted actions to advance Open Science for specific communities.