In cooperation with BC and Open Science Community Amsterdam

Celebrating Open Science: The 2025 OSCAWARDS

In recent years, the Netherlands has taken significant steps toward embracing Open Science. However, as this movement gains momentum, concerns about protecting scientific output and growing skepticism toward science are also on the rise. The third annual OSCAWARDS aims to strengthen the Open Science Community in Amsterdam by recognizing and celebrating the outstanding contributions of its members in advancing Open Science.

Open Science is about making scientific knowledge more credible, inclusive, and accessible to everyone. It values quality and integrity of research, encourages collaboration, and opens up the process of creating, evaluating, and sharing science so that it benefits both researchers and society as a whole. At this event, 10 Open Science projects will be recognized for their impact. OSCAWARDS recipients—including researchers, support staff, educators, and students from different knowledge institutes across Amsterdam—will share their work with the audience. Additionally, the Open Science Community Amsterdam will host a panel discussion with experts on science mistrust and misinformation. Together, we will explore how the scientific community—and the Open Science movement in particular—can foster greater public trust in science.

About the speakers

Dr. Bojana Većkalov is a postdoctoral researcher in the Marketing Department at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She earned her PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, where her research focused on psychological distance to science and other psychological determinants of science scepticism. She co-led a large-scale, 27-country study on the impact of communicating scientific consensus on climate change, which was awarded an OSCAWARD in 2024.

Dr. Anne-Floor Scholvinck has been working at the Rathenau Institute since 2019, where she specializes in public trust and engagement in science, and evidence-based policy. Her current research focuses on the question of whether, to what extent, and how misinformation on social media undermines public trust in science. Anne-Floor also researches (policy) developments in Open Science, in particular public engagement in science. In 2020-2021, Anne-Floor was seconded to UNESCO in Paris, where she contributed as an expert to the drafting of the global recommendation for Open Science.

Menno van den Bos is a freelance journalist and writes for NRC. He is also editor-in-chief at Het Financieele Dagblad a few days a week. Menno specializes in misinformation, media hypes and moral panic and has his own newsletter about this: De hype is real. He also writes for the website of the Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek. Previously he worked as a freelancer for Vrij Nederland, NU.nl and Vice, among others, and also created the podcast Freelanceleven for Villamedia.