Increasing reproducibility through the co-creation of interventions that support a transparent and trustworthy research ecosystem

Building reproducibility on transparency, collaboration, democracy, and context-sensitive framework

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About the Project

TRUSTparency is a three-year EU-funded project that aims to improve the trustworthiness of research by fostering transparency, collaborative policy-making, and field-specific approaches to reproducibility, empowering stakeholders to promote research integrity across disciplines.

Our Methodology

Chart showing the three stages of TRUSTparency's methodology: Stage 1: Co-develop interventions, Stage 2: Pilot testing, and Stage 3: Validate & Finalise interventions.
The TRUSTparency consortium, initiating from the knowledge base of existing interventions and disparities, will implement a three-stage co-development methodology of the project’s interventions, with the engagement of the SAB and the RC:
  1. Co-Development
  2. Pilot Testing
  3. Validation & Finalisation
Stages 1 and 3 will be facilitated through various engagement activities and through participation of the SAB and RC members, in tandem, in a wide, democratic, and structured discussion that will be facilitated by the highly innovative comCensus platform, acting as a forum for constructive and informative feedback. Stage 2 will be applied by the 9 pilot-testing institutions

Target Groups

Basic Objectives

Explore

Development of a cutting-edge knowledge based on reproducibility interventions and mapping disparities across institutions, KPMs, and countries.

Engage & Deploy

  1. Establishment of cooperation measures across institutions, KPMs, and countries in Europe and beyond.
  2. Creation of a Reproducibility Community to enhance communication, recruitment, and output utilization.

Develop, Validate & Equip

  1. Collection of practices and creation of training for reproducibility tailored to RPOs, RFOs, and publishers.
  2. Co-development of policy and monitoring guidelines for RPPs tailored to RPOs, RFOs, and publishers.

Key Concepts

“Replication with existing data and the same research protocol: re-analysis of the data from the primary study with the primary research question” (Peels & Bouter, 2019)

“A study that repeats all or part of another study, allowing researchers to compare their findings” (iRISE project), or “An actual attempt to re-produce an earlier finding/experiment (or the outcome of such an attempt)” (TIER2 project).

“The assumption that a finding or experiment should be replicable in order to be reliable.” *TIER project) or “The extent to which the design, implementation, analysis and reporting of a study enable a third party to repeat the study and assets its findings” (iRISE project).

“The extend to which the results of a replication agree with those of the original study” (iRISE project).

Our Knowledge Base

TRUSTparency starts its creative journey by compiling and structuring a comprehensive knowledge base on existing reproducibility interventions. This knowledge base is being built, among other sources, upon the outputs of TIER2, OSIRIS, and iRISE projects (funded under HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01-41). This knowledge base will be used as one of the core elements for developing, pilot testing, and optimising the Reproducibility Promotion Plans for research performing and funding organisations, and publishers.

TRUSTparency Standpoints

  1. Sound science and policymaking require trust in the Process.

  2. Transparency is the basis of trust.

  3. Effective policy making demands inclusivity and (disciplinary) diversity.

TRUSTparency's interventions

Chart showing the three stages of TRUSTparency's methodology: Stage 1: Co-develop interventions, Stage 2: Pilot testing, and Stage 3: Validate & Finalise interventions.
Practices
Operational guidelines to be followed at the day-to-day work of funders, researchers, and publishers that, when applied, increase the possibility to fund, design, produce, and communicate more reproducible research.
Training material
Courses that will provide:
  1. a short introduction on what reproducibility means in different KPMs and
  2. a comprehensive guide to the RPPs.
Policy guidelines
They are the RPPs which will be a sequence of concrete steps to transfer the practices that promote reproducibility to their everyday work and to monitor their effectiveness with mechanisms customised to their specific needs.
Monitoring mechanisms
They are procedures with which an RFO, an RPO and a Publisher monitor the effectiveness their policy guidelines have on increasing reproducibility. They are placed at the end part of the RPPs.

Project Roadmap

  • Early 2025

    Map & Engage Stakeholders

    Workshop for the running of the (SAB).

  • Late 2025

    Map & Engage Stakeholders

    Training workshop on comCensus platform & 1st event of the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE).

  • Early 2026

    1st stage: Co-develop interventions

    3 expert workshops & 2 co-creation workshops on training materials conducted.

  • Late 2026

    2nd stage: Pilot testing

    Start of pilot testing.

  • Early 2027

    2nd stage: Pilot testing

    End of pilot testing.

  • Mid 2027

    3rd stage: Validate & finalise interventions

    Pilot testers interviews conducted.

  • Late 2027

    3rd stage: Validate & finalise interventions

    2nd event of the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE).

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