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Call for applications for the Open Research Data Prize 2024

The ORD Prize 2024 of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences is now open for applications. The second edition of this new prize as part of the national ORD strategy honours research projects that demonstrate best practices in the field of Open Research Data.


This year there are two focus areas: Collaborative and/or interdisciplinary reuse of research data and Educational and/or outreach activities related to the reuse of research data. The Call is open until 31 July 2024.

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    Swiss National ORD Prize 2025 for Legal and Environmental Sciences

    Innovative Open Research Data practices impressively demonstrated: The project team “Choice of Law Dataverse” (University of Lucerne) and James Runnalls (Eawag) are this year’s winners of the Swiss National Prize for Open Research Data (ORD Prize). Each prize is endowed with 10,000 Swiss francs.

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