Award winners and nominees 2024
Award winners and nominees 2024
The UGO-Open-Science-Award of the University Society Oldenburg e.V. (UGO) was awarded for the second time in 2024 and honours those who proactively make their research results transparent and publicly accessible. The award winner and other nominees are presented in brief interviews below.
Carolin Becklas is a PhD student at the School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FK III) at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. She investigates how gamification can be used to communicate climate change in a playful way in order to increase engagement with socio-ecological challenges. She uses digital media to reach a broad public with her research results: among other things, she is co-founder of the research collective "oldengame", which deals with digital games and discusses them in events and podcasts. As a member of the open-access.network, she also organizes workshops and supports researchers in publishing their results in Open Access.
When I was due to sign my first publishing contract in 2020, transferring the rights to my text to a for-profit publisher....
Team ANCP (Applied Neurocognitive Psychology) Labs
Application submitted by Aaron Reer (FK VI) on behalf of the team
The Applied Neurocognitive Psychology (ANCP) Lab team has been publishing all research results and datasets open access since 2022 and is developing innovative tools for data quality and conversion. See also TORS (Tools for Open and Reproducible Neuroscience). TORS promotes the standardisation of data storage and regularly organises workshops on the implementation of Open Science.
Team Guerilla Sensing
Application submitted by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Theel (FK II) on behalf of the team
With its Open Source Citizen Science platform, the team has developed an innovative geo-information system that enables citizens to monitor environmental parameters, identify problems and initiate solutions. The Open Source availability and detailed instructions significantly promote the reusability and further development of the platform by the scientific community.