Together with a team of Open Science experts and in cooperation with universities, we are developing an assessment tool within the framework of the pilot project "Road2Openness", which evaluates current Open Science activities at universities and supports them with recommendations for action for a strategic opening and for organizational development in the area of Open Science.

Duration July 2021 - April 2022

In order to uncover relevant topics in the field of open innovation culture and open practices and to develop innovative solutions, we bring experts, practitioners and policy makers together for intensive collaboration in innovation squads.

How can we make the German innovation system more open?

Involving different actors and perspectives, we mapped the openness of the German innovation system. Based on this, we identified levers for a change towards more openness in Germany.

Duration: June 2020 - March 2021

Through a peer-to-peer programme, we connect innovation managers from organizations across all sectors to share experiences and work with established innovation researchers to develop new ideas and formats, and to make recommendations to policymakers.

The Stifterverband initiated the Open Data Impact Award within the framework of innOsci to honour researchers who enabled innovation for all by disclosing their research data.

We, innOsci, the Forum for Open Innovation Culture at the Stifterverband, support the development of multi-stakeholder approaches that aim to actively involve as many diverse stakeholders from all sectors as possible in design and development processes from the very beginning. Co-design and Co-creation formats are ways to shape such multi-stakeholder approaches. We are convinced that more creative and innovative ideas emerge when working together in participatory and collaborative Co-Design formats.

In a program initiated jointly by Wikimedia Deutschland, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Stifterverband, doctoral students, post-docs and junior professors are supported in the open design of their research processes and thus become ambassadors for Open Science. With the program year 2020/21, Wikimedia Deutschland will become the sole sponsor, and we will continue to support it as partners.