Diverse knowledge and open infrastructures

Abstract

The seminar addresses the critical interplay between diverse knowledge systems and open infrastructures within the evolving landscape of metascience, emphasizing the necessity of transparency, inclusivity, and robust data practices to enhance scientific excellence and societal impact. Key contributions include insights from the European Research Council (ERC), which actively monitors and evaluates its funding strategies to support frontier research while acknowledging challenges such as panel conservatism against interdisciplinary proposals and the need for improved metrics to identify breakthrough science. The ERC promotes open data access and collaborates with external researchers to refine impact assessment. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) highlights the integration of diverse perspectives—including indigenous knowledge and equity considerations—into a newly defined inclusive research excellence framework, alongside initiatives to support underrepresented groups and community-led research. France’s national open science efforts reveal progress in open access and data sharing but identify persistent disciplinary diversity and resistance as obstacles, motivating the proposal of the Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS) to foster evidence-based open science policies internationally. UNESCO situates open science as a global public good, advocating for open infrastructures that enable equitable participation worldwide and embedding diverse knowledge systems within science governance. Finally, meta-science’s reliance on data and publishing infrastructures is critically examined, revealing limitations in access, transparency, and inclusiveness that constrain the field’s capacity to provide comprehensive, unbiased insights. The seminar underscores the urgent need for open, interoperable infrastructures and collaborative frameworks to realize science’s full potential as a public good.

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