On March 24th, the EXCELScIOR ERA Chair holder, Professor John Ioannidis gave an engaging and thought-provoking seminar on “Meta-Research in Sports Science“, at the Faculty of Sports Science, University of Coimbra.

We are excited to announce that the University of Coimbra has secured funding for the TREASURE project. This institutional pilot study aims to create formal incentives to recognize UC master's and doctoral candidates who choose to implement reproducible, reusable and open research practices in their research theses.

Tracey Weissgerber, EXCELScIOR Team leader gave an insightful presentation about Monitoring Reproducible Research Practices through Interactive Dashboards ate CIBB's 5th MAD meeting.

Tracey Weissgerber, EXCELScIOR Team leader, participated in the 1st schooling of the SHARE-CTD project at Wissenschaftszentrum Schloss Reisensburg.

EXCELScIOR Team gave an workshop on Meta-Research in Sports Science at the Faculty of Sports Science, University of Coimbra, on December 12th.

Inês Almeida, EXCELScIOR Researcher, participated in the 11th Forum on Research Data Management, held at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, on November 21-22.

Inês Almeida, EXCELScIOR Junior Researcher, was invited to give a lecture at the Health Research Data Management Conference - iSTARS, held at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon.

John Ioannidis, EXCELScIOR nominal ERA Chair, was invited to give a plenary talk on the defence of more and better quantitative assessments at the 2nd SInnoPSis Conference at University of Cyprus.

John Ioannidis, EXCELScIOR nominal ERA Chair, was invited to give a lecture on determinants of non-communicable chronic diseases at Nova Medical School in Lisbon.

John Ioannidis, EXCELScIOR nominal ERA Chair, and Tracey Weissgerber, from QUEST Center, Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité, Germany, visited the Multidisciplinary Institute of Ageing (MIA) at the University of Coimbra.