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Culture as a CATALYST for Achieving Lasting Reproducibility in Science

Objective

Reproducibility is a cornerstone of research quality. Reproducibility practices (RPs) enhance transparency and credibility and are a growing priority in the European Research Area (ERA). Horizon Europe and related initiatives have invested in policies, tools, infrastructures, and networks, while journals increasingly request data sharing and preregistration. Grassroots initiatives also push from below. Yet uptake of RPs by individual researchers remains limited, as many work in cultures that do not support embedding RPs in daily routines.
Sustainable change requires normalising RPs and making them part of research culture. Funders, publishers, and institutions (macro level) and individual researchers (micro level) have promoted reproducibility. Departments and research teams (meso level)—the carriers of norms and behaviours—are often less familiar with reproducibility interventions. These units are pivotal because they can translate system-level policies into daily practice to amplify and sustain cultural change.
CATALYST builds on this potential. It adapts proven interventions from EU projects (TIER2, OSIRIS, iRISE, TRUSTparency) and implements them in “catalysers”: departments that integrate reproducibility into daily work, tailor interventions locally, and spread them through networks.
The project proceeds in two stages. First, interventions are tested and validated in 15 Catalysers across Europe in Biomedicine, Computer Science, and Social Sciences/Humanities, focusing on three levers of culture change: training, modelling, and incentives. Second, validated interventions are cascaded to 45–70 sites across Europe via mutual learning, supported by catalyser networks and multipliers such as CoARA, Reproducibility Networks, Eurodoc, Science Europe, and EUA.
In parallel, CATALYST engages communities through co-creation and monitors implementation to measure culture change and RP uptake. In sum, CATALYST accelerates the ERA’s shift to open and trustworthy science.

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Keywords

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Programme(s)

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Topic(s)

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Funding Scheme

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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions

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Call for proposal

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06

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Coordinator

STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC
Net EU contribution

Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.

€ 124 000,00
Total cost

The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.

€ 538 812,50

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