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The concluding symposium of the European TIER2 project, held on 11 February 2026, brought together 139 participants to reflect on the project’s outcomes and explore the future priorities for strengthening research reproducibility across disciplines.

 

Athena Research Center, whose Project Leader in TIER2 was Principal Researcher Thanasis Vergoulis, was represented in the pilot activities through two contributions. Research Associate Eleni Adamidi presented SCHEMA lab, an open-source virtual environment that enables researchers to design, execute, and monitor computational experiments supporting transparency and easy reuse. Research Director Haris Papageorgiou presented the Reproducibility Monitoring Dashboard, designed to help funders track the reusability of research outputs and assess the impact of data- and code-sharing policies across projects and disciplines.

 

Overall, the event highlighted how emerging technologies, policy frameworks, and community-driven practices can support more transparent and reliable science, while recognising that reproducibility must be understood in relation to different research contexts. Through its contributions, Athena helped demonstrate how practical tools and monitoring approaches can strengthen a culture of reproducibility in European research.