The Open Science Award is an initiative of the Open Science Ambassadors Network aimed at PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.
The Arqus Open Science Award recognises early-career researchers who champion open science. This award aims to honor those advancing accessibility, reusability, and reproducibility in research, setting an example for the scientific community.
The 2026 Arqus Open Science Awards were presented during the Arqus Annual Conference at Maynooth University, recognising three outstanding contributions to Open Science across the Arqus Alliance.
Davide Tedesco, from the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Padua, received the award in the Innovative Open Science Approaches category for his work on electroacoustic music preservation.
Ambra Perugini, from the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation at the University of Padua, was recognised in the Open Software, Hardware & Infrastructure category for the development of the criticalESvalue package in R.
Adam Coates, from the Department of Psychology at the University of Graz, received the award in the Peer-Reviewed Research category for his research article, “High-resolution dataset of manual claustrum segmentation”.
In recognition of the high quality of the submissions, the jury also awarded four honourable mentions:
The first Arqus Open Science Award was announced by Ilona Lipp, from the Arqus Open Science Ambassadors Network, during the 2025 Arqus Annual Conference at Leipzig University:
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