• Interdisciplinary

Bringing different life worlds into contact with each other - The central task of open knowledge practices

Scientists at Dutch universities are among the most productive in the world. A great deal of knowledge per capita is created in our country by hardworking academics who also provide intensive education. As a result, their students are not only taught how research is done, but also how to generate new knowledge themselves. You would think that we in the Netherlands make optimal use of that, but we don’t. This is partly due to the way research results are published – in a large number of highly specialised scientific journals. In recent decades, scientific research has strongly focused on writing specialised articles that have been decisive in the extent to which they are quoted by other researchers, as well as the number of research grants acquired by them. Those who did not write enough were taken less seriously.

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