It supports a culture of science that is characterized by openness and integration in all aspects and stages of scientific practice. The RMU considers itself as a scientific community that, whenever sensible and possible, enables free access to its knowledge resources, data, research results, teaching materials and parts of its infrastructure in order to strengthen transparency, verifiability, reusability and, ultimately, visibility of its research results and to ensure the quality of these results. It considers the transfer of scientific findings and methods to be a part of its social responsibility and supports the mutual exchange between science and society.

The RMU promotes open science in various areas. It encourages the members of its institutions to follow the principles of open science, always observing the principles of good research practice and in responsible consideration as to what extent openness regarding their scientific activity is possible in the individual case. The three universities integrate open science into academic teaching to raise students’ awareness about the topic and to teach them methodological competences. They plan to support scientists in all stages of their career in the implementation of open science projects and to make (device) infrastructure available that makes open access to publications, data and educational resources possible and enables open research. Together, they offer information and trainings on practices and questions in connection with open science. Scientific teaching and research activities in the field of open science as well as open access publications of research results and data are taken into account in the evaluation and assessment of scientific achievements.

In particular, the RMU contributes to the goals of open science in the following fields of activity: 

• Open Access
• Open Data
• Open Educational Resources
• Open Source
• Open Methodology
• Citizen Science

For the full text of the RMU's commitment to open science, please click on the link under "Downloads" below.