Open Science Targets: INBO's approach to increase quality and transparency throughout the research cycle

In 2020, we initiated an institutional Open Science program centered around clear Open Science Targets. These targets cover the entire research (life)cycle and provide a framework for researchers to increase the quality and transparency of their work by harnessing the power of Open Science. Over the past 4 years and continuing onwards, we have developed and continue to grow our Open Science activities and engagement with researchers, thereby reinforcing the implementation of the FOSB goals. In this poster, we detail the evolution of this program from a bottom-up initiative to an organisation-wide program, challenges and lessons learned in keeping researchers and teams engaged, and activities which successfully support our efforts to increase Open Science uptake. As part of our 2025-2030 research agenda, we will increase our efforts and commitment to realise publicly accessible monitoring data. This includes increasing the findability of our data, centralising biodiversity data in the Flemish Biodiversity Portal, and actively pursuing options for Open and FAIR data publication for other data types.