Get Involved


The majority of FORRT’s operations are done via our Slack channel. We use Slack to keep everyone up-to-date, to share interesting resources, coordinate FORRT teams, announce FORRT projects, build community, and to provide a platform for ongoing discussions on our projects, organization, and mission. You can join FORRT’s Slack here.


In-depth introduction to FORRT

In pursuit of the best conceivable educational practices in higher education

If you are looking to a deep dive into FORRT, there are two main ways to learn about us. If you are interested in learning about what we do, check out our Publications page. If you want to learn about the intricacies of the FORRT organization, beyond what you can learn from the several pages in our About FORRT pages, and before joining our Slack, we prepared a document for you: Getting Started with FORRT. It is organized in terms of involvement with the FORRT organization.

  • In part (1), we briefly describe general information about FORRT, its Slack channels and community, and provide links to resources;
  • In part (2), we describe in more detail the current initiatives at FORRT, which would benefit from your help and contribution (with authorship opportunities but no required involvement with the organization per se;
  • In part (3), we describe the FORRT’s organization, structure, and how to take part in it.

Check it out!

Ongoing Projects

Join the movement for better education

The projects below are some of the active initiatives where we are looking for collaborators. Most projects coordinate on FORRT’s Slack — join the workspace, then follow the project link or email the contact below to get involved.

FLoRA - FORRT Library of Replication and Reproduction Attempts

FLoRA tracks attempts to repeatedly test published findings across the sciences and humanities. As an open, crowd-sourced project we are always looking for collaborators to help curate replications and reproductions and to put the data to use.

Lighthouse

The FORRT Robustness Lighthouse is building infrastructure to showcase the robustness and reproducibility of the evidence for key effects, and thus to support teaching and research alike. We welcome collaborators interested in metascience, data curation, and tool development.

Best-Practice Guidelines for Psychology

A community-driven initiative developing consensus-based best-practice guidelines for psychology that support the most stringent levels of the TOP Guidelines, covering practices such as preregistration, open data and open materials, with all outputs released under CC-BY for adaptation by other disciplines. Researchers, journals, funders and societies are invited to take part in hackathons, consensus discussions and endorsement activities throughout 2026–2028.

Re-SearchTerms

Re-SearchTerms is an interactive app that helps researchers and educators explore open-science terms and their various definitions across multiple sources. We welcome contributors to help expand the database, enrich the app’s features, and refine the interface.

Mapping Open Science Initiatives

A global effort to systematically identify, map, and connect Open Science organisations across disciplines and regions. Volunteers help with desk research, taxonomy work, and visualisation.
Visit project Contact: Flavio Azevedo (reach out via Slack)

Team Credit

Team Credit ensures all contributions to FORRT projects are accurately and appropriately recognised, developing tools and policies that make community work visible.

Team Outreach

Team Outreach disseminates FORRT activities, initiatives and accomplishments through social media, newsletters, and community-facing materials.
Slack Contact: Flavio Azevedo (reach out via Slack)

Feedback

Team Feedback is developing a community-maintained e-book mapping and critically evaluating feedback mechanisms across disciplines and regions.

OS Games Portal

A crowdsourced, pedagogically informed database of games and interactive activities for teaching open and reproducible research. We welcome contributions of new games, evaluations, and playing tips.

FORRT Storytelling

Telling the story of FORRT in a compelling way to preserve the vision, values, struggles, breakthroughs, and relationships that shaped the FORRT’s trajectory. We welcome storytellers, editors, and collaborators interested in narrative methods.

Clusters & Curated Resources

FORRT has a vast collection of open scholarship readings (Clusters) and Curated Resources. Volunteers help review, tag, and recommend resources to make them discoverable and useful.

JUST-OS Chatbot

JUST-OS is an AI-based chatbot that helps researchers navigate Open Science resources. Collaborators are welcome for work on technical improvements and content curation.

Team Website

Team Website maintains and improves forrt.org, with content updates, new pages, accessibility, and ideas for showcasing FORRT’s work.

Nowhere Lab

Nowhere Lab is an online community for people who would like the lab meeting experience but don’t currently have one. Weekly meetings and an active Slack bring together members across all populated continents and career stages.

Team Curriculum

Team Curriculum develops open and reproducible lecture materials and supports the integration of principled education into university curricula.
Contact: Federica Stablum (reach out via Slack)

Community calendar

Get in touch

Whether you have questions getting started or you want to know how to best integrate FORRT features into your workflow, we’re here to help you.

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