Presentations from the webinar Open Software in Research – Practices, Policies, and Communities

Research software is essential to the research process but is not always recognized or supported on the same level as other research outputs. Several international and national efforts have begun addressing this gap, including a recent funders’ workshop in Uppsala and the Nordic Research Software Engineer (RSE) Conference. Building on these initiatives, this Lund Open Science (online) session highlighted the importance of supporting research software in Sweden and explored how we can do so collectively. Participants discussed the role of Research Software Engineers, sustainable funding and policy models, and best practices for sharing and developing sustainable research software, as well as opportunities for shared action to strengthen the Swedish research software ecosystem, ensuring it is visible, reusable, and aligned with FAIR and open science principles. The event featured input from: Chris Erdmann: Head of Open Science at SciLifeLab, working with open source research software, open access, open data, research resources and computing, and AI. Johan Linåker: Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University. Empirical Software Engineering researcher with focus on open source software, data sharing, and open source AI in the context of industry and public sector. Sanja Halling: Senior Research Officer at the Swedish Research Council, working with coordination, promotion and an yearly follow up of open access to research data in Sweden. Malin Sandström: Senior Research Officer at the Swedish Research Council, working with e-infrastructure, primarily HPC. Moderator: Angeliki Adamaki – Chair of LU OS Champions and member of OSCL. This online event was hosted by the Lund University Open Science Champions and Open Science Communnity Lund (OSCL) on the 20th of October 2025.