TRUSTparency is built on the belief that scientists must be able to trust the Mertonian process of organized skepticism, which allows scientific knowledge to self-correct efficiently. Extending this belief, the project argues that scientists and other research stakeholders should be open to adopting innovative interventions, provided these are developed, deployed, assessed, and corrected transparently and collaboratively.

TRUSTparency’s core principle advocates for a maximally informed, context-sensitive, collaborative, democratic, and transparent approach to developing interventions that enhance reproducibility among Research Performing Organisations (RPOs), Research Funding Organisations (RFOs), learned societies, and publishers. These institutions will be empowered to create their own policy guidelines in the form of a Reproducibility Promotion Plan (RPP), which outlines concrete steps to integrate reproducibility practices into their daily work and monitor their effectiveness with customized mechanisms.

The project’s co-development activities will involve the Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB), which includes 10 national Reproducibility Networks (RNs). The SAB will actively participate in the three-stage co-development plan: (a) development, (b) pilot testing by 9 institutions, and (c) validation-finalization. TRUSTparency will also facilitate structured discussions through the innovative comCensus platform. From the outset, TRUSTparency will establish a Reproducibility Community and invite all stakeholders interested in fostering reproducibility to join via an open call distributed through professional networks.