About REWIRE
Making computational reproducibility a practical, everyday part of research across Europe.
Why REWIRE
Reproducibility is widely endorsed but rarely implemented. Tools, standards and policies exist. What is missing is the practical knowledge of how to embed them in real organisations. REWIRE closes that gap: we work with pilot organisations across domains and roles to deploy reproducibility interventions, capture the evidence of what works, and turn it into reusable blueprints, training and community networks.
Our approach
REWIRE intervenes at three points of the research workflow, supported by a cross-cutting layer of community mobilisation and capacity building.
1 Planning
RMPs · Argos
2 Executing
GNU Guix
3 Publishing
RO-Crate
Maturity ladder
For each intervention we describe three progressive levels of organisational adoption, so an organisation can see where it stands and what the next step is.
Starter
A template deployed, a first active plan, a named steward, training delivered.
Standard
Routine in new projects, staff trained, checking protocols in place.
Embedded
Written into call guidelines and submission workflows, ownership transferred locally.
How we work with organisations
Every pilot and follower runs the same four-phase support cycle, so the evidence they produce is comparable.
Prepare
Needs assessment, template adaptation, roles
Deploy
Implementation, role-specific training, peer support
Evaluate
Evidence on adoption, barriers and enablers
Transfer
Local stewardship and replication guidance
Pilots and followers
Eight partners run full pilots across funders, infrastructures, research organisations and a publisher, with ACM as a lighter pilot in conference tracks. Follower organisations then join in two waves, with priority for widening countries.
Validation and learning
Interventions are assessed on three layers: quantitative monitoring of adoption indicators, independent reproducibility testing of pilot research by external reviewers, and qualitative learning from focus groups and adopter interviews. Everything we learn goes into the BLUEPRINTS wiki, including what did not work.
At a glance
Related projects
REWIRE coordinates with sister project ARION and other ERA reproducibility projects on shared challenges, joint policy briefs and a final lessons-learned conference.