We present steps we took and are still taking to establish an Open
Science Initiative at the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences at
Chemnitz University of Technology. Based on a short survey we
conducted in spring 2020 at the Institute of Psychology and the
research training group of the CRC1410 „Hybrid Societies“, we
collected ideas about how to make progress concerning transparent
science in teaching and research. Following this, we declared the
winter term as Open Science semester in order to implement the topic,
to provide information via talks and journal clubs and to officially
start our Open Science Initiative. We will present projects on how we
aim to implement open science practices in the routines of teaching
social sciences in undergraduate and graduate curricula. In addition
to the establishment of an OS-Journal Club for students and faculty
staff, courses for teaching competencies in conducting empirical
experiments were complemented with Open Science elements, e.g.
preregistrations. Our goal is to familiarize students with Open
Science principles from the very beginning of their studies. We are
currently setting up an institute-wide OSF (Open Science Forum)
account to better link student research projects and to further
improve transparency and comprehensibility of their research process.
By adapting the idea of "many labs studies", we implemented "many
students projects" for replication studies.