HI-FRAME is an innovative project that promotes Open Science culture change at UZH and, in this regard, contributes to the implementation of the UZH Open Science Policy. 

The project is supported by the federal program P5 Open Science (SERI, swissunviersities) for 2 years (September 2021 - August 2023).

The overarching objective of the project is to develop and pilot a tailor-made and flexible framework that systematically incorporates Open Science activities into the evaluation of candidates in professorial hiring. To achieve its main goal, the project has the following specific objectives:

• Map existing best practice in Open Science hiring frameworks & develop UZH framework  (September 2021-February 2022)
• Pilot & review (fitness-for-purpose) of hiring framework in professorial hiring processes (March 2022-February 2023)
• Finalize hiring framework for publication/dissemination (March 2023-August 2023)