ERIHAD.OS — Open Science Ethical Research Infrastructure for Hateful, Antidemocratic and Discriminatory Data — project poster 2nd OSCARS AGM 2026

The Open Science Ethical Research Infrastructure for Hateful, Antidemocratic, and Discriminatory Data (ERIHAD.OS) addresses a central dilemma within Open Science: researchers require access to data containing hateful, antidemocratic, and discriminatory content in order to understand and counter these phenomena — yet openly sharing such material is unethical and, in many cases, legally prohibited. The project develops a secure, federated research infrastructure (RI), integrated within the EOSC ecosystem, that enables ethical discovery, controlled access, and analysis of sensitive datasets across repositories. ERIHAD.OS brings together academic archives, NGO-held datasets, monitoring initiatives, and Trusted Flaggers to support interdisciplinary research on racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred, antigypsyism, science skepticism, and other radicalising and socially divisive narratives. In doing so, ERIHAD.OS inverts the usual Open Science logic: rather than making existing data more open, it makes currently inaccessible data researchable for the first time. Research domains: Social Sciences and Humanities Partner(s): Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin — ZfA TUB (Coordinator)TERO PC, Thessaloniki — TERO, Instituto de Creatividad e Innovaciones Educativas, Universidad de Valencia — IUCIE