EIFL Open Access Programme manager, Iryna Kuchma, and EIFL Open Access Programme coordinator, Gwen Franck, will attend the OpenAIRE workshop, Sharing research data and open access to publications in Horizon 2020, and the OpenAIRE2020 General Assembly.

As a major funder of research in Europe, the European Commission (EC) has been at the forefront of implementing open access (OA) policies, in particular through the Horizon 2020 - European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.

Following the Open Access in FP7 (the Seventh Research Framework Programme) pilot, Horizon 2020 brings a strong (openaire.eu/open-access-in-horizon-2020) mandate for OA to publications as well as an Open Research Data Pilot.

The aims of the OpenAIRE workshop ‘Sharing research data and OA to publications in Horizon 2020’ are to provide answers to questions about following requirements; which media to use and confidentiality issues, and to provide stakeholders with a platform to exchange experiences and defining problems and challenges.

The audience for the workshop is national contact points (who provide guidance, practical information and assistance on all aspects of participation in Horizon 2020), research administrators and project coordinators.

The morning will be devoted to Open Science in Horizon 2020. After an introduction by the European Commission, Professor Lennart Martens, Department of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Ghent University,  will discuss the benefits of Open Science, and the OpenAIRE team will clarify the OA mandate and the Open Research Data Pilot by giving examples of how OpenAIRE services can help.

The afternoon will include interactive workshops, taking a closer look at the practical implications of the OA mandate and the Open Research Data Pilot.

Expected outcomes of the workshop

The expected outcomes of discussion are -

• Creation of a checklist of Actions for national contact points and research administrators on how to support Horizon 2020 projects;
• Information for project coordinators at the proposal writing stage;
• How to comply with the the OA publication mandate and the Open Research Data Pilot, and
• Ideas for future support materials

Click here to register for the workshop. There is no registration fee.

Click here for information about travel and accommodation.

Location: Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Contact: Inge.VanNieuwerburgh@UGent.be and emilie.hermans@ugent.be

BACKGROUND

OpenAIRE is a European Commission-funded initiative that supports implementation of the Horizon 2020 open access mandate for publications and its Open Research Data Pilot.

OpenAIRE also assists in monitoring Horizon 2020 research outputs, and provides the main infrastructure for reporting Horizon 2020's scholarly publications.

The OpenAIRE infrastructure interacts with a wide range of research output sources, and interconnects research results (publications and data), linking them to the processes that produced them (scientific software, workflows, services, instruments) and releasing them for everyone to see, reuse, and reproduce.

EIFL is one of 50 OpenAIRE2020 project partners working on this large-scale initiative which aims to promote open scholarship and substantially improve the discoverability and reusability of research publications and data.