An OpenAIRE report based on NOAD discussion rounds and presentations showcases the variety of training approaches in Europe, addressing challenges and opportunities to overcome fragmentation Earlier this year, the OpenAIRE Training and Support Standing Committee organized three engaging online sessions for NOADs focused on national Open Science skills building. Over these sessions, nine NOADs and an esteemed colleague from Japan discussed their experiences and strategies for training local stake...

Bringing together Bulgarian policymakers and Open Science experts from the OpenAIRE community, the session addressed key pillars of Open Science – policy, training and infrastructure – and offered valuable insights into implementation processes in Belgium, Portugal and Ireland. The webinar kicked off with an introduction to the Open Science ecosystem in Bulgaria by Milena Damyanova, Director of the Science Directorate at the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science. She emphasized that the im...

Khayala Hajiyeva, Director of the Library Information Center at Azerbaijan Technical University, and Iltifat Ibrahimov, Senior Consultant on Digitization and Library Systems, recently traveled to Finland to attend training sessions for the "Developing Research Capacity through Institutional Repository Network in Azerbaijan" (DIRNA) project.  Funded by the Erasmus+ KA2 program, the DIRNA project aims to sustainably enhance the practices of research output management in the Azerbaijani higher...