The Romanian OpenAIRE National Workshop – Implementing Open Access and Open Science in Romania
On the 22nd of October, 2018, right
at the start of the Open Access Week, took place the Romanian OpenAIRE National
Workshop – Implementing Open Access and Open Science in Romania. The
event was organized by UEFISCDI (the
Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation
Funding), as Romanian OpenAIRE NOAD,
and took place in the North of Bucharest, at the National University of
Political Science and Public Administration (SNSPA).
The Workshop
managed to gather a broad range of
stakeholders from different backgrounds: libraries, publishing agencies,
academic journals repositories, policy-making and funding agencies, HEIs,
research institutes, research infrastructures, researchers etc.
And it included
sessions dedicated to both general and more applied topics. In the first part
of the event, were covered topics such as: Introductory
session (Prof. Adrian Curaj, Director of UEFISCDI), The vision of the European
Commission: policy and practice for Open Science and Open Access (Alina
Irimia, Romanian NOAD rep.); Open Access, Open Science and how does
OpenAIRE help achieving the two (Iryna Kuchma, OpenAIRE Coordinator of
the East Region). And in the second, and more applied part of the Workshop, the
following sessions were included: Open Science Communities – Romania’s
Initiatives. BrainMap
& ERRIS – examples of collaboration in science (Ioana Spanache, PhD,
Romanian NOAD rep.); EOSC Hub – a single contact point for
European researchers and innovators (Mihnea Dulea, PhD. representative
of EGI Federation in Romania, IFIN-HH); Demonstration of OpenAIRE tools (Iryna
Kuchma); Romanian Open Access Publications (Victor Velter, PhD, Head of
the Scientometrics Office, UEFISCDI).
The event was concluded through a Q&A and consultation session
regarding UEFISCDI’s proposals for OA
& OS activities to be implemented in the near future. During it,
participants had to fill in a questionnaire focused on both outreach and
dissemination, and training and support activities, as same as on collecting
additional suggestions regarding other potential events and activities.
Some
examples of proposed activities which were also received well by the
participants
refer to dissemination of information about and offering training and support
on – Creative Commons and IPRs, Incorporating OA and OS specific practices into
researchers' workflows and examples of use cases, how to design and create a
Research Data Management Plan (RDM); OS & OA practices addressed to
doctoral students. Moreover, participants showed great interest regarding
receiving information in the form of online courses, which can be accessed
afterwards at any time and from anywhere; and receiving packages of information
and toolkits designed according to the different categories of beneficiaries.
The full agenda of the Workshop,
as same as the used presentation can be found by accessing the following link: https://uefiscdi.ro/news_6
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