National Platform Open Science

In February 2017 the National Plan Open Science in the Netherlands was published. This Plan shows the ambition of the involved institutes towards Open Science. The implementation of this plan has been followed up by the National Platform Open Science. Together with the publishing of the plan a new website was launched: National Platform Open Science. In May 2019 NPOS changed to a programme, with a number of projects in the field of the above-mentioned topics

In April 2022 the Netherlands National Programme Open Science (NPOS)published a new NPOS2030 Ambition Document: Open Science 2030 in the Netherlands.

Goal for 2030: By 2030, scientific knowledge is freely available, accessible, and reusable for everyone. The
scientific process and its outputs are transparent, to the benefit of both science and society.
Through careful and responsible scrutiny (e.g., open peer review), the integrity and quality
of scientific work can be verified and, if necessary, corrected. Academics are well-supported
and well-trained in making their scientific outputs FAIR and machine-readable, so they can
be reproduced, replicated, and reused by themselves and others. This leads to increased
trust in scientific knowledge, both within and outside academia, and speeds up scientific
progress and global collaboration and participation.

The NPOS Programme will focus on three Programme Lines and a set of requirements:

• Making all scholarly output Open Access;
• Ensuring that society can reuse all scholarly output;
• Cost control: full Open Access without additional costs;
• Maintaining high quality and research integrity;
• Novel ways of Recognition & Rewards, away from quantitative measures;
• Control over ownership, public values, and academic and digital sovereignty;
• Open services, growing towards less dependency on publishers.

• Build a professional community of skilled data stewards that have a wide range of expertise;
• Support, guide and incentivise the generation of sufficiently rich, standardized, open and machineactionable FAIR digital research outputs and associated FAIR metadata to enable optimal (re)use;
• Enable sustainable interoperable networks of FAIR Data services and research infrastructures at the institutional and domain level and national level;
• Foster the development of a national trust framework for access to FAIR Data including sensitive and confidential data, in synergy among societal stakeholders.

• Raise awareness;
• Consolidate and further develop best practice;
• Build capacity;
• Enhance cooperation, synergies, and transdisciplinary collaboration;
• Develop and invest in supporting infrastructures

EOSC-related activities

In the Netherlands there are a number of institutes involved in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) project aims to make it easier for researchers to share and combine data, also across disciplinary boundaries.

• DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) is regular member and NOAD of OpenAIRE AMKE.
• EOSC-synergy extends the EOSC coordination to nine participating countries by harmonizing policies and federating relevant national research e-Infrastructures, scientific data and thematic services, bridging the gap between national initiatives and EOSC. Partners are EGI Foundation and DANS.
• Goal of EOSC Future (April 2021 - September 2023) is to integrate, consolidate, and connect e-infrastructures, research communities, and initiatives in Open Science to further develop the EOSC Portal, EOSC-Core and EOSC-Exchange of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). In the Netherlands DANS (as Linked Third Party to OpenAIRE), EGI and the University of Amsterdam are partners in the project.
• Since January 2021 DANS is member of the EOSC Association, and member of the EOSC Working Group Skills and Training. In the Netherlands there are more members of the different EOSC Working Groups.
• DICE (Data Infrastructure Capacity for EOSC)(2021-2023). With a duration of 30 months, DICE aims to create a European storage and data management infrastructure for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). In the Netherlands DANS and SURF are partners in DICE.
• DANS is projectleader of FAIR IMPACT (2021-2025). FAIR-IMPACT project contributes to an EOSC of FAIR data and services  by supporting the implementation of FAIR-enabling practices, tools and services across scientific communities at European, national and institutional level. Another Dutch partner in this project is SURF.

Former EOSC-related projects in the Netherlands:

• The Library of TU/Delft and DANS were the National Open Access Desks NL in two OpenAIRE projects (OpenAIRE 2020 and OpenAIRE Advance). OpenAIRE supports the Open Science of the European Commission. DANS was also leader of the RDM (Research Data Management) Task Force of OpenAIRE Advance.
• FREYA was a 3-year project (December 2017 - December 2020) in which twelve partners are involved. The project aimed to build the infrastructure for persistent identifiers (PIDs) as a core component of open science, in the EU and globally. Goal of FREYA was to improve discovery, navigation, retrieval, and access of research resources. In the DANS was involved in this project.
• The EOSC-hub project (January 2018 - March 2021) existed of a consortium of 100+ partners from more than 50 countries. The consortium developed the vision of the Hub as the integration and management system of the future European Open Science Cloud. Besides DANS (Linked Third Party to SURF), other involved institutes in the Netherlands were SURF, University Utrecht, Astron, KNMI, and Meertens Institute. Project leaderof EOSC-hub is EGI Foundation in Amsterdam.
• DANS was projectleader of FAIRsFAIR (March 2019-March 2022.) The ambition of FAIRsFAIR is to assist the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) governance bodies to deliver FAIR-aligned Rules of Participation in the EOSC. These rules will be designed to establish FAIR compliance of components and practices. Moreover, FAIRsFAIR will open up and share all knowledge, expertise, guidelines, implementations, new trajectories, courses and education needed to turn FAIR Principles into reality.
• The aim of SSHOC - Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud - (January 2019 to April 2022) is to ensure that initiatives from the current European research infrastructures in the field of Social and Human Sciences (SSH) are better aligned with each other and with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). In the Netherlands DANS, CentERdata, University of Amsterdam, and Tilburg University were involved in SSHOC.
• EOSC Synergy (September 2019-October 2022) extends EOSC coordination to nine participating countries by harmonizing policies and federally relevant national e-research infrastructures, scientific data and thematic services and bridging the gap between national initiatives and EOSC. DANS has been partner in this project.