The Italian National Open Access Desk, coordinated by CNR and runned together with the Univerisity of Torino, provides support for Open Science and related funder policies.

A list of different training programme are available runned by NOAD team, including face to face courses and remote webinars. Italian NOAD also creates ad hoc programmes for different stakeholders, from PhD student to institutions and funders.

Since 2018 the Italian NOAD organises yearly series of webinars that usually gather together hundreds of participants. The series hadhas a common format and each webinar is dedicated to specific stakeholders in the field of Open Science: researchers, librarians, research support personnel, funders. The main aim is to provide clear information and practical tools to the users and introduce them to Open Science related topics.

Each series has a specific theme and it is designed for a specific user category, yet it is open to all the interested actors. Series consist of one or more one hour-chapters.

Open Science Webinar Series 2020

One webinar was run in early 2020 to train researchers on the open science basis in view of the next research evaluation campaign to happen in 2020. The success of the webinar led to a second chapter and the two trained in total 400 users.

Open Science Webinar Series 2019

These Webinars were offered in collaboration with the OpenAIRE NOADs, and the RDA Italian Node.

Open Science Webinar Series 2018

These Webinars was offered in collaboration with the OpenAIRE NOADs, IOSSG, and the RDA Italian Node.