RDM and FAIR trainers, research support staff, librarians, Vice-Rectors for Research and European and national policy makers

Training and skills for open science
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data

FAIR data, Open Science, universities, skills training, sustainability, impact

By the end of this workshop participant will:

• Have learned more on national-driven and institutional initiatives focused on fostering the implementation of Open Science practices.
• Have a greater understanding and recognition of relevant legal, organisational, and cultural differences between national and regional systems.
• Have drawn inspiration from good practices across Europe.

Diverse initiatives are being developed and implemented by universities across Europe  to foster the uptake of the research data management (RDM) and FAIR data skills necessary to bring forward the transition to Open Science. Lessons can be learned from bringing together their experience in different legal, organisational and cultural contexts, providing inspiration and points for reflection for other universities transitioning to  Open Science.

The workshop will discuss with participants the analysis of good practices of universities across Europe that are being gathered by the FAIRsFAIR project. Preliminary results from this ongoing study will be presented, highlighting the drivers, impact and implementation steps behind the initiatives taken by institutions to integrate RDM and FAIR data skills in university curricula. The shift towards hybrid models of teaching data-related skills is also addressed in the analysis, showing how the COVID-19 pandemic created not only challenges but also surprising opportunities for the implementation of Open Science practices in universities.

Findings will include information on legal, organisational and cultural differences between regional and national systems in Europe, which will allow to contextualise university initiatives. Comments and feedback from participants beyond Europe will be welcomed and will further improve the cross-border exchange of good practices.

The workshop will be of interest to RDM and FAIR teachers, trainers and practitioners, as well as European and national policy makers. Participants will be invited to reflect on their own institutional experiences in an engaging and interactive way, through breakout rooms and a digital workspace set in Mural.

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction of the FAIRsFAIR project
  • Bregt Saenen, FAIRsFAIR and European University Association [presentation]
• Learning lessons from FAIR data implementation: first findings from the report “Good practices in FAIR competence education”
  • Federica Garbuglia, FAIRsFAIR and European University Association [presentation]
• FAIRsFAIR Data Steward instructor training series: our approach and some observations
  • Elizabeth Newbold, FAIRsFAIR and Science and Technology Facilities Council [presentation]
• Supporting the implementation of FAIR data skills in university teaching
  • Joy Davidson, FAIRsFAIR and University of Glasgow, Angus White, FAIRsFAIR and University of Glasgow [presentation]
• Supporting the implementation of FAIR data skills in university teaching
  • 3 breakout rooms on sharing best practices for universities
• Wrap up
  • Bregt Saenen, FAIRsFAIR and European University Association

Institutional Repository Administrators, Researchers, National, international aggregators, Funders

Value added data products/services from open science
Open metrics infrastructures: how to combine, what is next

Open Science, Open Metrics, Usage Statistics

The objectives of the workshop are: 

• Presentation of the Open Science Usage Metrics Exchange (OpenSUMex) Guidelines and Framework
• Feedback from stakeholders

Tracking usage of research output and publishing statistics is a value-added service of Open Science research infrastructures. On the content provider level, usage statistics can serve administrators as a tool to evaluate the success of their platform. On the individual item level, they can demonstrate popular items, like datasets, software, or other research output to research community. In addition, usage statistics can indicate the relevance of a research output over the course of time and up to the present, and therefore they can be considered a useful indicator to analyze trends. Different organizations facilitate the above tasks by monitoring and analyzing usage data and exploit usage metrics like research items downloads and metadata views. The final outcomes are published via services like DataCite, IRUS-UK, OpenAIRE, or national aggregators like LA Referencia. A number of parameters are involved for tracking, e.g the identifier of the requested item, the timestamp of the request, etc., whilst publishing of usage statistics is realized by exploiting the COUNTER Code of Practice (CoP), that enables publishers to report and compare usage of resources in a consistent way. Although these practices are employed by most usage statistics services, there are several issues that need to be tackled, due to the complexity of the research products and their diversity. Definition of a set of guidelines, together with a framework that can facilitate and standardize the collection and exchange of scholarly usage events could alleviate those issues. The Open Science Usage Metrics Exchange (OpenSUMex) Guidelines and Framework is developed to cover these requirements by defining the guidelines and provide the framework to exchange usage metrics information. The resulting usage metrics could identify multiple counted events that could be comparable across scholarly infrastructures and exploited by a variety of stakeholders from research community, like repository managers, authors, funders, etc.

Agenda

10min: Introduction

25min: Workshop topic 1: Guidelines

25min: Workshop topic 2: Framework

30min: Discussion

Research librarians & researchers

Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities
Collaborative platforms for all research artifacts, Innovations in publishing and research dissemination, Collective funding models for open infrastructures and services

Peer-review, ORE, publishing, Open Science, Scholarly Communication

Participants are expected to get acquainted with the peer-review process behind the ORE platform as well as learn more about open peer review and actively join in the discussion around the best practices and challenges of innovative peer review.

This workshop will be co-organised by LIBER and Open Research Europe (ORE). Open Research Europe is an open access publication platform for the publication of research resulting from Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe funding in all subject areas. The workshop will explain the peer review model behind the platform which is fully open and transparent as well as invite expert speakers to talk about innovative peer review.

Recently, increasing attention has been paid to ways of streamlining the peer review process and applying alternative peer review methods using new technologies and open access models. There are several developments that the world of scientific communication is currently facing in relation to these new processes and methods such as finding a balance between speeding up the process without compromising quality, integration with research evaluation and understanding the role of citizens and machines in peer review. The new developments in the field of Innovative Peer Review can lead to great opportunities for research libraries, especially in the areas of service development, engagement, and training. During the workshop best practices will be shared about new open peer review approaches, with the opportunity to discuss these new developments in a group discussion. The workshop is addressed at research librarians and researchers with and without experience with the ORE platform with an interest in open and innovative peer review. Specifically, research libraries professionals in publishing and editorial units, or managers of advanced repositories and library staff who work on Open Science software, or who are responsible for promoting Open Science in their institutions are invited to join.

Agenda

Welcome & introduction, Giannis Tsakonas, Library & Information Center, University of Patras

Open Research Europe - Publishing Model & Peer Review Process - Kelly Woods, F1000 [presentation]

Open Peer Review - One Step Forward in the Cultural Change of Scholarly Communications - Judit Fazekas-Paragh, University of Debrecen University and National Library, OpenAIRE [presentation]

Q&A

Anyone who is collaborating with others on projects is welcome to join. For example, policy makers, funders, researchers, support staff, publishers, librarians, research administrators

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Training and skills for open science

Collaboration, data science, inclusion

• Session attendees will have the opportunity to learn about collaboration in research projects and contribute their expertise. In Particular, we will talk about interdisciplinary, global and asynchronous collaboration.
• Participants will learn where to find more resources on the topic of collaboration using The Turing Way and how to contribute to this interdisciplinary community/project.

Data science and research is defined by its interdisciplinarity. Our work can only reach its highest potential if there are diverse teams of people involved in designing and delivering the research or products. Effective methods of collaboration are crucial to the success and sustainability of research projects and communities.

The Turing Way is an open-source, community-led book project that aims to bring together diverse contributors and collaborators to share resources and practices that make data science reproducible, ethical and inclusive. The project is developed and maintained on an online project repository (https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way) and invites contributions to its 5 guides, including the Guide for Collaboration.

We believe that to make our project widely beneficial and comprehensive we need to collaborate with individuals and groups with diverse skills, backgrounds, lived experiences and domain knowledge. Our community members currently include over 270 contributors on GitHub, as well as thousands of users worldwide who write, read, review, enhance and promote best practices in data science and research (in academia, industry, open communities and public sector).

In this session, we will introduce the Guide for Collaboration to discuss good practices for effective and inclusive collaboration. We will demonstrate The Turing Way guides to prompt discussions on developing inclusive engagement pathways and setting Community-led projects that are open for contributions from people with diverse skills. Through this discussion, we will highlight the importance of designing projects for inclusion 1 and distributed collaboration. Participants will leave this session having discovered skills around reviewing team member’s contributions, remote working, running inclusive events/meetings, defining explicit expectations, and participatory co-creation

Agenda

Libraries, research administrators, Open Science Infrastructure providers, funders

Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities
Collective funding models for open infrastructures and services

Collective funding models, Open Science Infrastructure, Sustaining OSis, Sustainability

The workshop will help identify the main challenges of collective funding models for Open Science Infrastructure, as well as explore the path forward to make them more efficient. Participants will gain insights into case studies and will have a chance to interact with practitioners, asking questions and learning from one another.

Open Science Infrastructure (OSI) is struggling with the challenge of being invisible. Although OSIs constitute a crucial part of the scholarly communications landscape, facilitating knowledge exchange, supporting libraries in achieving their OS targets, and complying with OS policies, their existence is not always reflected in library budget considerations. The scholarly community relies on OSIs, yet very often without realizing that there are operational and development costs  related to their open existence. These key infrastructures are typically managed by highly competent but under-resourced teams who over-deliver, and it is sadly ironic that their hard work renders their need for additional resources invisible. At worst, these teams risk burnout and overreach, and need to manage a constant need to find new bridge funding.

Many libraries have started to collectively help raise funds across the world for OSIs through SCOSS campaigns, raising more than 3m euros as of August 2021 for DOAJ, Sherpa Romeo, PKP, OpenCitations and DOAB and OAPEN. As SCOSS is now launching its third pledging round with three new services to be announced in the summer, we seek to look deeper into mechanisms of collective funding for OSIs. In the spring, as part of a SCOSS strategy exercise, we launched a global survey asking the wider research community about sustaining Open Science Infrastructure, and the mechanisms through which it should be supported. The proposed workshop will present preliminary results of the SCOSS survey and hear from various stakeholders: from the OSIs supported by the SCOSS program and from institutions who have contributed to a collective effort of funding them. Lessons learnt from this experience will hopefully trigger a wider discussion on the importance of funding the invisible and the potential that collective funding models bring.

Agenda

16.30-16.40   Welcome and intro to SCOSS [presentation]

16.40-17.05 SCOSS survey results (presentation and panel discussion)

17.05-17.55 Panel discussion and engagement with the audience

17.55-18.00 Wrap-up

Research support, libraries, data stewards, anyone supporting researchers in Horizon Europe projects

5 Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Training and skills for open science

Open Science requirements, Horizon Europe, train-the-trainer, research support

The learning outcomes of the workshop will be the following:

• Research support staff is better equipped to support their researchers in Horizon Europe Open Science requirements.
• A start is made in producing collective support material.

For several years Open Science requirements and recommendations have been part of the grant agreements of European projects. The European Commission supports Open Science practices to increase the visibility, impact and excellence of project results funded through its funding programmes. The first calls for Horizon Europe were published earlier this year and Open Science is now embedded in it, meaning that the requirements are implemented throughout the Horizon Europe work programmes, in all stages of the project life cycle, from proposal to the final stages of the project. Researchers from across the spectrum of organisations will have questions on how to comply with these requirements and in this workshop we will address the different obligations and discuss best practices and approaches, with special attention for new aspects such as the evaluation of Open Science at the proposal stage.

We aim to scale up Horizon Europe support, and together we want to train more people, produce collective materials and exchange ideas and experiences. In this interactive workshop we aim to discover answers, collaborating with the target audience. The workshop will be coordinated and delivered by members of the OpenAIRE Training Community of Practice of Training Coordinators.

Agenda

Welcome & introduction

Lightning talks

                Alea Lopez de San Roman – Open Science in Horizon Europe [presentation]

                Dagmar Meyer – Open Science in Horizon Europe: ERC [presentation]

                Emilie Hermans: practical guidelines in Ghent University [presentation]

                Ellen Leenarts: SSHOC supporting Open Science [presentation]

Break-out session: exchange of approaches on 3 subjects

                Open Access to publications

                Research Data Management

                Open Science in the Impact section of the proposal

Wrap up