PASTEUR4OA/News
PASTEUR4OA recently held its final conference in Amsterdam. The article below gives a detailed overview of the speakers and topics discussed at the conference. A more formal conference report (Deliverable) will follow shortly. Want more information about our Open Access work? See our Advocacy Resources.
The PASTEUR4OA project was launched in 2014 with the goal of supporting the development and standardisation of Open Access (OA) policies throughout Europe, in order to maximise alignment with the Horizon 2020 policy on access read more...
On 17-18 May PASTEUR4OA hosted the conference Green Light for Open Access(#greenlight4oa) in Amsterdam. The conference read more...
Working in a research funding organization, following Open Access and Open Research Data policy discussions, but feel overwhelmed with lots of new developments? Join FOSTER/PASTEUR4OA intermediate course "Designing Successful Open Access and Open Data Policies" https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/content/designing-successful-open-access-and-open-data-policies-intermediate and learn more about:
● the advantages of Open Access and Open Research read more...
Working in a research funding organization and new to Open Access and Open Research Data? Join FOSTER/PASTEUR4OA introductory self-learning course for funders (Designing Successful Open Access and Open Data Policies: https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/content/designing-successful-open-access-and-open-data-policies-introductory) and learn more about:
● the advantages of Open Access and Open Research Data for the funder’s remit;
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On the 25th of February 2016, the Council of ministers of the Republic of Cyprus, approved the National policy for Open Access in Cyprus. The policy is the outcome of a great collaboration between different stakeholders having worked together in the context of the Working Group for Open Access (consisting of the NPR for OA, local academic institutions and the national funder), coordinated by the Cyprus NOAD (University of Cyprus Library) of the OPENAIRE2020 project and highly supported by the coordinators of the project PASTEUR4OA. The national OA policy is available on the read more...
A set of Open Science Cafés were held on Apr 5th at the Dutch Presidency Open Science Conference Day II. This brief account of the World Café on Open Access Strategies aims to complement the previous blogging already done by LIBER on the full event.
While the Open Science Conference Day I was very interesting – especially in terms of the strong political support for Open read more...
The Research Council of Lithuania adopted Guidelines for Open Access to Research Results (text in Lithuanian) on 29 February 2016.
The Guidelines include open access (OA) and open research data policy that are fully aligned with the Horizon 2020 (H2020) OA mandate and Open Research Data Pilot, and the July 2012 European Commission recommendations on read more...
More than 50 research funders and representatives of research performing organizations from 10 countries of Eastern Europe met on October 29-30, 2015 in Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest) to revisit the Horizon 2020 Open Access (OA) mandate, examine OA policy developments in Europe, and learn from the best practices in OA policy development and implementation at the national, funder and institutional levels. In addition, they discussed the importance of aligning national OA policies with the Horizon 2020 OA mandate. As OA policy developments in most of these countries are still in read more...
EKT organized on November 3rd, 2015 the first South-East Europe Workshop. Participants included policymakers from RPOs in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and FYROM. Presentations and subsequent discussions, allowed participants to familiarize themselves with the concept of Open Access, the European framework, and the elements required for an institutional policy to be effective and to exchange ideas and share their (common) concerns in relation to the challenges related to the adoption of Open Access policies in their institutions. As countries in the region are read more...
On September 28th, 2015, FECYT hosted a full-day workshop for Research Funders of the SW Region (including Portugal, Spain, Malta and Italy), organized by PASTEUR4OA.
The 20 attendees represented relevant national research funder’s, including the National Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) from Portugal, the National Research Council (CSIC) and the Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) from Spain; the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) and finally, the National Research Council (CNR) from Italy.
Purpose of the meeting was to bring read more...
