On May 29th 2015, the University of Malta Library organizes a FOSTER training event: "Open Access and its Impact on Research and Scholarship".

This one-day conference/training event whereby current trends and best practices pertaining to Open Access (OA) are highlighted and discussed.  The  main objective of this event is to raise awareness as well as provide a holistic and comprehensive  overview of the concepts, leading principles and best practices of Open Access .  Moreover, this event will serve as  a market...

On June 10 2015, University of Edinburgh is hosting two FOSTER workshops during the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

• • • • • 1. Good practice in data management & data sharing with social research

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It has been a busy week for FOSTER open science events! David Ball and I have been in the Czech Republic speaking at open science days in Prague and Brno. Martin Donnelly spoke at the 2020 vision event in Oxford, and Joy Davidson is involved in a workshop in collaboration with UNESCO on open science for doctoral schools.

The Czech eve...

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On March 19, 2015, the first seminar in the FOSTER-supported training programme Promoting Open Science among young researchers: Challenges and Opportunities, took place. The topics discussed were: "EU and national open access and open science policies and practices, in relation to publicly funded research in Horizon 2020 and national grant schemes" and "Linking Open Access ...

FOSTER is happy to contribute to the organization of two training events aimed at Horizon 2020 National Contact Points (NCP's). One event will take place in Copenhagen on April 8, 2015 and one in Vienna on April 13, 2015.

The training sessionswill be based on FOSTER`s "Winning Horizon 2020 with Open Science" brief, and will introduce NCPs to why and how Open Science can optimize your Horizon 2020 proposal evaluation.

This April, Czech University of Life Sciences, Association of Libraries of Czech Universities and Brno University of Technology is organizing two training events in Prague (April 21 2015) and in Brno (23 April 2015). 

The participants will receive an intense trainers training and in the upcoming years should play a role of OA advocates at their home institutions. After the
FOSTER trainin...

Association of Research Managers and Administrators (UK) organises training sessions on Open Access

Targeting the UK’s professional community of research managers and administrators and others dealing with UK funders, ARMA (UK) will deliver a combination of classroom-based and online learning to provide these specialists with the training required to enhance understanding of and compliance with Open Access regulation.

For more information and updates, see the

YEAR Annual Conference 2015: Open Science in Horizon 2020

The Young European Associated Researchers (YEAR) Network organises its Annual Conference on 11-12 May 2015 at VTT in Helsinki/Espoo (Finland) with a focus on Open Science!

"Sharing is caring"! This is probably a good way to describe what Open Science really means: a new approach to science to share ideas, research results, research data, and publications with the rest of the world, through the newly av...

Open Science for Doctoral Schools: a joint FOSTER and UNESCO workshop

On April 23 & 24, 2015, FOSTER and UNESCO invite you to a two-day workshop at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, for up to 20 Graduate School administrators from Engineering, Marine and Biosciences Doctoral Schools across the European Research Area, with the aim to construct a credible roadmap for including Open Science in the doc...

Open access and research data management: Horizon 2020 and beyond

A collaborative network between University College Cork (Ireland), Repository Network of Ireland and Teagasc (Ireland) are organising a two-day training session on Open Access and Research Data Management in Cork, Ireland. The events take place on April 14 and 15, 2015. 

For more information, registration ...