At this year's International Digital Curation Conference FOSTER will run a demonstration of its training portal:

Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research (FOSTER) is a two year project funded by the European Commission under FP7 and aims to establish sustainable mechanisms that support EU researchers to integrate open science practices into their daily workflows workflows. A key aim for the FOSTER project is to enable EU researchers to comply with and benefit from H2020 open access policies and EU objectives relating to Responsible Research & Innovation. By embracing open science and research data management, researchers are better equipped to produce verifiable and reproducible outputs while optimising their research integrity, visibility and impact.
FOSTER has developed an e-learning portal that brings together a growing number of FOSTER developed training content on open science and research data management topics along with a large selection of pre-existing content that has been developed internationally. A range of open science topics are available via the portal including materials around Open Access, research data management, and legal issues.
The FOSTER portal enables training content to be more effectively searched and that results can be better targeted to different communities of practice – from researchers in multiple disciplines to postgraduate students to research support staff in libraries and research offices and project managers. The portal also helps to ensure that users can search for content which is pitched at the right level – from those seeking an introduction to specific themes to those who are seeking to delve more deeply into open science topics.
In addition to making existing content available, the FOSTER portal also accepts new content from training providers with an aim for making these resources more widely accessible and reusable. This 20 minute demonstration will introduce participants to the FOSTER portal and provide detailed instruction on:

1) How researchers can search the portal for training resources to improve their grasp on open science
2) How support staff can access reusable content and create modular courses within the portal for use within their own institutions
3) How training providers can upload content to the FOSTER portal to be shared more widely

Where

Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam City Centre, Amsterdam

Full details

Organisers: Digital Curation Center
Language: EN

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