Promoting Open Science among Young Researchers: Challenges and Opportunities
The aim of 4 trainings is to increase young researchers’ competence on open science and to develop
practical skills on open access publishing and research data management. The series of workshops
and a roundtable discussion with different stakeholders (policy makers, funding agencies institu-
tional managers, research administrators, etc.) will be organized during the events. Representatives
from the Research Council of Lithuania, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of
Lithuania, the National Points of Reference on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Information
will participate in the round table discussion. During the workshops is expected to train up to 300
people and by online video material reach additionally up to 400 researchers, doctoral students and
100 librarians.  The librarians  and young researchers  after  the  workshops will  organize the  OA
events at their institutions.
Thursday 19th  of March, 2015
1. EU and national  open  access  and open  science  policies  and  practices,  in  particular,  in
relation to publicly funded research in Horizon 2020 and national grant schemes. EU, global
and national initiatives and projects of open access and open data. 
2. Linking Open Access research publications with Open research data. 
Thursday 24th of April, 2015
1. Institutional repositories and research data archives: practical guidelines on how to comply
with Horizon 2020 open access requirements, how to submit publications to the national and
international repositories of publications and data. 
2. How to publish in open access journals and how to avoid predatory journals.
3. The overview of the open access infrastructure in Lithuania. (eLABa, Lituanistika, MIDAS,
LiDA, etc.). 
Thursday 25th of September, 2015
1. Open science, open access publishing, open peer-review Open access publishing models.
2. Intellectual property rights, copyrighting and licensing issues, Creative Commons Licences 
Wednesday 21st of October, 2015
1. Research data management plan, issues of research data management planning. 
2. Formal and alternative research evaluation, almetrics.