Facilitate Open Science Training for European 
Research
Open Science
• Open Science (OS) aims to transform science by making 
research more open, global, collaborative, creative and 
closer to society
• OS is about the way research is carried out, 
disseminated, deployed and transformed by digital 
tools, networks and media
• OS makes scientific processes more efficient, 
transparent and effective through the application of new 
tools for scientific collaboration, experiments and 
analysis
• OS enables and fosters the emergence of new scientific 
practices, disciplines and paradigms to respond to the 
new challenges through global distributed 
collaborations 
Rationales for Open Science
• Improving efficiency in science by reducing duplication and the 
costs of creating, transferring and re-using data; enabling more 
research on the same data. 
• Increasing transparency and quality in the research validation 
process, by allowing greater replication and validation of 
scientific results. 
• Speeding the transfer of knowledge promote swifter 
development from research to innovation. 
• Increasing knowledge spill-overs to the economy – Increased 
access to the results of publicly funded research can foster spill-
overs and boost innovation. 
• Addressing global challenges more effectively – Global 
challenges require co-ordinated international actions
• Promoting citizens’ engagement in science and research - may 
lead to active participation in scientific experiments and data 
collection.
Features of Open Science
• Open Notebooks -  an emerging practice, 
documenting and sharing the experimental 
process of trial and error;
• Open Data - managing research data in a way that 
optimises access, discoverability and sharing for 
use and re-use;
• Open Research Software - documenting research 
code and routines, and making them freely 
accessible and available for collaboration;
• Open Access - making all published outputs freely 
accessible for maximum use and impact.
The Open Research Process
Each element of the research process should:
• Be publicly available: it is difficult to use and 
benefit from knowledge hidden behind barriers 
such as passwords;
• Be re-usable: research outputs need to be licensed 
appropriately so that prospective users know 
clearly any limitations on re-use;
• Induce collaboration between researchers 
through better access and better online tools;
• Be transparent and have appropriate metadata to 
provide clear statements of how research output 
was produced, and can be re-used.