Open Science

The growing relevance of Open Science and its many branches (open publication schemes, appearance of open research data, open source, reproducibility, public value, ...) poses a challenge, and maybe a turning point, to current academic and research practices. Open Science proposals driven by researchers and academics are gathering considerable traction. At the same time, institutions at all levels (from single organizations to supra-national entities) are launching and actively supporting very ambitious plans to implement the very broad idea of Open Science, sometimes focusing on specific pillars. This brings up a series of challenging questions, some of which directly impact the strategic decisions to be made by research institutions:

• What is the landscape of Open Science initiatives?
• Why embracing (or not) Open Science initiatives?
• How does Open Science impact existing standards for research and career evaluation and dissemination? Are all countries' institutions equally affected? How are they responding?
• How to make sense of the separate, diverse proposals that are being made by different communities pushing Open Science-related proposals?

Informatics Europe, as a body whose members cover most European countries, cannot ignore this trend, especially because Informatics is especially impacted by and central to Open Science.

IE Open Science Working Group

As part of its mission to give unbiased information and to agglutinate and balance diverse opinions, Informatics Europe formed in 2021 an Open Science Working Group, in an attempt to clarify the main actors and trends behind Open Science. This Working Group inherits ideas and aims from the Leaders Workshop session that took place during ECSS 2021 in Madrid, and where some very interesting opinions were presented. It currently consists of the following Task Forces:

• Open Science and Data Research Management
• Open Access
• Conference Maturity Model
• Open Code Repositories
• Open Citations Initiative

If you wish to contribute to the above task forces or have a new idea related to Open Science that we haven't covered yet, register to join here.

• Working Group
• Outcomes

• Current members: 

  • Manuel Carro, Technical University of Madrid / IMDEA Software Institute (Working Group Chair)
  • Lenuta Alboaie, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania
  • Étienne André, Loria/Université de Lorraine, France
  • Marco Antoniotti, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
  • Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy
  • Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, France
  • Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Roberto Di Cosmo, Software Heritage / Inria, France
  • Antinisca Di Marco, University of L'Aquila, Italy
  • Gregor Engels, Paderborn University, Germany
  • Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Conference Maturity Model Task Force Chair)
  • Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (Open Science & DRM Task Force Chair)
  • Paul Irofti, University of Bucharest, Romania
  • Kaido Kikkas, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
  • Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Ugo Lopez, Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
  • Ernestina Menasalvas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Cynthia Papon Rousselle, SVIA SSIE SSII Schweiz - Verein für Informatik in der Ausbildung, Switzerland
  • Rafael Penaloza Nyssen, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
  • Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Alfonso Pierantonio, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy (Open Access Task Force Chair)
  • Horia F. Pop, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
  • Laurent Romary, Inria, France
  • Máté Tejfel, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
  • Ernest Teniente, SCIE / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Antonio Vallecillo, SCIE / Universidad de Malaga, Spain
  • Andrzej Wasowski, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Ernst Wit, Universita della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland

   

• • October 2023 - "Open Science and Research Assessment" session of the National Informatics Associations Workshop held in Edinburgh on 25 October 2023, as part of the ECSS 2023. Workshop slides and further reading materials can be found here. 
  • May 2023 - Open Access: Status and Recommendations report summarizing the evolution of scientific publication models towards providing open access to research results and makes recommendations from an academic standpoint on future action paths. This document has been endorsed by the National Informatics Associations that are members of Informatics Europe at the time of publishing it.
  • October 2022 - National Informatics Associations Workshop held in Hamburg on 26 October 2022, as part of ECSS 2022, with the main theme "Open Science and the Future of Research Dissemination in Informatics". Workshop slides and further reading materials can be found here.
  • October 2021 - Leaders Workshop held in Madrid on 25 October 2021, as part of ECSS 2021, with the central theme: "Open Science and its Impact on Research and Career Development". The workshop talks can be found on our YouTube Channel here.