G7 Science Ministers suggest policy guidelines related to Open Science - Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences

"G7 Science Ministers suggest policy guidelines related to Open Science Posted on 4 October 2017 The G7 Science and Technology Ministers have released a communiqué with science policy guidelines. These include suggested guidelines on FAIR Data treatment and open science. Read the full communiqué. The Science Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, met in Venaria on 28 September 2017. In this meeting, they discussed a set of possible common actions and areas of cooperation, to create the conditions for researchers to provide their best possible contribution to the advancement of knowledge in crucial domains for future prosperity and sustainability. The ministers approved a statement that moves from the priorities identified by the earlier Taormina Summit and offers to the G7 for consideration a set of specific policy guidelines aimed at translating such priorities into concrete actions. Two of these guidelines relate to Open Science."