Accelerate Open Science training for researchers - EuroScientist journal

Access to adequate training that provides knowledge about “the responsible conduct of research and critical thinking skills” (McDowell et al. 2015) is needed to initiate a “reliable change” (Farnham et al. 2017). Accordingly, there is a high demand for quality open science training. The significant number of researchers taking part in FOSTER’s face-to-face training courses illustrates that researchers are eager to take up training opportunities made available to them. This is in contrast with the view expressed by Graduate Schools that curriculum catalogues are already overbooked, or in extreme cases the conviction that Open Science and its relevance to reproducibility is a temporal trend that will pass.