6 inspiring Open Access / Science events for your researchers - Proud2Know

"Open Access Week is here again, and in this context, I’d like to share 6 winning bids from an Open Access / Open Data / Open Science training call of the EU-funded FOSTER Project (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research). FOSTER is made up of 13 partners from 8 countries. Its primary aim is to produce a European-wide training programme that helps equip researchers, postgraduate students, librarians, project managers and other stakeholders with the skills to integrate Open Science practices into daily research workflows in line with the EU objectives on Responsible Research & Innovation and its policies. FOSTER promotes Open Science / Open Access / Open Research Data community training actions and it has a budget to help make things happen. The first training call was issued in January 2014. To see the list of all winning bids taking place in 2014, see the FOSTER training calendar. Before you consider hosting an Open Science / Open Data or Open Access event of your own, I have selected six events to show the breadth and scope of Open Science events of the previous call for inspiration. You may want to host a similar training activity in your country, attend one of these (but be quick as many are in October), or even submit your own bid for the recently published call. This selection has not been made based on the results achieved, but rather on their objectives, audience and approaches. So here’s a taste of what the community is doing to change hearts and minds about Open Access, Open Data and Open Science in general. Will they inspire you to train your researchers, administrators or Horizon2020 project managers? ..."