Declaration on Knowledge Equity

"For Higher Education Institutions Publish a Knowledge Equity Statement for your institution by 2025, incorporating tangible commitments aligned with the principles and objectives below. Commit to institutional action(s) to support a sustained increase of published educational material being open and freely accessible for all to use and reuse for teaching, learning, and research. Commit to institutional action(s) to support a sustained increase of new research outputs being transparent, open and freely accessible for all, and which meet the expectations of funders. Use openness as an explicit criteria in reaching hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions. Reward and recognise open practices across both research and research-led education. This should include the importance of interdisciplinary and/or collaborative activities, and the contribution of all individuals to activities. Define Equity, Diversity and Inclusion targets that will contribute towards open and inclusive Higher Education practices, and report annually on progress against these targets. To create new mechanisms in and between Higher Education Institutions that allow for further widening participation and increased diversity of staff and student populations. Review the support infrastructure for open Higher Education, and invest in the human, technical, and digital infrastructure that is needed to make open Higher Education a success. Promote the use of open interoperability principles for any research or education software/system that you procure or develop, explicitly highlighting the option of making all or parts of content open for public consumption. Ensure that all research data conforms to the FAIR Data Principles: ‘findable’, accessible, interoperable, and re-useable. For Funding Agencies Publish a statement that open dissemination of research findings is a critical component in evaluating the productivity and integrity of research. Incorporate open research practices into assessment of funding proposals. Incentivise the adoption of Open Research through policies, frameworks and mandates that require open access for publications, data, and other outputs, with as liberal a licence as possible for maximum reuse. Actively manage funding schemes to support open infrastructures and open dissemination of research findings, educational resources, and underpinning data. Explicitly define reward and recognition mechanisms for globally co-produced and co-delivered open educational resources that benefit society...."