European Union Open Science policy

Open science is a policy priority for the European Commission and the standard method of working under its research and innovation funding programmes as it improves the quality, efficiency and responsiveness of research. It has 8 ambitions:

  1. Open Data

  2. European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

  3. New generation metrics

  4. Altmetrics and rewards

  5. Future of scholarly communication

  6. Research integrity & reproducibility of scientific results

  7. Education and skills

  8. Citizen science

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