UNESCO seeks best practice examples for Open Science

In November 2021, UNESCO published recommendations on Open Science (see news article). Currently, the organisation is looking for best practice examples. The resulting collection is intended to help interested parties better understand the current open science landscape, share experiences, identify and network open science actors around the world, and further develop innovative open science solutions.

Best practices at the individual, institutional, national, regional, and international levels can be submitted around the following seven themes:

• Promoting a common understanding of open science, associated benefits and challenges, as well as diverse paths to open science
• Developing an enabling policy environment for open science
• Investing in open science infrastructures and services
• Investing in human resources, training, education, digital literacy and capacity building for open science
• Fostering a culture of open science and aligning incentives for open science
• Promoting innovative approaches for open science at different stages of the scientific process
• Promoting international and multi-stakeholder cooperation in the context of open science and with a view to reducing digital, technological and knowledge gaps

Examples can be submitted through a survey in English, Spanish or French by July 15, 2022.

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