[OpenGeoscience] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Draft European Open Science Agenda and Call for EoIs for the Selection of members for the High level Advisory Group "Open Science Policy Platform"

[Margherita Di Leo]

Of interest also for Open GeoScience ML.

Thank you Suchith.

Regards,


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From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:59 AM
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Draft European Open Science Agenda and Call for
EoIs for the Selection of members for the High level Advisory Group "Open
Science Policy Platform"
To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>




Colleagues,

With the objectives to enable more reliable science (by allowing data
verification); more efficient science (by sharing resources); and more
responsive science (by contributing to addressing societal challenges), and
fostering research integrity are critical for *Open Geospatial Science that
"Geo for All" *stands for . Hence we are extremely pleased to support the
excellent developments in Open Science led by the European Commission.


In June 2015, the Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Carlos
Moedas defined *three strategic priorities: Open Innovation, Open Science
and Openness to the World.*

Open Science describes the on-going transitions in the way research is
performed, researchers collaborate, knowledge is shared, and science is
organised. It is enabled by digital technologies, and driven by:


   - the enormous growth of data,
   - the globalisation and enlargement of the scientific community to new
   actors (e.g. citizen science), and
   - the need to address societal challenges.


The institutions involved in science are affected (research organisations,
research councils, funding bodies), as is the way in which scientific
results are disseminated and assessed. This is reflected in

   - the rise of new scientific disciplines,
   - innovative pathways in publishing (among them a substantial rise of
   open access journals),
   - new scientific reputation systems, and
   - changes in the way the quality and impact of research are evaluated.


In the short term, Open Science is expected to lead to more transparency,
research integrity, openness, inclusiveness and networked collaboration. In
the long term, it should increase the impact and quality of science, making
science more efficient, reliable and responsive to the grand challenges of
our times as well as foster co-creation and Open Innovation.

More details at https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm

The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation intends to establish a
Commission Expert Group to provide advice about the development and
implementation of open science policy in Europe.
It is therefore calling for expressions of interest with a view to
selecting members of the High-Level Advisory Group 'Open Science Policy
Platform' (OSPP). The group will consist of 20-30 high-level
representatives of the broad constituency of European (open) science
stakeholders.


The mandate of the Open Science Policy Platform is to:

   - advise the Commission on how to further develop and practically
   implement open science policy, in line with the priority of Commissioner
   Moedas to radically improve the quality and impact of European science;
   - function as a dynamic, stakeholder-driven mechanism for bringing up
   and addressing issues of concern for the European science and research
   community and its representative organisations, following five broad lines
   for actions which are presented in the draft European Open Science Agenda
   [1]
   - support policy formulation by helping to identify the issues to be
   addressed and providing recommendations on the policy actions required;
   - support policy implementation, contributing to reviewing best
   practices, drawing policy guidelines and encouraging their active uptake by
   stakeholders;
   - provide advice and recommendations on any cross-cutting issue
   affecting Open Science.



DG Research & Innovation is hereby calling for applications with the view
of selecting stakeholders as members of the Open Science Policy Platform
according to the criteria detailed in the Call for expression of interest.

More details at
https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-policy-platform


So i request you all to share this info. widely and invite our colleagues
who are contributing to Open Science to be part of this and support the EC .

Best wishes,

Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org

[1]
https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/pdf/draft_european_open_science_agenda.pdf#view=fit&pagemode=none


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