SWG Open Science and Innovation
in a few words
Brussels 8 November 2017
SWG OSI mandate and scope of action (1)
ERAC's adoption of the group's mandate on 4 May 2016
Chair = Clara E. Garcia (ES)
Vice-Chair = Marc Vanholsbeeck (BE)
Most (but not all) Member States and ACs represented
7 meetings: 17 June 2016, 6 October 2016, 14 February 2017, 25 April 2017, 22 June 2017, 4 September 2017, 25 October 2017
SWG OSI mandate and scope of action (2)
Provides strategic advice to Council and Commission wrt Priority 5 of the ERA Roadmap:
Access to scientific information
Circulation and use of knowledge
For the benefit of scientists, research institutions, education, businesses, citizens and society at large
Work Programme 2016-2017 Thematic priorities
5 thematic priorities:
Open Research Data and infrastructures
Open Access to publications: models, costs and metrics
Research and researchers’ incentives, evaluation and impact assessment
Innovation (incl. Open Innovation, Knowledge Transfer and IPR) (transversal priority)
Training and skills (transversal priority)
Work Programme 2016-2017
Assessment of the Amsterdam Call for Action [on Open Science]
Following Council Conclusions of 27 May 2016
Feasibility, effectiveness and prioritisation of the Actions
Questionnaires to the delegations:
Q1: Open Research Data and e-infrastructures (November 2016)
Q2: Open Access, OS implementation and monitoring, Citizen Science (Summer 2017)
Q3: Rewards, TDM, IPR, transparency (Summer 2017)
Answers from AT, BE, BG, CY, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GR, IE, LV, MD, MT, PL, PT, SI, UK
WP 2016-2017
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
SWG OSI as privileged interlocutor of the EOSC team of the Commission for discussing/co-designing the future governance of the Cloud
Written consultation of the delegates wrt a proposition from the Commission
Complementary process to the adoption of a Council opinion on the EOSC Roadmap to be published in
December
Next Steps
Report on the assessment of the Amsterdam Call for Action
November 2017: adoption of the report by the SWG OSI
1 December 2017: presentation at Competitivity Council
November 2017: publication of the SWG OSI position on the EOSC governance
