"open access, Horizon 2020/Europe and all that" – personal views. Those who find typos can keep them
Not an official event summary. 1st Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum. Dialog with Learned Societies: Sustainable Solutions for Successful Transition to Open Access. 09/09/2019 , University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. The event was organised by MDPI (MDPI AG on behalf of MDPI Sustainability Foundation), Dr. Franck Vaszquez. Executive summary This content-rich event discussed the prominent issues […]
European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education and Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, 30/09/2019 18.30 Chairs: Adina-Ioana VĂLEAN (EPP, RO), Sabine VERHEYEN (EPP, DE) NOT AN OFFICAL RECORD NOT A VERBATIM RECORD I take no responsibility for the use of this summary and/or its accuracy Personal assessment and summary: This was a strong […]
Please note that this is not an official summary. Context and Background Rethinking Academia is an international group of young scientists founded in 2019 and based in Austria. Their goal is to organise public events that stimulate discussions and initiatives aimed at modernising the academic scientific system in the light of the novel opportunities that […]
Keynote on Horizon Europe After a general introduction and opening by the rector of the University of Bologna, the EARMA conference kicked off with a keynote by Peter Haertwich, European Commission (DG RTD) on Horizon Europe.[1] The European Parliament and the Council of Ministers had found agreement on most of the content of Horizon Europe[2]; […]
16.01.2019, Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG. Michalis Tzatzanis (FFG) provided an introduction to the concept of open science, outlining its definition as “the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction […]
Under the motto “the plurality of open access” the Open Access Days brought together the German speaking open access community and beyond in Graz, Austria from September 24-26, 2018. My personal highlights include the following learnings: France is strengthening its open access mandate, with a new implementation plan making open access mandatory as well as […]
COASP 10, the tenth conference on open access publishing, is over. Many thanks to the organisers from OASPA! Here are my personal takeaways of the conference (dinosaur pictures not included, since my phone died). This is of course a purely personal recollection and not an exhausting and/or official summary of the event. Day 1 Falk Reckling […]