OSPP-REC : Open Science Policy Platform Recommendations.
Date: 2018-07-25
Institutions: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Subjects: Internet, digital technology, dissemination of information, new educational methods, research method, research policy, research report, research results, scientific cooperation

OSPP-REC 

Open Science Policy Platform Recommendations

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
OSPP-REC  
European Commission 
Directorate-General for Research and Innovation 
Directorate A — Policy Development and Coordination 
Unit A.2 — Open Data Policy and Science Cloud 
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Table of Contents 
1. 

Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4 

2.  Recommendations……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………  5 

2.1  General recommendations…………………………………………………………………………………………  5 

2.2  Prioritised recommendations for the eight ambitions of Open Science……………………  6 

Annex A  Glossary and Acronyms………………………………………………………………………………………………. 11 

Annex B   Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) members………………………………………………………… 12 

Annex C   Relevant Reports………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 14 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1.  Introduction 

Open  Science  is  scholarly  research  that  is 
collaborative, transparent and reproducible and 
whose  outputs  are  publicly  available.  The 
European  Union  will  not  remain  competitive  at 
the global level unless it promotes Open Science, 
and relatedly, Open Innovation. The time to act 
is now. 

quality, 

boosting 

At  its  core,  Open  Science  aims  at:  “increasing 
research 
collaboration, 
speeding  up  the  research  process,  making  the 
assessment  of  research  more  transparent, 
promoting  public  access  to  scientific  results,  as 
well  as  introducing  more  people  to  academic 
research”1.  By  taking  advantage  of  Open 
Science, researchers can enhance the quality of 
curiosity-driven  research,  maximise  the  value 
and potential impact of their work to create new 
avenues  of  knowledge,  and  drive  scientific 
progress and Open Innovation within Europe and 
beyond2.  Open  Science  also  makes  research 
more transparent and accessible to citizens, and 
helps involve citizens  more actively in research 
activities.  Open  Science 
“provides 
funding 
policymakers,  research 
bodies  and  researchers  themselves  with  an 
opportunity to critically consider: what does and 
should  count  as  high-quality  research;  what 
goals  researchers  should  pursue;  how  research 
results  should  be  evaluated  and  disseminated; 
and  how  research  should  be  supported  and 
embedded within society”3. 

thus 
institutions, 

from  (or  even 

For  Open  Science  to  be  successful,  it  must 
become  embedded  at  every  level  and  in  every 
aspect  of  the  scientific  endeavour  and  not  be 
in 
perceived  as  separate 
competition with) current practice. Open Science 
needs  to  stimulate  research 
integrity  and 
quality, which includes sensitivity to disciplinary 
differences  and  confidentiality  issues  around 
knowledge  sharing.  Open  Science  requires  a 
systemic  shift  in  current  practices  to  bring 
transparency  across  the  system,  to  ensure 
ongoing  sustainability  for  the  associated  social 
and  physical  infrastructures,  and  to  foster 
greater public trust in Science. To enable this, all 
stakeholders in research and its communication 

need to take responsibility for  supporting Open 
Science  activities,  which  includes  appropriate 
financial and administrative support to ensure its 
the 
long-term  sustainability  and  minimize 
bureaucratic burden on researchers. 

It  is  the  responsibility  of  all  stakeholders, 
Member  States  and  the  European  Commission 
(EC)  to  act  on  and  actively  promote  Open 
Science  amongst  their  respective  communities, 
and to regularly and openly monitor and report 
on  progress4.  This  document  provides  a 
prioritised  set  of  actionable  recommendations 
from  the  Open  Science  Policy  Platform  (OSPP; 
see  Annex  B  for  members)  to  achieve  it.  The 
their 
OSPP  members  strongly  recommend 
urgent inclusion into FP9.  

These  recommendations  are  the  next  step 
towards  implementing  the  longer-term  vision 
articulated  by  Open  Science  consultations  and 
expert  groups  set  up  by  the  EC  and  other 
organisations  in  Europe  and  worldwide  (see 
Annex C for a list of relevant documents). There 
will  need  to  be  further  work  done  to  advise  on 
the  implementation  of  the  roadmap  for  Open 
Science, and to help identify a range of tools and 
approaches to monitor progress. 

The following recommendations target the 
major stakeholder groups represented by the 
OSPP and focus on publicly funded research. 
The roles of other important players in this 
ecosystem, such as SMEs, industry and NGOs, 
need to be explored at a later date. We 
recognise that some individuals and groups 
may fall into two or more stakeholder 
categories listed below, and we ask readers to 
identify with all groups that are most relevant 
to their functions and activities. 

1 Friesike, S. & Schildhauer, T. (2015). Open Science: many 
good resolutions, very few incentives, yet. In: Welpe, I.M., 
Wollersheim,  J.,  Ringelhan,  S.  &  Osterloh,  M.  (Eds.). 
Incentives  and  Performance.  Governance  of  Research 
Organizations. Springer. 
2  European  Commission  (2016)  Open  Innovation,  Open 
Science, Open to the World - A Vision for Europe 

3  European  Commission  (2018),  H2020  Policy  Support 
Facility,  Mutual  Learning  Exercise  on  Open  Science: 
Altmetrics and Rewards. Thematic Report on Incentives and 
Rewards to engage in Open Science Activities. 
4  European  Commission  (2018)  Final  Report  of  MLE  Open 
Science: Incentives and Rewards 

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2.  Recommendations 

2.1. General recommendations 

In  addition  to  the  specific  targeted  recommendations  in  the  matrix  below,  we  call  upon  all  Member 
States and stakeholders to: 

1.  Appoint national coordinators and task forces for the implementation of Open Science. This 

instrument must foster the development of funded national plans and the alignment of the Open 
Science policy agenda across all stakeholders involved including Member States to ensure the 
coordinated action required for tangible change towards an Open Science approach. 

2.  Ensure the scholarly infrastructure in Europe is highly interoperable to enable the simple and open 

sharing of metadata between systems, disciplines and countries, and that credit for research 
contributions is given to all participants (including citizen scientists). This will need all actors to 
require the use of standardised, unique persistent identifiers for researchers and outputs, and for 
the acknowledgement of diversity in researcher contributions. Components of the ecosystem 
(identifiers, metadata, vocabularies, data citations, repositories and other data-infrastructures) 
need to be developed where necessary, refined, standardized and implemented through dialogue 
with relevant research communities. Whatever standards/infrastructures are developed, they need 
to be capable of adapting to innovations in Open Knowledge practices. 

3.  Ensure the HR Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) practices and FP9 evaluation reflect the 

principles required to effectively embed a culture of Open Science at the institutional level. These 
must involve research integrity (including the social, ethical and legal implications), researcher 
evaluation and the public availability of research outputs. Codes for Open Science, Research 
Integrity and Recruitment need to be incorporated into The European Charter for Researchers5 
and in the FP9 grant agreement. Institutions that apply for the ‘Human Resources in Research 
Award’ should be required to demonstrate explicitly how the best practices in Open Science are 
integrated into their HR processes and strategies. 

4.  Foster Open Science literacy as essential to European competitiveness at the global level, together 
with other digital and information competencies. Member States need to secure support for the 
development of an accredited curriculum for Open Science skills training that fosters Open Science 
behaviours such as IT and data literacy, from primary school through the whole educational 
system. 

5.  Implement a Europe-wide campaign, coordinated by the EC, to raise awareness and communicate 
the benefits of Open Science among decision makers, research and education bodies, private 
sector, industrial and citizen organisations. 

5 European Commission (2005) The European Charter for Researchers: The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers  

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2.2. Prioritised recommendations for the eight ambitions of Open Science 

Below are a set of actionable recommendations from the OSPP to be taken as the next step towards 
the longer-term vision articulated by Open Science consultations and expert groups set up by the 
EC and other organisations in Europe and worldwide. The recommendations have been split up into 
the eight priorities identified from the 5 areas of the European Open Science Agenda6, namely: 

  Rewards and Incentives 
  Research Indicators and Next-Generation Metrics 
  Future of Scholarly Communication 
  European Open Science Cloud 
  FAIR Data 
  Research Integrity 
  Skills and Education 
  Citizen Science 

The major stakeholder groups (as listed in the key below) who have the main responsibility to drive 
the actions stated in the recommendations have been listed alongside each one. 

Research & E-
Infrastructures 

Policy Making 
Organisations 

  Researchers 

  Research Libraries 

Research Funding 
Organisations 

Scientific Societies & 
Academies 

Universities & Research 
Performing Organisations 

  Publishers 

Citizen Science & Public 
Engagement Organisations 

Rewards and Incentives 

Funders, research 
institutions and other 
evaluators of researchers 
should actively 
develop/adjust evaluation 
practices and routines to 
give extra credit to 
individuals, groups and 
projects who integrate Open 
Science within their research 
practice. 

Studies must be 
commissioned and funded to 
propose guidelines for best 
practice and tools for 
research assessment by 
2019, together with an 
active delivery plan and 
associated timeline for their 
implementation. These 
guidelines must take into 
account career stage and 
discipline, and be 
appropriately tailored to 
their target such as 
individual, institution and so 
forth. Exemplars of 
innovation and good open 
science practice must be 
collated, taking into account 
the DORA Declaration, the 
Leiden Manifesto, the OS-
CAM and other relevant 
initiatives. 

Public research performing 
and funding organisations 
(RPOs/RFOs) should provide 
public and easily accessible 
information about the 
approaches and measures 
being used to evaluate 
researchers, research and 
research proposals. 

The traditional academic 
career structure 
disincentivises Open Science 
because of the current focus 
on tenured positions based 
solely or largely on 
publication output. 
Institutions need to have a 
career and reward structure 
for all researchers, and 
particularly for Early Career 
Researchers (ECRs), that 
values and promotes a 
diverse range of outputs, 
activities and career 
directions. This should 
include facilitating a means 
by which researchers can, 
for example, move between 
academia and industry or 
between national 
jurisdictions. 

6  Amsterdam  Call  for  Open  Science  (2016)  https://www.government.nl/documents/reports/2016/04/04/amsterdam-call-for-
action-on-open-science  

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Research Indicators and Next-Generation Metrics 

Evaluations of individual 
researchers or of research 
groups should not use 
journal brand or Impact 
Factor as a proxy for 
research quality. Those 
responsible for hiring, 
promotion, funding and/or 
the evaluation of researchers 
must use a broader, tailored 
range of quantitative and 
qualitative indicators of 
research activity, 
progression and impact that 
incentivises and rewards 
open research practice. All 
publication venues must 
prominently display a broad 
range of indicators for all 
research outputs.  

All researchers need to be 
identified through an ORCID 
ID. Best practice for 
CV/biosketch evaluation 
should be developed and 
publicly showcased to 
encourage a broader 
recognition of the range of 
verifiable (and especially 
open) contributions 
individuals make to the 
knowledge system, including 
teaching and peer review, 
and the production of a 
broad range of output types. 
The career narrative should 
be central to the evaluation 
of individual researchers as 
it provides the crucial 
context in which indicators 
can be interpreted. 

Quantitative and qualitative 
indicators need to be 
identified and developed for 
research assessment that 
captures the full range of 
contributions to the 
knowledge system. These 
should reflect the complexity 
and varied context of the 
research environment, the 
specific characteristics of the 
research being undertaken, 
as well as the new kinds of 
questions and results that 
might emerge in an open 
system. 

Experiments, pilots and case 
studies assessing the validity 
of such indicators need to be 
undertaken urgently, and 
included as part of FP9 with 
appropriate funding 
allocated to support them. 
The results and data of these 
pilots must be made publicly 
available as exemplars for 
further implementation. 

The data, metadata and 
methods that are relevant to 
research evaluation, 
including but not limited to 
citations, downloads and 
other potential indicators of 
academic re-use, should be 
publicly available for 
independent scrutiny and 
analysis by researchers, 
institutions, funders and 
other stakeholders. 

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Future of Scholarly Communication 

All published research 
outputs from public funding 
in Europe must be made 
public in a way that ensures 
both immediate Open Access 
and full text and data mining 
rights of that content, while 
being sensitive to 
disciplinary differences*. 
Venues used for the 
publication of research 
outputs must ensure long-
term archiving and provide 
clear, consistent and easily 
accessible and machine-
readable information on their 
Open Science policies. 

Each Member State, 
together with its respective 
stakeholders, must develop 
policies to guarantee 
compliance with the EU 
Open Access mandate, 
including both incentives and 
enforcement, by 2020. This 
needs to happen in ways 
that are sensitive to 
disciplinary differences, the 
financial investment required 
and fast-changing publishing 
systems. 

All authors must make their 
data and software (i.e. 
excluding, if relevant, data 
owned by third-parties, etc) 
appearing in their open 
access publications FAIR 
(Findable, Accessible, 
Interoperable and Reusable). 
To this end, a key 
requirement is deposition in 
a trusted repository that 
adheres to FAIR principles. 
In addition, all publications 
must include a statement of 
FAIR compliance for the 
source data underpinning 
their claims and the licence 
for its reuse. 

All publication venues must 
prominently display their 
Open Access and FAIR data 
policies. 

EOSC must have a long-term baseline 
funding commitment to become 
trustworthy. An agreement on how this 
is to be done needs to be decided 
within 12 months (by April 2019). The 
EC must take the lead in bringing the 
appropriate funders together. EOSC 
must be free and easy to use for 
research and education purposes. 

For FP9, all researchers must receive 
appropriate EOSC training and be 
required to deposit their research 
outcomes in EOSC-compliant 
infrastructures. This should be funded 
by a non-transferable allowable 
contribution from funders. To this end, 
access from all parties must be easy 
and inexpensive if it is to obtain 
universal support. 

EOSC 

The European Open Science Cloud 
(EOSC) needs to implement a robust, 
transparent and participative 
governance structure to ensure that it 
has the trust and confidence of all 
stakeholders, including Member States. 
It must also support the diversity of 
requirements across all disciplines. The 
structure should provide clear channels 
for feedback, and be compatible with 
other related initiatives including 
national, European and Global 
Research infrastructures to ensure 
interoperability and the free movement 
of information across all national and 
international boundaries and between 
disciplines, while being sensitive to 
ethical, societal and legal issues. The 
EC has to take the lead in bringing the 
relevant parties together to agree on 
how this should be done, including the 
rules of engagement and a range of 
business models by end-2019. 

* Despite significant discussion between OSPP members, complete consensus could not be reached and STM and EUCHEMS do 
not agree to this recommendation. 

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FAIR Data 

Funders and Research Performing 
Organisations should give credit for 
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and 
Reusable (FAIR) data resulting from 
research work, similar to publications, 
methods, code etc. 

Output Management Plans (OMPs, 
including Data Management Plans, 
DMPs) and their implementation should 
be mandatory for all research projects. 
OMPs should be machine readable and 
regularly modified to reflect ongoing 
research developments. 

Data resulting from publicly funded 
research must be made FAIR and 
citable, and be as open as possible, as 
closed as necessary. 

Research Integrity 

All published research 
outputs should be reported 
according to recognised 
community standards where 
they exist. 

For any research project, 
researchers should define 
conditions by which their 
work can be replicated or 
otherwise verified by others. 

All researchers must receive 
regular training and 
accreditation on research 
integrity pertaining to Open 
Science, including the 
ethical, legal and social 
implications of their research 
practices. Funders (including 
the EC through FP9) must 
ensure that there is 
adequate training given to 
the researchers they fund, 
either through the 
researcher’s institution, or 
provided via other means. 

Publishers, data platform 
and infrastructure providers 
must agree a standardised 
set of minimum quality 
control checks on outputs 
and openly display the 
results. The task of 
undertaking these 
independent checks needs to 
be adequately funded. 
Outputs that pass these 
checks should be recognised 
and rewarded in research 
and researcher evaluation 
systems, such as FP9. 

All research organisations 
must have a research 
integrity policy, including 
promotion of good research 
practices, clear procedures 
for dealing with allegations 
of research misconduct and 
a description of possible 
sanctions for proven cases of 
misconduct. This policy must 
be enforced and adequately 
staffed and financed to 
investigate any allegation 
pertinent to their staff. The 
processes for dealing with 
such issues should be public, 
transparent and prominently 
displayed.  Outcomes should 
be published where the 
allegations are upheld, 
taking into account the 
sensitivity of the issues 
involved. 

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Skills and Education 

Research Performing Organizations (RPOs) need to work 
towards the design of appropriate Open Science training that 
is consistent across Member States, including data literacy, 
ethics and research integrity, for:  

funders  and 

institutions  must  provide 
Policy  makers, 
incentives  and  support  towards  developing  Open  Science 
mentoring  and  training  within  a  supportive  culture  and 
environment.  

  All researchers, at all levels from early career researchers 
to senior researchers (R1-R4). Open Science skills need to 
be explicitly tailored to diverse career paths. 

A fundamental part of a researcher’s education is to have a 
common set of baseline skills on Open Science which must be 
integrated  in  the  European  Framework  of  Research  Careers 
(EFRC) and the Innovative Doctoral Training Principles (IDTP). 

  Research managers and 

administrators, and 
other staff involved in 
the research ecosystem 
(librarians, repository 
managers, IT services, 
data stewards, etc.). 

  Students (both 

undergraduate and 
graduate levels). 

Citizen Science 

Publicly funded Citizen 
Science projects (as part of 
FP9 projects) should actively 
apply the principles of Open 
Science (including openness 
and reuse of all research 
outputs, data and 
publications). 

The EC must support an 
online toolkit for Citizen 
Science in Europe. This tool 
must promote Citizen 
Science as a European asset, 
offering an entry point and 
mutual learning space, 
interconnecting with existing 
activities and infrastructures 
at the European, national 
and local level. It should 
highlight particular 
achievements and best 
practices, and promote a 
clear set of principles, 
guidelines & quality criteria 
for Citizen Science. 

Funding for Citizen Science 
projects should be flexible, 
long-term and allow for 
small or experimental 
projects in collaboration with 
key stakeholders to be 
funded. A small section of 
FP9 should be set aside for 
citizens to propose research 
topics or projects. These 
should be chosen on the 
basis that they are high risk, 
beyond traditional research 
fields and conform to the 
rigorous standards expected 
of other projects. Successful 
proposers will need to work 
with compliant institutions. 

Research-performing 
organisations (RPOs) are 
encouraged to promote 
infrastructures and human 
capacity to create a 
supportive and open 
environment for Citizen 
Science, which can further 
strengthen the outreach of 
RPOs to society. Research 
libraries are well placed, 
amongst others, to 
contribute actively to the 
necessary coordination and 
communication 
infrastructures as well as 
relevant training, fostering 
skills such as community 
management, co-production 
of knowledge, Open Science 
standards and social 
diversity.  Appropriate 
funding and incentives need 
to be put in place to support 
this endeavour. 

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Annex A   Glossary and Acronyms 

Term 

Definition 

DORA 

Declaration on Research Assessment [a.k.a.: SFDORA] [See] 

ECR 

EOSC 

EFRC 

FAIR 

FP9 

HLEG 

HRS4R 

IDTP 

NGO 

OA 

Early  Career  Researcher,  typically  R1-R2  level  of  researcher,  often  including 
researchers during their PhD up to 7-12 years after their PhD dissertation. 

European Open Science Cloud, a large infrastructure (cloud) for research data in 
Europe. EOSC is the vision of the EC to support and develop Open Science and 
Open Innovation in Europe and beyond, to give Europe a global lead in scientific 
data infrastructures and to ensure that European scientists reap the full benefits 
of data-driven science. [See] 

European Framework for Research Careers [See] 

Findable,  Accessible,  Interoperable  and  Reusable.  Set  of  agreed  principles 
applicable to Research Data. [See] 

Framework Programme 9, the research framework programme that will succeed 
Horizon 2020. [See] 

High Level Expert Group. Related expert groups established by the Commission. 
[See Annex C] 

The  ‘HR  Strategy  for  Researchers’,  which  supports  research  institutions  and 
funding organisations in the implementation of the Charter & Code in their policies 
and practices. [See] 

Innovative Doctoral Training Principles [See] 

Non-Governmental Organisation 

Open Access [See] 

OMPs 

Output Management Plans (includes Research Data Management Plans) 

ORCID 

Persistent digital identifier for researchers [See]. 

OS-CAM 

Open Science Career Assessment Matrix [See] 

OSPP 

Open  Science  Policy  Platform.  High  Level  Advisory  Group  established  by  the 
Commission  in  May  2016  to  provide  advice  on  the  development  and 
implementation of Open Science in Europe. [See Annex B and See] 

OSPP-REC 

The  prioritised  set  of  actionable  recommendations  issued  by  the  Open  Science 
Policy Platform members in April 2018. 

RFO 

RPO 

Research Funding Organisation 

Research Performing Organisation 

SFDORA 

San Francisco Declaration On Research Assessment. [See: DORA] 

SME 

Small and Medium Enterprise 

Trusted 
repository 

For the purpose of these recommendations, a Trusted Repository means a data 
repository  that  meets  the  Core  Trust  Seal  (CTS)  requirements,  a  collaborative 
assessment system of the DSA Data Seal of Approval (Research Data Alliance – 
RDA) and the ICSU (International Council for Science) World Data System. 

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Annex B   Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) members 

Name 

Representative organisation and 
Affiliation 

Stakeholder Group 

Sergio Andreozzi  

The EGI Foundation 

Open Science 
Platforms/Intermediaries 

Michela Bertero 

EU-LIFE (Alliance of 13 top research centres 

Research Organisations 

in life sciences to support and strengthen 
European research excellence), co-founder;  

Head of the International and Scientific Affairs 
Unit, CRG (Centre for Genomic Regulation, 
Barcelona, Spain) 

Kurt Deketelaere  

League of European Research Universities 
(LERU), Secretary General 

Universities 

Paul Ayris 

LERU co-Chair of the INFO Community 
(alternate representative) 

Jennifer Edmond 

Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and 
Humanities (DARIAH), Member of the 
DARIAH-IE steering committee 

Open Science 
Platforms/Intermediaries 

Manuela Epure 

The Alliance of Central and East European 
Universities (ACEU), Vice-President 

Universities 

Michele Garfinkel 

The European Molecular Biology Organization 
(EMBO), Manager of the EMBO Science Policy 
Programme 

Research organisations 

Tuija Hirvikoski  

European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), 
elected President 

Research organisations 

Kristiina Hormia 
Poutanen 

Association of European Research Libraries 
(LIBER), President 

Libraries 

Matthias Kleiner 

Science Europe, Member of Governing Board 

Funding Organisations 

Stephan Kuster 

Science Europe, Secretary General (alternate 
representative) 

Wolfram Koch 

European Association for Chemical and 
Molecular Sciences (EUCHEMS), Member of 
Executive Board 

Academies/Learned 
Societies 

Ernst Kristiansen 

European Association of Research and 
Technology Organisations (EARTO), Treasurer 
and Member of Executive Board 

Research organisations 

Rebecca Lawrence 
(OSPP-REC Chair) 

Sabina Leonelli 
(OSPP-REC 
Rapporteur) 

F1000, Managing Director 

Open Science 
Platforms/Intermediaries 

Global Young Academy (GYA), elected 
Member 

Academies/Learned 
Societies 

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Norbert Lossau 

European University Association (EUA), Vice-
President of the University of Göttingen 

Universities 

Karel Luyben 

The Conference of European Schools for 
Advanced Engineering Education and 
Research (CESAER), Vice-President Research, 
and Chairman of the Task Force on Open 
Science 

Universities 

Michael Mabe 

International Association of Scientific, 
Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), Chief 
Executive Officer 

Publishers 

Philip Carpenter 

STM Board Member (alternate representative) 

Catriona J. MacCallum 
(OSPP-REC 
Rapporteur) 

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association 
(OASPA), Chair of Policy Committee; Director 
of Open Science (Hindawi) 

Publishers 

Paul Peters 

OASPA President (alternate representative) 

Natalia Manola 

OpenAIRE, an open access infrastructure, 
Managing Director 

Open Science 
Platforms/Intermediaries 

Eva Méndez Rodríguez 

Young European Research Universities 
Network (YERUN); Deputy Vice-President for 
Scientific Policy, Open Science, Universidad 
Carlos III de Madrid 

Universities 

Christophe Rossel 

European Physical Society (EPS), Past-
President 

Academies/Learned 
Societies 

Matthew Scott 

GÉANT (A pan-European collaboration on e-
infrastructure and services for research and 
education), Chief Programmes Officer 

Open Science 
Platforms/Intermediaries 

Steve Cotter 

GÉANT Chief Executive Officer (alternate 
representative) 

Jan-Eric Sundgren 

Business Europe, Chairman of the Working 
Group for Research, Technology and 
Innovation 

Open Science 
Platforms/Intermediaries 

Michela Vignoli 

Young European Associated Researchers 
Network (YEAR), Board Member 

Academies/Learned 
Societies 

Johannes Vogel (OSPP 
Chair) 

European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), 
Chair 

Citizen Science 
Organisations 

Maike Weisspflug 

European Citizen Science Association 
(alternate representative) 

John Wood 

Research Data Alliance (RDA), Co-Chair, and 
Chair of RDA Europe 

Open Science 
Platforms/Intermediaries 

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Annex C   Relevant Reports 

EC High Level Expert Groups and outcomes (reports) 

High-level Expert Group on European Open Science Cloud I (2016) Realising the European Open Science 
Cloud 

High-level  Expert  Group  on  Next-Generation  Metrics  (2017)  Next-generation  metrics:  Responsible 
metrics and evaluation for open science  

High-level  Expert  Group  on  Rewards  and  Incentives  (2017)  Evaluation  of  Research  Careers  fully 
acknowledging  Open  Science  Practices:  Rewards,  incentives  and/or  recognition  for  researchers 
practicing Open Science  

High-level  Expert  Group  on  Education  and  Skills  (2017)  Providing  researchers  with  the  skills  and 
competencies they need to practise Open Science: Report of the Working Group on Education and Skills 
under Open Science  

Mutual Learning Exercise on Open Science - Altmetrics and Rewards (2017-2018) 

Reports are in progress on: 

-  FAIR Data 
-  European Open Science Cloud (Report II) 
-  Future of Scholarly Communication 
- 

Indicators 

Previous reports by specific OSPP Working Groups 

Recommendations on Open Science Publishing (adopted April 2017) 

Report on the governance and financial schemes for the European Open Science Cloud (adopted May 
2017) 

Recommendations of the OSPP on Next-Generation Metrics (adopted October 2017) 

Providing researchers with the skills and competencies they need to practise Open Science: Report of 
the Working Group on Education and Skills under Open Science (adopted October 2017) 

Evaluation of Research Careers fully acknowledging Open Science Practices: Rewards, incentives and/or 
recognition for researchers practicing Open Science (adopted November 2017) 

OSPP Combined Recommendations for the Embedding of Open Science (adopted March 2018) 

Recommendations of the OSPP on Citizen Science (adopted April 2018) 

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Getting in touch with the EU 

IN PERSON 
All over the European Union there are hundreds of Europe Direct Information Centres.  
You can find the address of the centre nearest you at: http://europa.eu/contact 

ON THE PHONE OR BY E-MAIL 
Europe Direct is a service that answers your questions about the European Union.  
You can contact this service  
– by freephone: 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (certain operators may charge for these calls),  
– at the following standard number: +32 22999696 or  
– by electronic mail via: http://europa.eu/contact 

Finding information about the EU 

ONLINE 
Information about the European Union in all the official languages of the EU is available on the Europa website at:  
http://europa.eu 

EU PUBLICATIONS 
You can download or order free and priced EU publications from EU Bookshop at:  
http://bookshop.europa.eu. Multiple copies of free publications may be obtained  
by contacting Europe Direct or your local information centre (see http://europa.eu/contact) 

EU LAW AND RELATED DOCUMENTS 
For access to legal information from the EU, including all EU law since 1951 in all the official language versions,  
go to EUR-Lex at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu 

OPEN DATA FROM THE EU 
The EU Open Data Portal (http://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data) provides access to  
datasets from the EU. Data can be downloaded and reused for free, both for commercial and  
non-commercial purposes. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
OSPP-REC  are  a  set  of  actionable  recommendations  from  the  EC’s  Open  Science  Policy 
Platform  (OSPP),  which  comprises  representatives  from  the  key  relevant  stakeholder 
groups  across  Europe.  These  recommendations  aim  to  provide  a  series  of  next  steps 
towards  the  longer-term  vision  articulated  by  Open  Science  consultations  and  expert 
groups  set  up  by  the  EC  and  other  organisations  in  Europe  and  worldwide.  The 
recommendations focus specifically on the  eight priorities identified  from the 5 areas of 
the European Open Science Agenda. 

Studies and Reports