Open Science - Where do we go from here?

Open Science: Where do we go from here? Dr. Katja Mayer, Center for Social Innovation, Vienna, Austria When looking at the calendar for events under the 2018 Austrian presidency of the European Union, we get the impression Open Science is dominating the STI agenda and research policy discussions. However, when we look around us here in Austria, we see a lot of wonderful initiatives and bottom-up activities, but only rarely we face real political commitment, and definitely no sustainable visibility on national policy level yet. Whereas there is a strong push from the EU to foster a multi-dimensional transition to Open Science, there is no common baseline for how to implement Open Science nationally. In my talk I will report on the outcomes of mutual learning exercise (MLE) that was set up by the Commission and 13 countries to address this. In this Open Science MLE we embraced a hands-on, ‘learning by doing’ approach supported by external expertise. Concrete examples, models, best practices and knowledge exchanges fostered broader understanding of the implications and benefits of Open Science strategies, covering key elements of the European Open Science Agenda and thus the needs for Assessing the potential of non-traditional metrics or ‘altmetrics’ while considering matters of transparency and responsibility; Creating the right incentives and rewards for a range of actors to engage in Open Science activities; Developing guidelines for designing and implementing national policies and cross-national cooperation for Open Science. Based on the outcomes of the MLE I will then address several pressing issues of successfully campaigning for Open Science and take up some of the topics that were discussed over the last days at this very conference, most importantly the questions, how we can ensure to measure what matters, and what is needed in terms of best practices and role models to foster a transition to Open Science that rests on close cooperation of all relevant actors in the STI ecosystem.