Strategy 2020-2024
Open science is a policy priority for the European Commission and the standard method of working under its research and innovation funding programmes as it improves the quality, efficiency and responsiveness of research.
Aims for open science policy under Horizon Europe :
- ensure that beneficiaries retain the intellectual property rights they need to comply with their open access obligations
- require research data to be FAIR and open by default (with exceptions notably for commercial purposes)
- promote the adoption of open science practices, from sharing research outputs as early and widely as possibly, to citizen science, and developing new indicators for evaluation research and rewarding researchers
- engage and involve citizens, civil society organisations and end-users in co-design and co-creation processes and promote responsible research and innovation
- European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will enter its next stage of development in 2021
- fund the development of an open-access publishing platform to host Horizon 2020 (and later Horizon Europe) beneficiaries’ publications
