National Open Science Strategy

Abstract

National Open Science Strategy (ENCA 2023-2027) emphasizes the development of robust and interoperable digital infrastructures to facilitate seamless integration into the international open science ecosystem, particularly the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its mission is:

1) strengthening the quality, transparency and reproducibility of scientific activity in Spain;

2) improving dissemination among scientific personnel and transfer to society, and

3) designing the ways to answer to the Spanish scientific community challenges under this new global paradigm.

ENCA outlines the creation of a comprehensive plan to ensure that all open science digital infrastructures in Spain are interoperable. This plan aligns with guidelines from EOSC and OpenAIRE, and incorporates services like RECOLECTA for repository certification, the Standardised Curriculum Vitae (CVN), and the FECYT journal evaluation services.

The strategy promotes the management of research data following the FAIR principles—Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable—to enhance data localization, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability.

Overview

Country	Spain
Start date	2023
Annual Budget	n/a
Responsible organisation(s)	Funding institution
Target group(s)	Established researchers|Higher education institutes|Students|Junior researchers|Private R&D|Public research institutes
Policy instrument type	Strategies, agendas and plans

Background

The Ministry of Science and Innovation created the Open Science Commission (COS) at the end of 2018, whose work has been coordinated by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT). The objective of this commission has been to define, through a participatory process, the principles and objectives of the National Open Science Strategy. To this end, it has been structured into two groups, one at political level (COS-Gob) and the other at technical level (COS-Tec), both with representatives from the Ministries of Science and Innovation, Universities and Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, the State Research Agency (AEI) and the National Agency for Quality Assessment (ANECA), as well as key executing agents such as the State Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), the Carlos III Health Institute Carlos III (ISCIII), the alliance of Severo Ochoa centers and María de Maeztu units (SOMMA) and the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE).

The Council of Ministers has approved on May 3, 2023 the National Open Science Strategy for the period between 2023 and 2027, d between 2023 and 2027, elaboratedd by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Ministry of Universities.

Objective(s)

To guarantee the existence of interoperable digital infrastructures that are sufficiently robust and well articulated.

To facilitate the integration of these digital infraastructures into the international ecosystem and their integration, where appropriate, into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

To promote the proper management of research data generated by the national STI system through the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles to increase its localization, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability.

To implement open and free access by default to publications and scientific results financed directly or indirectly with public funds, for all citizens.

To establish new research evaluation mechanisms and a system of incentives and recognition aimed at promoting open science practices, as well as training staff (researcher, manager, funder, evaluator) to align their professional performance with the principles open science.

Public access URL

https://www.ciencia.gob.es/InfoGeneralPortal/documento/c30b29d7-abac-4b31-9156-809927b5ee49

https://www.ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/2023/mayo/El-Gobierno-aprueba-la-primera-Estrategia-Nacional-de-Ciencia-Abierta.html

All tags

• Technical Standards & Practices
• Spain
• 2023
• Funding institution
• Established researchers
• Higher education institutes
• Students
• Junior researchers
• Private R&D
• Public research institutes
• Strategies, agendas and plans
• Interoperability

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