In 2019, a partnership agreement was signed between the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture of the Republic of Moldova and the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova within the framework of the Erasmus + project “MINERVA-Strengthening Research Management and Open Science Capacities of HEIs in Moldova and Armenia". 

The main aim of the MINERVA is to develop conditions for the implementation of the core principles of Open Science at universities in Moldova and Armenia. The Project specific objective is threefold:

• To advance national and institutional guidelines, policies, and incentives related to the open science in Moldova and Armenia,
• To establish digital repositories at all project`s partner HEIs in Moldova and Armenia and to foster their infrastructural development and interoperability, and
• To build human research capacities in order to ensure the sustainable implementation of open science principles and enhance the social inclusiveness and accountability of publicly funded research.

More details please find here: www.minerva-project.ase.md

Given the importance of the Open Science (OS), the provisions of the National Plans, first of all the National Roadmap for the integration of the Republic of Moldova in the European Research Area for 2019-2021 - GD 1081/2018, the National Program in Research and Innovation for 2020-2023 - GD 381/2019 and the international commitments of the Republic of Moldova (RM), especially those stipulated in the Association Agreement to the European Union (chapters 18 and 24), the project`s team of the  Information Society Development Institute (IDSI) carried out a series of research activities that served as a scientific and methodological support for an open, responsible and sustainable national research.

The planned activities focused on:

• Establishing the current situation of Open Science in the Republic of Moldova in terms of initiatives, the existing national framework and international good practices;
• Development of a conceptual framework for the promotion of Open Science at national and institutional level;
• Providing a scientific-practical support to the authorities and institutions for the implementation of the Open Science concept.

Through the results obtained in the project, the research team contributed to eliminating differences between different disciplines and institutions, between different actors and organizations on the concept of Open Science, as well provided methodological and applied support in implementing institutional and national policies on Open Science.

More details please find here: https://idsi.md/boosting-engagement-of-RM-in-OS

is a 2-year, EU-funded project, carried out by 11 partners across 6 countries. The primary aim is to contribute to a real and lasting shift in the behaviour of European researchers to ensure that Open Science (OS) becomes the norm. 

Research communities, research performing institutions, and research funders have each recognised that OS skills are increasingly essential for researchers to undertake responsible research and innovation. While there is increasing agreement around the need to improve OS skills amongst all stakeholders, the adoption of OS approaches has been quite limited to date. Indeed, general awareness of OS approaches has improved among EU researchers. However, there is still a lack of practical guidance and training to help researchers learn how to open up their research within a particular domain or research environment. For this reason, FOSTER Plus places specific emphasis on creating discipline-specific guidance and is partnering with expert organisations representing the scientific areas of life science, social science and humanities.

FOSTER Plus will enhance existing materials and co-produce new training content. The resources will be discipline-specific and their practical and tangible outcomes can directly be applied into researchers’ daily practices. The training activities will be addressed to all relevant stakeholders in the European Research Area, with a focus on young scientists, academic staff and policy makers. A strong train-the-trainer approach and network of open science trainers to act as ambassadors will help to reach a wide audience.

More details please find here: https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/

BE-OPEN is a 30-months Horizon 2020 Coordination and Support Action that started on 01 January 2019, and addresses the call MG-4-2-2018 Building Open Science platforms in transport research.

1. Develop a framework to establish a common understanding of operationalizing Open Science in Transport. Put forward a common understanding of the main principles and practices of open science, identify the needs, benefits and means so as to ensure an appropriate and sustainable implementation and uptake.
2. Map existing Open Science resources and see how transport research fits in. Create a solid knowledge base on the implementation of Open Science approaches in transport research and exploit opportunities, synergies and integration with existing e-Infrastructures and emerging EOSC.
3. Facilitate an evidence-based dialogue to promote and establish Open Science in transport. Develop an Open Science in Transport Observatory and Forum of national, European and international stakeholders (from the public and private sector) so as to exchange ideas and share experiences and best practices for operationalising Open Science principles in transport research.
4. Provide the policy framework and guidance for open science implementation in transport. Consensually come up with, establish and promote the ground rules that will allow all stakeholders, existing tools and platforms, as well as resources and content to become an integral part of the Open Science in the transport research domain
5. Engage a broad range of stakeholders in a participatory process for Open Science uptake. Develop a uniform and common strategy for approaching and engaging with all key communities in transport research, engaging them in a co-design process to help ensure that Open Science and BE OPEN results meet their needs and are usable. Engage with international partners for sharing experiences and exploiting successful approaches.

More details please find here: https://beopen-project.eu/the-project

Over the past decade, infrastructure has become the indispensable backbone of science. e-infrastructures, research infrastructures, data infrastructures and other facilities, big and small; local, national and international; centralized or distributed; disciplinary and cross- or multi-disciplinary; consisting of computer networks, machines, grids, clouds, data centres, knowledge and expertise providers, methodological and standards groups, data-scientists and other data experts, e-science engineers, and so on. Now the time has come to fit these components and bring the people into an overarching common, which the European Open Science Cloud aims to provide. The FAIRsFAIR project addresses, in a 36 months’ time plan, the development and concrete realisation of an overall ​knowledge infrastructure on academic quality data management, procedures, standards, metrics and related matters, based on the FAIR principles.

FAIRsFAIR will play a key role in the development of global standards for FAIR certification of repositories and the data within them contributing to those policies and practices that will turn the EOSC programme into a functioning infrastructure. In the end, FAIRsFAIR will provide a platform for using and implementing the FAIR principles in the day to day work of European research data providers and repositories. FAIRsFAIR will also deliver essential FAIR dimensions of the Rules of Participation (RoP) and regulatory compliance for participation in the EOSC. The EOSC governance structure will use these FAIR aligned RoPs to establish whether components of the infrastructure function in a FAIR manner.

More details please find here: https://www.fairsfair.eu/