FOSTER Project Steering Committee and Advisory Board meeting
EIFL to participate in FOSTER Project Steering Committee, Advisory Board meeting, and will also contributing to recording FOSTER e-learning courses in Delft Technical University

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Event Date: 26 May 2015 - 27 May 2015
Delft, Netherlands
Psychology students are trained on how to foster open science in their daily workflows in Serbia. EIFL led the training as part of the FOSTER (Facilitate European Science Training for European Research) project.

EIFL Open Access Programme Manager Iryna Kuchma and EIFL Open Access Programme Coordinator Gwen Franck will attend the FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) Project Steering Committee and Advisory Board meeting on May 26, 2015, hosted by Delft Technical University in The Netherlands.

On May 27, 2015, Kuchma and Franck will join the FOSTER team in recording e-learning courses for researchers and students, research administrators and librarians, research project managers and staff working in funding bodies.

  • The FOSTER team is currently working on developing the following e-learning courses that will be released in Autumn 2015:
  • Open Research Data Pilot in Horizon 2020 course lead by Digital Curation Center (DCC);
  • Open access to publications in Horizon 2020 course lead by Minho University;
  • Making your open access repository/ open access journal OpenAIRE compliant /compliant with Horizon 2020 open access policy requirements course also lead by Minho University;
  • Open Science (Introductory course) for PhD students lead by Danish Technical University and Open University;
  • How to design a successful open access policy course lead by SPARC Europe; and
  • Good practice approaches to populating open access repository course also lead by SPARC Europe.

When released, some courses will also be translated into French, Spanish and Polish languages.

BACKGROUND

EIFL is a partner in FOSTER; a European Commission funded project that aims to support different stakeholders, especially young researchers, in practicing OA, open data sharing and open science. EIFL leads the training programme. Read more about EIFL’s involvement in the project here and the 2015 projects events here.

 

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