Centrum Cyfrowe and ICM  (Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling, University of Warsaw) will run a FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) co-funded training session about open access (OA) for the staff of the National Science Centre in Kraków, Poland.

The training session begins today (May 7-8) and aims to help staff at the National Science Centre to understand the changes that are happening in research communication in Poland and around the world.

Participants will be trained on how to inform researchers that receive funding from the National Science Centre about the possibilities and advantages of OA, as well as learning how to implement an open policy at the National Science Centre.

More information about the training can be found here.

BACKGROUND

EIFL and ICM are partners in the European Commission (EC) funded project FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) that  delivers training programmes for researchers and other stakeholders in practising OA, open data sharing and open science. 

Read more about EIFL’s involvement in the project here and about the projects events in 2015 here.

EIFL and Centrum Cyfrowe (a Key Node organization) are also partners in the PASTEUR4OA (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research) project which helps develop and/or reinforce OA strategies and policies at the national level and facilitate their coordination in Europe. 

Find more information about EIFL's involvement in the project here.