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Open Science
Open Science is key to strengthening scientific excellence, transparency, and impact in the European Research Area. By making research outputs accessible, reusable, and interoperable, Open Science accelerates discovery, improves trust in research, and ensures that public investment in science delivers the greatest possible societal benefit.
In the ERA Policy Agenda (2025–2027), Open Science is addressed through the structural policy “Enabling open science via sharing and reuse of data, including through the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).” This policy aims to make Open Science practices and skills the norm, strengthen legal frameworks for data sharing, and build a federated, community-driven infrastructure through EOSC. In addition, the ERA Policy Agenda includes an ERA Action dedicated to Applying Equity in Open Science, recognising the need for fair access to resources, infrastructures, skills, and incentives across Europe.
In the ERA Policy Agenda (2022–2024), the focus was on laying the groundwork for an ecosystem that supports seamless access and reliable reuse of research data. Action 1: Enable Open Science, including through the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), aimed at deploying Open Science principles, expanding EOSC, and establishing monitoring systems to track progress in skills, infrastructures, and investment. Complementing this, Action 2: Propose an EU copyright and data legislative framework for research, focused on developing a supportive legal environment, ensuring that researchers could share and reuse scientific outputs more openly and effectively.
ERA tools and resources
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
Strengthened implementation of EOSC as a federated infrastructure providing access to FAIR data, tools, and services. (eosc.eu)
EOSC Open Science Observatory
platform where you can access, explore, visualize and download comprehensive data on the advancement of Open Science (OS) across Europe.
EOSC EU Node
A central access point to research data, tools and services within the European Open Science Cloud, supporting researchers in finding, sharing and reusing research outputs.
EOSC Macro-Roadmap
An interactive catalogue of EOSC project results, supporting users in discovering services, tools and developments across the EOSC landscape.
EOSC Federation
The evolving network of EOSC nodes and services that enables interoperability and seamless access to research data and services across Europe.
Source: ERA Policy Platform, INSPIRING ERA
INSPIRING ERA activities
Discover key insights, event materials, and practical resources from INSPIRING ERA activities on the topic of Open Science:
- Secondary Publication Rights for research. What are the options to openly publish your research?
Materials from the European Online Event held on 19 May 2025. - EU Copyright & Data Access Rights for Research in the Age of AI
Materials from the INSPIRING ERA Exchange held on 9 July 2025.
Related EU projects and initiatives
Explore EU-funded projects and initiatives that contribute to advancing Open Science
- DIOSI – Training Early Career Researchers (2021-2022)
Project developing and implementing hands-on training on Open Science and Open Innovation for early career researchers creating a virtuous circle between training and evaluation.
- ZOOOM Project (2022-2024)
Project raising awareness on the importance of intellectual property generation and management in collaborative innovation ecosystems which rely on open source software, open (source) hardware and open data.
- OPUS.eu – Open and Universal Science Project (2022-2025)
Project developing coordination and support measures to reform the assessment of research and researchers towards a system that incentivises and rewards researchers to take up Open Science practices.
- Pattern (2023-2026)
Project piloting Open and Responsible Research & Innovation through training modules that strengthen transferable skills across all career stages—empowering institutions to embed more transparent, inclusive, and socially-engaged research practices. - OAPEN Foundation
Not-for-profit organisation based in the Netherlands dedicated to open access, peer-reviewed books, promoting and supporting the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. - OpenAIRE
Non-profit organization with a mission to ensure a permanent open scholarly communication infrastructure to support European research. - EOSC Association – Advancing Open Science in Europe
The EOSC Association works to advance Open Science in the service of creating new knowledge, inspiring education, spurring innovation and promoting accessibility and transparency. IP4OS (2025-2026)
The IP4OS project helps research organisations integrate agile intellectual property management with open science practices, strengthening skills, infrastructures, and safeguards to ensure FAIR and secure research outputs within the ERA.DIAMAS (2022-2025)
The DIAMAS project advances Diamond Open Access by supporting the professionalisation of institutional publishing in Europe and developing shared tools, financial models, and capacity-building resources for the European Diamond Capacity Hub.- DataGEMS (2025-2027)
explores data discovery and management platform to make datasets discoverable, combinable and explorable - EOSC-Focus (2022-2025)
Supports the implementation and consolidation of the European Open Science Cloud by coordinating activities, aligning stakeholders and strengthening the EOSC ecosystem. - EOSC Data Commons (2025-2028)
Develops a coordinated approach to intellectual property and open science practices, providing guidance and best practices to support data sharing and reuse across the EOSC ecosystem. - AI4EOSC (2022-2025)
Provides artificial intelligence tools for EOSC data services. - FAIR-IMPACT (2022-2025)
Implements FAIR data principles across the EOSC.
