
Open Science in Belgium
Promoting Open Science
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- Slides – Connecting the actorsOn November 21st we welcomed over 70 participants to the Open Science conference: “Connecting the actors”. You can find the presentations here: Pitches: Best practices in Open Access training UAntwerp: YUFE open science labelContinue reading “Slides – Connecting the actors”
- Open Science : connecting the actors!Open Access Belgium would like to invite you to join the “Open Science: connecting the actors” event on the 21st of November to share best practices, foster community, and encourage knowledge-sharing on Open Science. TheContinue reading “Open Science : connecting the actors!“
- Slides and recordings – Open Science webinars – free and FAIR Open AccessIn the context of the International Open Access Week (Oct. 25-31, 2021), Open Access Belgium organized two webinars, one on Open access free alternatives for Researchers and one themed around FAIR open access as aContinue reading “Slides and recordings – Open Science webinars – free and FAIR Open Access”

What is Open Science
FOSTER defines Open Science (OS) as the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research and its underlying data and methods.

Open Science in Belgium
Belgium recognized in an early stage the importance of Open Science. An overview of the Belgian Open Science policies and legislation can be found here.

Infrastructure and support
Open Science is mostly dependent on digital infrastructure.You can find an overview of tools that can help you such as repositories and EOSC.