Presentation at the “Open Science: connecting the actors” event on the 21st of November 2022: Share best practices, foster community, and encourage knowledge-sharing on Open Science. At the heart of the Open Access Belgium community is the ambition to open up the way we organize and conduct scientific research. The Open Science teams of the Belgian universities have developed and tested a wide range of training methods, training materials, networking activities and data solutions to facilitate and foster Open Science. Achievements, tools and lessons learned by different institutions will be shared in this networking event. Programme can be found here: https://openaccess.be/2022/10/04/open-science-connecting-the-actors/

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2. The YUFE Open Science Label
Martijn Van Roie - 2022

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What is YUFE?
 Young Universities for the Future
of Europe
 Consortium of 10 Universities
and 3 partners
 Form a European University
 Study programmes
 Projects

4. The YUFE Full Open Science Label
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 Pilot project
 Designed to increase awareness of
Open Science
 Strengthen assessment methodologies
of Universities
 Give research groups a chance to show
their OS practices
Figure: openaccess.be CC-BY 4.0

5. How it works
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Research
Group applies
Choose
criteria
Achieve
criteria
Gain FOS
Label
• 2 mandatory
• 3 extra

6. How it works  Support staff
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Research
Group applies
Choose
criteria
Achieve
criteria
Gain FOS
Label
• 2 mandatory
• 3 extra
Contact
moment
Initial
check
Gather
data
Outreach

7. The Criteria
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 Mandatory requirements
 Researchers have an ORCID
 Publications (A1, peer reviewed books) are Open Access
 Optional requirements
 PhD theses Open Access
 Use of Open licenses for publications, data, source code or OER
 Metadata of research data Open Access, research data OA
 Data comply with FAIR principles
 Use of Open notebooks or code

8. The Criteria
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 Optional requirements
 Preregistered studies
 Researchers participated in Open Peer review
 Researchers disseminated about Open Science
 The group has a Citizen Science project

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End of the pilot
 Research groups get the FOS
Label
 Outreach campaign
 Start of a new call?

10. The Criteria - quantification
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 Some of these criteria are hard to quantify
 Use of common sense
 The goal is raising awareness and update methodologies
 High reliance on our Institutional Repository
 ORCID
 Open Access of publications, theses, etc.
 Open and FAIR data
 Together with our data stewards

11. Status and take-away
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 6 research groups showed interest, 2 officially signed up
 Multiple disciplines
 Different emphasis on criteria
 We learned about methodology!
 Differences with other Universities
 Streamlining our methods
 Links with other initiatives
 E.g., FOSB KPI’s

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 Coördination (RIVA):
• Margaux Kersschot
 RIVA:
• Maarten Vermeyen
• Pieter Spooren
 ADBIB:
• Els Schaerlaekens
• Martijn Van Roie
• Rudi Baccarne
The actors