Recent newsletters
The last two FOSTER Train-the-Trainer bootcamps in Lithuania and Serbia: report
In April 2019, FOSTER co-organised no less than three train-the-trainer bootcamps. As the project has now ended, these were the last ones we gave in this format, and we went out with a bang!
The idea behind this bootcamp is not to give training about open science as such, but rather to train the participants (who are open science experts themselves) to pass on their experience, knowledge and skills to others - and also to learn from their colleagues' experiences.
About the bootcamp in The Hague you can read more here.
"This is how you make Open Science...
The FOSTER Open Science Training Handbook: An Open Educational Resource Translated into Spanish
FOSTER Plus, had as its main objective to contribute to a real and permanent change in the behaviour of European researchers to ensure that Open Science became a standard.
Building Open Science Capacity in HEI through mobility
Open Science has climbed on the EC agenda in recent years. It touches aspect from skills of future researchers to societal impact of public funded research, and conflict and synergies with standard practices for commercialization of research. The current draft of EC’s next multi-billion Research & Innovation funding framework, Horizon EUROPE, even dedicates an entire pillar to it, with the ambition to change research culture throughout.
Open Science in the humanities blog competition - Open Access and Open Data: Perspectives from an Early Career Researcher and OA Advocate
Dr James L. Smith is an author, editor and advocacy coordinator for the Open Library of Humanities.He is one of the winners of DARIAH-EU's blog competition about Open Science in the humanities. James is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship in the department of geography at Trinity College Dublin within the spatial and...
Open Science in the humanities blog competition - "Digital Thesis"
Stefan Stevović studies History at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy. He is one of the winners of DARIAH-EU's blog competition about Open Science in the humanities. Stefan holds a Bachelor's Degree in History, participated in two Erasmus student exchanges (Università di Pisa (History) &Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Political science)) and vol...
Release of the FOSTER Open Science toolkit
Release of the FOSTER Open Science toolkit
FOSTER Plus developed a set of ten free online courses covering key topics of Open Science. Each course takes about one hour to complete and a badge is awarded after successful completion. You will need to create a free account on the FOSTER portal if you wish to claim your badge but the cours...
DARIAH-EU takes over FOSTER's Twitter account
FOSTER's training activities target several disciplinary communities to implement a cultural change towards Open Science. Our consortium and associated partners help us to address the needs of these communities in our training activities and materials. For instance, they provided discipline-specific case studies for the new training courses. DARIAH-EU is pan...
OpenAIRE becomes a fully fledged organisation
OpenAIRE becomes a fully fledged organisation
An EU organisation to facilitate openness in scholarly communication
October 29, 2018
CRG takes over FOSTER's Twitter account
FOSTER's training activities target several disciplinary communities to implement a cultural change towards Open Science. Our consortium partners ensure that all needs of these communities are addressed in our training activities and materials. For instance, they provided discipline-specific case studies for the new training courses. The Centre for Genomic Regulation