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21 September 2022 News

Kick-off meeting of the OPUS project

The Open and Universal Science (OPUS) Project Kick Off Conference, coordinated and hosted by PLOCAN, took place on September 19–20, 2022 at PLOCAN premises in Telde, Gran Canaria, Spain. It is the first conference gathering all OPUS Project Consortium partners in one place since the project started on September 1. In the following period of 36 months, OPUS will conduct a specific focus on reforming the research(er) assessment system to incentivise and reward researchers to take up Open Science practices: providing open access to research outputs, early

10 September 2022 News

Joint Statement on the EU Council conclusions on Research Assessment and the Implementation of Open Science

Together with European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc), Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), Young Academy of Europe (YAE), and Global Young Academy (GYA) we published a joint statement on the EU Council conclusions on Research Assessment and the Implementation of Open Science, and multilingualism. The joint statement is available on Zenodo: Eurodoc, MCAA, YAE, ICoRSA, & GYA. (2022). Joint Statement on the EU Council conclusions on Research Assessment and the Implementation of Open Science. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7066808

1 September 2022 News

OPUS project – Open and Universal Science

The OPUS project is an EU-funded project implemented by an eighteen-organisations consortium led by The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN). The main goal is to develop coordination and support measures to reform the assessment of research(ers), along with the following: Conduct a comprehensive state-of-the-art on existing literature and initiatives for Open Science Develop a comprehensive set of interventions to implement Open Science at RPOs and RFOs Develop realistic indicators and metrics to monitor and drive Open Science at RPOs and RFOs Test the

18 July 2022 News

ICoRSA at EuroScience Open Forum ESOF 2022

ICoRSA participated at ESOF 2022 with Dr Gordon Dalton, our chair attending in person in Leiden, Netherlands. Together with Young Academy Leiden, Young Academy of Europe, CRAC-Vitae, ICoRSA discussed alternatives to the current paradigm of academic careers. Our joint session was called “Opening alternative academic career paths – breaking bottlenecks and existing norms that perpetuate precarity”. ICoRSA also present a poster on the RRING Community working together with UNESCO’s Recommendations for Science and Scientific Researchers.