This document summarizes a meeting about calls for organic research in Horizon 2020. It discusses open access policies for publications and research data and how to make proposals more competitive by complying with these policies. Specifically, it recommends including a checklist of open access requirements and a detailed data management strategy. It proposes that Agro-Know and Organic Eprints serve as the specific thematic node for agricultural and food research, helping projects publish outputs and share data through open access repositories to disseminate organic research.

1. National Editors meeting
Babis Thanopoulos
Agro-Know
28-29/10/2015, Rome
Horizon 2020 calls for Organic Research:
The role of Organic Eprints

2. THE CONTEXT

4. thematic topics

5. H2020 calls related to Organic Agriculture

6. H2020: Open Access to
Publications & Research Data

7. Other relevant open access
policies

8. KEY PROBLEMS FOR A SUCCESSFUL
H2020 PROPOSAL

9. It is time consuming to design and to describe
properly in the proposal how it will be compliant
with the Open Access policy
It is difficult to figure out how the H2020 proposal
can be more competitive by joining the Open
Research Data Pilot
It is difficult to figure out how the H2020 proposal
can be more competitive by having a Research
Data Management Plan

10. HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS

11. successful H2020 proposals
(1) checklist of the Open Access requirements for a
proposal
(2) description of the Data Management Strategy
for a proposal

12. 1. CHECKLIST OF THE OPEN ACCESS
REQUIREMENTS FOR A PROPOSAL
Successful H2020 proposals

13. Proposal checklist with H2020 Open Access requirements (1/4)

14. Proposal checklist with H2020 Open Access requirements (2/4)

15. Proposal checklist with H2020 Open Access requirements (3/4)

16. Proposal checklist with H2020 Open Access requirements (4/4)

17. 2. INCLUDE A DETAILED DESCRIPTION
OF A DATA MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IN
A H2020 PROPOSAL
Successful H2020 proposals

18. Description of the Data Management Strategy for H2020
Proposals

19. HOW THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR IS
SERVED

20. • specific thematic node for agricultural & food
research of the European OpenAIRE data
infrastructure:
– a registry of open access repositories, software
services and tools
– guidelines for the implementation of H2020 Open
Access requirements (e.g. Data Management Plan)
– publication & linkage of H2020 projects outcomes
(publications & data sets)
– hub for disseminating research outcomes to EU and
global e-infrastructures (e.g. OpenAIRE, FAO AGRIS,
CIARD RING)

23. ACTIONS:
LETS BECOME THE SPECIFIC THEMATIC
NODE IN ORGANIC RESEARCH

24. 1. Become the open access inventory for publications and
data sets in Organic Agriculture
2. Specific Organic Agriculture guidelines for the
implementation of the Open Access requirements
3. Disseminate all the Organic projects publications and
associated metadata to the European agINFRA@OpenAIRE
4. Disseminate all the Organic projects publications and
associated metadata to the global FAO AGRIS
5. Set up an online help desk service for Organic Research
projects & Institutions

25. Join the Organic Research community
I want to disseminate
my publications
through agINFRA &
Organic Eprints
I want to disseminate
my research data
through agINFRA &
Organic Eprints

26. thank you!
cthanopoulos@agroknow.com
http://www.agroknow.com