The document summarizes the European Commission's support for open science initiatives. It discusses the EC's consultation on open science which identified four main drivers of open science: big data, digitization of research, global science community, and public demand. It also lists several EU-funded open science projects and notes that the EC aims to provide the best conditions for European researchers through its open science policies.

1. Open Science and the
European Commission
Jean-François Dechamp, Pharm.D
European Commission, Directorate General Research & Innovation
Pointers following a keynote speech at #EUNIS16
8-10 June 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece

2. Introduction
Aaron Schwartz
• Fellowship from the Blinken Open Society Archives in
Hungary (link)
Alexandra Elbakyan
• Article about @Sci-Hub (link)
EC Consultation on Open Science (Science 2.0)
• Final report (link)
• Four main drivers: Big data, digitisation of research,
global science community and public demand

3. Commissioner Carlos Moedas (link)
Open innovation
Open science (link)
Open to the world

4. Pointers
Open access
• Example of the European Bioinformatics Institute of EMBL (link)
• All you ever wanted to know about open access and the
European Commission... (link)
A few EU-financed projects
• OpenAIRE, MedOANet, RECODE, FOSTER, FutureTDM,
OpenMinTeD
Communication on the European Open Science Cloud
(link)
Council Conclusions on Open Science (link)
• Watch the debate – you can select your country (link)
Open Science Policy Platform (link)

5. Thank you!
We want to give European researchers and
innovators the best conditions to do their job.
Twitter: @OpenAccessEC
Mail: RTD-open-access@ec.europa.eu
Web: http://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/
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