Road2Openness – together in the Open Science Strategy Workshop

Road2Openness – together in the Open Science Strategy Workshop

Road2Openness – together in the Open Science Strategy Workshop Chemnitz University of Technology is one of five higher education institutions that have successfully applied to take part in the Open Science Strategy Workshop of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V. (Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany). As part of the project, the Stifterverband will support them for a year with workshops, consultation hours, exchange and networking.

Chemnitz University of Technology is represented by Professor Strobel, Vice-Rector for Research and University Development, and Ms. Malz, Head of the University Library. The targeted participation of the management level and the practical perspective should lead to synergy effects for Open Science (OS).

The primary task is to develop an OS policy for Chemnitz University of Technology. To this end, existing structures are to be built upon and, if necessary, the existing Open Science initiative of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is to be further developed into a university-wide structure.

Specific objectives are the adoption of an Open Science strategy, including recommendations on open licences, open research data, the sensible use of AI and the creation of an organizational basis for permanent, effective cross-organizational structures and workflows.

Findings from the project strengthen our own expertise on Open Science, which in turn can be incorporated into other projects, for example in the European-funded project “across European Cross-Border University”. There, the task group “Across border R&I projects” deals with the implementation of Open Science in the 10 participating European Universities in order to implement sustainable models for the sharing of knowledge in cross-border regions.