Before this workshop, I wasn’t very familiar with the term Open Science. After this workshop, I believe this new approach has a lot of advantages for the research field. Open Science seeks to extend the principles of openness not only in the publication of research results, but in the whole research cycle. I totally agree with this idea, since I believe that scientific knowledge is the result of social collaboration and therefore its ownership must belong to the community.
Thanks to this workshop, I learn how many institutions are involved in Open Science and support this change in the concept of science. I believe that all together we can lead the transition from old-fashioned science to a new, better and open science. Every scientist should contribute to this change. For us as PhD students, we can engage in Open Science without and intensive effort by posting preprints of all manuscripts un public repositories, publishing in open access venues and publicly sharing data and materials.
In the future I can open my eyes for Open Science practices to be included in R&D and Innovation projects I help to define in my job (partially sponsored by a Public Research Agency) and it should be possible:
• Opening data about “Problem Statement and Validation” may be preceded by Open-Access Research in order to invest after in the Solution Acquisition, Integration or Construction, mostly asking for some Public Funding (not necessary European – just 30% or less), even if it’s not requested.
• Solution benefits can be published also in an Open-Access manner with some benefits for Developers in creating Trusting and allowing others to do it better.