UEFISCDI, host of the Romanian Open Science Knowledge Hub and the Romanian Programme Operator for the Research Programme under EEA and Norway Grants organizes the on-line international workshop “Building Consistency for Open Science in Europe – rhetorics and practices”. For two days (19 – 20 April 2021) internationally renowned experts will give presentations and share their experience on the challenges associated with making open science a reality. A special focus will be given to the challenges and practices of embedding open access to the research results as it is mandated by the EEA and Norway Financial Mechanism.

Dr. Ignasi Labastida - University of Barcelona, will share during his speech „Can Open Science be the default option? An experience from a multidisciplinary university”, what they have done, and they are still doing, at the University of Barcelona for making Open Science the default option and also how they are trying to lead the change.

More details on the event can be found here.

Registration is open and free of charge.

Call for contributions open: For this event, we would like to hear different and outstanding open science experiences and views, therefore, if you are interested please apply with a Lightning Talk (7-minutes long presentations). The call is open until 09.04.2021.