This document discusses the role of open data and open science in the European Union. It outlines the EU's support for open access through various council conclusions and recommendations promoting more open and data-driven research. The EU plans to require immediate open access to publications without embargoes and open licensing of copyrighted works. The document also mentions the EU's actions in response to COVID-19, including an open data portal and coordinated research efforts, and questions if this crisis will further promote open science policies long term.

1. The Role of BioPhotonics in
Open Data and Open Science
Jean-François Dechamp
European Commission, Directorate-General for Research &
Innovation
Pointers following the panel on 21 April 2020

2. • Open science website
• Open access website (a bit of history, not necessarily updated anymore)
• Open access in Horizon 2020 website
European Commission as a funder

3. • Council conclusions on open, data-intensive and networked research as a
driver for faster and wider innovation (2015)
• Council conclusions on the transition towards an open science system (2016)
• Council conclusions on accelerating knowledge circulation in the EU (2018)
• ERAC Standing Working Group on Open Science and Innovation (SWG OSI)
• Recommendations on open science (2018)
• Opinion on open innovation (2019)
• Opinion on future open science and open innovation priorities in the European Research
Area 2020-2030 (2020)
EU Member States and open science

4. • Immediate open access (already in Horizon Europe’s impact assessment)
• Embargoes not accepted any longer
• Open access via repositories kept
• Publication in hybrid journals allowed yet not funded (Already in impact assessment)
• i.e. costs not eligible
• Copyright retention and open license
• Copyright retention already in the HE Regulation
• Open license to be required (in line with new standard for EC’s own information production)
Proposals for Horizon Europe (tbc)

5. • Revised Recommendations on access to and preservation of scientific information (2018)
• Why this pointer? It sets the landscape for OS with a view to tackle disparities
• Revised Copyright Directive (2019)
• Why this pointer? It provides for an exception for research organisations to carry out text and data mining (data
analytics)
• Revised Open data Directive (2019)
• Why this pointer? It enshrines ‘As open as possible, as closed as necessary’
• New Communication on a European Data Strategy (2020)
• Why this pointer? Its our most recent document, which aims at creating a Common European Data Space (incl.
European Open Science Cloud)
Open science in the EU legislation

6. • I did not mention it but it’s an interesting move.
• Why a platform? To help H2020 beneficiaries and their researchers
comply with the open access mandate without paying APCs during and
after the grant
• Who? F1000 with the support of Eurodoc, Global Young Academy and
LIBER
• When? Beta version to be ready by autumn 2020 and official launch
scheduled for late 2020 / early 2021
A funder’s publishing platform

7. • European Commission's action on coronavirus (official page)
• Check in particular https://www.covid19dataportal.org/ and press release
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_680
• First ERAvsCorona action plan: short-term coordinated R&I actions
• Is this a wakeup call for open science and open access? Will this pandemic have a
permanent effect on R&I policy, where SARS, Zika or H1N1 epidemics failed on such
capitalization?
• Careful to read fine lines (e.g. licences and permanence of COVID-19 collections in PubMed
Central (PMC) as custom license may specify that open access to the papers is temporary)
Covid 19