The Horizon Europe Launch Day in Ukraine was organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on December 3, 2021. Its main goal is to inform potential participants of the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation about the conditions of participation, as well as the possibilities of the programmes.
The event included a session «European Support Instruments under Horizon Europe programme, attended by Oleksandr Berezko, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Communication and Information Activities, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Eurodoc Board Member and OPTIMA Project Manager. Oleksandr is an expert at the European Commission’s Open Research Europe (ORE) project team, so he had a lot of new information for the Ukrainian audience.
The ORE project is an innovative open access publishing platform for beneficiaries of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, that provides rapid publication of a wide range of scientific results, including research data and software, and implements open peer-review.
As the European Commission aims to become a leader in the implementation of open science, there were a number of requirements for this platform, e.g. developers have to ensure:
- open peer review;
- quick publication (preprints);
- alternative metrics of importance and popularity of articles;
- full transparency of publication policy and cost of publication.
Oleksandr Berezko stressed that it is not enough to provide a technological platform for the introduction of open science and related practices in Ukraine, as it is also necessary to prepare the scientific community for this. It is necessary to raise awareness and develop competencies in the field of open science and peer review, which, in particular, the team of the OPTIMA project, coordinated by Lviv Polytechnic, is engaged in.
The full video of Oleksandr’s speech is available on the YouTube channel of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
