On Thursday, 10 October 2024, the second national event of the project "SPOZNAJ - Support for the implementation of the principles of open science in Slovenia", which brings together 20 Slovenian public research organisations and the Central Technical Library of the University of Ljubljana, took place. National and international speakers discussed the implementation of open science in research organisations and legal issues related to open access.
Opening the event, the keynote speakers touched upon some of the key elements of the discussions that followed. Dr Rado Pišot, Director of ZRS Koper, stressed the importance of digitisation of scientific research work, which makes scientific results more efficient and accessible. Dr Boštjan Golob, Rector of the University of Nova Gorica and Vice President of the Rectors' Conference of the Republic of Slovenia, stressed the need to open up science. "Openness is at the deepest core of science and there is almost no alternative to adopting the FAIR principles in science." The latter enable the sharing of knowledge in a fair, accessible, interoperable and reusable way. Dr Jerneja Jug Jerše, Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Slovenia, underlined the international importance of knowledge sharing. "This is the only way for scientific research activities to reach their full potential." However, ethical principles and scientific integrity must be maintained when opening up data.
Dr Tomaž Boh from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation stressed the role of open science in Slovenia as part of the wider European research area. "Open science is a relatively new phenomenon, so there are also fears." The latter also need to be addressed appropriately. Mojca Štruc from the Ministry for Digital Transformation presented the OPSI portal, which brings together, among other things, 5258 open repositories from the public sector, as an example of how Slovenia is implementing open access to public sector data in practice.
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