 Hi everyone, hi Astrid, Luke. Hi, good afternoon. Good afternoon. Zero yards of offense in the first quarter. Hi Kathleen. Happy to see Carol, could already join after the General Assembly. So I think on Athena, how are we, can we start or? Yes, please thank you. Welcome everyone. Do this invitation only session on the openness strategy 2023 2025 of open air. I'm very happy to see you all here. Now here at the beginning, I will start with some housekeeping rules. Yes. We will only record the introduction and the presentation. Then we'll stop the recording and then we have a Q&A. We will, because we can talk freely then. Of course, as of every time in an online environment, we ask you to mute microphones and to turn cameras off for the duration of the presentation afterwards. I would say in Q&A, please put on your cameras so that we can see you. Could you please add your name, which I see, but maybe also your affiliation so that we can see you, see who's there and who's who, so that everyone can see that. And feel free, as I said, during the Q&A to unmute and to ask your questions and to turn on your camera. So that's housekeeping. And we will record, as I said, only the beginning of this session. Next slide, please. I will be presenting together with Iloy Rodriguez and Natalia Manuela. Natalia Manuela is the CEO of OpenAir. And Iloy Rodriguez is a member of the Executive Board and Chair of the Open Science Strategy Standing Committee who was in charge of developing the strategy that we see here today and that we will introduce to you and to reach out to you and see where we can work together. We want to let you know what OpenAir stands for because we have come a whole way during the last few years. As many of you know, we started off as a project. But since 2018, we are a legal entity and membership organization with members throughout Europe. And because we are a membership organization, we want to define better what the strategy was. That we wanted to, the strategy that we want to hold up within our mission and our vision for the next few years and how to find a path to work on these strategy priorities. And that's why we reached out to you because your organizations are very vital in this ecosystem of scholarly communication to work together to bring scholarly communication to the next level and to work together to a future approach of the biodiversity and of disseminated scholarly results. So we want to identify opportunities to support a transition to an open scholarly communication system is set on the slides. Next slide, please. So as I said, we are now a membership organizations. You see here where in Europe, you can find members of our organizations. We have 15 members now from 34 countries with a headquarter in Greece and services are in operations since 2009 during projects time. Very important is that OpenAir consists of an infrastructure and a network of people. So we have a network of national open access desks throughout Europe and a lot of people supporting the infrastructure, supporting people within the countries to work with a scholarly communications infrastructure and to advance it. So it's a combination of human capital and ICT services. Now OpenAir is all about scholarly communications. As I said, it's an important part of the research ecosystem. Every researcher publishes, every researcher disseminates results. Every institution wants to broadcast their research findings. Societies do as well. Funders do as well. And open scholarly communication is of course key in achieving bigger dissemination and a bigger impact of what has been found and it will advance science and knowledge. And so the glue is the infrastructure, the infrastructure to share and to reuse data and information at the core to make open science happen. That is what we say. And that's what's at stake. It's a transition to an open ecosystem. And more and more it's very important to stress the diversity, equity and inclusion part of that ecosystem. It's not only a few in organizations or the happy few that should profit from profit or can use what's out there. It's really a question of working together and to include everyone, not leaving anyone behind. And that's why we want to work together. Now, what's also at stake is ownership. We have been talking about that for years who owns and controls the processes. But also the costs. We know that open science is not free. But how do you pay it? Where do you get the money? And how do we best invest? And how do you do that? And that's why we want to work together. And that's the key. Next slide. It is our vision to transform society through validated scientific knowledge and allow researchers, educators, funders, civil servants and industry to find ways to make science useful for themselves. They're working environments and society. And that's why we want to work together. And that's why we want to work together. Of course, mobilizing research and innovation actors to co-develop, co-develop, co-invest and assume co-ownership of an open scholarly communication system. You see that in every part of what we want to do, what we want to achieve, it's all about collaboration, working together on stuff. And the strategy is what we have done in the last few years. Next slide, Natalia. We have worked out a three-year strategy, as said from for 2023 to 2025, to where we showcase the collective knowledge and commitments of our open-air members. We have worked with our members to develop the strategy. So it has gone through all parts of the organization. It outlines the organization's values, goals and ambitions. And we identified actually five strategic priorities in open science that we want to work on in the next few years. And it concretely sets out action lines for its implementation. Now, this is the context of the strategy that we will present. And I'll give the floor to Eloy to tell us more about these five strategic priorities, because he was the chair of the standing committee of open science policies and strategies who worked it out. Eloy, the floor is yours. Thank you very much Inga and welcome and thank you everybody too. It's a great pleasure to have you all here in this event. Can you please move to the next slide, Natalia? So as Inga already said, during the last couple of years and through a series of discussion and engagement with our members and considering the old landscape and our vision and mission that's being already also outlined, we have identified five strategic areas or five strategic priorities for open air where we think we should put most of our work and our effort. And for each of them, we have identified the current situation, the current landscape, the challenges and the opportunities and also how can open air contribute, what is the role for open air on each of these five areas. So I will go through one by one through which one of them very quickly and then Natalia will talk how we put this strategy and these priorities into action. So can you move to the next slide, Natalia? So the first strategic priority and this also kind of natural because open air was born since the beginning as a project with a strong component on infrastructure and also on the human network but infrastructure was really key since the beginning and since the beginning, the question of interoperability was one of our focus and we think that we really need to continue on that areas because interoperability is really key and is critical to ensure not only the technical operation of this distributed infrastructure or ecosystem but exactly to secure that we can have an ecosystem that is fully operational and where also the ownership and control can be distributed and so it's much less the risk of flocking is much lower but to do that we really need to have an interoperable infrastructure so apart from the interoperability itself the question of how we can find and sustain and make this open infrastructure sustainable through new business models is also one area that we will be we want to work and contribute in the next couple of years but ultimately we really want to design open infrastructures with I think King already stated this with the stakeholders so we want really to co-create to co-develop the infrastructure not only for the stakeholders but with the stakeholders and doing that it is very important also that we are able to collectively modernize the current infrastructure because we must admit that we have in many countries and in many places we still have all infrastructures that we need to modernize to meet the expectations from the stakeholders and those other stakeholders Natalia can you move to the next slide please the second priority is data and service quality we rely we build our services on external services like repository journals systems but for infrastructures there is a minimum level of quality needed and quality is often not really even in the background and it results from compliance with standards so we will work on developing comprehensive data and service quality assurance framework based on the principles and this will include the creation of a list of registries for the most important entities on research infrastructure ecosystem like people organizations services funding facilities and we want to also to develop a governance and implementation model of this quality assurance framework and also not also to act as we preach so also to add wire this quality assurance framework into our key open services on both this data and service quality as also in the first one on the infrastructure the question of the guidelines the opener guidelines are really critical to assure this and also we have other services on this for this second one like the metadata validator and the broker services and also help the components of the ecosystem to improve the data and service quality can you move to the next one Natalia please thank you the third priority that has been identified is really now also a very hot priority in Europe I think in the world in general especially in Europe with the most recent development is responsible research assessment and when we talk about responsible research assessment we open can really make a contribution to move this forward because we we can contribute to the development of a more diverse range of metrics and indicators for instance based on the open research that is an open data set a very rich open data set that can that already collects information about different types of research results very much beyond publications and that can be really used for the development of these more diverse metrics and more responsible also and transparent metrics and indicators and the question of transparency and openness also on research assessment is very important and we want to collaborate and to work with others in Europe and beyond so with of course with COARA now that has been established and but also with the UNESCO and the Global Research Council and other actors in other parts of the world to really move forward and sharing best practices and experiences for responsible research assessment in the world and and again as I already said we think that open air and the open air research rough can really provide a solid basis for creative comprehensive and diverse metrics and indicators for the next one and the fourth one is innovation and research communication and dissemination we think that the current scholarly communication system is still very purely innovative it's still very based on the on the workflows and on the procedures that were used on the on the print error not taking advantage of the of the web and but at the same time we have we are witnessing especially on the last couple of years and also promoted by during the pandemic to new approaches and new paradigms of of scholarly communication some shifts from from for instance from published and reviewed the price of pre prints and many other many other innovative approaches that are still not widely disseminated but they have the potential really to transform the current scholarly communication landscape and the opener that has been innovative in many ways and has promoted innovation especially on the on the repository landscape in Europe and those has been innovative in in our own services we really want to participate and to contribute to to these movements leveraging the on the on the current investment and resources from research performing organizations that have infrastructures like repository publishing platform libraries and their own stuff bringing all them together and I think all of all these services and platforms in different services can can be combined to really promote these novel approaches like the ones that I really I already mentioned and we seek to develop what we call kind of open science innovation to to where that where we can support the innovators and new ideas regarding scholarly communication next slide please and not earlier and finally the fifth priority is monitoring the uptake of open science policies there are of course and this is a good thing great diversity of policies in Europe and around the world but it's also we will also like to to see some alignment and conversions for for sustainable implementation of of those policies at different different levels so we will work to align open science monitoring approaches both at institutional national European level while we of course recognize the needs for regional and disciplinary and institutional differences and we plan to we want to use again the open air graph to support the generation of metrics and indicators not only for research assessment but also for open science monitoring and of course for instance as we have our national pages on the open on the open air websites that are maintained by our national open access that we want also it is important to build a narrative about the policy and its implementation and space where that information is easily accessible and shared and with this I hand over to Natalia that will now talk about how we put this strategy into concrete actions. Natalia please the floor is yours. Yes thank you Iloi so I will try to be quick because I think you know for somebody outside it's a lot to take in so Maaro now as the executive part can you hear me well because there is a echo in the room and you know people have told me that there may be a problem I will try to speak as clearly as possible so as you've seen we have five priorities that more or less cover the whole spectrum of open communication which is huge and we will give you the highlights not all because it's in the document but you know please bear in mind the reason why we asked for this meeting and to invite you was to see how we can share some of these burdens to see you know if we can work out something together because this is key importance to us. Yes, press the wrong button. What we have done is we have we're building on 12 years of experience and again I would like to stress the two parts of the open air is the powerful network of open science experts that they cover all of Europe and when we say open science experts it's you know some people are not good expertise in open access to publication some others to you know to everything you know to even things that open air doesn't consider its core like citizen science but still these are the people embedded in institutions and in member states and associate countries and these are the power. Then we have a very strong and growing ICT team and we have people from CERN CNR University Warsaw and Athena Research Center plus a few other satellites that they are ICT people so we have a really good strong team and then last is the global outreach and collaboration. What we find is that more and more people from around the world from the US from from Australia from Canada are knocking on our door and we need to find a way not just as open air but as Europe's how to collaborate with them. Okay so then what we did is we have you know we're thinking from our beginning we say open air has three pillars services training and policies so what we try to do is to see how this will align with these three pillars how these okay I'm sorry the actions will revolve around the three pillars. So in the services our strong point is we have I will explain a bit better the open air infrastructure and services which are the core elements of the open science open scope education ecosystem but what we need to focus and I think everyone in Europe and around the world is to see how we can become sustainable and how we can include as Eloise said innovation this is innovation not just in the technology but innovation in the business and process models and this is what we are lacking and what we need to focus. Then in the training we have this powerful network we have we have been embedding the training you know since day one so the idea for us is the two focuses the two focus is that first to develop and operate a hub of quality training because I would say a bit about the quality because this is no turning point for us now and then open science when we started in open access in 2008 and 2009 I think we were the visionary but now open science is in the mouth of everyone and how do we know because it's broader than what we can support how can we work with others to to have the supporting structures and then on the policies now what we see is that universities or we see organizations or funders are going you know towards open science policies but there are many flavors so how can we do that you know what can we do and what can we do together in order to see to have to develop these communities of practice and how what are the tools that we supply we give to them we provide to them so we can have a more aligned environment ecosystem. So on the services what you will see what you see on the slide is you know open there has about 15 now to 16 services and we cover the whole spectrum but so you know you may notice in order you may know Argos, Amnesia, open orgs all of these but what we would like to focus on the strategy is on two core services which are also in news gives the open air guidelines it's about the interoperability and the open air graph which is you know we consider to be a core asset and the core asset of scholarly communication why because it's not just for discovery but it will be used for research assessment for open science how can we connect everything together so think about the link open science this is what open air graph is so what where do we need to focus first of all is open air the open air services we rely on infrastructure that is provided by universities and our eyes and funders so how can we modernize that you know we have been talking with core catholines here about modernizing the repositories now there is a dynamic which is setting models but not sure how we are modernizing the infrastructure and then and then or the model so one of the key things that we all need to work together it's a huge effort is how to bring all of these institutionals and local machinery if you want machinery or services up to speed to the new age and this is the bed and this is what we need to see how we can do it on the open air services the 12 services or the core services is that what we would like to have we would like to work on the interoperability and as I said on the on the graph we want to support EOS we consider ourselves to be a key service provider in the core of EOS and then with Quora we want to see how we can support in a tangible way through the network and the services this transition and please remember that we started our research assessment it was started a couple of years ago before even the coalition existed and why did we do that because our members thought that this is now what we need to work on and then when we talk about the services is that in open air we have been you know I wouldn't say a close group but you know but we have been the same people in the 10 you know the same people organizations or you know similar organizations in the past 10 years now we are moving to a more open governance in open air services and for example we would like you know if the guidelines on the graph we consider them global assets then we would like to see how we can open to the world not just Europe and through EOS is I think you know one of the things that has started and has helped us tremendously is the last bit is where we professionalize our service delivery so we have been in an effort through two projects the open air nexus and the EOS culture and it's a huge effort I have to say is how can we you know the services that we have already been delivering how can we be more professional because this is the only way that we can have you know the community services to be used is only when it will be professionalized and then I've left the business models at the last because I know this is also you know something that everyone around the world is looking at and we're really looking into EOS association to see what they will do on that because this is Europe we're talking about this is a diverse and distributed environment and you know one country may pay the other country may not pay and you know this is something I think we need to tackle together it's a problem for all and we need to tackle it together I will not go over this it's just that you know if you see in our in our strategy is that we try to map you know we have five services here as an example but of all of our services we have this matrix where we try to see in each of these priorities what is the service you know addressing this priority and then internally in the office what we will do is to see how we can improve then training and support what are the focus areas the focus area is first of all is you know I would say on three, three are the key targets is we need to have a learning management system that holds world-class training or learning resources for open science and why do we know why do we do that we use our community and Eloy here was the the leader of foster open science foster open science has really proved to us that we need platforms and that we need platforms that have an open governance and this is what the open plate has but we will be seeking an open governance and open editorial boards and we want it to be if possible the best training for open science out there and having said that is that I think you know the open science community has really spent a lot of effort on producing material, learning material and we're producing a lot now I think what it is time is to just start back and consolidate and focus on the quality have pure material but for better quality focus now where it matters so it matters now at the university level it matters at the research structures it matters also at the policymakers and the founders and then I've left it at the end is the certification for learning material not certification for people because not sure if open air is the body to do that we have the way we have other bodies to do that but we can certainly work with them it's certification for the learning material so you know how do we do that quality learning platform, certification they all go together so our focus would be on the next two, three years is to then on the policies on the policies what we are trying to do is we have built this open air network of NOAA it has worked they are excellent people they are expertise and now they are many are expanding their offices so they are consolidating the university offices where they assume more role within the university or the national automatic level of their country so now the time has come is to have to see how this network of NOAA that we have built is how do they interact with others because open science is a superset of open scholarly communication so this is something that we need to work on and also we need to upskill to the full spectrum of open science so how should these people know of what's coming of what's coming on you know we had it with open data we had it with fair data and now it's software so how do we keep on doing that then the policies specific goals I think you know what we can do is we can be a learning environment so people learn from each other and then we have this practice practical tools we have this policy models for institutions legal and ethical frameworks a lot of room for collaboration with organizations like the ones in this meeting then how do we support this strategy I will not go over this just to give you some examples first of all it's imperative I would say imperative because it didn't used to be like that when we had open access to publication but now with open score communication that overlaps a lot open science is partnerships and collaborations a must so there is no other way forward then what we will do is we participate in project standards and collaborative initiatives I will give you some examples but our goal is not to participate in anything that does not address any of the aspects of these five strategic so we have defined the third one last but not least is promote an effective organizational structure so we started with standing committees now we are a four year mature organization so we are reshuffling some of our internal work the most important thing is that we are shifting to a more inclusive membership model so we will open doors for more institutions to participate and then we will extend the governments to include working groups so that the community can participate in what we do and our working groups are very specific to pinpointing things that are for delivery just to give you an idea of how we participate in projects I said that open air graph is one of our core targets and these four projects all of them are European projects in fair coral reels in grass polis in pathos inside lake the graph has a very prominent role in the first two ones is how do we extend the graph in order to do metrics in order to provide advanced discovery in pathos we use the graph in order to provide an access to economic and social impact of open science so we are putting a lot of AI there and also inside lake what we are trying to do is a project that is going to start in January is that it's going to be our vehicle to an open governance for the graph and it's not just open governance but to allow more technical teams around Europe and around the world to participate in this great endeavor so this is just to give you an idea then open air is not based on Europe we have a European footprint but then we do collaborations beyond Europe so some examples is the Canada explore portal which we work with the Canadian association of research libraries and three Canadian federal funders and we have a portal for them they are using it they are still evaluating but this is something that others around the world they see you have the graph so you can build a portal and talk this is excellent how can I bootstrap my process because again in open air we can support entities around the world to bootstrap this process we cannot really we are not here to sell the services but we are here to support and help then we participate in a Mellon foundation project where we are thinking about these metrics how can we share among publishers in a trusted way because this is something somebody said about open science and the research assessment but the cost of publishing they much rely on this research data on publication so no one is sharing from the publishers and this is something that we need to see for example what are the architectures and what are the technicalities to see how they can feel more comfortable sharing and then the one that I really like we participated in the proposal with 11 US major universities to set up a science and technology observatory that embeds diversity equity inclusion so not about open science but using the graph to do something close to open science and this is what we are doing so Inge this is the last slide so I think I would stop here and then you can take it from here Yes thank you Natalia I think we had a great overview of our strategy we will now stop recording Athena