 Okay, so I propose we start because I see there's no more people joining us anymore, so that means that we're nice and small, cozy group. Welcome everybody to this final webinar in the Foster Open Air Open Access Week series. This webinar is the format of an Ask Us Anything session. So who we have present here is a couple of people who are part of the Foster Open Science project. And basically what's going to happen is that they're open for any type of questions that you have about either the project or any of the specific services or tools that we offer. So as you can see on the mentee screen, there's a room for general questions, but there's also a room for questions about the toolkit and about the portal. We have with us Helena Brinkin from Göttingen University, Irina Kutschma from Eiffel, Matteo Cancelleri from Open University and Nancy Pontica. Also from Open University and CORE, who are more responsible, who will be able to answer your technical questions. As we are really not a lot of people, what I would suggest is that either you type your question in the chat here in the Göttingen meeting room or you just unmute yourself and talk. We're not a lot of people, so I think this can work. So are there already any questions right now? No, I see you're all still a little bit quiet. Maybe if I recall correctly, Helena, you had something prepared, right? Yes. Okay. I've met your presenter and that means that you can easily share your screen. Okay, so I can start with a presentation. I just need to check how it works, sharing the screen. Yes, on top you should see the option of sharing your own screen. Okay, can you see my screen? Yes, we can see your screen. And also I forgot to say that this session will also be recorded, so at one point next week you will receive the recording, sometimes as well. Okay, so Helena, go ahead. So yeah, I will just give you an overview of what has been done so far in the FOSTA project and then it's maybe easier to find some questions that you want to ask us. So it is you funded for two years and the aim is to achieve a cultural change towards open science and to raise awareness and in particular to foster practical information of open science. And how we try to achieve this is by giving training. So we have traditional online, offline face to face events and we offer online courses and we have this web portal fostaopenscience.eu. So you've seen it and what we do on the portal. So my colleagues created this open science taxonomy to define open science and we collect materials that are related to open science topics and categorize them according to taxonomy. So you can reuse them and learn about open science. Apart from that, we have just launched 10 new online courses that are freely accessible and so here you can see an overview of these courses. So what is open science, best practices, open access publishing, peer review, license and so on and these courses they really try to answer your burning questions and how to put open science into practice. For example, how to avoid predatory journals, how to find the right journal, things like that. So what we also try to do is to give relevant discipline specific examples where relevant. So we have some partner institutions. For example, the Center for Genomic Regulation and Geases for social science and CRGs for the life sciences. And they really made sure that we have discipline specific tools and examples in these courses. And then the courses are interactive so after each course you have a quiz and you can get. What we did is we developed five different learning paths and so these pathways are recommendations of an order of courses that you can take to for example to become an open access also or an open peer reviewer. And so he's just in three examples how these pathways could look like. So for example, for the open access also you would take the course, what is open science, what is open like open access publishing, research data management and sharing and open licenses. Apart from these training courses, we also follow a train the trainers approach to multiply our training forces and to really have a sustainable approach of giving training. So in April we conducted the open science trainer bootcamp in Barcelona. To build a community of trainers, so to bring the trainers, open science trainers together and to support them with a structure and system like our portal which you will see later and also with resources. So we, for example, we created the open science training handbook which is really a guide for trainers on how to forward knowledge on open science. And this resource was written by the community for the community and here you can see our team of authors. So the idea was to bring together the experienced open science trainers to write a book and share the experiences. They came together for one week for five days in February in Hannover in Germany for a book sprint and foster provided the writing environment and yeah they came and wrote the book. Well this handbook is licensed with the Creative Commons Zero license so we really try to make the reuse as easy as possible and it is supposed to be a living handbook so it's open for contributions and improvement and also for translations. So this is just an overview of some of the topics represented in the handbook so also similar to the open science courses you've seen before. Again open concepts, principle, open access but also policies, licenses, research data and so on. And what the authors did they try to answer all of these topics the question like what is it like why is this topic important and if you organize a training session on this topic what should be the learning objectives. So what is the key components of the knowledge and skills and what are questions and common misconceptions that arise in training sessions so that you can find an answer that helps you to answer these questions in your trainings. Then there's a theoretical part on learning and training like how to prepare your workshop tips how to execute your workshop and also how to reflect on your workshop and then also yeah very practical aspects like what to keep in mind. Yeah, an event in your institution and with a long checklist and the last chapter of the handbook is yet you can find example training outlines so there are 24 exercises described in detail and with a description how to conduct this exercise but also how to adapt it to your purpose. And one example is for example the Open Science Cafe created by Lieber, which is a card game that enables discussion and dialogue between different stakeholders. And yes, you can find that online on our website to print out and use for your own context. So I think that's it for now from my side and yeah I'm happy to answer all questions about the Open Science Training Handbook as I was the one who coordinated that and we have Irina and Nancy who participated like had main parts in creating the courses. And Matteo also who's working a lot on the platform so yeah please ask us anything so. Okay, thank you very much Alina. So yes, are there any questions about this training handbook or about the process or any other training related questions. Maybe I can also add one more development is that we are launching system for moderated learning because now those courses exist as free online one hour courses self learning once on a depth portal. Now we're setting up a Moodle platform for e-learning courses and we'll be happy to collaborate with others who are interested in core developing and core running Open Science courses with us. So it's a call to the audience if you're interested. Thanks. Okay, thank you Irina. So is anybody in the audience interested in joining or participating in this discussion maybe if you are you can you can drop your email in the private chat to us or just indicate so in a chat. Okay. So there's a question from Garrett in the chat and it says. Okay. Hold on. I'm just going to read it. The resources available in the foster toolkit are excellent and really great go to guide for both researchers and those of us supporting Open Science. Thank you for that. Regarding the section on preprints, do you think it would be it would help if there was a distinction made between preprint manuscripts. What used to be known as working papers and auto accepted manuscripts the peer reviewed but unpublished version. Thanks a lot for your question Garrett. Because I was one of the authors of this course. I think it's a very valid point. And we'll see how we can address that. Thanks a lot. Irina, I think you're dropping. No, I just said thank you. Okay. And then I muted myself. Okay. So there's a question on the handbook and well it's like if the handbook is ongoing work or is it somehow finished so we can say that like the English version is like a finished version that is ready to use. But we are still looking. Yeah, we're happy to receive any contributions. So if they change it would like to add anything we're really happy to receive that for example also the collection of exercises that I showed it can grow constantly that would be very welcome. And at the moment we are working on so it's currently translated into Portuguese into Spanish and to Greek so far. And so of course because it's also like it's very easy to adapt and to add things we that these the people translating the handbook they add also aspect that are relevant for example for their region. So, yeah, in this respect it's ongoing work. I hope this answers your question. This is joy Davidson I'm one of the partners in foster and involved mostly with the toolkit. And I just wanted to also follow up with what Irina was saying and suggest that now that the courses are out there and people are making use of them. If you do have any ideas about using them in a classroom setting or for students or in any other kind of a way we would certainly be happy to hear from anybody who would like to think about how to use it and to get involved and to help you to do that so please. If you do have any ideas and want to discuss them get in touch with us through the foster channels and we'll be delighted to help out. And just to also pick up on what I mean was saying about translation of the materials into different languages. We are also looking at getting the toolkit courses translated some work is underway to put some of the courses into Arabic actually. So if anybody else has any interest in that please get in touch as well. I think only today we had an e received an email about somebody who wanted to translate in Brazilian Portuguese. If I'm not mistaken. Okay, that's great. Yeah. Okay, so if there aren't any other questions about this training handbook. I mean, if you have any questions later just complete a problem and chat, but maybe Nancy or Mateo if you're around you can do a quick show of the portal. Is that possible. Hello. Hi, Nancy. I can do a quick show of the portal and maybe Mateo can talk a little bit about the learning paths and the badges. What do you think, Mateo? Hi, hello. Yeah, sure. Yeah, we'll start with the portal and then you I will move on with the badges and the and the learning paths. So I'm just going to share my screen and I hope that I do this right. Can you see my screen now? Portal is the foster open site. It takes a little bit. Yeah, so you can see your screen and thanks to load. One of the important parts of the portal goes in there. Nancy, is it possible that your connection is not very stable? Can you hear me well now? Sorry, I don't know what to do to be honest. Yeah, you dropped for a moment there, but now I hear you're fine again. So I'm just going to go back to the slides in case they want to learn about something or they want to create content for a training and they want to get ideas. And they will also be able to find other documents such as PDF documents or links to YouTube videos about all the topics relating to open site. You can see that the economy. And of course, the purpose of the taxonomy is to make you understand the various concepts around the large open science umbrella term, but nonetheless, each of these taxonomy terms is a clickable item. Open access is a lot when I'm about to do new things that come up and see how others treat the open access environment. Can you hear me well still, Gwen? Well, for me, you're dropping now and then, so it's like we have this silencer, so I think it's something to do with your connection. Is that possible? Mateo has texted me the same thing. Mateo, would you like to take it over? Maybe that's not a bad idea, Mateo. Pardon? Shall I make you presenter? If you like, yes. You should be able to share your screen. And in the meantime, there is a question from Yadranka, who asks, or who said that they're working at the Department of Information Sciences of the University of Siddhar. And they're trying to build competencies for data like variants and Yadranka is wondering if any list of competencies or guidelines in this direction exists already. And she would appreciate any suggestions. So I don't know, maybe, maybe join up the question for you. Yeah, I would recommend there's a couple of RDA working groups that are looking to this. So I think one of them is involved with the Edison project, the European Edison project. They have some useful resources. Maybe the best thing for me to do would be to get in touch with you offline and share some links. If you want to share your details, I can give you an email offline. Okay, that's a great idea. And Mateo, we can see your screen. Yeah. And your Skype chat. Just so you know. Nothing wrong yet. So let's go back to to here. Tell me if you can listen properly. But anyway, Nancy was you are an introduction about foster. So we are it's now nearly four years that we have the portal. So the portal is quite well established. And Nancy was showing you about resources. So the basic the basic building component of the foster portal are training resources. There are now nearly 3600 training resources in the portal. Some of them are really high quality. Some of them are articles and links presentations. Some of them is YouTube videos. We have we have quite a lot of different resources that spread more or less around all the concept of open science. And also the good thing is that the project on his lifetime goal. So collaboration for taxing data mining from the open minded project and as a responsible research and innovation from the fit for our project. So the portal started to be to collect way more information. And also there's lots of crossovers between these topics that make the resources quite interesting. The evolution of the next the second part of the life of the portal has moved on creating high quality courses and recognize the and certify when a course is completed. So we we worked a lot and we recently released them. We release the budgets and the learning path. So as you can see, I'd like to look in. So if I look in with my account, you can see that I am a really keen learner because I have already so many budgets. So this is how a bunch look like you will receive a bunch when you complete a course. So these budgets are all implementing the open budget standards so they can be exported everywhere. So it's a recognition of you completing a course in foster. But also there are some specific bugs that instead require requires you to complete a learning path. That is the that is a nice way of creating specialization. So we these are these are our learning parts for now that the one we released are mostly collaborating with the courses made on the toolkit. And these learning parts look like this look like this. So as you can see, there is a list of courses and then there is a completion of the courses because I'm a really keen student. I have lots of completion, but in general you will have you will keep can keep track of the completion rate of your courses. And you can see how many courses do you need to receive a certain certification. And then after you completed, you will receive, for example, the open peer reviewer patch. So I think more or less I went on a quick overview. Nancy, is there anything I missed that you wanted to say? Hi, can you hear me? Yes. What I would want to show is the events page because in the events people are going to be able to get informed about new events. So if you can pull it up in case if I share my screen, this is going to bring like more traffic on my on my internet. And in the events page, users can see the past and the forthcoming events. And this can be used in different ways. For example, if you would like to attend one of the open science events, then you can go there. And also if you plan to create an event and you would like to see what others have done similar events, then you can go again in this page to spy on the events. On the top of the page, you can see that we have a map with the geographical location of the events that took place. And between this map and the actual events, you can see that we have our trainers directory. And the trainers directory is composed of the foster project members and also others who are specializing in the field. For example, the people who participated in the bootcamp in the foster bootcamp that Helen explained earlier to you. And we will we try to maintain this speakers trainers directory updated with a lot of information because we wanted to be useful for you to use the users in case there is a user who wants to find a speaker to invite a speaker. Then in the directory, you can find various information about speakers, such as the field that they specialize in their location, their topics of interest, but more importantly, the languages that they speak and they can present the information like the various presentations on this. And apart from that, what I would like to show the very end Mateo is the news area, because in the news area people not only going to be able to see get updated about them. Now various things that happen around the foster portal, but also they would be able to subscribe to the foster newsletters and be the ones who receive all the updates and the news about foster very soon. And if you go on the very top of the page as you can see right now, you can see the very the previous issues of the newsletter. So that is all, I think. Nancy, maybe you could also show the trainers corner. That might be also interesting. So what we have also created that's a very good comment Helen what we have also created and this is a work that was done primarily by Helen my apologies for forgetting that is that we created the trainers content. So it is a location for all the users who want to use ready images or slides or those beautiful graphs that Helen showed you in her presentation and all these are downloadable materials for and they have an open license and everyone can use it. And I see that Matteo is a little bit confused because he doesn't know what is the Irish content. And really bad because I don't remember the name of it. Thank you Helen. Sorry. Okay. Good. So, people will be able to not only to access the training handbook but also download those pretty images that were created by Gothic and I think and correct me if I'm wrong, but also other downloadable materials with open licenses that they can use in their presentations or in workshops. We also have for example, those stickers we also have the banners for foster we created that I open science taxonomy and the rest of the taxonomies that are hosted in the project and this relates to the other projects as well that Matteo has said, the fit for and the open minded and the taxonomies are now downloadable in an RDF format. So, in case you would like to focus on your specific areas of the taxonomy, or in case the taxonomy does not fit the specific purposes of your specific use case, and you would like to shape it around so that it fits better your purposes. Okay. Thank you very much. I don't see any new questions from the audience appear in the chat. So, that means that I can assume that everything is quite clear. But if you do have any questions about any other foster, foster services and tools this might be the moment to ask them and feel free to just unmute yourself. We're not many people so we can we can easily just talk instead of typing. Okay. Nobody really has any questions anymore. That's a that's a good sign. I guess that means that for the possible presenters did a good job and everything is clear from the portal. In any case, if you have any questions afterwards feel free to reach out to us. And we will distribute this, the recordings of this of the session and other relevant information to you somewhere in the next weeks. Thank you very much for attending this session. And we hope you enjoyed it. And thank you very much for those of you who were with us for all week during this open access week series of trainings. We hope you enjoyed it. Thank you. Thank you Gwen also for organizing this whole week of trainings. You're welcome.