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Open Science UPC

Open science is a change of model in the way we do research:

it implies a more open vision in all the phases of an investigation: the design of the project, the collection of data, the evaluation and publication of results ...
promotes values such as collaboration, transparency, reuse and dissemination of knowledge.
it implies a structural change for all the agents involved: research staff, funding agencies, universities, citizens. It is a short-term challenge for research institutions such as universities.

From May 1, 2023, the teacher Rafael Vidal Ferré is the Rector's delegate in Open Science and Citizen Science, an appointment that represents another step in the University's commitment to adopt this collaborative, transparent and open paradigm in order to advance scientific and technological knowledge, and contribute to the University's social commitment.

On July 5, 2023, the Governing Council of the UPC approved the Roadmap 2025 for Open Science UPC.

From 2021, the UPC is part of the alliance Unite! Within this framework, the following publications have been produced:

Vicente-Saez, R., Ribeiro, M., Trotsenko, L., Pereira Rodrigues, CM, Wodo, W., Hasani-Mavriqi, I., Paschetta, M., & Rovira-Fernandez, A. (2024). Unite! white paper A new University Open Science and Innovation Strategic Roadmap for Widening Countries. Unite! Alliance Publications. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15077388
Vicente-Saez, R., Rousi, A., Ribeiro, MH, Lönneborg, R., Rovira Fernandez, A., Larrieu, M., & Löbcke, K. (2023). Unite! white paper A new University open science and innovation governance model and policy for a sustainable world. Unite! Alliance Publications. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10639557
Vicente-Saez, R., Windeck, J., Ribeiro, MHL, Rousi, A., Fernandez, R., Legrand, A., Rodrigues, C., Halverson, K., & Cappelluti, F. (2023). Unite! handbook of best practices for effective mainstreaming of open science and innovation at Universities. Unite! Alliance Publications. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10262984
UNITE.H2020. (2021). UNITE.H2020_D6.1 - Unite! Open science and innovation strategic roadmap. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8305448

Awards UPC Open Science

Information and presentation of candidacies on the Social Council website

Conditions of Entry
- Winner: The Interdisciplinary Group of Science and Technology in Building (GICITED) led by the researcher Ana Maria Lacasta Palacio, has been valued for its strong commitment to open science, knowledge transfer and the social impact of its projects in the field of sustainability and construction.
- Finalist: the group Geometry of Varieties and Applications (GEOMVAP), led by the researcher Eva Miranda Galceran, has been proclaimed a finalist, for his outstanding career in the dissemination of mathematical knowledge and his commitment to open models of interdisciplinary collaboration.

Open Science Award of the UPC 2024

First Open Science Prize of the UPC 2024
- Conditions of Entry
- winner: Yolanda Vidal Followed, his research focuses on monitoring the health of industrial-sized wind turbines to determine and prevent, as soon as possible, possible damage they may have.
- finalists: Jordi Mazón Bueso, Joan Miquel Solé i Felix Urs Erich Freitag

6th Day UPC of Open Science

Held on June 18, 2025, it focused on territory, impact and participation. You can consult the complete programDuring the day, a call for participation was made and there was an exhibition of citizen science posters from the UPCAt the end of the day, the posters presented will be exhibited in the libraries of the UPC and to the public libraries with which the Libraries, Publications and Archives Service of the UPC collaborates to increase the visibility of the projects.

Open Science Conference at the UPC previous

V Open Science Conference at the UPC: June 21, 2024
IV Open Science Conference at UPC: June 28, 2023
III Open Science Conference at the UPC: June 30, 2022
II Open Science Conference at the UPC: 50 of Science Consciously, January 26, 2021
I Open Science Conference at the UPC: Open Science in Research Projects, January 23, 2020

Areas of action in the field of Open Science

Scientific publication

Resources and policies in the UPC for open scientific publication

Open Access Institutional Policy of 2009 and mandate of allocation of PAR points out of 2014
How to publish in open access the publications for the fulfillment of theH2020, Horizon Europe, Science Law and PAR points
Open access monitoring: the Thermometer and theObservatory of open access
Journals UPC in open access: platform for the editing, publication of journals and calls for grants for the editing and publication of open access digital research journals
Declaration in favor of open and sustainable access (2020)
Transformative agreements and grants for open access publication in the UPC

What are the new challenges at European and global level?

"Plan S ”. Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications. Document prepared in 2018 by a group of national organizations (Spain is not included) with the help of the European Commission and the European Research Council (ERC) with l0 principles with the aim of promoting open and immediate access before 1 January 2020 for all publications funded by the European Commission.
SPARC EUROPE Report "Open Access: An Analysis of Publisher Copyright and Licensing Policies in Europe, 2020"on the management of intellectual property rights and licenses of major European scientific publishers

FAIR research data

Search data must be FAIR:

Findable: findable
Accessible: accessible
Interoperable: interoperable
Rusable: reusable

More information at:

Citizen science

Citizen science is the open participation of the general public in research processes and activities.

El Citizen science portal of the UPC It presents:

all research projects that require the collaboration of citizens to obtain results
a set of resources aimed at research staff to involve citizens in their projects

By 2024, the UPC approved the Social and Community Commitment Program of the UPC, Social Links UPC with 4 driving axes: LivingLAB, learning and service, citizen science and social volunteering.

Integrity of research

Good research practices are based on fundamental principles of research integrity.

To the UPC, the Ethics Committee has, among other things, the purpose of advising on the ethical aspects of research and has promoted the development of guides and codes for research activity in the UPC.

Skills in open science

The shift from culture to open science involves promoting the training of the entire university community to develop skills, especially in the areas of:

open scientific publication
FAIR search data
the integrity of research
citizen science

The Library, Publications and Archives Service withintraining offer of the Institute of Education Sciences offers a course in skills in open science.

Access to Open Science Tutorials prepared by other universities or by projects financed by the European Commission.

Metrics and recognition

The current system of research evaluation is mainly based on the impact factor of journals and does not favor the implementation of open science. For this reason, the European Commission urges funding bodies, assessment agencies and universities to establish new, public, transparent and discipline-specific criteria to recognize research staff following:

and has boosted the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (COARA) of which the UPC is part of it

The Governing Council of December 17, 2024 has approved the action plan of the UPC for the implementation of the CoARA agreement (UPC CoARA Action Plan), to promote more inclusive, fair, diverse and quality-focused methods of research evaluation.

Previously, in the month of November 2024, one of the actions contemplated by theUPC CoARA Action Plan and which is the signature by the UPC of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). This is one of the reference statements framed in the movement to reform research evaluation.

The signing of the DORA and the participation in CoARA are actions foreseen in the Roadmap 2025 for Open Science UPC.

To the UPC la regulations on research evaluation considers different indicators. More information about bibliometric indicators and accreditations.informació

Other metrics for publications:

visits to the publisher version and repository UPCommons
downloads of publisher and repository versions UPCommons
mentions on social media: Twitter, Mendeley, Blogs, Media
highly cited articles according to ESI

Scientific production of a research group or project:

percentage of open access publications

More information:

Next generation metrics CESAER, 2020. [In this paper the Altmetrics Expert Group describes how to advance next-generation metrics in the context of open science].
J. Priem, D. Taraborelli, P. Groth, C. Neylon (2010), Altmetrics: The manifesto, October 26, 2010.

Open education

Open education responds to a new way in which people must produce, share and build knowledge by providing quality open educational resources.

To the UPC:

the portal Apren it shows the teaching materials produced by the teaching and research staff, increasing their visibility.
the portal the MOOC in beta phase shows the open courses developed by the UPC, accessible to everyone and with no limit on participants.
the MOOC Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education developed within the framework ofAlliance Unite!

Research infrastructures and EOSC

At European and national level, different initiatives are being promoted in relation to research infrastructures

EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)

Infrastructure created by the European Commission in 2016 with the aim that members of the scientific community can store, manage and access digital scientific data and resources in a secure and accessible environment.

EOSC
El CSUC and the CORA. Research Data Repository (RDR) have made significant progress in becoming official service providers within the EOSC, actively contributing to the advancement of research, driving data reuse and promoting the values of open science for the benefit of scientific community in general.

readings:

EOSC (2021). Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). [Ixelles: EOSC]. Version 1.0 15 February 2021. 195 p. Available in:https://www.eosc.eu/sites/default/files/EOSC-SRIA-V1.0_15Feb2021.pdf>
Anglada, L. Open Science: the EOSC strategy and UNESCO recommendations. Bible block [on line]. 2022, Available at:https://www.ub.edu/blokdebid/es/content/ciencia-abierta-la-estrategia-del-eosc-y-las-recomendaciones-de-la-unesco>.

ICT Infrastructures for Open Science at the national level (ICTS)