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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.

6th Day UPC of Open Science

6th Day UPC of Open Science

Next Wednesday, June 18, 2025, the VI Conference will be held UPC of Open Science. This year, the conference will focus on citizen science and the social impact of research, and will feature speakers from various institutions.

The event will take place between 9 am and 14 pm, and will be hosted by the José Antonio Tarroja Assembly Hall of the Barcelona School of Civil Engineering.

Attendance at the Conference UPC of Open Science will be recognized by the Institute of Educational Sciences of the UPC, the Doctoral School of the UPC and the Professional Development Service of the UPC.

You can now consult the complete program and make yours inscription.

 

Call for participation: Citizen science posters

The day will also feature a poster exhibition where citizen science projects from the UPCFor this reason, we would like to call for your participation, by sending us this template before the next one Wednesday June 11You can do this by sending the poster to comunicacio.rdi@upc.edu.

We attach a brief document with instructions for filling out the poster, as well as one sample poster based on the project "Your idea is science!".

At 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.

Example poster based on the project "Your idea is science!"

 

Areas of action in the field of Open Science

Resources and policies in the UPC for open scientific publication

 

    What are the new challenges at European and global level?

     

    Search data must be FAIR:

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

    More information at:

    See also:

    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.

    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.  

    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.

     

     

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

    To the UPC:

     

    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: 

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

    • ORS: infrastructure coordinated by the BSC
    • REDIRIS

    Open Science Policies and Recommendations

    Possible actions of research staff to incorporate open science into research activity

    Possible actions by research staff to incorporate open science into research activity Possible actions by research staff to incorporate open science into research activity If you have any questions, contact us Last updated: 23/05/2025


    Last update: 28 / 05 / 2025