In the Open Science Orbit - Introduction to Open and Responsible Research

📅 Date: 4 February 2025

🏁 Start: 09:00 h

📍 Location:  Sofia University, Mirror Hall 15, Tsar Isvoboditel Blvd.

🎯 Type: Workshop

🧑‍🚀 Participants: experienced researchers

🎟️ Resume: The workshop organised by the ORBIT project is a breaking point for experienced researchers to improve their skills in implementing Open and Responsible Research and Innovation (ORRI) principles in their research. The workshop focuses on an introduction to open science, providing in-depth knowledge and skills in integrating ORRI in the research design and discussing the use of open data, curation, data management and FAIR data.

🎤 Working Language: English

Programme

9:00
Welcome coffee & registration

9:30 – 9:45
Welcome address – MON and Deputy Rector of Sofia University

9:45 – 10:00
Who is who? Icebreaker

10:00 – 10:30
Open science introduction and skills landscape 
Sara Di Giorgio

10:30 – 10:45
Discussion

10:45 – 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:30
Open data
Milena Dobreva

11:30 – 12:00
Curation and data management 
Peter Stanchev

12:00 – 12:30
FAIR data. FAIR by design
Eva Mendez

Speakers

Prof. Eva Mendez  is an Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She was Chair of the EC Open Science Policy Platform (2018-2020). Member of the CoARA Steering Board.

Sara di Giorgio is the Open Science Policy & International Relations Officer at GARR, the ultra-broadband network dedicated to the Italian research and education community supporting ICDI (Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure), the Italian-mandated organisation in the EOSC-A.

Prof. Peter Stanchev is a Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA professor. He has forty-five years of professional experience in multimedia systems, database systems, multimedia semantics, education, open access to scientific information and data and medical systems. He is serving on many database and multimedia conference program committees and is a member of the editorial boards of several journals. He is the Bulgarian representative in the EU OpenAIRE project.

Dr Milena Dobreva is is Senior Lecturer In Information Behaviour Computer and Information Sciences at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. She had principal investigator’s roles in research and development projects funded by the EC, JISC, the European Digital Library Foundation. She is a member of the editorial board of the IFLA Library Journal and currently serves on the Management Board of Europeana Network Association and is a member of the Scientific Board of DARIAH-EU.