1. OPEN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH LEADS TO SURPRISING DISCOVERIES AND CREATIVE INSIGHTS Welcome from Ministry of Education and Culture The NeIC 2015 Conference, 5-8. May 2015 in Espoo, Finland DIRECTOR RIITTA MAIJALA

2. Trends and challenges Globalization –Global market for services and skills –What is the Nordic path in global evolution? Digitalization –New ways for exploring scientific knowledge –New ways of information and knowledge exchange –Changes in current processes, activities and organizations –How to best benefit from disruptive digitalization?

3. Comissaire Gunther Oettinger: "Europe's future is digital" First, providing better access for consumers and businesses to digital goods and services: making sure that people use online services and digital goods across borders and that businesses face fewer barriers when they sell to other EU countries. Second, shaping the environment for digital networks and services to flourish: setting the right rules and conditions for those in the market, both traditional and newcomers. Third, creating a European Digital Economy and Society with long-term growth potential: we need a digital European market which allows new business models to flourish, start-ups to grow and industry to innovate and compete on a global scale. We urgently need to tackle the most challenging issues such as data, skills and standards, for European industry and citizens to make the most of the digital economy.

4. OECD: measuring the digital Economy

5. To fight digital divides, ICT skills are essential Digital research environments demand strong capabilities and skills. We need: -Ict specialists, who understand the need for better results -Advanced users, who can utilize ICT-tools to get better results -Basic users, who embrace the digital way of working

6. Digitalization challenges also competence and support requirements for research Researchers DistributionPublishers Users SOMEDistribution Open Access -journals Open Data IPRCostsPlagiatesCompetitionIncomeVisibilityInfra

7. Increasing the quality of science Developing new ways for collaboration Increasing impact of science Supporting life-long learning Increasing the innovation capacity Ensuring trust in science and research Developing citizen science Open Science and Research

8. Open Science and Research Open Science and Research refers to efforts to promote open procedures in scientific research activities (verification, validation) The essential objective is that in the context set by research ethics and legal frameworks, research outputs (data, methods and publications) should be published in such a way that research can be validated and outputs generated can be re-used. research results to be usedThe research environment should promote openness (policies, infrastructures, open interfaces, open standards) for research results to be used Avointiede.fiAvointiede.fi, openscience.fiopenscience.fi

9. Goals of the Open Science and Research Roadmap 2014-2017* Openness and repeatability increase the reliability and quality of science and research Reinforcing the intrinsic nature of science and research Those working within the Finnish research system know how to harness the opportunities afforded by openness to boost Finland’s competitive edge Strenthening openness- related expertise Good and clear basic structures and services enable new opportunities of openness to be harnessed in a timely manner and ensure a stable basis for research Ensuring a stable foundation for the research process Open science and research creates new opportunities for researchers, decision-makers, business, public bodies and citizens Increasing the societal impact of research *Avointiede.fi*Avointiede.fi, openscience.fiopenscience.fi

10. Nordic strenghts facilitating digitalization and Open science and research National special features support openness and research –Equality-based research environment and high investments in R&D&I –The education level of the population is high and science and research is appreciated Previous and still ongoing projects have already beared fruit –Nordic collaboration in networking, NORDUnet –Nordic research collaboration NordForsk Strong Nordic presence in global initiatives and European high-level groups (e-IRG, RDA etc) Cooperation between different actors is based on trust –Long tradition of Nordic collaboration (common investments, research infrastructures etc)

11. Promoting open science and research requires Extensive involvement from the research community National and international cooperation and coordination Developing research environments, researcher services and research infrastructures Exploring new ways of working Science is global, even though it is supported mostly by national and local funding, via national education efforts, support services and infrastructures. NeIC can offer a significant and valuable input by taking national efforts in open collaboration one step further within the Nordic collaboration.