OpenAIRE policy programme opens
OpenAIRE is recruiting for its Open Science Policy Programme, a hands‑on training for policy professionals to implement open‑science practices, with applications closing April 19. The short window makes this a near-term opportunity for officials working on research-policy and funding processes. (x.com/OpenAIRE_eu/status/2043653159193547135)
OpenAIRE is taking applications until April 19, 2026, for a policy training programme aimed at people who write or enforce open-science rules. (openaire.eu) The 2026 cohort is capped at 25 participants and is split across four tracks: national policy, institutional policy, funders, and monitoring and impact. (openaire.eu) The programme runs online from May 2026 to January 2027, with two live sessions on June 2-3 and June 23-24, a two-week self-directed phase, and three follow-up sessions between October 2026 and January 2027. (openscience.lib.cas.cz) Participants are expected to arrive with prior experience, not as beginners, and to leave with four concrete outputs: a stakeholder map, a draft policy or monitoring framework, a leadership pitch, and a six-month action plan. (openscience.lib.cas.cz) Open science is the push to make research papers, data, software, and methods easier to access and reuse, and European policy has moved from broad commitments to compliance rules and reporting frameworks. (openaire.eu) OpenAIRE’s own model policy points institutions toward European Union and international frameworks including Horizon Europe, the European Research Area policy agenda, the European Open Science Cloud, Plan S, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization recommendation on Open Science, and the 2022 agreement on research assessment reform. (openaire.eu) That leaves ministries, universities, and funders with a practical problem: turning high-level mandates into rules that researchers can follow without adding what OpenAIRE describes as administrative burden or superficial compliance. (openaire.eu) OpenAIRE has been part of that policy machinery for more than a decade. The European Commission launched it in 2010 to support open-access policy compliance, and the initiative later expanded into infrastructure, help desks, training, and national expert networks. (openscience.eu) The organisation has widened its training work this year, with the policy programme posted on March 31 and other Open Science training initiatives, including a train-the-trainer bootcamp and a partnership with Institut Pasteur, announced in March 2026. (openaire.eu )
