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<title>The FSFE asks for more Free Software and Open Standards in Open Science</title>
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<h1>The FSFE asks for more Free Software and Open Standards in Open Science</h1>
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<p>The Free Software Foundation Europe calls for Free
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Software and Open Standards to be considered as a vital part of Open
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Science for all publicly-funded research in Europe. You can help us by
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sharing our position paper. Read more about the position paper and how
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you can promote Free Software in science.</p>
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<p>Today, the FSFE publishes and submits to the European Commission
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its <a href="https://download.fsfe.org/policy/letters/20170105-horizon2020-position-paper.pdf">Position
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paper for the endorsement of Free Software and Open Standards in Horizon2020</a>,
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as part of the ongoing <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/interim_h2020_2016/consultation_en.htm">public consultation</a> on the
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midterm evaluation of Horizon 2020.</p>
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<p>The position paper gives key recommendations for the midterm evaluation
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of Horizon 2020, the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever
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with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020).</p>
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<p>The results of this consultation will help the European Commission
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to set the scene for future discussions on the post-2020 EU research
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and innovation funding programmes. The FSFE considers this public consultation
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of paramount importance and wishes to put forward its suggestions regarding
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Free Software and Open Standards in Horizon2020 or any other EU research
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and innovation funding programmes in the future.</p>
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<p>In order to safeguard a sustainable future of scientific and technological
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innovation in Europe and worldwide, the FSFE makes the following recommendations
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to the European Commission:</p>
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<li><p>Open Standards should be preferred for all knowledge exchange,
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and in particular for the dissemination of scientific publications and
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the archival of all articles, data, and software used in scientific
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research. The use of Open Standards in data and software repositories
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and Data Management Plans (DMPs) concerning the Horizon 2020 publications, is
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necessary to ensure data preservation and Open Science. Research
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Funding Organisations should take the lead and foster changes of
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business models when dealing with research data.</p></li>
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<li><p>Software developed with public funding, and in particular in
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the framework of the Horizon2020 program should be mandatorily published
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under a Free Software licence.</p></li>
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<li><p>Software developed with public funding, and in particular in the
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framework of the Horizon2020 program should be mandatorily archived in
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a public software repository ensuring long term availability and persistent identification.</p></li>
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<li><p>Data and software repositories and Data Management Plans (DMPs)
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must employ Free Software in order to ensure unfettered access to their
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contents and long term preservation.</p></li>
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<li><p>Establish "Open Science" Prizes for the promotion of Open Science
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and raise awareness among stakeholders.</p></li>
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</ol>
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<p>Software is an integral part of almost every research project, enabling
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scientific progress. In Horizon 2020, most of the software used for scientific
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research is both acquired and developed in the auspices of public or public-private
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funding. Ensuring the accessibility to reuse, study, further develop and
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improve the software would be a catalyst for Open Science, fostering
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scientific cooperation, improving scientific processes, and benefiting
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society as a whole.</p>
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<p>A recent decision of EU ministers' provided that by 2020, all scientific
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publications on the results of publicly funded research in Europe must
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be freely available under Open Access. European Commission expliticly
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called free public access to publicly funded research "a vision of the
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future" of Open Science not only in Europe, but globally for the year 2030.</p>
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<p>If you are interested to learn more about the above FSFE's recommendations
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and the reasoning behind them, <a href="https://download.fsfe.org/policy/letters/20170105-horizon2020-position-paper.pdf">read
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our full Position paper (pdf)</a>.</p>
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<h2>Help to spread the word</h2>
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<p>To find out more about how you can do that, please consult our
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<a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/OpenScience_InterimEvaluation_Horizon2020">wiki page</a>. If your
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time is limited, but you still wish to contribute, <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/OpenScience_InterimEvaluation_Horizon2020#If_you_just_have_5_minutes">please check our 5 minutes instructions!</a> Every
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and each questionnaire submitted to the consultation makes a difference!</p>
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<p>We strongly encourage everyone to take part in the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/interim_h2020_2016/consultation_en.htm">consultation</a> and give weight to more Free Software and
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Open Standards in publicly-funded scientific research. <strong>The consultation
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is open for everyone and runs until 15.01.2017</strong>.</p>
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