Current projects

SPOZNAJ (2023-26)

SPOZNAJ (Support for the Implementation of Open Science Principles in Slovenia) aims to integrate the principles of open science into scientific research practices and to align the operations of twenty Slovenian public research organisations and Central Technical Library with these principles in the European Research Area. The project partners will conduct training sessions for various open science stakeholders, provide specialised training on handling FAIR and open-access research data, prepare a handbook on open science, and establish support mechanisms for open science within their respective organisations.

Project objectives:

fostering the National reform on OS for the HE system modernisation and EU integration by supporting legislation amendments based on the orchestrated National consensus,
introducing existing advanced approaches and mechanisms to reform research assessment (RA) to prioritise OS at the National level during state certification of higher educational institutions (HEIs) and research projects evaluation,
fostering the institutional reform on OS and advancing RA in HEIs through developing and piloting related toolkit.

ADP actively participates in 2 work packages (WPs):

WP 2: Knowledge transfer

2.3 Organizing training workshop on OS and advancing RA at UL
2.4 Co-creating recommendations for the OS/RA reforms in Ukraine

WP 5: Prioritizing OS at the institutional level

5.2 Organising a training workshop on the OS/RA institutional toolkit for pilot HEIs, international feedback and coordination session in UL

Duration: November 2023–October 2026

Importance of the project for Slovenia and ADP

Slovenian partners are part of the research community. Through the mutual cooperation in the project, they will gain additional knowledge in the field of open science and research assessment, which they will transfer to the wider Slovenian research environment. The results of the project will be more easily accessible to researchers in the international environment.

Through the project, ADP will consolidate its role as a partner that is able to transfer its experience, achievements and expertise in the field of managing social science data and related services, based on open science, to others. While collaborating with other EU partners, ADP will be able to upgrade its knowledge and expertise in the field of open science data stewardship which will be intensively used in the Action Plan for Open Science projects.

Link to project's webpage: https://lpnu.ua/en/open4ua

The Open4UA project is co-funded by EU Erasmus Programme, call ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE – Grant Agreement Number 101129085.

OSCARS - Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research and Society (2024-27)

The project brings together world-class European Research Infrastructures (RIs) in the ESFRI (European Strategy forum on Research Infrastructure) roadmap and beyond to foster the uptake of open science in Europe.
Such RIs are part of the five Science Clusters (Social Science and Humanities, Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Photon and Neutron Science, Astronomy, Nuclear and Particle Physics), which are an integral part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative. RIs have strived to make open data easily accessible to the users and the public, by providing lasting interdisciplinary FAIR data services and working practices.
OSCARS will give an opportunity for inter-cluster cross-adoption and co-development of services. Furthermore, community-based Competence Centres will be established and will be operating, as well as virtual research environments will be deployed fostering the alignment of practices in scientific data analysis.

Infra4NextGen (2024-28)

Infra4NextGen (Providing research infrastructure services to support Next Generation EU) aims to build a greener, more digital and more resilient future in Europe with a focus on five key areas: Make it Green, Make it Digital, Make it Healthy, Make it Strong, and Make it Equal. Within each of these areas, the project will consolidate, harmonize and summarise existing data and services in the social sciences, and at the same time, ensure better access to them, according to the NextGenEU and youth policy topic areas.

Support for the operation of the RDA Node Slovenia (2023-30)

The Slovenian RDA Node supports the exchange of knowledge, resources and standards between the international Research Data Alliance and the Slovenian research community. It promotes active participation of Slovenian stakeholders in the alliance and represents Slovenia in RDA’s organisational bodies. The node supports members of the Slovenian research community in implementing other activities of the Action Plan for Open Science and in adopting open science principles related to research data. Among the node’s priority tasks are supporting the adoption of trustworthy repositories and open science infrastructures, as well as working with scientific journals on the publication and citation of research data.

Online Training on Managing Open (FAIR) Research Data for Public Research Organisations (2023-30)

The aim of the project is to establish an online learning platform for training on the management of open research data. The platform will be based on Arnes’s infrastructure and support, and its end users will be researchers working in public research organisations. Users will also be able to download the materials into their own learning environments and adapt them to the needs of their working groups. The University of Ljubljana and Arnes are collaborating on this activity.