National open science strategy, Georgia’s European cloud participation discussed at Open Science Forum
Deputy education minister Nunu Mickevich noted the importance of the national policy and strategy of open science in her comments to participants of the forum. Photo: ministry of education
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Georgia’s national policy and strategy for open science, and prospects of the country’s involvement in the European open science cloud are being discussed in the Open Science Forum, an international event hosted in the country for the first time between Wednesday and Friday.
The programme involves a conference featuring representatives of the Georgian education ministry, European Commission, European Open Science Cloud association, higher educational and scientific-research institutions and the national office of Horizon Europe.
Photo: ministry of education
The forum will also provide training for EOSC ambassadors, where open science cloud-enabled platform developers and experts from Europe will share their best practices.
On the closing day, the digital humanities centre of central Georgia’s Gori State University will sign a memorandum of cooperation with the Institute of Empirical Linguistics of the Goethe University of Frankfurt, agreeing to set up joint scientific and educational projects within the partnership.
Photo: ministry of education
Deputy education minister Nunu Mickevich noted the importance of the national policy and strategy of open science in her comments to participants, telling the forum supporting the development of open science was one of the ministry’s priorities as it helped “scientific research and innovation ecosystem of Georgia to become even more compatible with the standards that the European scientific space offers today".
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