swissuniversities: Call for reviewers for the National Program Open Science I (2021-2024)
At the request of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SEFRI), and in collaboration with the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), swissuniversities has developed a national Open Access Strategy and its related Action Plan for the period 2018-2024. The vision sets the goal that by 2024 at the latest, 100% of scientific publications re-sulting from public funding should be available in open access.
The National Program Open Science I, with an allocated budget of 11 mCHF for the period 2021-2024, will match another 11 mCHF invested by the Swiss higher education institutions themselves on their way to achieve the goals of this Action Plan. The program will be completed by an additional phase starting in 2022 on Open Research Data, with a preliminary budget allocation of about 30 mCHF.
The Delegation Open Science of swissuniversities is in charge of managing this program. It is recruiting experts in Open Science to compose the “Reviewers Pool” whose mission will be to assess proposals and monitor the performance of projects for the program.
Competences and Skills requirements: The Reviewers pool will be starting to operate with about 20-25 independent experts having expertise in at least two to three of the following OA related topics1: Policies, Monitoring, Communication & Awareness raising, Set-up of shared services & e-infrastructures, International cooperation, Alternative forms of publications, Research Assessment, Diversity. Additional applications will be called for in 2021 to complete the pool based on the ORD Action Plan (to be validated in may 2021).
Required skills for all members: analysis, synthesis, negotiation, initiative, constructive feed-back, team spirit.
1 For details, please look into the National Open Access Action Plan:In German: https://www.swissuniversities.ch/fileadmin/swissuniversities/Dokumente/Hochschulpolitik/O-pen_Access/Plan_d_action-d.pdf
In French: https://www.swissuniversities.ch/fileadmin/swissuniversities/Dokumente/Hochschulpolitik/Open_Ac-cess/Plan_d_action-f.pdf