2. Session Chair: Peter Doorn Director, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), The Netherlands

3. The objective of this session is to discuss how funders and initiatives can implement and encourage open science and mechanisms to engage citizens and gain their trust. All stakeholders of the science, education and innovation “ecosystem” should: promote practical applications of open science principles within their arenas of activity, and jointly advocate their adoption also in the international domain. How can they influence and interact with the science environments in their national jurisdictions? Session background: Key statement and question:

4. 1. In the Netherlands Minister Jet Bussemaker and State Secretary Dekker presented the “Science Vision 2025” (25 November): -increase societal impact of science -focus on scientific strengths, societal challenges and economic opportunities -more credits for applied research -continued stress on a limited number of economic “top sectors” -develop a national research agenda in which knowledge institutes collaborate with companies and societal organizations; access to research data shall be on this national agenda. 2. Trust in science among the general public can be increased by making research results openly available – scientifically based findings are not “just another opinion” 3. Citizen science and crowd sourcing contribute to data creation and re-use 4. Protecting privacy should not become an insurmountable obstacle for medical and social science (Secure Virtual Research Environments could be a key solution). Some observations by the chair:

5. How can regional, national, and multi-national funders and policy makers … 1.support the implementation of open science principles for research data, software, educational resources and infrastructure, ensuring: that funding mechanisms support the establishment of a solid foundation to manage investment cycles in research infrastructures and e-infrastructures; coupled with scientific excellence while widening access to the key research and education resources? 2.be engaged to: establish and expand top-class e-infrastructures, provide secure and sustainable access to high-performance computing and research data enable seamless collaboration and partnerships at global level for researchers and industry? Questions:

6. Geoffrey Boulton Regius Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom & President of CODATA Walter Stewart Coordinator, Research Data Canada Paul Ayris Director of Library Services, University College London, United Kingdom Speakers:

7. How should scientific and research institutions and supporting industries … 1.innovate and promote open science platforms? 2.develop reward mechanisms that recognise stewardship and innovation in preserving and enabling the re-use of results from research, making research results discoverable and re-usable, working with all relevant stakeholders of the “science ecosystem”? 3.explore new models for sustainable open scientific data management? 4.exploit the scientific and economic innovation potential by opening data and computing infrastructures as platforms to develop new functionalities and integrate technologies? 5.involve scientists, educators, and students, in a sustained dialogue to embrace the culture of open science, including quality assurance of data and curation, citizen engagement in science, and open education and e-science literacy? 6.Support their scientific communities in verifying and reviewing the data to ensure that science is self-correcting and to promote the scientific dialogue to increase trust? 7.Ensure that societal actors are able to engage in the research cycle to improve the quality, relevance, acceptability and sustainability of innovation outcomes by integrating society’s expectations, needs, interests and values? 8.How do you think Juncker's investment plan can support this? Questions for discussion:

8. Juncker's Investment Plan for Europe The recently adopted EU Investment Plan is the first important signal of Junckers' Commission to get Europe growing again and get more people back to work. The creation of a dynamic EU Digital Single Market is a key element in this process and its impact extends to the whole Society. To make it a success, responding to the growth and jobs objectives, a strong commitment from research organisations, industry and the EU Member States in aligning strategic investments is required. Digital technologies drive innovation and make a major contribution to economic growth in most business processes, from production to marketing to sales, in virtually every sector. Europe has dynamic and innovative companies, and many of them are digital, but it needs the right eco-system for those innovators to grow. Europe could follow on these recommendations with policy and funding instruments to strengthen the strategic role of European e-Infrastructures in research and innovation. There is an opportunity to use e-infrastructures for high-performance computing, high-speed network and research data as "game changer" in supporting Knowledge Infrastructures. How do you think Juncker's investment plan can support this? http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/jobs-growth-investment/plan/index_en.htm