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As part of Work Package 5 (Evaluation), this document presents the results of the evaluation of the training activities organised within Work Package 4 (Training in Open Science), mainly: A series of face-to-face workshops and a Massive Online Open course aimed at training scientists and funding bodies in Open Science...

This report presents the results of the evaluation of co-creation activities organised within Work Package 3 (Open-Experiments), mainly: Public Dialogues to identify risks and opportunities presented by Genome Editing and to inform CRG research strategy. Funding Calls to promote Open Science. Citizen Science projects and Novel co-creation initiatives to promote...

In moving towards Open Science, training plays a crucial role in advancing the skills of the multiplicators who practice and make Open Science a reality. The trainings in Open Science and RRI carried out by the ORION project targeted primarily researchers (PhD students and postdocs) and secondarily research managers, researcher...

The ORION ‘Train-the-Trainer’ course was developed to help Open Science advocates and stakeholders learn from the training that has been delivered throughout the project and equip them with the skills to run their own training. The course ran from October 19th 2020 to November 4th 2020. 65 applications were received from all over the world and these were then assessed to award the 21 available places. It featured two webinars, two modules of an online module course (hosted on OpenLearnCreate from Open University under the following link), and it culminated in the participants delivering a 20 minute talk or micro-training at a live-streamed online event for Berlin Science Week called the Open Science Cafe. All the participants that finished the course got an ORION Open Science Train-the-Trainer certificate.

The advantage of online learning is that it is flexible for the participants and permanently available for use and adaptation for future learners. WP4 has worked to create a range of Open Educational Resources (OER) and make them available on various platforms. OER are available to be used and shared by everyone. These include: a 6-module MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), webinars, infographics, podcasts, and factsheets. These have been produced in collaboration with internal ORION partners and a variety of external experts from across European and international institutions and projects. These resources have and continue to be shared and hosted by platforms, e.g. the podcasts are on RRI T ools.

The aim with the ORION Open Science has been to explore ways in which research and funding organizations in life sciences and biomedicine can open up the way they fund, organize and do research. as well as to trigger evidence-based institutional, cultural and behavioural changes in Research Funding and Performing...

Long-lived institutional change has always been one of the goals of ORION. It’s relatively easy to find and convince like-minded people that responsible research and innovation (RRI) is important. However, in order to bring about real change, it’s important to engage with people all the way through an institution. Only then can true institutional change become a reality.

Genigma is a citizen science project funded by ORION and led by Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico at Centre for Genomic Regulation (CNAG-CRG). The goal of this 2-years project was to co-create with citizens a game for smartphones to accelerate cancer research.

The objective of this document is to use this experience to create a simple guide on how to carry out a public dialogue for a scientific research centre. The guidelines are based on the methodology and learnings from a public dialogue conducted to inform the Centre for Genomic Regulation's (CRG) strategy.

As part of the ORION project, the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)conducted a public dialogue exercise to gather opinions from civil society and strategic stakeholders to explore how to take them into account for the development of the next CRG strategic plan for the period 2021-2024, so to align the plan with society’s views, values and expectations. Internally, the aim of this exercise was also to promote a cultural change in the perception of Open Science throughout the CRG community. The public dialogue took place during the months of October and November 2020 and was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This dialogue has served as an instrument to support and encourage the ORION overarching goal: to embed Open Science and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles in research funding and performing organisations (RFPOs).