By 2024, higher education institutions will have their own policy that steers the administration of open education, quality work and the personnel’s merit and incentive systems so that they support open educational practices. +
From 2024 onwards at the latest, higher education institutions will promote openness in the organisation of services that support education, for instance, by the use of open data, open learning and collaboration platforms and open source software, as well as by promoting transparency in service procurement.
: i) The teaching, IT management and library networks of higher education institutions will work together to promote the interoperability of open learning and collabortion platforms used in teaching as well as that of open education services. +
From 2024 onwards at the latest, higher education institutions will encourage their personnel to share their expertise in planning and organising teaching. +
From 2024 onwards at the latest, the higher education and research community will develop expertise in open educational practices.
: i) The Open Science and Research Coordination, in cooperation with higher education institutions and other organisations promoting open education, creates a network of experts in open educational practices.
: ii) The higher education and research community establishes competence requirements for open education as part of teacher training.
: iii) Higher education institutions enable their personnel to develop their skills in open educational practices. +
From 2023 onwards at the latest, higher education institutions plan the open sharing of educational data in accordance with responsible data management practices.
: i) By 2023, higher education institutions will agree in the Digivision 2030 project on the best practices for opening educational data.
: ii) By 2024, higher education institutions will begin in the Digivision 2030 project to design services to enable the opening of educational data. +
Higher education institutions and other organisations promoting open education cooperate in implementing scientific communication[[CiteRef::Education-footnote-4]] and science education[[CiteRef::Education-footnote-5]] in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee for Public Information and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. +
Higher education institutions and other organisations promoting open education cooperate nationally and internationally in the development of and research into open education. +
Higher education institutions provide more teaching that is open to everyone.
: i) Higher education institutions clarify and communicate how to participate in teaching open to everyone, including contact teaching.
: ii) From 2024 onwards at the latest, higher education institutions will develop platforms and services that enable the digital opening of teaching.
: iii)From 2023 onwards at the latest, higher education institutions will cooperate nationally and internationally in the development and implementation of teaching open to everyone.
: iv) From 2024 onwards, the monitoring of open science will take into account teaching open to everyone and participation in it. +
The objective of the policy is to guarantee that the research community and those applying research information in practice have access to researched information in a way that has never before been possible. The policy of open access to scholarly publications defines the
principles, objectives and actions. By committing and promoting these the research community in Finland can achieve equal access to researched information. This policy is composed of principles and policy components, which determine objectives and actions. The principles define the general terms under which open scholarly publication should be sought. They consist of important principles for the research community that must be adhered to in the effort to achieve open access. +, The policy for journal articles and conference publications concerns Finnish and international peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and conference publications (Ministry of Education and Culture publication type classification A, excluding A3). The objectives in the policy components are more time-dependent goals, which involve concrete actions. Objectives and their associated actions will respond to a changing international environment more readily than the principles. +, The Declaration for Open Science and Research states that "In the research community, responsible openness is a part of everyday research throughout the research process, and research organisations have assessment practices, incentives, and services in place to support this." This also applies to the thesis process, and this policy component on open access to theses applies to all theses completed in higher education institutions (bachelor’s and master’s theses at universities and universities of applied sciences, advanced studies theses, licentiate theses, and doctoral theses).
Open science enables a broader use of research results by the research community and society, thus increasing the impact of research as well as the level of scholarship and innovation in society. Openness and the transparency of the process are also intended to support the quality of research. In the context of universities of applied sciences, a thesis is a task that requires and demonstrates expertise and takes into account aspects of the challenges of working life, thus making openness particularly useful from a professional point of view. The policy component on open access to theses has been developed to serve these basic objectives from the perspective of theses. +
The total cost for scholarly publications will not exceed the current overall cost when transitioning to open access. The estimate of overall costs reflects all present costs and the total volume of research. +
During 2020 the Finnish National Library will conduct an assessment in cooperation with the research organisations to estimate the overall cost of open access to scholarly publications for the research organisations. Additionally, the Finnish National Library will estimate the cost of open access for Finnish scientific publishers. The review will account for the costs of open access that have already been incurred. +
The Finnish National Library will annually monitor the overall costs of access to scholarly publications and changes in the cost structure in cooperation with the research organisations. +
All researchers have an equal opportunity to publish their research through open access, regardless of field of research, funding basis, or career stage. +
The Open Science Coordination will monitor developments in equal opportunities in cooperation with the research organisations, and will initiate dialogue on ways to increase equal opportunities. +
During 2020, there will be a review on how open access to publications is currently taken into account in the systems for assessing researchers at higher education institutions and other research organisations. +
Sivustoa ylläpitää Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen (AVOTT) kansallisen koordinaation sihteeristö, joka toimii Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnassa (TSV) Opetus-
ja kulttuuriministeriön (OKM) rahoituksella. Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen koordinaatio edistää avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen toteutumista sekä keskustelua sen
mahdollisuuksista, haasteista sekä niiden ratkaisuista Suomessa.
Webbplatsen upprätthålls av Sekretariatet för den nationella samordningen av öppen vetenskap och forskning. Sekretariatet verkar vid Vetenskapliga samfundens
delegation med finansiering från undervisnings- och kulturministeriet. Samordningen främjar öppen vetenskap och forskning samt diskussion kring dess möjligheter,
utmaningar och lösningar i Finland.
This website is maintained by the Secretariat of the National Coordination for Open Science and Research in Finland (AVOTT), which operates in the Federation of
Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) with funding from the Ministry of Education and Culture (OKM). The Open Science and Research Coordination promotes open science
and research, as well as discussion on its opportunities, challenges and their solutions in Finland.