By relying on the opportunity offered by the Internet and digital technology, open science enables science that is more cumulative and strongly supported by the sharing of scientific content. It thus contributes to the acceleration of the innovation process, to the development of new value-added services, in particular for the achievement of the objectives of sustainable development by companies in the South.
A national plan integrated into the global science ecosystem
In 2018, France has a National Plan for Open Science (PNSO) placing French research at the heart of this transformation.
The plan mandates open access to publications and – as far as possible – to data from publicly funded research. It supports major landscape structuring initiatives concerning publications and data by being part of a sustainable European and international dynamic.
Open science: an institutional dynamic at CIRAD
Since 2006, CIRAD has supported the principles of free access to knowledge. It ensures, in its institutional policy, to strengthen the dissemination of the results of research, expertise and training carried out with its partners in the South in the fields of agriculture and the development of tropical, subtropical and Mediterranean areas.
CIRAD’s ambition is to manage and share research data and software according to FAIR principles (Easy to find, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). As part of the open data and open source movement, these practices have become key elements of an open science policy aimed at transparent, honest and responsible research that meets the requirements of research funders.
The evolution towards a model of open research data presents several challenges: scientific, geo-partnership and societal, organizational, normative and legal. CIRAD thus intends to meet these challenges with an institutional open science policy for ethical research in solidarity with its partners.
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