Training course “Open Science: Basic Principles”

Registration is now open for the training course “Open Science: Basic Principles”, reserved for university students enrolled in a Master’s English Degree program, Is open. The course will be held in English.

At the end of the program, you will receive an open badge, more information here: https://bestr.it/badge/show/2386

The aim of the training course, divided into three modules over 3 days (in 3-hour sessions each), is to provide guidance on the lifecycle of scientific publications—from research, to writing and all the way to publishing—on research data management. The sessions include also insights into how to write a data management plan, on identifying predatory publishers, how to search for open scientific literature, and how to assign re-use licenses to your digital content.
 

The course is thus organized as follows:

Open Science:
The principles of broad and widespread access to scientific knowledge and why this is important for students
The formal and informal principles of science
Rights and licenses for re-using research

Open Access:
The system of production and dissemination of scientific publications
The oligopolies in science and the scientific communities’ reactions
Preprints, scientific journals, publishing platforms and predatory publishers

FAIR Data:
The reproducibility crisis
Why not managing research data is worse than properly managing it
Research data management and FAIR data and FAIR practices
 
Scheduled dates: 8-9-10 June, h. 14-17 (The participation link will be sent after the registration deadline)
To register, please visit this link https://elixforms.unimi.it/rwe2/module_preview.jsp?MODULE_TAG=SPES_badge2026_june&ELANG=it&IATL=it
The registration deadline is: 4 June 2026.