<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi everyone (sorry for the cross posting)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If your interested in open access and open science, and especially new developments in Europe, please consider attending this conference. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Early bird registration ends today.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.opensciencefair.eu/" class="">http://www.opensciencefair.eu/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kathleen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">The Open Science FAIR 2017 is proud to hold its inaugural international conference on all topics related to Open Science. It aims to bind policies and research flows, infrastructures and services together with the people they serve. </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OSF2017?src=hash" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">#OSFair17</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">What are the elements required in the transition to open access? How do we change the culture to publish research in a more open manner? What tools and services are needed to support research? These and other key topics will be presented over the three day conference, facilitating a cutting edge and lively forum around the elements required for the transition to Open Science. Experts from around the world will come together to explore e-infrastructures and services, offer expertise about policies as guidance for good practices, identify research flows and ways of improvement. Projects, initiatives and researchers will have the opportunity to showcase their work, through open calls for workshops, hands-on training and posters. The Fair will bring experts together from around the world, offering unique insights on the changing culture towards a more open science.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">This first conference is organized jointly by four EU funded consortia in the area of Open Science: OpenAIRE (</span><a href="http://www.openaire.eu/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">www.openaire.eu</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" class="">)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">OpenUP (</span><a href="http://www.openup-h2020.eu/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">www.openup-h2020.eu</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" class="">), Foster (</span><a href="http://www.fosteropenscience.eu/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">www.fosteropenscience.eu</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" class="">) and OpenMinTeD (</span><a href="http://www.openminted.eu/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">www.openminted.eu</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" class="">) who share the vision of a science that is free of accessibility and information barriers and is an enabler of social innovation. It is partly supported by the EOSCpilot project (</span><a href="http://www.eoscpilot.eu/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">www.eoscpilot.eu</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" class="">) which aims to build a seamless open research environment for Europe.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">We invite you to take part in this major Open Science event, which will take place in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Athens, Greece, 6-8 September 2017.</b><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div></div><img style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="" apple-inline="yes" id="66E6ABC8-D0E5-4289-862F-159CD0607267" height="292" width="600" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:35AED99F-68CE-4B66-9E32-A61BB943FF4A"></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>