About the Open Science Programme

In 2019, the Executive Board of TU Delft endorsed the Strategic Plan Open Science 2020 - 2024 ‘Research and Education in the Open Era’. Over the four years, the university will further its efforts to make open research and education a standard part of scientific practice.

The Programme consists of seven interrelated projects:

Open Education
Open Access
Open Publishing Platform
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Data
FAIR Software
Open Hardware
Citizen Science

Each project will address four preconditions for successful implementation: ensuring appropriate rewards and recognition, facilitating fruitful collaboration with third parties, equipping stakeholders with relevant skills, and incubating new ideas. These are therefore incorporated in the programme as cross-cutting themes for all seven projects.

The Programme aims to create and pilot resources to support our research and education community in this transition to open. These resources include:

Policies, e.g. the TUD Research Software Policy, TUD Research Data Policy Framework and the TUD Open Educational Resources Policy (all policy documents can be found on the Strategy Document page)
Technological infrastructure and services, e.g. TU Delft OPEN Publishing
Organisational capacity, e.g. the Digital Competence Centre, the Copyright Information Point
Information, e.g. the TUD Open Science website

All outputs of the Programme will be made as FAIR as possible. The Programme office strives to engage and work closely with stakeholders at faculties, research institutes, university offices as well as external partners to ensure that the Programme’s output is well embedded and that the needs of our researchers, teachers, students and staff continue to be the main driver of the Programme’s development.