Contribute your ideas to the Dutch Open Science Infrastructure
Goals of the federated infrastructure
Open science is impossible without a proper infrastructure. The Strategisch Plan Integrale Infrastructuur Open Science (SPII)* therefore aims to achieve the following goals:
- Support for open science: reliable software, tools, and digital services to enable open science.
- FAIR sharing of results: allowing researchers to make their research data and publications Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
- Accelerating science: a shared infrastructure fosters collaboration and speeds up scientific progress.
- Increasing visibility: Dutch research results gain more international visibility and impact.
- Monitoring and evaluation: the infrastructure makes it possible to track and improve the progress of open science.
- Meeting requirements: researchers are supported in complying with the conditions of, among others, the European Commission, the Dutch government, funding bodies, and their own institutions.
- Efficient use of resources: wherever possible, the plan builds on existing systems to avoid duplication and reduce costs.
Your feedback is welcome
The strategic plan was drawn up in the first half of this year, during which important choices were proposed. But are these the right choices? We would like to know what people with practical experience think. With your feedback we can jointly review what priorities should guide further technical development.
You can download the plan using the yellow button below. The deadline for submitting the feedback form is 4 September 2025. Please send it to Darco Jansen, Universities of the Netherlands: jansen@unl.nl.
Join the discussion on 11 September in Utrecht
As a follow-up to the plan and the collected feedback, the National Open Science Consultation will host a meeting on the morning of 11 September in Utrecht. Together, we will discuss the direction, priorities, and next steps for the strategic plan. Would you like to join? Please let us know in the feedback form.
Partners
The project idea and plan have been approved by 16 organisations represented in the National Steering Committee on Open Science: the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), NWO, UNL, NFU, VH, KNAW, NWO-I, ZonMw, KB, DANS, Netherlands eScience Center, 4TU.ResearchData, Health-RI, SHB, and SURF. Experts from these organisations have actively contributed to the project.