The  YEAR Annual Conference 2015 took place on 11-12 May in Espoo, Finland.

The two-day annual conference of the Young European Associated Researchers was hosted by VTT and co-funded by FOSTER. This year’s topic was Open Science in Horizon 2020.

Presentations can be viewed from links below.

Conference Day 1

• Invited international experts introduced strategies for fulfilling open access requirements in H2020 projects and Open Data Pilots.
  • Opening words – Anne-Christine Ritschkoff (Executive Vice President, Strategic Research, VTT)
  • Welcome and introduction to YEAR – Alexis Sevault (YEAR Chairman, SINTEF)
  • Keynote 1: Open Science on EU policy level – Jean-Claude Burgelman (DG Research and Innovation, EC)
  • Keynote 2: Open access requirements and Open Data Pilots in H2020 – Liisa Ewart (TEKES FI)
  • Seminar 1: Putting open access into practice – Nancy Pontika (The Open University UK)
  • Seminar 2: How to open up my research data – Jenny Molloy (University of Oxford UK)
  • Seminar 3: How to get recognition for my open science work – Peter Kraker (KNOW Center AT), Joe McArthur (Right to Research Coalition)
  • Fishbowl conversation: How to avoid pitfalls when publishing open access or open research data? Moderator: Michela Vignoli (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology AT)

 

Conference Day 2

•  YEAR Awards. The young researchers defend their project ideas relying on, or promoting open research data/open science aspects. The two most outstanding project ideas defended and developed during the Conference Day 2 were awarded. The YEAR Awards consist of a European Project Management training course and 5000 euros each to further develop the project ideas.

Here are a few examples of the presented project ideas:

• • Open Access Academy – Slobodan Radicev (contact)
  • Demand side management for transmission system operator – Davy Geysen (contact)
  • The BAT-concept in value chain perspective: that’s GOOD – Philip Marynissen (contact)
  • Integration of ocean energy techniques for productivity improvements – Shrey Joshi (contact)
  • Development of open source CFD code for fire toxicity analysis based on advanced laser measurements – Chen Huang (contact)
  • Solids processing data platform – Roeland Geurts (contact)
  • Smart global system manager – Joaquin Alvarez Agudo (contact)
  • Enabling realtime distribution and visualization of climate data – Bjørn Magnus Mathisen (contact)

 

Winners of YEAR Awards 2015:

• Oliver Zendel (AIT): Towards an Open Peer-Review Process
• Helena Henno (VTT): Fluvoid – a Smartphone-based Solution

 If you have any questions, please, send an email to contact@year-network.com

 

 

Supported by the EU FOSTER Project

The conference is co-funded by YEAR, FOSTER, and VTT. Co-organisers are YEAR, VTT, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, KNOW Center Graz and SINTEF.