Unleash the Potential
of Open Science
Welcome at
Open Science Apex
Since 2021 I have had my own company on Open Science. Before that, I was active in research policy for many years. First at NWO, the Dutch research granting organisation, later at the Ministry for Education, Science and Culture and at the European Commission (DG RTD). I gained practical experience as director of CESSDA ERIC, a distributive European research infrastructure. I am associated with the Technopolis Group Belgium, leading the Open Science Team.
Portfolio
- Consultancy
- Project management
- Advice
Associate Consultant at Technopolis Group Belgium
Publications
Data Science For Migration and Mobility
Kondyli, D.I., R. Dekker, I. Ilijasic Versic (2022), CESSDA Data Catalogue: opportunities and challenges to explore mobility and migration, in A.A. Salah et al. Data
CESSDA Best Practices
Dekker, Ron (2020), Social Data: CESSDA Best Practices, Data Intelligence, DOI: 10.1162/dint_a_00044, Part of ISSN: 2641-435X.
Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on Implementing FAIR Data Infrastructures
Farge, Marie and Ron Dekker (2019), Report from Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on Implementing FAIR Data Infrastructures, eds: Natalia Manola, Peter Mutschke, Guido Scherp, Klaus Tochtermann,
Stay tuned to the future
Dekker, Ron (2019), Impact of Social Science Data Services, in: Stay tuned to the future, impact of the research infrastructures for social sciences and humanities,
Open Science
Open Science is defined by UNESCO (2021) as an inclusive construct that combines various movements and practices aiming:
- To make multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone;
- To increase scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society;
- To open the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation and communication to societal actors beyond the traditional scientific community.
The shared objective of Open Science is to advance science, innovation and knowledge through a practice of openness, sharing, collaboration and co-creation.
Open science can connect society to the increasing amounts and faster circulation of knowledge.
With open science we can build a knowledge economy that is open to the world.