Open science and research data

Introduction to Open Science: webinar (UM)

Open Science is an international movement that aims to make scientific outputs (articles, data, codes, methods) accessible to as many people as possible. Currently booming, it is supported by numerous policies and institutions, both in France and around the world.  

This webinar aims to introduce you to the main principles of Open Science, as well as the context and issues surrounding it. There will also be a focus on research publications and data. This will enable you to understand and participate in this movement by producing more honest and open science.

• Resource type: webinar
• Training institution: UM
• Target audience: researchers, faculty members, research support staff, doctoral students
• Access to training: open to all EcoDoR members
• Status: active
• Date of update: 2025
• Keywords: open science
• Level: beginner
• Method: distance learning
• Duration: 1 hour
• Language: French

Unleash Science: Serious Game (CIRAD)

This fair play game comes with an extension for research data. 

• Resource type: animation
• Training institution: CIRAD
• Target audience: general public
• Access to training: any member of EcoDoR
• Status: active
• Date of update: 2025
• Keywords: serious game
• Level: beginner
• Method: in person
• Frequency: occasional (CIRAD Day, activities in research units, etc.)
• Duration: variable
• Language: French

OSCAR – Learn about and understand all aspects of open science (INRAE)

Drafting a data management plan, publishing in open access, opening up data, involving civil society actors in a research project... these are all practices necessary for opening up science and making it a common good. Because open science questions, challenges, sometimes worries, and often motivates... INRAE is opening up its training to everyone!

• Resource type: self-study
• Training institution: INRAE
• Target audience: researchers, faculty members, research support staff, doctoral students
• Access to training: access for all EcoDoR members on the Callisto platform
• Status: active
• Date of update: 2025
• Keywords: open science
• Level: beginner
• Method: self-study
• Language: French

For INRAE agents

For everyone

The essentials: publications, bibliography, and research data (CIRAD)

This training course provides fundamental knowledge about research and open science in three areas: publications, bibliography building, and research data.

• Resource type: training
• Training institution: CIRAD
• Target audience: general public, but the training is aimed at newcomers to CIRAD and Master's degree programs.
• Access to training: restricted access to CIRAD staff
• Status: active
• Date of update: 2025
• Keywords: open science – publication
• Level: beginner
• Method: distance learning (e-learning) or face-to-face
• Frequency: the e-learning portion is available at all times on CIRAD's Moodle platform.
• Duration: remote learning: the entire training course lasts 2 hours (15 minutes of which are devoted to research data)
• Duration: in person: the entire training course lasts 3.5 hours (30 minutes of which are devoted to research data)
• Language: French

Awareness-raising initiative: open science mural (IRD)

A serious game played in groups of 7 to 8 players with a facilitator. Participants learn the concepts described on the cards that make up the game: they discuss, compare practices, and learn. 

• Resource type: workshop
• Training institution: IRD
• Target audience: doctoral students, young researchers
• Access to training: restricted access to IRD staff
• Status: active
• Date of update: 2025
• Keywords: open science
• Level: beginner
• Method: in person
• Duration: 3 hours
• Language: French

Introduction to Open Science at IRD

Gain a better understanding of the key concepts related to open science: its definition, motivations, general issues, and how they apply to IRD: sustainability science. Cooperation with partners in the Global South.

• Resource type: self-study
• Training institution: IRD
• Target audience: general public
• Access to training: restricted access to IRD staff
• Status: active
• Date of update: 2025
• Keywords: open science
• Level: beginner
• Method: distance learning
• Frequency: continuous
• Duration: 90 minutes
• Language: French

Self-training for doctoral students: Open Science, Open Access, and Research Data (UM)

Would you like to learn more about Open Science?

Would you like to understand the challenges of open access publishing and research data management?

Would you prefer to study independently and progress at your own pace? Sign up for this course!

The course consists of an Introduction to Open Science, which must be completed before moving on to the two courses that can be taken independently: Scientific Publishing and Open Access, and Research Data. 

• Resource type: self-study
• Training institution: UM
• Target audience: doctoral students
• Access to training: restricted access to UM doctoral students
• Status: active
• Date of update: 2025
• Keywords: open science – Open Data – FAIR principles – data lifecycle – PGD – DMP OPIDoR – warehouses – repository – distribution licenses – exploitation
• Level: beginner
• Method: asynchronous distance learning
• Frequency: 1 or 2 sessions per year
• Duration: 11 hours
• Language: French

OSCAR – Specific course for Operational Data Referents (INRAE)

This training course on open science covers the same topics as the "OSCAR – Training and learning about all aspects of open science" course, but is specifically designed for INRAE's Operational Data Referents.

• Resource type: self-study
• Training institution: INRAE
• Target audience: RDO
• Access to training: restricted access to INRAE staff
• Status: active
• Date of update: 2025
• Keywords: open science
• Level: beginner
• Method: self-study
• Language: French