The Minister of Education and Science has appointed a new advisory team for open scientific resources. Marek Michajłowicz, Deputy Director of the National Information Processing Institute responsible for software development, has become one of its members. Marek Michajłowicz is also the manager of the POL-on project – the Integrated System of Information on Science and Higher Education.
The new team will advise the Ministry of Education and Science on how to efficiently develop open scientific resources in Poland. The group will also support efforts to include Poland in the European open science system. The experts of the team are to assist in shaping the policy of open access to research data funded from public resources. They have also been charged with the role of supporting the Ministry of Education and Science in the European Open Science Cloud initiative (EOSC) and implementing the EOSC virtual environment in Poland.
Other members of the team include: Professor Małgorzata Kossowska (Jagiellonian University, team leader), Rafał Duczmal (University of Warsaw), Professor Krzysztof Kurowski (Polish Academy of Sciences), Dr Paweł Lubomski (Gdańsk University of Technology), Prof. Łukasz Stettner (Polish Academy of Sciences), Dr Dominik Strapagiel (University of Lodz), Jakub Szprot (University of Warsaw), and Dr Andrzej Zemła (Polish Academy of Sciences).