ANR "OSYR" project

Public policies on open science place great emphasis on raising awareness and training young researchers. Establishing a culture of open science means integrating the practice of open science into the apprenticeship of the research profession. In recent years, library and information professionals have developed formal awareness-raising and training programs, as well as informal awareness-raising initiatives. Evaluating the effects of these schemes is at the heart of the OSYR (Open Science for Young Researchers) project. Jointly supported by university libraries and research laboratories, the OSYR project aims to analyze open science awareness and training schemes, their appropriation by the young researcher public, and the effects of these schemes on the practice of open science.
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The project is a continuation of research into the academic practices of young researchers. It adopts an all-encompassing perspective on a cohort of doctoral students from seven French and Belgian institutions, representing all research disciplines and presenting different configurations in terms of awareness-raising and training schemes.
Firstly, a mapping of formal awareness-raising and training schemes in France was carried out, in order to propose a state of the art on these schemes and analyze their organization and impact. Secondly, quantitative and qualitative surveys will be carried out on the cohort of doctoral students from partner institutions. The quantitative survey, conducted at the beginning and end of the thesis, will measure the use and reception of the awareness and training programs, as well as the appropriation and mobilization of the knowledge imparted. The qualitative research approach will be designed to describe young researchers' progress in the field of open science: the effects of formal mechanisms, the role of informal awareness-raising, the impact of the research environment, and changes in practices and behaviours. It will take particular account of differences linked to the disciplines to which they belong and the funding of their theses.
A seminar consisting of six workshops will enable research and professional communities to reflect on the results of the project. It will lead to the development of recommendations for adapting awareness-raising and training schemes, and the reproduction of measures of the effects of the schemes on the public of young researchers.

The OSYR project thus aims to have a dual impact on the research and professional communities: fruitful dialogue and the development of joint recommendations between the two communities, advancing knowledge on the transmission of research practices, on the development of an open science culture and on the effects of awareness-raising and training schemes.