Open AccessEuropean’s Union Open Science Policy as a global benchmark for Ukraine: legal environment
Author(s) -
Олена Орлюк
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
teorìâ ì praktika ìntelektualʹnoï vlasnostì
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2519-2744
pISSN - 2308-0361
DOI - 10.33731/62021.249468
Subject(s) - european union , intellectual property , political science , european commission , cloud computing , regional science , public administration , business , international trade , law , sociology
Keywords: Open Science, EOSC, intellectual property, scientific researches, COVID-19 pandemic, UA-EU Association, Digital Europe
The article provides an analysis of the EU practices inthe field of development and implementation on the Open Science Policy, elaboration ofthe European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), employment of the FAIR principles and theirenhancement with CARE-principles. The European Commission activities are reviewedin the area of the Open Science roll-out as well as its ability to withstand the emergingglobal challenges like COVID-19. The EOSC concept is overviewed on the backdrop ofsuch EU policies as unified Digital Market Strategy and European Cloud Initiative, EuropeanResearch Environment, and Industrial Digitalization, as a part of those. EOSCconcept integration is considered through the development and interaction of Europeanand national research and e-infrastructures and data arrays, services and knowledgewithin the EU and globally.Steps are analyzed taken by Ukraine towards its integration to European researchenvironment and EOSC in the legal field, taking into account the State Authorities activityand implementation of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement. It is highlighted thatthe innovations’ development of Ukraine is bound, both in timelines and meaningfully,with digital economics and the society development, intellectual property area, and should align the Ukrainian science initiatives with the European Cloud initiative as wellas further steps to joint the EOSC. It is consequently proven that consistent and meaningfulimplementation of the UA-EU Association commitments via the conceptual andstrategic regulations adopted by the state authorities is essential for Ukraine integrationto the EU’s Digital Market and Digital Environment so that to enhance its science potential.It is concluded that consistent efforts on implementing the goals and objectives asfor regulatory environment with their consequent enforcement creates the vital groundsfor successful enrollment of the national policy in this area.