A multitude of existing reports and assessments of AHSS (Arts, Humanities and Social Science) integration have made recommendations as to how best to encourage interdisciplinarity. However despite the existence of these reports much of their individual advice and recommendations have not been fully taken up. It is the overall aim of this project to provide concrete guidance and practical recommendations (in the form of a toolkit) for shaping future action, moving beyond expressions of intent or encouragement and into a framework for efficiently achieving the best value from activities in the interdisciplinary space. These recommendations will cover aspects such as the structure of IDR practices at the level of a research institution, the role of networks and consortia at an international level and the enabling structures such as programmes operated by research funders including national, pan-European and private research foundations. The toolkit will be an aid to the stakeholder groups being targeted by this project in achieving successful pathways to integration. These stakeholders have been grouped under 4 broad headings: 1. European Research Area (ERA) -Policy Makers and Funders (both national research funding agencies but also non governmental funders such as the Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme Foundation, the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) 2. Researchers (from across the AHSS and STEM disciplines both those engaging in IDR projects and those working in monodisciplinary cultures) 3. Research Performing Organisations (i.e. Universities, Academies of Sciences, Enterprise) 4. Research Users (Enterprise, Civil Society, the cultural sector and the citizen) The project will enable comparisons of IDR practices and results with reference to enhancing approaches to scholarship and to elaborating solutions for key Societal Challenges.

Context :Open Badges are digital badges designed in a format that make them shareable on different platforms in dedicated spaces (“backpacks”). Open Badge allow individuals to demonstrate the various skills and experience they have acquired. In the context of Open Science, sharing data generated or used by research teams represents a new area that implies new skills. Various training programs actions have been implemented and it becomes now necessary to identify, evidentiate and accredit those new skills towards stakeholders of scientific research, public or private. General objective :Creating a practical guide that will include the technical specificities and issues of OB, roles and skills related to RDM and principles for the application of OB to RDM.Creating a collaborative network, a small ecosystem of Open Badges (OB) in Open Science at European level to acknowledge acquired competences in sharing and managing research data in the framework of the Open Science. The ecosystem will be supported by the network of partners consortium that will issue badges.Unlike a certificate, an Open Badge does not rely on an existing framework but evidentiate skills implied for the achievement of a specific activity. Thus, it is desirable to attribute the Open Badge as close as possible to the targeted activity in order to implement an ecosystem where different roles are identified :Animation of the ecosystem: The ecosystem is animated (awareness, training, intermediation…) by a facilitators within the network of partners; Attribution / Validation: badges are delivered by stakeholders in the management and sharing of Research Data (data repositories, scientific organizations, training organizations, companies Research and Development departments, scientific journals, trainers …), to actors of this process (researchers, research support staff but also advanced students, especially PhD students); among the stakeholders a special part is played by the teachers/trainers in Research Data Management;Designing: badges are designed in collaboration between the facilitators and the stakeholders who deliver the badges;Manufacturing and distribution: the manufacturing and management of badges (“backpacks”) are externalized.Displaying: the badges will be proposed through the partners and participant stakeholders platfoms (website and LMS) and of course, once attributed, will be at the disposal of the badgees for display.Method:After an initial review of the processes of RDM and of the stakeholders of these processes and a first draft of the competences implied, the first phase of the project will concentrate on the training of the facilitators.This training will be achieved through online courses, individual trainings within the partners organisations and working groups. The trainings will focus on the Open Badges stakes and methodology and an initiation on RDM. A guide of the ecosystem will complete those trainings.In a second phase the badges will be build through collaboration between facilitators and stake holders. Practicaly two kinds of badges will be made: the badges linked to training / teaching actions and badges linked to RDM processes, in a more exploratory way. Once made, the badges will be implemented on the partners platforms.Outputs :At the end of the project, a set of Open Badges for RDM competences will be at the disposal of the science communities.An expertise on OB will be implemented in the partners organisations lacking it.A practical guide will be available for all persons interested in open badges and their implementation.The training materials realized for the facilitators will be open to other audiences interested by the OB methodology.The building of the badges with the stakeholders will be the occasion of a better and more precise analysis of the competences mobilized in RDM processes, and the initial framework will be amended and completed for publication and contribution to ESCO.

Academic books continue to play an important role in scholarly production and research communication, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. As an important output of scholarly production, academic books must be included in open science/open access policies and strategies developed by research funders and institutions, to ensure that open science becomes the modus operandi of modern science across all disciplines. However, contrary to article publishing in journals (especially in the areas of Science, Technology, and Medicine) academic books have not been a focus point for open access (OA) policymakers. Consequently books are only rarely mandated to be published OA by research funders and institutions. PALOMERA will investigate the reasons for this situation across geographies, languages, economies, and disciplines within the European Research Area (ERA). Through desk studies, surveys, in-depth interviews, and use cases, PALOMERA will collect, structure, analyse, and make available knowledge that can explain the challenges and bottlenecks that prevent OA to academic books. Based on this evidence PALOMERA will provide actionable recommendations and concrete resources to support and coordinate aligned funder and institutional policies for OA books, with the overall objective of speeding up the transition to open access for books to further promote open science. The recommendations will address all relevant stakeholders (research funders and institutions, researchers, publishers, infrastructure providers, libraries, and national policymakers). The PALOMERA consortium broadly represents all relevant stakeholders for OA academic books, but will facilitate co-creation and validation events throughout the project to ensure that the views and voices of all relevant stakeholders are represented, promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.This will assure maximal consensus and take-up of the recommendations.

The main goal of HERIFORGE is to develop a network of three interconnected place-based ecosystems in Poland, Cyprus and Turkey providing an excellent R&I environment for innovation in the cultural heritage and creative industries with the responsible use of extended reality (XR) technologies and digital cultural heritage assets for the benefit of social resilience. The HERIFORGE project harnesses the expertise of three excellence hubs on XR technologies, advanced IT and digital humanities infrastructures as well as cultural heritage resources to provide an interregional ecosystem of innovation. These hubs epitomise the quadruple helix model, integrating academic institutions, businesses, public authorities, and societal actors within their ecosystems, in a bid to foster a real place-based innovation culture based on a strategic agenda and in line with regional or national smart specialisation strategies. Within the project, these individual ecosystems will be transformed into the HERIFORGE Hubs Network. The project results in five key results including critical for the establishment of the innovation ecosystem, including strategic impact package, the fully operational HERIFORGE Hubs Network, XR-driven prototypes and services, guidelines for building human-centric and trustworthy innovation ecosystemsas well as Data Orchestration Platform.