[{"command":"openDialog","selector":"#drupal-modal","settings":null,"data":"\u003Cdiv id=\u0022republish_modal_form\u0022\u003E\u003Cform class=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form ecl-form\u0022 data-drupal-selector=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form\u0022 action=\u0022\/en\/article\/modal\/6448\u0022 method=\u0022post\u0022 id=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form\u0022 accept-charset=\u0022UTF-8\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHorizon articles can be republished for free under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003EYou must give appropriate credit. We ask you to do this by:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 1) Using the original journalist\u0027s byline\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 2) Linking back to our original story\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 3) Using the following text in the footer: This article was originally published in \u003Ca href=\u0027#\u0027\u003EHorizon, the EU Research and Innovation magazine\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003ESee our full republication guidelines \u003Ca href=\u0027\/horizon-magazine\/republish-our-stories\u0027\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003EHTML for this article, including the attribution and page view counter, is below:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022js-form-item form-item js-form-type-textarea form-item-body-content js-form-item-body-content ecl-form-group ecl-form-group--text-area form-no-label ecl-u-mv-m\u0022\u003E\n \n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n \u003Ctextarea data-drupal-selector=\u0022edit-body-content\u0022 aria-describedby=\u0022edit-body-content--description\u0022 id=\u0022edit-body-content\u0022 name=\u0022body_content\u0022 rows=\u00225\u0022 cols=\u002260\u0022 class=\u0022form-textarea ecl-text-area\u0022\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EPublic should be at heart of 21st-century science \u2013 Commissioner Moedas\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommissioner Moedas told an audience of researchers and policymakers at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) conference in Manchester, UK, that people feel left behind by politics and science, and this is having a knock-on effect on society.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018The gap between science and the public leads to at best apathy and at worst distrust,\u2019 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018The current lack of public and political engagement in fact-based decision making makes us all wonder, have we entered a post-factual era of democracy? One in which the public identifies with populist rhetoric and decisions are made based on fears and assumptions?\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommissioner Moedas was speaking at one of a number of sessions to address the issue of openness in science which were held at ESOF between 23 and 27 July.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe said that science in the 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E century would be defined by the relationship between scientists, the public and data, and that the public should be at the centre of this.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018The relationship with the public will define science because, unlike in the past, each of us commands more information in our pockets than any scientist can ever read in their lifetime,\u2019 he said. \u2018So this information overload requires public trust for scientists to determine fact from fiction.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommissioner Moedas said that making scientific results and data openly accessible is important to increase engagement and trust.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2018The future of our knowledge economy will rely on public access to data, so that the European public can take part in scientific debate (and) directly access scientific evidence on the issues they care about,\u2019 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHorizon 2020\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince the beginning of Horizon 2020, research projects funded under the programme have been required to publish all results in places that are freely available, a process known as open access.\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022tw-text-center tw-text-blue tw-font-bold tw-text-2xl lg:tw-w-1\/2 tw-border-2 tw-border-blue tw-p-12 tw-my-8 lg:tw-m-12 lg:tw--ml-16 tw-float-left\u0022\u003E\n \u003Cspan class=\u0022tw-text-5xl tw-rotate-180\u0022\u003E\u201c\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003Cp class=\u0022tw-font-serif tw-italic\u0022\u003E\u2018The current lack of public and political engagement in fact-based decision making makes us all wonder, have we entered a post-factual era of democracy?\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\n \u003Cfooter\u003E\n \u003Ccite class=\u0022tw-not-italic tw-font-normal tw-text-sm tw-text-black\u0022\u003ECarlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation\u003C\/cite\u003E\n \u003C\/footer\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the next phase of Horizon 2020 funding, which was launched on 25 July, this has now been extended to require that all data generated as a result of the project should be made openly available by default, with exceptions only made in specific cases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Commissioner told the audience in Manchester that he is working on plans to introduce a research exception to EU copyright law that will allow people to mine text and data without being worried about copyright infringements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a separate session, Robert-Jan Smits, who heads up the EU\u2019s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, said: \u2018Data needs to be shared much more and made interoperable. We want to lead by example in Horizon 2020.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy requiring people who receive funding to ensure their data is findable, accessible, interoperable, researchable and curatable, funding agencies such as the European Commission have a key role to play in shaping the innovation environment within the EU, he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmits was speaking at a discussion on radical ideas for the future of science and innovation policy, where he said that open access and open data will also play a central role in creating a more innovative environment in the EU.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe said that creating a better \u2018ecosystem\u2019 for innovation is one of the ideas behind the forthcoming European Innovation Council, an initiative that has been proposed by Commissioner Moedas to stimulate the level of innovation in the EU.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConditions\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy adding open access and open data as conditions of funding, organisations such as the EU are also helping to shape the future of science publishing, say experts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0027Funders are more involved in the way research is communicated,\u0027 said Phill Jones from research technology company Digital Science during an ESOF session to discuss the future of science publishing. \u2018In the same way that they forced researchers to make things open access and to archive them, they\u0027re going to start making people put their data (out there) openly.\u0027\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr Rush D Holt, chief executive of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said that being open about scientific results helps with public engagement. \u2018The reason we publish (scientific) journals is to help communicate reliable knowledge. And that requires openness, it requires openness in the data and the procedures, and this is all so that the reliable knowledge is in a form that society can use.\u2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the future, scientific results will be published in the form of datasets, videos of techniques, analysis codes, as well as articles, according to the panel, which also included the representatives from journal publishers PLOS and Elsevier, and funding body Science Europe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis could not only lead to results being published more rapidly than current formulations allow, but they might also be published in a different order, with data being published first, followed by analysis, methods and then a full article, rather than the other way around.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf course this would have to be accompanied by a new system for giving credit to researchers such as data scientists to help them build their career, the panel said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut ultimately, the role of science publishers will still be around in 15 years. \u2018We are there to register scientific findings,\u2019 said Michiel Kolman, senior vice-president at Elsevier. \u2018That role of registration is not going away. 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