The Roadmap for Funding Open Science and Research was published on 6 October 2025. It includes six recommendations for further actions and guidance concerning the funding.
The roadmap is available in Finnish, English, and Swedish on the edition.fi platform.
The purpose of the roadmap is to ensure that all actors in the Finnish science and research community have adequate, clear, and interoperable means and guidance for enabling open science and research, and the funding required for it, in a sustainable way.
The roadmap was approved by the National Open Science and Research Steering Group on 27 May 2025. It was produced by the Open Science and Research Funding Group during 2023–2025, based on a mandate from the Steering Group. The first draft of the road map was subjected to a public round of comments from 28 October until 5 December 2024.
"The roadmap was developed over two years through broad collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders. The public round of comments brought us plenty of valuable ideas for improvement – and reassuring confirmation that this work truly matters”, says Susanna Nykyri from Tampere University and the Expert Panel on the Open Access to Scholarly Publications, who chaired the working group.
The Roadmap Includes Six Recommendations
The implementation of the roadmap is supported by the following measures:
- The Ministry of Education and Culture will convene a strategic group to develop an internationally competitive operational environment for responsible openness in research through the vision for higher education and research, the higher education funding model, and permanent operational structures.
- Research community actors will allocate resources for the development and maintenance of national infrastructures for openness, in accordance with the recommendation.
- The Open Science Coordination, the National Library of Finland, and the Finnish University Libraries’ Network (FUN) will jointly organise a broad dialogue with research organisations, research funders, scholarly publishers, and researcher associations to support and promote diverse, economically sustainable, high-quality open access publishing.
- Research funders will apply the Open Science Practices for Research Funders tool to promote openness in science and research.
- Research organisations will implement the Recommendation on the Resourcing of Open Science Services and Activities in Research Organisations, ensuring that open science services and activities are adequately resourced.
- Actors in the research community will make use of the Recommendation on Good Practices for Using External Funding to Promote Open Science and Research.
The Roadmap is Based on National and International Open Science Policies and Principles
The roadmap is based on the guiding principles and commitments outlined in the Declaration for Open Science and Research 2025–2030, as well as the policy components and their objectives and actions that clarify the Declaration. It also takes into account the Open Science and Research Reference Architecture 2024–2030, UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and its associated guidance on open science funding, as well as the CoARA Agreement on reforming the responsible evaluation of researchers and research (2023).
The roadmap is grounded in the core values of science and research, such as academic freedom in research and teaching and adherence to good scientific practice. These values and principles underpin all components and recommendations of the roadmap and are essential prerequisites for its responsible implementation.
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