This evaluation of the openness of Finnish research institutions and research funding organisations was completed as part of the Open Science and Research Initiative (ATT) by the Ministry of Education and Culture. Our goal is for Finland to become one of the leading countries in open science and research by 2017.
The Open Science and Research Roadmap (OSR Roadmap) was published in 2014 to support us in making progress towards openness. In the OSR Roadmap, certain objectives and actions were defined, as well as the responsibilities of different stakeholders in policy implementation. The openness of activities was first evaluated in 2015 when universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutes were assessed with respect to their policies on and implementation of open science practices. In 2016, this evaluation was repeated and extended to cover university hospitals and research funding organisations. The evaluation of research funding organisations included a comparison with selected European research funding organisations. All the previous evaluations are available at http://avointiede.fi/toimintakulttuuri. This evaluation covers the activities of Finnish research institutions and research funding organisations in 2017.