Open science policy
15 Jul 2022
Open science to meet the public’s appetite for accountability, transparency, and trust
On 15 July 2022, Stephan Kuster, head of public affairs at Frontiers, gave a speech at the closing reception of the EuroScience Open Forum, Europe’s largest interdisciplinary science conference. Thank you, Professor Breedveld. Good evening. My name is Stephan Kuster. I am head of public affairs at Frontiers. I joined Frontiers because we are a fully open access, research publisher whose mission is clear and simply put. We want to make all science open. We believe that global, existential threats call for scientific breakthroughs at pace, based on full and immediate access to the latest research. In short, science that is open to the many, not just the few. We are delighted to support the forum in this, its tenth year. The ESOF team has done a fantastic job bringing us all together and framing the conversation. It has asked how scientific endeavour can cross borders, between disciplines, geographies and worldviews. And it has challenged us to engage with the public, to shape policy. Now the scientific community in recent years has made enormous progress on both these fronts. Not least in our collective response to the pandemic. But success is not guaranteed. Too often, science has been captured by […]
