Open Science is a set of principles and practices aimed at making scientific research across all disciplines accessible to everyone for the benefit of society as a whole. Follow the Agency's work on Open Science.
Open Science means that knowledge is made directly accessible and openly available to a much greater extent to a broad range of users, including businesses, institutions and citizens. This applies both to research publications (Open Access) and to the research data underpinning research (FAIR research data). Increased access to publications and data makes the research process significantly more transparent. It also has a positive impact on research integrity by improving opportunities to reproduce and verify research findings.
In Denmark, the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science focuses on three areas within Open Science:
You can also learn more about how universities and Public Research Funding Organisations, among others, are implementing the core principles of Open Access within their organisations.
What is Open Access to research publications?
How are different stakeholders working with Open Access? Read more about Open Access at:
Public Research Funding Organisations
Royal Danish Library and Agreements with Publishers
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How is FAIR research data addressed by different stakeholders?
DeIC - Danish e-Infrastructure Consortium
Public authorities' research services for data and registers
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Learn more about data management according to the FAIR principles on DeIC's website
The Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science is responsible for monitoring the Danish National Strategy for Open Access. In 2026, the Danish National Strategy for Open Access (2026-2035) was published, replacing the previous strategy, which expired at the end of 2025. The revised strategy maintains the vision of providing free access to reserach publications from Danish reserach institutions and introduces a new target of achieving at least 90 percent Open Access by 2035.
Please find the revised strategy, the evaluation of the previous strategy, and the latest Open Access monitoring report below:
The Danish National Strategy for Open Access (2018-2025)
The Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science is actively engaged in EU-level Cooperation on Open Science. Below, you can read more about:
EU Cooperation on Open Science
Collaboration on EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)
International Cooperation on Open Science through Knowledge Exchange
Title: Chefkonsulent
Email: hki@ufm.dk
Phone: +45 72 31 82 46
