On November 18, 2021, the NI4OS-Europe National End-Users Training Event on the Domain of Open Science for Moldova took place. It is part of a series of national training events on capacity building in the field of open science, organized under the NI4OS-Europe (National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe) project, specifically for attendees from Moldova.

The main goal of the event was to give an opportunity to national stakeholders to gain new knowledge and skills about different aspects that are relevant within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), EOSC services available through the NI4OS-Europe catalogue, Creative Commons licenses, protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the context of Open Science and importance of repositories in sharing open research content. The target group includes national service providers, e-infrastructure experts, institutional repository management, academia and research communities, librarians, as well as representatives from industry and SMEs.

During the event, Andrei Moisei, principal consultant, Communication and Training Division of the State Agency on Intellectual Property (AGEPI) spoke about “Intellectual Property in the Context of Open Science”. The AGEPI expert acquainted the participants with the general aspects of intellectual property and the ways of their protection, as well as aspects related to the enforcement of IP rights.

The event was organized by Research and Educational Networking Association of Moldova (RENAM), partner of the NI4OS-Europe project. RENAM is one of the 22 partners from 15 countries, which participates in the implementation of the NI4OS-Europe project.