The two-day kick-off event of IP4OS (January 8th and 9th, 2025) featured a symposium on Open Science and Intellectual Property and workshops on IP4OS different workstreams (campaign, training, synergy framework, dissemination etc.) and their key challenges.

In the following article, we will go in depth into the takeaways from day two of the ‘Open Science and Intellectual Property Symposium'. To read about the takeaways from day one, please follow this link.

The IP4OS consortium started its day with a short presentation about the IP4OS approach and aims, highlighting Jon, a European researcher:

“Meet Jon, an innovative researcher from Europe. Jon works to create ground-breaking solutions but often feels like he's battling alone, trying to simultaneously manage intellectual property questions and open science frameworks and principles. Also, his university support staff can’t help him well.

IP4OS starts here and helps Jon by bringing together both worlds, IP and OS. The project offers a Synergy Framework that helps the multiprofessionals around Jon use effective strategies and approaches that foster a harmonised IP-OS approach. Jon can now streamline his work, ensuring that his inventions are protected where and when needed. Open Innovation is fostered when appropriate, and his research outputs/artefacts are disseminated along the research lifecycle to the larger scientific community and society to be (re-)used and built upon.

Through IP4OS, the multiprofessionals around Jon get access to a European Community of Practice for Knowledge Valorisation, which bolsters their understanding of the advantages of a concerted IP-OS approach. This improved awareness, knowledge, and skills will help them support Jon’s research more effectively.”

Photos: Olaf Bathke

After the opening presentation, the day unfolded with all work package leaders presenting their upcoming tasks and opening discussions about the mutual way of working for optimal project outcomes. As the project proposal already describes, IP4OS main challenges are reaching its target groups, measuring impact, and engaging key university influencers. However, IP4OS's strength is its capacity-building approach with formal and informal learning settings based on a Synergy Framework. 

The workshops that took place after the work package presentations showed that IP4OS has always involved multifaceted stakeholders. Various practical recommendations were made to engage them in disseminating and exploiting IP4OS, including calls to action, user journey mapping, categorised website sections with interactive buttons, and a regularly distributed email newsletter.

Read about day onr of the IP4OS kick-off event here.