Awards were received by Matleena Laakso (Tampere university), Huijataanko minua? -educational resource, (AMKIT consortium's Open educational resources working group) and the Sustainable Organising course (Hanken School of Economics).

The complete policy regarding open access to research data and methods was published at the AVOTT summer conference. The new policy component is a significant addition to the existing national policy framework.

The guidelines prepared by an AVOTT working group can be applied to the needs of each organization, and they can be used freely to support research activities.

The National Open Science and Research Coordination (AVOTT) celebrated its fifth anniversary, at the end of May 2023.

Do you or does your background organisation have an ongoing Open Science project or initiative? Come and present it at the Open Science and Research Summer Conference!

The Reference Architecture of Open Science and Research is open for comments from 17.4 April to 2 June 2.6.2023.

Travel blogs from the Research Data Alliance Plenary organised in Gothenburg 20.-23.3.

Work on the reference architecture of open science and research is progressing rapidly. What is it all about? We examined the nature of architecture work before the public commentary starting in April.

The reference architecture for open science and research provoked discussion at a workshop held on 18 January.