- 1. Practical barriers, and suggestions to overcome them;
- 2. The landscape of present rules and requirements regarding to research data, for instance in the recently revised Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice and in the regulations applied by research funding bodies;
- Provisions and pitfalls for/in contract texts.
Examples of prepared wordings/clauses designed to protect research interests
Embargo
1. Unless an earlier date is agreed by the Work Package Coordinators concerned, in the case of the foreground arising from Work Packages xxx, no publication of the foreground, or part of the foreground, is permitted before the presentation of results at xxxxx.
2. The raw data arising from Work Packages xxxx may be shared between the Consortium partners but should not be made publicly available to third parties before the expiry of six (6) months after the submission of the Final Project Report.
Issues to check and discuss
During the preparation of the Seminar on Research Data Management several questions came in, indicating a need for ‘issues to check and discuss’ when starting a cooperation with third parties.
We decided that a set of clauses indicating which issues to discuss between cooperating parties, and offering food for thought on wordings to start with, would be helpful to discuss during the workshops. The texts available here have been recompiled from the presentation of workshop 3, and are mainly based on the arrangements of Horizon 2020 as these have condensed wisdom and compromises reached during the past decades...
Rob Posthumus, LLM
December 5 2014
Please be aware that this is food for thought, and suggestions only, to help you consider offers brought to you and items to discuss before starting cooperating in a research project. Using texts will be done at your own risk, and should be checked within your institute first!