National Recovery and Resilience Plan: EXCELES Program ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** The EXCELES program [ URL "https://www.msmt.cz/research-and-development-1/programme-excele tool-for-component-5-1-of?lang=2"] puts a great emphasis on open science.  Section 4 of the tender documentation [ URL "https://www.msmt.cz/uploads/Odbor_32/EXCELES/ LX_ZD_EN_20211221.pdf"] explicitly states that  An essential part of the project must be the identification of the application potential o expected knowledge and a plan for the protection of intellectual property and rights to th identification of the possibilities of applying the "open access" regime in the publicatio sharing of verified scientific data to the maximum extent possible, where this is possible with all applicable regulations for the protection of personal data, sensitive data and in property.  The beneficiaries should, therefore, share the research results (publications and data ali with a well-known rule “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.   The project proposal must now include the plan for the protection of intellectual property to results in relation to the results and outputs of the project and the functioning of th and identify opportunities for the application of an “open access” regime in the publicati results, sharing of validated scientific data and compliance with FAIR principles [ URL "h openscience.cuni.cz/OSCIEN-50.html#7"] . This plan and the application of the “open access subject of evaluation in the selection of projects.  Following Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 Jun data and the re-use of public sector information [ URL "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-co uri=celex%3A32019L1024"] , the beneficiary will submit to the grantor in each interim and report its plan for sharing the scientific data generated by the project (“data management "https://openscience.cuni.cz/OSCIEN-49.html"] ”). The data management plan (DMP) should in particular, the method of handling the scientific data obtained, including the categories providing open data to other interested parties, the method of protecting the results and their further sharing and use.     Expenditure on the dissemination of results in open access mode and on sharing and protect scientific information and data generated by the project are eligible project costs.