DFG Project Transform2Open started in January 2023

The DFG-funded project Transform2Open addresses the development of budgets, criteria, competencies, and related processes at research-performing organizations around the financial dimensions of the Open Access transformation. Transform2Open supports transformation activities at research institutions in Germany in the context of cost monitoring and the creation of overarching information budgets, the internationalization of criteria for contracts with commercial publication service providers, the optimization and promotion of transparency around the financial framework of OA transformation, and related organizational structures and competence profiles.

The project ensures the successful interaction of various transformative efforts with the project open-access.network and the Focus Group on Information Budget, the project openCost, as well as Projekt DEAL, and other initiatives and projects in Germany and internationally. Project partners of the Transform2Open project are the Central Library of Forschungszentrum Jülich, Potsdam University Library, and the Helmholtz Open Science Office. The project application is published here: https://doi.org/10.48440/os.helmholtz.054