The Timor-Leste National Commission for UNESCO (TLNCU), working with the National Institute of Science and Technology of Timor-Leste (INCT) and UNESCO Jakarta, organized the first workshop to conduct a National Consultation on the implementation of the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. This activity took place at the Pusat Budaya Indonesia (PBI) in Dili over two days, from 17 to 18 February 2025.
Open Science represents a new home for the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge related to promoting collaboration, transfer, and inclusion. In 2021 UNESCO approved the recommendations on Open Science, which is a historic milestone in ensuring that synthetic knowledge is available to all and can ensure that the benefits of science are shared equally by all in our sustainable society.
The Open Science Workshop was also attended by His Excellency the Minister of Higher Education, Dr. José Hornório da Costa Pereira Jerónimo, to open the opening of the workshop. In his speech he said it is a great honor for me to participate in this ceremony as the first seminar for the National Consultation on Open Science; this event is very important to carry out the development of researchers in Timor-Leste. I think science is something important we must start in our country because it was the first time since independence we held a workshop on open science, so I thank INCT, TLNCU, and UNESCO Jakarta for organizing something very important for Timor-Leste.
The main objective of this workshop is to share experiences and listen to institutions, both public and private, that are the holders of libraries, repositories, and archives, including research, as well as discuss the challenges they have faced in the process of implementing UNESCO recommendations in 2021.
Participate in this activity: UNESCO Jakarta Open Science Coordinator Ms. Fereshteh Rafieian, research donors from public and private institutions and university students.
