This page summarizes the implementation for the monitoring of open science and research in 2026.
Participation in monitoring
Participation in monitoring 2026 is graded in accordance with the decision of the Open Science and Research Steering Group:
- Organizations that achieved level 5 in all areas in 2024 will not be invited to participate in monitoring
- Organizations that have achieved level 4 in one area and level 5 in other areas in 2024 will be invited to respond only to questions related to the area in question.
- Other organizations will be invited to respond to the entire monitoring survey.
- Organizations specified in points 1 and 2 above may respond to the entire survey if they wish.
The assessment of the total cost of open scholarly publishing survey is an independent entity that is carried out in connection with the open science monitoring. All research organizations are requested to respond to it as before.
Timetable for 2026
Monitoring in 2026 will be carried out according to the schedule outlined in the monitoring model:
- Survey is open from 4 May to 15 June.
- Results are released in Research.fi in October 2026.
New indicators
- New indicators have been added from policy components and recommendations: recommendations for citizen science and RDI activities in collaboration between research organisations and companies, policy components for open access to theses and open access to research methods and infrastructures.
- The monitoring model is implemented by adding a indicator related to international developments (CoARA).
Key changes to the 2024 indicators
- Indicators that were fully or nearly fully achieved in the 2022 and 2024 monitoring rounds were removed to reduce the workload for respondents.
- No quantitative indicators for research data.
Explore the 2026 Monitoring indicators:
- Indicators approved by the Steering Group for the 2026 monitoring (link to the spreadsheet)
