Open Science Fellows Program 2016 - 2021

With the Open Science Fellows Program, Wikimedia Deutschland teamed up with a number of different partners to support researchers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland over a period of five years to open up their own research work, thereby contributing to Free Knowledge. By offering qualifications, mentoring, funding and networking with others who are actively involved in disseminating Free Knowledge, a total of 90 fellows were trained as Free Knowledge practitioners and ambassadors. By participating in the program, the fellows were able to substantially broaden their knowledge about the theory and practice of Open Science, raise awareness for the subject within their academic community and pass on their knowledge. Many initiatives promoting Free Knowledge in academia have emerged from the community of practice that has evolved from the program and around it and a number of changes in favour of Open Science at an institutional level have been achieved.