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CoSO — Comité pour la Science Ouverte

Overview

The Comité pour la Science Ouverte (CoSO), known in English as the French Committee for Open Science, is the body responsible for coordinating and implementing national open science policy under Ouvrir la Science. Created in 2018 by the ministry responsible for higher education and research, it brings together the major French research organisations and university bodies to develop guidelines, promote best practices, and track progress on open science implementation across French publicly funded research. It is the operational governance body of the policy: it drafts policy documents, coordinates expert and working groups, manages the Fonds National pour la Science Ouverte (FNSO), and interfaces with European open science initiatives including EOSC and OpenAIRE. It drafted the French Open Science Strategy for 2026-2033 and carries most of the measures of its action plan.

Structure

The committee has three organs, as set out in the French Open Science Strategy of September 2026.

  • The steering committee decides the strategic direction of national policy, meets up to four times a year, and sits as the partners’ council of the FNSO scientific interest group (GIS FNSO) for funding decisions. It is chaired by the ministry’s director general for research and innovation and brings together the heads of the main research organisations, the university and engineering-school conferences, ANR, HCERES and COUPERIN.
  • The Permanent Secretariat for Open Science (SPSO) prepares the steering committee’s work, coordinates the expert and working groups, and oversees the Ouvrirlascience.fr editorial committee. It is led by the French coordinator for open science.
  • Three expert groups examine subjects, issue opinions and propose directions, matching the strategy’s three research-output objectives: Open Scholarly Publishing, Research Data, and Source Code and Software. A Europe and International group and a Skills and Training group operated until 2024.

Key outputs

The committee drafted the two National Plans for Open Science (2018 and 2021-2024) and the French Open Science Strategy for 2026-2033, and it monitors their implementation (see Ouvrir la Science). It manages the FNSO, through which it funds diamond open access journals, open source software, and open science training. It also runs a project on transparency and publication of health research results (Transparence et publicité des résultats de la recherche en santé), addressing the results reporting obligations that apply to trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov and CTIS.

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