Kaunas University of Technology is one of the largest technical universities in the Baltic region. The university staff has been involved in different Open Access- and Open Science-related activities for more than a decade. Different initiatives have been implemented: stand-alone and series of training and awareness-raising events, promotion of Open Access and Open Science ideas so that institutions develop their Open Access policies and make their repositories compliant with larger research infrastructures. Within the institution, the initiatives of Open Science are implemented as a result of joint effort of the library, the departments of research, studies, and doctoral school. The current tasks involve revising the institutional Open Access guidelines and facilitating the implementation of data management plans in doctoral studies. In this chapter, the aim is to provide an overview of the efforts highlighting the successes and failures on the way to best practice in research data management support both institutionally and on the national level.

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Abstract.Learning is an important condition for the unemployed to become socially included, as only through learning people can create their own social and emotional ability to communicate with other people and develop good social skills, improve their welfare through learning related to a profession, regain self-confidence by increasing self-knowledge, and thus become fully-fledged members of society, i.e. become socially included. The aim of the paper is to provide a rationale for informal learning of the unemployed as a factor of social inclusion.

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