The present document includes the five action plans elaborated by the Pilot Organisations of the OPUS project. The introduction section provides background information on the deliverable and the methodology carried out for its completion. The OPUS project is developing coordination and support measures for organisations to reform research assessment with a focus on recognising and rewarding researchers who contribute to Open Science (OS). The main aim of the project is to develop a framework for researcher assessment, consisting of indicators/ metrics with a focus on OS, and corresponding interventions for organisations to implement the framework. The framework i.e., the Researcher Assessment Framework, hereafter the RAF and its supporting interventions will be tested in pilots and refined in consultation with the research community. Greater insights on the first draft of the RAF and its related interventions to support its implementation at research-performing organisations (RPOs) and research-funding organisations (RFOs) can be found in deliverable D3.1 on Indicators and Metrics to Test in the Pilots, and D2.1 on Interventions to Test in the Pilots. See Annex I and Annex II, for a high-level visual of the RAF and the interventions. This report is D4.1 of the OPUS project on Action Plans to Implement the Pilots – Initial and has been elaborated in the framework of Work Package (WP) 4, Pilots to Implement and Monitor Open Science. The pilots will run from month 17 of the project (January 2024) to month 34 of the project (June 2025), for a total of 18 months. The three RPOs (UNL, UCY, and UNIRI) and two RFOs (UEFISCDI and RCL) have selected and tailored indicators/metrics from D3.1 and corresponding interventions from D2.1 to test in each of their pilots. This document contains the action plans including the actions that will be carried out by the pilots in order to implement the interventions selected by each and has been developed in collaboration with them - see Table 1.1 for an overview on the Pilot Organisations. Pilot # Organisation Acronym Country Pilot #1 Nova University of Lisbon UNL Portugal Pilot #2 University of Cyprus UCY Cyprus Pilot #3 University of Rijeka UNIRI Croatia Pilot #4 Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development, and Innovation Funding UEFISCDI Romania Pilot #5 Research Council of Lithuania RCL Lithuania Table 1.1: Pilot Organisations in the OPUS Project In parallel to the implementation of the pilots and stemming from WP4’s task 4.2 Mutual Learning to Support the Pilots, mutual learning activities will be carried out in order to support the pilots and outline recommendations for potential organisations who would like to pilot the RAF and its accompanying interventions.

This deliverable is awaiting review by the EC.