As part of the OPTIMA project, funded by the European Union under the Erasmus + KA2 program, scientists from Sumy State University as a part of consortium began to prepare textbooks on open science in education and research. The manuals will be designed for MSc and PhD students, as well as other interested readers who want to master the principles of open science and successfully apply them in their work.

An important place in this manual will be occupied by issues of academic and research integrity. University researchers have joined as developers of a number of authored materials in this area. In the future, the project plans to create a mass open online course "Open Science and Open Scientific Practices" which will be based on the university platform "Examenarium".