The Kick off Meeting of the «BE OPEN – European forum and oBsErvatory for OPEN science in transport»- HORIZON 2020 project has been successfully held on the 14th of February, 2019, in Brussels. The meeting was organized by the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT/CERTH), the Coordinator of the project, and in cooperation with ECTRI (European Conference of Transport Research Institutes, https://www.ectri.org).