OPEN also includes a strong career development component, geared primarily towards the network’s early career scholars (ECS). The network plan of activities includes three training schools for postgraduates and early career scholars, short-term scientific missions to provide scholars with the opportunity to pursue their projects with the insights and guidance of experts in their fields, an annual "peer-to-peer" colloquium for ECSs to collaborate and gain feedback on their work, and the designation of a conference fund to support the dissemination of research from Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITC).