LEGAL ASPECT In Poland the HE Institution (the employer) is the owner of the commercial part of the copyright for educational resources produced by teachers. Although the law is very strict actually teachers have a lot of freedom in publishing their educational resources and many institution do not forbid teachers to published their resources in the gratis mode or libre mode. THE LANDSCAPE There are several initiatives promoting openness. It started bottom-up and effected in teh most widely known project for openness in Poland “Digital School” (“Cyfrowa Szkoła”). (KOED) The Coalition for Open Education The Coalition was founded by 4 institutions representing Polish academic and educational communities. Now has 29 active members forming very vibrant environment promoting, advocating and forming the landscape of polish openness scene.https://koed.org.pl/pl/ (Cyfrowa Szkoła) Digital School ProgrammeA governmental project aiming at offering e-text books for schools published on CC licence.http://www.epodreczniki.pl/begin/ The challanges for Poland are among others:to much administrative work done be teachersa preference for more traditional way of teachinglack of assitance and exchange of expereinces and informationslack of digital compteneces The quality of open educational resources One of the “hot topics” in openness is the quality of the OERs. There is a project in Poland which dealed well with this topic. The (Open AGH e-podręczniki) Open AGH e-textbooks (http://epodreczniki.open.agh.edu.pl/tiki-index.php) are CC licensed e-textbooks for higher education peer-revieved by the academic teachers. On of the e-textbooks e-Physics is on of the firts polish e-textbooks on CC published online (reviewed and rewritten many times thanks to the comments of the community) There is a report about Poland:http://iite.unesco.org/pics/publications/en/files/3214727.pdf