EC/OPenAire Gold Open Access Pilot Project reports on its first technical workshop. The FP7 post-grant Gold OA Pilot aims to set up a two pronged workflow for receiving and processing funding requests. These requests may come directly from researchers or via institutions. Also discussed was the ways in which institutions will work with LIBER and OpenAIRE in order to support the first stage of the initiative. Read more about the project in the OPenAire Newsletter – https://www.openaire.eu/newsletter-items/first-workshop-on-post-grant-gold-oa-pilot