Welcome to the
EOSC Support Office Austria!

We, EOSC Austria, strive for a coordinated development of the Austrian Open Science Policy and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) goals

The EOSC Support Office Austria (EOSC SOA) supports ACONET, which is the Austrian EOSC Mandated Organization, and all Austrian research institutions. The goal of EOSC SOA is to realize the EOSC vision: a federated, multi-disciplinary environment to find and use data, tools, and services for research, innovation, and education.

On this website, you will find comprehensive information about EOSC and the EOSC Association, detailing initiatives, developments, and events among the Austrian research, research support, and cultural heritage communities.

The vision of Open Science is to make scientific processes more open and effective and to use both scientific excellence and open innovative and applied research to address current challenges, which are very comprehensively outlined in the policies of the EU Commission and in the framework of the Global Sustainability Goals (UN SDGs).

The Austrian initiative drives the commitment to the Open Science movement as well as to the Vienna Declaration on the EOSC.

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We strive for a coordinated development of the Austrian Open Science Policy and the realisation of the goals of the EOSC – namely the creation of an open multi-disciplinary environment to publish, find and re-use data, tools and services for research, innovation and educational purposes. The participation of other institutions in the EOSC initiative is explicitly desired. We thus invite you to get involved and join the initiative!​

The national initiative of EOSC Austria is:

  • legally represented by the ACONET Association (the Austrian EOSC Mandated Organization) 
  • managed by its operational body, the EOSC Support Office Austria. 

The partners share a vision of enhancing EOSC in Austria to make scientific processes more open and effective. 

Their activities are in line with the goals of the EOSC Association, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing. 

Specialized Working Groups (WGs) advance EOSC topics and monitor Open Science developments in Austria.