Advancing Open
Science in Austria

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

Welcome to the
EOSC Support Office Austria!

Quite a while ago the vision of a federated system of infrastructures supporting research by providing an open multi-disciplinary environment to publish, find and re-use data, tools and services led to the planned implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The implementation of EOSC is a long-term process that has been pursued by the European Commission since 2015. Thus, the EOSC Association was established on the European level.

The establishment of the EOSC Support Office Austria followed soon after to support the coordinated development of the Austrian Open Science Policy as well as to help make the vision of EOSC a reality.

On this website you’ll find further information on EOSC and the EOSC Association as well as you’ll learn more about who we are and what we do. We do hope that we can inspire you too with the vision of EOSC!

Get Involved!

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!

Become a Partner of the Austrian EOSC Initiative

The membership of the Austrian initiative is free of charge. If you are interested in joining our initiative, more information can be found here.

Get to know our Working Groups

Austria Country Report

Monitoring of EOSC building processes in Austria, i.e. Open Science and FAIR related policies, projects, activities and RDM infrastructure development

Collections

FAIRification and trustification of data, repositories and software produced by scientific collection holders to ensure compliance with EOSC principles

Data Stewardship

Establishing data stewardship programmes by aligning efforts and activities on a national and international level

Key Performance Indicators

Developing measurable indicators to make the success of EOSC visible at international and European level along the goals for Austria

Researcher Engagement

Engaging researchers in order to ensure that EOSC meets the requirements and needs of daily research in Austria, while strengthening Austria’s position in the European research landscape

Stakeholder Engagement

Engaging all relevant stakeholders to ensure that EOSC services meet their requirements and are widely accepted within the research landscape

Technical Infrastructure

Updating and implementing the roadmap to a data ecosystem based on evolving e-infrastructures offering trust in science on a national level

Training

Making training materials available, adapted to the different target groups and designed to be barrier free to ensure a flexible and customised usability

Upcoming Events

News

Austria Country Profile Q4/2022

The Austria Country Profile was created within the initiative of the EOSC Support Office Austria. It is a deliverable of...

Wrap-up 2nd General Assembly of EOSC Support Office Austria

On May 23rd, the first EOSC National Tripartite Event was held in Vienna. Hosted by the EOSC-Café at the Federal...

The EOSC Austria WGs’ aim is to advance EOSC-relevant topics in Austria

How they do this - for example through interviews, workshops or surveys - is up to each WG. In this...

EOSC Austria: Visions, needs and requirements for research data and practices

In 2015 the vision of a federated system of infrastructures supporting research by providing an open multidisciplinary environment to publish,...

1 Million Strong!

Open Knowledge Maps has recently reached a major milestone – over 1 million maps have been created on the platform....

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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.