Advancing Open
Science in Austria

The members of the Mandated Organisation Austria strive for a coordinated development of the Austrian Open Science Policy and 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, please more information can be found here.

Focus: Working Groups

Austria Country Report

Monitoring of EOSC building processes in Austria, i.e. open science and FAIR related policies, projects, activities as well as RDM infrastructures.

Collections

FAIRification and Trustification of Data, Repositories, and Software produced by Scientific Collection holders to comply with EOSC principles and outlines.

Data Stewardship

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

Key Performance Indicators

The WG on Key Performance Indicators develops measurable indicators to make the success of EOSC visible at international / European level along the overarching goals for Austria.

Researcher Engagement in Austria

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

Stakeholder Engagement

The EOSC should meet the requirements and needs of daily research in Austria. At the same time, EOSC services should be widely accepted within the Austrian research landscape

Technical Infrastructure

Update and implement, on a national level, the roadmap to a data ecosystem based on evolving e-infrastructures offering trust in science.

Training

Make training materials widely available, adapted to the different target groups as far as possible and designed to be barrier-free, so that they can be used flexibly and in a customised way.

News

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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.

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