New mandate, new agenda: Will the EU live up to its promises on R&I?

Following her re-election as European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen has pledged to put “research and innovation, science and technology, at the centre of our economy” during her next five-year mandate. The rationale for doing so has multiple drivers: a growing innovation gap between Europe, the US and China; increasingly ambitious decarbonisation goals; defence and security threats from war in Ukraine and the Middle East, spurring geopolitical interest in further EU enlargement; and the need for productivity gains to support sustainable growth and competitiveness, among others.

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OStrails National Pilot Interview Austria

Read the National Pilot Interview from Austria and explore all the progress of OSTrails pilot studies. Check the latest on their national activities and learn how they’re progressing with the integration of open science and research assessment. This month we had the pleasure of speaking with Daniel Spichtinger and Victoria Eisenheld from the Univerisity of Vienna (UNI WIEN), Tomasz Miksa from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi from the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). Enjoy!

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FAIR Implementation Workshop: National Level Impact on FAIR

FAIR Implementation Workshop: National Level Impact on FAIR – Introduction of the Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation and the national FAIR initiatives The Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation and the national FAIR initiatives were introduced in the FAIR Implementation Workshop on National Level Impact on FAIR on the 1 October 2024. Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi, first speaker of the EOSC SOA General Assembly, was invited to give a keynote. She presented the Austrian Open Science and FAIR landscape and our initiatives such as EOSC SOA and Cluster Research Data as best practice examples of how to create FAIR implementation plans at the national level.

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Zenodo: 11 Years of Setting the Standards of Open Science Excellence! 

Named after Zenodotus, the first librarian of the Ancient Library of Alexandria and father of the first recorded use of metadata, a landmark in library history, Zenodo was launched in 2013, as a catch-all repository for research funded by the European Commission. In addition to being a repository, Zenodo, with the support of CERN, provides access to Big Data management tools and enhanced digital library capabilities for Open Data. As the need for such a repository was not limited to one research funding organisation or one nation for that matter, Zenodo’s novel concept quickly caught on and became a “hit” with the Open Science community; research from all over the world and from every discipline began to pour in, making the newly-minted repository a popular destination for Open Science scholars. Links (in case they don't work above): https://www.eosc.cz/en, https://eosc-austria.at/ Please add the last picture (whole group): The EOSC CZ and EOSC SOA teams in front of a statue of Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia for whom the university is named.

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Transnational Exchange: EOSC CZ Initiative and EOSC SOA 

A transnational exchange took recently place in Brno at Masaryk University between the EOSC CZ Initiative and the EOSC Support Office Austria (SOA). The full-day program featured mutual presentations about the respective EOSC project’s organization, progress, resources, and community needs and specificities. The EOSC CZ Initiative, known for its centralized and well-organized national strategy, is dedicated to connecting all research data infrastructures across the Czech Republic, creating a national repository, and offering supercomputing capabilities. Links (in case they don't work above): https://www.eosc.cz/en, https://eosc-austria.at/ Please add the last picture (whole group): The EOSC CZ and EOSC SOA teams in front of a statue of Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia for whom the university is named.

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