Author: Bernd Saurugger

The programme of the EOSC Symposium 2024 is composed of 26 thought-provoking sessions on topics that define Open Science and lie at the heart of the successful deployment of EOSC.

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.

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.

On June 20 and 21, 2024, the European Commission invited all Horizon Europe projects funded under the INFRAEOSC call to Brussels. This working meeting, which takes place once a year at the invitation of the European Commission and is (co-)organized by the EOSC Association, serves as a platform for exchange between representatives of the Commission and the projects. Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi and Stefan Reichmann (both RDM Team, TU Graz) took part in this working meeting at the invitation of the EU Commission on behalf of the EOSC Focus project, Tomasz Miksa (TU Vienna) on behalf of the OSTrails project.

The WorldFAIR project's Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) published a set of implementation recommendations, based on profiles of common, domain-neutral metadata standards which are aligned to work together to support core functions required by FAIR. The CDIF is now available via Zenodo.

The EOSC Opportunity Area (OA) Expert Groups constitute an important mechanism for collaboration on technical and related matters within the Horizon Europe Co-programmed Partnership for EOSC. They are a product of the voluntary collaboration across Horizon Europe (HE) EOSC-related projects, mainly in the domain of the HE Technology Group – one of the three inter-project working groups initiated by the Vademecum – and serve as the cornerstone of a community of technical experts collaborating to advance the development of EOSC.