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The Austria Country Profile was created within the initiative of the EOSC Support Office Austria. It is a deliverable of the Working Group (WG) “Austria Country Profile”.

On the 7th of October 2024 the EOSC Support Office Austria hosted a webinar to share the outcomes of the former Task Forces. The aim was to inform the community about the achievements

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!

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.

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.

The Austria Country Profile was created within the initiative of the EOSC Support Office Austria. It is a deliverable of the Working Group (WG) “Austria Country Profile”.

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.

On 20-21 June 2024 in Brussels, the European Commission, represented by DG for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), DG for Communications Networks Content and Technology (DG CNECT), and the European Research Executive Agency (REA), organised the 2024 Coordination meeting of EOSC-related projects funded under Horizon Europe.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 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.

UNESCO has set up five working groups, each targeting key impact areas crucial for implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (OS) adopted on 23 November 2021. While the Recommendation affirmed the importance of open science as a vital tool to improve the quality and accessibility of both scientific outputs and scientific processes, these working groups brought together experts and open science entities from various fields and domains to address distinct yet interconnected topics and challenges essential to the implementation of the Recommendation.

The FAIR-IMPACT National Roadshow visited Austria on June 18th. This event was hosted by the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) as part of “Shared RDM Services & Infrastructure” project. Around 50 participants from Austria and beyond joined to explore the latest advancements in Open Science within the country and to learn about outcomes from EOSC-related projects, including FAIR-IMPACT.

An expert group of the EOSC Steering Board (EOSC-SB), the Policy Sub-Group, in collaboration with the ESFRI-EOSC Coordination Task Force wrote two opinion papers analysing a set of key disruptive concepts and practices connected to the construction and future operation of EOSC.
The partnership is further enhanced by the participation of the Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP), the operator of Switzerland’s national library platform, swisscovery, which will bring Open Knowledge Maps visualisations to over 500 libraries.

This widespread support from the Swiss research community will strengthen Open Knowledge Maps and its open infrastructure as a part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

UNESCO Working Group on Open Science Funding and Incentives Policy and Policy Instruments   UNESCO has set up five working groups, each targeting key impact areas crucial for implementing the UNESCO […]

The Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL) has signed a membership for Open Knowledge Maps on behalf of nine of its members, in an agreement bringing AI-driven visual discovery to researchers and research institutions across Switzerland.

The partnership is further enhanced by the participation of the Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP), the operator of Switzerland’s national library platform, swisscovery, which will bring Open Knowledge Maps visualisations to over 500 libraries.

This widespread support from the Swiss research community will strengthen Open Knowledge Maps and its open infrastructure as a part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

UNESCO has set up five working groups, each targeting key impact areas crucial for implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (OS) adopted on 23 November 2021. While the Recommendation affirmed the importance of open science as a vital tool to improve the quality and accessibility of both scientific outputs and scientific processes, these working groups brought together experts and open science entities from various fields and domains to address distinct yet interconnected topics and challenges essential to the implementation of the Recommendation.

UNESCO has set up five working groups, each targeting key impact areas crucial for implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (OS) adopted on 23 November 2021. While the Recommendation affirmed the importance of open science as a vital tool to improve the quality and accessibility of both scientific outputs and scientific processes, these working groups brought together experts and open science entities from various fields and domains to address distinct yet interconnected topics and challenges essential to the implementation of the Recommendation.