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SUMMARY:Data stewards\, skills and training for Open Science and FAIR practices
DESCRIPTION:Expected Outcome:Projects are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: \n\nDefinition of consistent core curricula for data stewards throughout Europe\, fostering the adoption of Open Science and FAIR principles.\nEnhanced data steward skills\, enhancing their ability to manage and interpret complex data.\nAdvancement of Open Science education throughout all research career stages. Creation and standardisation of open science curricula tailored to researchers at all career stages\, promoting consistency and collaboration in Open Science practices.\nExpansion and strengthening of existing competence networks\, broadening their scope across countries and disciplines and improving their readiness to support the uptake of Open Science and of EOSC. Development of a sustainable coordination network model to support synergies and continued growth.\nMainstreaming transparent\, aligned\, and interoperable Open Science practices and promoting efficiency and trustworthiness in the management of FAIR digital objects.\n\nScope:The uptake of Open Science practices and of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) requires dedicated\, professional profiles for data curation and data management\, as well as equipping researchers with adequate skills and supporting them for the sharing and re-use of FAIR research digital objects. However\, at present\, data stewards and related profiles lack well-defined career paths\, and data sharing and other open science practices are not fully mainstreamed within the research community and are often not recognised in research assessment practices. \nThe objective of this topic is to foster a stronger culture of Open Science and to address gaps related to the professionalisation of data stewards and to the acquisition and recognition of open science and data management skills at all career levels. This requires the identification of consistent core curricula for data stewards\, together with the further development and coordination of competence centres at the European level. \nProposals are expected to cover the following activities: \n\nCoordinating European-level actions to make data steward curricula management consistent and to propose mechanisms to monitor their suitability and possible evolution.\nEnhancing data steward and researcher curricula with Open Science and FAIR practices\, ensuring adaptability at the different contexts\, levels and scientific domains of applicability.\nAddressing diverse data steward levels\, including support staff and researchers.\nCollaborating with existing competence centres to foster Open Science and FAIR networks.\nLeveraging national networks and related institutional initiatives for European-level coordination.\nLaunching outreach programs targeting early-career researchers and less-structured communities.\nOffering support to countries and institutions that are underrepresented and bolstering national competence centre networks.\n\nProposals are expected to build on and align with the European Competence Framework for Researchers (ResearchComp)[1] and with the revised Charter for Researchers[2]\, which underline the importance of Open Science competences and practices in research careers. Proposals should also seek for synergies with the activities of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) in order to reach a better recognition of open\, collaborative practices in research assessment. \nTo ensure complementarity of outcomes\, proposals are expected to cooperate and align with activities of the EOSC Partnership and to coordinate with relevant initiatives and projects contributing to the development of EOSC. In particular\, proposals should take account of the results of the Skills4EOSC and FAIR-IMPACT projects and interact with related initiatives aimed at developing competence centres and at improving FAIR data practices in different contexts\, like in research infrastructures\, research performing organisation and higher education institutions. In particular\, cooperation is expected with project(s) funded by call topic HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-02. Proposals are expected to propose adequate measures and tailor its support to different levels and contexts of data stewardship. \nProposals are expected to establish interactions with the operators of the EOSC Federation\, in order to ensure alignment with the policies and practices of the EOSC Federation\, notably on the area of data interoperability standards\, persistent identifiers and others to identify useful tools and resources for the broad EOSC community. This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership for the European Open Science Cloud. \n[1] https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/jobs-research/researchcomp-european-competence-framework-researchers_en. \n[2] https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/hrexcellenceaward/european-charter-researchers.
URL:https://eosc-austria.at/events/data-stewards-skills-and-training-for-open-science-and-fair-practices/
CATEGORIES:Funding Calls
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SUMMARY:Using Generative AI (GenAI4EU ) for Scientific Research via EOSC
DESCRIPTION:Expected Outcome: \nProject results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: \n\nEOSC will make available the high-quality machine-readable scientific datasets to be consumed by machine-driven Generative AI applications at the service of science in line with the GenAI4EU[1] initiative and other key EU initiatives\, like the Apply AI strategy.\nEOSC will facilitate the pooling and sharing of high-value data sets originated from EOSC and other data spaces identified as priorities (including\, but not limited to\, public sector\, health\, climate\, environmental\, manufacturing\, agriculture\, energy\, financial and mobility data). The large-scale actions supported by EOSC will include the creation of common data platforms enabling secure and compliant sharing and reuse of sensitive\, confidential\, proprietary and personal data\, as well as large-scale experimentation based on Generative AI\, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative and other key EU initiatives\, like the Apply AI strategy.\n\nScope: \nThe scope of this call is to demonstrate and foster the use of Generative AI for Scientific Research\, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative and other key EU initiatives\, like the Apply AI strategy\, throughout the research data lifecycle supported by EOSC. Generative AI can be used for activities such as writing\, data generation and analysis\, reporting and many others\, for improving productivity. This enables lifting science beyond the human scale by facilitating the deployment and use of smart algorithms\, machine learning and AI services onto the Web of FAIR Data. The awareness and readiness of using Generative AI for scientific research must be raised by training activities. \nAI-powered natural language interfaces can transform the way researchers interact with open science infrastructures\, how they discover and combine relevant data\, software and application assets. EOSC should evolve towards offering such capabilities in ways that ensure unbiased and trustworthy responses. This includes adopting FAIR practices\, for AI-trained models as well\, to address challenges ranging from reproducibility to trustworthiness. \nOpen Data and Open Research Software are essential for reliable\, trustworthy\, and transparent GenAI. They ensure that datasets and algorithms are well-documented\, accessible\, and reproducible\, enabling others to validate and understand GenAI algorithms. This transparency fosters trust\, supports ethical standards\, and ensures compliance with regulations\, particularly important in the field of GenAI. \nThe proposals shall focus on all following aspects: \n\nEnrich the EOSC federation with Generative AI tools for evaluating research data quality\, ensuring trustworthiness across the European network of trusted repositories\, accessible by humans\, machines\, and Generative AI services: formulate protocols and policies to facilitate effortless data access\, processing\, and provenance updates within EOSC’s repository and service network.\nSupport European research infrastructures to improve the FAIRness of their data\, so that they are ready to be combined with data of infrastructures in scientifically neighbouring domains\, in order to provide Generative AI-ready data.\n\nconduct pilots to validate the effectiveness and accuracy of the Generative AI-driven data quality evaluation methods\, iteratively improving and refining them based on feedback and real-world use cases and removing the potential biases inherited from the training data.\n\n\nRun community engagement and support programmes for implementing Generative AI in scientific workflows via EOSC:\n\npromote a sound training programme to facilitate the uptake and the use of Generative AI as a means to facilitate the FAIRification of data and data curation;\ndemonstrate how Generative AI can facilitate quality assessment of FAIR data;\nadvance the realization of machine-actionable (MA) research data and services\, including AI-based systems;\npropose protocols and policies to govern automatic data workflows within the network of repositories and services.\n\n\n\nThe proposals are expected to deliver on one or more of the following: \n\nDevelop\, promote and support real-life use cases for Generative AI models in scientific research domains\, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative and other key EU initiatives\, like the Apply AI strategy\, such as:\n\naugment datasets in scientific fields that rely on image analysis\, such as biology\, astronomy\, and materials science: by generating synthetic images that closely resemble real data\, researchers can expand their datasets\, improve model robustness\, share anonymized version of sensitive data and generalize better to unseen scenarios;\nlearn the underlying patterns of complex time-series data\, such as sensor readings in environmental monitoring or physiological signals in healthcare: by generating data samples that match the learned distribution\, these models can detect anomalies or deviations from normal behaviour;\naccelerate materials design and discovery by predicting the properties of new materials without the need for extensive experimental testing: these models can generate novel material structures with desired properties\, such as strength\, conductivity\, or catalytic activity\, based on learned relationships between material compositions and properties;\nadvance drug design and molecular modelling by generating novel molecular structures with desired pharmacological properties: these models can explore vast chemical spaces\, predict the interactions between molecules and biological targets\, and optimize drug candidates for efficacy and safety;\nsimulate complex systems and phenomena in various scientific domains\, such as physics\, chemistry\, and ecology: by capturing the underlying dynamics and interactions of the system\, these models can generate realistic simulations that mimic observed behaviour or predict future outcomes under different conditions.\n\n\n\nThe proposers should take into account and leverage on the results of relevant projects in the field\, including AI4EOSC[2]\, iMagine[3]\, EOSC Data Commons[4]\, RI-SCALE[5]\, and other developments within the scope of the GenAI4EU initiative and other key EU initiatives\, like the Apply AI strategy. \nThis topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership for the European Open Science Cloud. \nProposals could consider the inclusion of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) research infrastructure in their research infrastructure portfolio for the creation and sharing or high-quality machine-readable scientific datasets to be consumed by machine-driven Generative AI applications. In this regard\, the JRC will consider collaborating with any successful proposal. \n[1] This call falls under the ‘GenAI4EU’ initiative as in the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament\, the Council\, the European Economic And Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on boosting startups and innovation in trustworthy artificial intelligence ((COM(2024) 28 final of 24.1.2024). \n[2] https://ai4eosc.eu/ \n[3] https://www.imagine-ai.eu/ \n[4] Grant no 101188179 from the call HORIZON-INFRA-2024-TECH-01 \n[5] Grant no 101188168 from the call HORIZON-INFRA-2024-TECH-01
URL:https://eosc-austria.at/events/using-generative-ai-genai4eu-for-scientific-research-via-eosc/
CATEGORIES:Funding Calls
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SUMMARY:COST Open Call 2025
DESCRIPTION:Participants are invited to submit COST Action proposals contributing to the scientific\, technological\, economic\, cultural or societal knowledge advancement and development of Europe. Multi- and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged. \nThe Open Call Action proposal submission\, evaluation\, selection and approval (SESA) procedure is fully science and technology-driven and will ensure a simple\, transparent and competitive proposal evaluation and selection process\, reflecting the bottom-up\, open and inclusive principles of COST. \nParticipants planning to submit a proposal for a COST Action will need to refer to the COST Open Call proposers guidelines and to the Open Call Announcement available on the Documents and Guidelines page. \nAll proposals are submitted via the dedicated online platform of the COST Association used for grant management\, known as e-COST.
URL:https://eosc-austria.at/events/cost-open-call-2025/
CATEGORIES:Funding Calls
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SUMMARY:COMET-Zentren 2025: Exzellente themenoffene Forschung
DESCRIPTION:Exzellente Forschung an COMET-Zentren in Kooperation von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft\n\n\n\n\nIn COMET-Zentren forschen Unternehmen gemeinsam mit Forschungseinrichtungen an einem mehrjährigen Forschungsprogramm. \nCOMET-Zentren betreiben exzellente\, kooperative Forschung auf hohem internationalem Niveau und setzen neue Forschungsimpulse. Sie bauen entsprechende Kompetenzen und Humanressourcen auf und bieten Forscher:innen vielfältige Aus- und Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten. \nErfolgreiche Zentren zeichnen sich durch die Dissemination von Forschungsergebnissen\, sowohl in Form von innovativen Produkten\, Prozessen und Dienstleistungen als auch durch eine hochrangige Publikationstätigkeit aus. \nInternationalisierung als Qualitätsmerkmal exzellenter kooperativer Forschung zeigt sich insbesondere durch die Einbindung international renommierter Forscher:innen\, Organisationen und Unternehmen sowie die Beteiligung an internationalen Projekten. \nCOMET Zentren tragen im Sinne der SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) zur Lösung gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen bei und unterstützen die Transformation der österreichischen Wirtschaft bei ihrem nachhaltigen Wandel.
URL:https://eosc-austria.at/events/comet-zentren-2025-exzellente-themenoffene-forschung/
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CATEGORIES:Funding Calls
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SUMMARY:Three open calls to grow the EOSC Federation
DESCRIPTION:Enrolment call of the EOSC Tripartite Governance\nThis call invites organisations to join the second wave of the EOSC Federation’s build-up phase\, requiring them to enrol as an EOSC Node\, submit a Project Charter\, develop use cases\, and demonstrate their capacity to function as a community gateway. \nTotal funding: No funding is provided through this call \nMaximum grant amount: Not applicable \n  \nPreparatory grants under EOSC Gravity\n\nhese grants are designed to support the preparatory work of potential future EOSC Nodes. The main objective is to develop a Project Charter for a subsequent\, separate application to the Enrolment Call of the EOSC Tripartite Governance. \nTotal funding: €800\,000 \nMaximum grant amount: €50\,000 per project \nRead the call text on EU Funding & Tenders Portal \n  \nInter-project grants under EOSC Gravity\nThis call aims to expand the services offered through the EOSC Federation and to demonstrate the benefits for end users. This can be achieved in two ways: by developing scientific use cases\, or by piloting the onboarding of new services into existing EOSC Nodes\, without the requirement to become an EOSC Node at this stage. \nTotal funding: €400\,000 \nMaximum grant amount: €50\,000 per project \nRead the call text on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal
URL:https://eosc-austria.at/events/three-open-calls-to-grow-the-eosc-federation/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Funding Calls
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SUMMARY:EU investiert über 307 Mio. EUR in künstliche Intelligenz und verwandte Technologien
DESCRIPTION:Die Europäische Kommission hat zwei neue Aufforderungen zur Einreichung von Vorschlägen im Rahmen des Clusters „Digitalisierung\, Industrie und Raumfahrt“ des Arbeitsprogramms „Horizont Europa“ veröffentlicht\, mit denen 307\,3 Mio. EUR zur Stärkung der digitalen Innovation und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit Europas bereitgestellt werden. \n\n\n\nInsgesamt 221\,8 Mio. EUR sind für eine Initiative bestimmt\, die sich auf die Entwicklung vertrauenswürdiger Dienste der künstlichen Intelligenz (KI)\, innovativer Datendienste und die Sicherung der strategischen Autonomie der EU konzentriert. Im Rahmen der Aufforderung werden Projekte finanziert\, die zur Entwicklung von KI beitragen\, einschließlich Maßnahmen zur Unterstützung der Strategie „Anwenden von KI“\, der Robotik\, der Quantentechnologien\, der Photonik und virtueller Welten. Mit mehr als 40 Mio. EUR für die „Open Internet Stack Initiative“ werden sowohl Endnutzeranwendungen als auch Technologien innerhalb der Stacks entwickelt\, um europäische souveräne digitale Gemeingüter zu unterstützen. \nFür die zweite Aufforderung zur Einreichung von Vorschlägen stehen zusätzliche 85\,5 Mio. EUR zur Verfügung\, mit denen eine offene strategische Autonomie bei digitalen und neu entstehenden Technologien und Rohstoffen unterstützt wird. Es wird sich auf Themen wie KI-Agenten der nächsten Generation\, Robotik für Industrie- und Serviceanwendungen und die Entwicklung neuer Materialien mit verbesserten Sensorfunktionen konzentrieren. \nDiese Aufforderungen zur Einreichung von Vorschlägen fördern nachhaltige Innovation und die europäische Führungsrolle bei strategischen digitalen Technologien im Einklang mit dem Kompass der Kommission für Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Mit diesen Investitionen will die Kommission die Führungsrolle bei strategischen Technologien durch nachhaltige\, auf den Menschen ausgerichtete Innovationen sichern. \nCluster 4 des Arbeitsprogramms von Horizont Europa „Digitalisierung\, Industrie und Raumfahrt“ ist strategisch darauf ausgerichtet\, die Führungsrolle und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit Europas in wichtigen strategischen digitalen Sektoren wie KI\, Quantentechnologie\, künftigen digitalen Netzen\, virtuellen Welten und anderen Schlüsseltechnologien zu beschleunigen. Diese Aufforderungen stehen Unternehmen\, öffentlichen Verwaltungen\, Hochschulen und anderen Einrichtungen aus den EU-Mitgliedstaaten und Partnerländern offen. \nDas Bewerbungsfenster bleibt bis zum 15. April 2026 geöffnet. \nWeitere Informationen finden Sie auf dem Portal „Funding & Tenders“.
URL:https://eosc-austria.at/events/eu-investiert-uber-307-mio-eur-in-kunstliche-intelligenz-und-verwandte-technologien/
CATEGORIES:Funding Calls
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SUMMARY:Expanding and deepening the EOSC Federation (EOSC Partnership)
DESCRIPTION:Expected Outcome: \nProject results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: \n\nThe EOSC Federation provides to EOSC users with state-of-the-art digital services addressing their needs to store\, process and share data\, run software\, models and workflows\, and collaborate with their peers.\nResearch and digital infrastructures and other organisations providing scientific services are equipped with appropriate structures and technical\, legal and coordination mechanisms to onboard\, manage and sustainably operate digital tools and services in the EOSC Federation.\nInvestments across Europe in the provision of FAIR scientific data and services within EOSC are more aligned and coordinated\, achieving economies of scale and more efficient use of digital resources.\n\nScope: \nIn order to carry out typical research workflows\, researchers need to use a broad range of digital services such as data storage\, computing\, applications\, and collaboration tools. Such services are often cost-intensive and their provision is restricted\, e.g. to researchers within a country/region or a specific thematic area. The EOSC Federation aims to provide a trusted\, sovereign and secure environment to researchers in Europe to use high-quality\, FAIR research data and run research workflows\, with a focus on cross-disciplinary and cross-country research collaboration. \nThe aim of the topic is to set up an EOSC Federation-wide mechanism that enables multiple organisations to seamlessly offer such digital services\, and to support the sustained provision of these services to EOSC users. It also aims to enlarge the EOSC Federation by supporting the expansion of Nodes as gateways through which multiple organisations can offer their resources\, such as data and services\, to EOSC users. \nProposals should cover the following activities: \n1) Provide seamless\, user-friendly access to EOSC users to digital services for typical research workflows such as data storage\, computing\, applications\, and collaboration tools\, through a fully integrated EOSC Federation-wide system. \n\nGather requirements and analyse needs of researchers and EOSC users for such services and how they can best complement and integrate with existing resources in the EOSC Federation.\nSupport developing and embedding a Federation-wide resource management and accounting system for the efficient provision of such services across the Federation\, building on the design principles of the ‘virtual credit allocation’ system of the EOSC EU Node and any further development in the EOSC Federation.\nProvide access to EOSC users to such services\, based on the researchers’ and EOSC users’ needs and requirements and making use of a Federation-wide resource management and accounting system and harmonised access policies\, in line with the principles and guidelines of transnational and virtual access to European Research Infrastructures and related EOSC Federation policies.\nUpgrade the EOSC user experience through deep\, back-end\, cross-provider integration of key digital services covering the full research lifecycle\, achieving a user-friendly and robust environment.\nDevelop\, test and demonstrate business models for the effective management of the supply and demand of such services\, as well as for their long-term sustainable provision in the EOSC Federation\, beyond the end of the project’s duration.\nDevelop guidelines to facilitate a harmonised approach to the acquisition and provision of such services that supports research data sovereignty and research security in Europe\, ensuring a trusted\, secure and sovereign EOSC Federation.\nEstablish mechanisms for continuous feedback and improvement\, including indicators for monitoring the quality and usage of the services\, building on and further developing existing mechanisms of the EOSC Federation\, and ensuring that the evolving needs and requirements of EOSC users are met by the EOSC Federation.\n\nThese activities should be fully concerted and aligned with related parallel activities carried out by the EOSC Federation. \n2) Support the broadening\, integration and structuring of the participation of research communities in the EOSC Federation through \n\nthe development and establishment of intra-Node coordination mechanisms and organisational models to enable EOSC Nodes to effectively represent broad communities and multiple organisations in the EOSC Federation\,\nthe development and use of digital capabilities\, and of options for harmonised legal arrangements\, such as contractual or service-level agreements\, for onboarding and sustainably provisioning communities’ services through EOSC Nodes\,\nbroadening organisations’ engagement with and contribution to the EOSC Federation\, including underrepresented thematic research communities or geographic areas.\n\nProposals should implement the activities through the organisation of joint calls that provide grants to third parties. \nThe joint calls should be open to organisations that participate or are interested to participate in the EOSC Federation either by operating an EOSC Node or by onboarding their identified resources to the EOSC Federation\, in line with the relevant criteria set by the EOSC Federation. \nProposed activities should be driven by current gaps and needs of scientific communities\, digital infrastructures and service providers. Proposals should clearly demonstrate how they will contribute to addressing these needs and increasing the uptake of the EOSC Federation by researchers. \nThe activities should comply with and contribute to the continuous update and upgrade of related EOSC Federation policies and standards\, including technical and interoperability standards\, the use of open standards\, harmonised access and use policies\, and cybersecurity[1]. \nProposals should include a robust and credible plan for the long-term\, beyond the project’s duration\, sustained operation of the services that they will make available in the EOSC Federation\, and any other relevant project results. \nFor what concerns provision of access to digital services by third parties funded under the joint calls\, proposals should include a list of the digital services that will be supported through the joint calls. The third parties funded under the joint calls should identify the specific digital services that they will provide for access and the amount of access made available to EOSC users\, allocating budget according to users’ demand and making use of the Federation-wide resource management and accounting system. These third parties should also fulfil further conditions and requirements described in the ‘Virtual Access Activities’ part of the ‘Specific Features for Research Infrastructures’ section of this Work Programme\, for what concerns publicity of the access offered\, determining the access costs\, and setting criteria for access by EOSC users in line with the EOSC Federation access policies. Proposals are expected to address compliance with these specific conditions and notably ensure that the selected third parties will provide appropriate documentation to support and justify the amount of access provided and corresponding costs. \nProjects are encouraged to explore synergies with relevant EU initiatives such as EuroHPC. To ensure coherence and complementarity of outcomes\, funded projects are expected to cooperate with each other and with relevant initiatives and projects contributing to the development of the EOSC Federation including actions awarded under the topics HORIZON-INFRA-2023-01-EOSC-04\, HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-02-01\, HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-01\, HORIZON-INFRA-2026-01-EOSC-01 and closely interact with the organisational setup of the EOSC Federation. To this extent\, proposals should provide for dedicated activities and earmark appropriate resources. This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership for the European Open Science Cloud[2]. \n[1] As described in the EOSC Federation Handbook and other relevant documentation potentially adopted by the EOSC Federation. \n[2] https://eosc.eu/partnership/
URL:https://eosc-austria.at/events/expanding-and-deepening-the-eosc-federation-eosc-partnership/
CATEGORIES:Funding Calls
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SUMMARY:Strengthening the potential of the EOSC for knowledge valorisation and industry-academia collaboration (EOSC Partnership)
DESCRIPTION:Expected Outcome: \nProject results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: \n\nBetter overview of the identified opportunities and barriers of the EU’s current legal framework on intellectual property (patents\, copyright\, licenses etc.) for researchers to valorise knowledge resources provided and/or processed in the EOSC Federation.\nOrganisations contributing resources to the EOSC Federation have improved capacity\, stronger incentives and better legal and technical conditions to valorise these knowledge resources and engage in open innovation practices and industry-academia collaboration.\nOrganisations contributing to the EOSC Federation have clearer frameworks and incentives to offer their resources to innovators\, deep-tech startups and startups emerging from academia.\nOrganisations contributing to the EOSC Federation have established channels in EOSC to promote knowledge valorisation with the private sector\, including SMEs and industry.\n\nScope: \nThis topic aims to support increasing and exploiting the potential of EOSC as a driver of innovation and a platform for researchers to develop new technologies and solutions that can be brought to the market. \nKnowledge valorisation is one of the EU’s key priorities for the European Research Area\, aiming to ensure that the increasing amount of research results generated in the EU\, mostly with full or partial public funding\, are transformed to products\, services and solutions that benefit society and contribute to economic competitiveness. \nMany initiatives have already been taken at EU level to boost knowledge valorisation\, including the guiding principles\, codes of practice and a platform to build a community to share experiences[1]. \nThe EOSC Federation brings together and makes available to researchers\, large volumes of knowledge resources\, including data\, publications\, software\, tools and services from different research and data infrastructures and scientific services providers across Europe. It therefore has the potential to facilitate and provide appropriate frameworks for knowledge valorisation\, open innovation practices and industry-academia collaboration especially for what concerns results that stem from cross-discipline or cross-country research. Activities funded under this topic should aim to support the capacity of the EOSC Federation and its community to better valorise research results in line with the EU’s code of practice on intellectual assets management[2] and standardisation in the European Research Area[3]. \nA key element in this effort is to clarify the legal conditions to valorise knowledge resources\, including resources provided in the EOSC Federation. As knowledge resources have various degrees of copyright protection\, it is often challenging for researchers to navigate in what they are allowed to do with the knowledge resources and how they can be used in industry-academia collaboration. A better overview of requirements and more legal clarity will therefore incentivise researchers to valorise the knowledge resources of the EOSC Federation. \nThis effort should also take into account the specific needs of different research communities contributing to the EOSC Federation\, ensuring they have the possibility to set better legal terms for knowledge valorisation through appropriate choice of licenses etc. More guidance is therefore needed to ensure that contributors can share their knowledge resources in the EOSC Federation with fewer legal strings attached. \nProposals under this topic should include the following activities: \n\nAnalyse opportunities and barriers emerging from the provisions of the EU’s current legal framework on intellectual property and relevant types of licenses that set the legal conditions for researchers to valorise knowledge resources in EOSC Federation.\nGather requirements and needs\, develop and analyse potential business models and access schemes for innovators and start-ups in Europe to access and use resources available in the EOSC Federation.\nDevelop a number of case studies of identified EOSC stakeholders valorising their results and/or establishing collaboration links with the private sector.\nMap out and evaluate the possibilities of relevant types of licenses for knowledge resources to facilitate knowledge valorisation and engage in open innovation and industry-academia collaboration.\nOrganise workshops\, webinars and awareness-raising campaigns\, and develop guiding material targeted at EOSC users and communities contributing to EOSC on how to facilitate and engage in knowledge valorisation and industry-academia collaboration based on the knowledge resources of EOSC Federation.\nDevelop recommendations and best practices\, based also on the case studies\, for further development of the EOSC Federation to facilitate knowledge valorisation and industry-academia collaboration.\n\nTo ensure complementarity with and use of the latest EU guidelines and research results\, proposals should build on ongoing and previous Horizon Europe-funded projects\, including IP4OS\, EU guiding principles for knowledge valorisation\, Knowledge Valorisation Platform and code of practice for intellectual property management and standards. This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership for the European Open Science Cloud[4]. \n[1] https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/industrial-research-and-innovation/eu-valorisation-policy/knowledge-valorisation-platform \n[2] http://data.europa.eu/eli/reco/2023/499/oj \n[3] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reco/2023/498/oj \n[4] https://eosc.eu/partnership/
URL:https://eosc-austria.at/events/strengthening-the-potential-of-the-eosc-for-knowledge-valorisation-and-industry-academia-collaboration-eosc-partnership/
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UID:21845-1781568000-1781654399@eosc-austria.at
SUMMARY:Trusted frameworks for secure and efficient data sharing in EOSC (EOSC Partnership)
DESCRIPTION:Expected Outcome: \nProject results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: \n\nCountries\, research communities and institutions are equipped with data sovereignty frameworks harmonised within EOSC and aligned with EU legislation and international agreements.\nImproved mechanisms and solutions for effective control over sensitive data and for enabling lawful data use and sharing across EU member states\, scientific disciplines and third countries with EU adequacy decision in place.\nMore harmonised guidelines\, support and training to researchers and data stewards on applying EU and national legislation and international agreements for data access\, sharing\, reuse\, licensing and associated services within EOSC.\nIncreased interoperability with relevant solutions of other European data spaces for secure data management and processing.\n\nScope: \nResearch data sovereignty refers to the possibility for effective control by data owners of data usage and sharing when necessary. Effective and transparent community-driven data sovereignty frameworks are important enablers of open science\, in particular ensuring safe and trusted management of personal or sensitive data\, safeguarding the quality of curated research datasets and the effective application of related EU and national digital and data legislation. Data sovereignty mechanisms can also improve the resilience and preparedness of research and data infrastructures against risks related to access to and preservation of critical data and services\, including risks related to data generated and stored outside the EU/EEA. \nThe exponential growth of available research data and the increasingly collaborative and cross-disciplinary research has accentuated challenges related to secure\, efficient and lawful cross-border data sharing for research purposes. Removing barriers to data sharing while ensuring data sovereignty is crucial to realise the potential of EOSC to foster trusted cross-country and cross-discipline scientific collaboration. \nThis topic aims to support data sovereignty while enabling seamless and trusted data sharing and access across scientific disciplines\, EU Member States and third countries where the EU considers sufficient data protection is in place\, tackling different regulatory regimes and procedures. \nProposals should include the following activities: \n\nDevelopment and implementation of national\, community and/or institutional research data sovereignty frameworks\, including policies for data sharing and access\, harmonised and aligned with EU digital and data legislation and international agreements such as adequacy decisions and digital partnership agreements\, as well as best practices from EOSC\, related common European data spaces and international data-sharing standards and initiatives.\nDemonstration and validation of concrete adoption cases of data sovereignty policies by national\, community or institutional actors\, aligned with open science and the FAIR data principles.\nDevelopment of harmonised governance frameworks\, ensuring smooth enforcement of data sovereignty policies.\nDevelopment of comprehensive data provenance tools to trace and verify the quality and lineage of data used in research\, and demonstration through identified use cases within relevant selected thematic areas.\nDevelopment of templates and guidelines for secure and sovereign data management\, including template agreements on data sharing\, publication\, and reuse\, and guidelines for licensing.\nDevelopment of guidelines for classifying critical data and services based on sensitivity and relevance to scientific communities and European policies\, and for managing risks related to access to and preservation of such critical data and services.\nAnalysis of data categories and definitions across scientific disciplines\, incorporating compliance with security requirements set out in EU and national legislation.\nDevelopment of recommendations for the establishment of a support centre\, linking with relevant national and thematic competence centres\, focused on compliance of data management with EU and national legislation\, and proof of concept of its integration and sustainable operation in the EOSC Federation.\n\nProjects are encouraged to explore synergies with relevant EU initiatives such as other common European data spaces that address sensitive data or data critical for research. To ensure complementarity and use of latest research results\, proposals should build on ongoing and previous INFRAEOSC projects such as those funded by topics 2023-EOSC-01-06\, 2023-EOSC-01-04 and 2024-EOSC-01-04 and align with the EOSC Federation policies and standards[1]. This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership for the European Open Science Cloud[2]. \n[1] As described in the EOSC Federation Handbook and other relevant documentation potentially adopted by the EOSC Federation \n[2] https://eosc.eu/partnership/
URL:https://eosc-austria.at/events/trusted-frameworks-for-secure-and-efficient-data-sharing-in-eosc-eosc-partnership/
CATEGORIES:Funding Calls
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SUMMARY:Uptake of FAIR data management practices and of EOSC by research communities and research infrastructures (EOSC Partnership)
DESCRIPTION:Expected Outcome: \n\nIncreased adoption of open science and research data management practices in line with the FAIR principles by researchers and across research infrastructures (RIs) in Europe.\nIncreased uptake of the EOSC Federation by researchers through the long-term sustainable provision in the Federation of scientific services and high-quality\, FAIR research data\, and their integration in scientific workflows addressing current gaps and needs of research communities.\nResearch communities\, as well as ESFRI and other European research infrastructures increase their alignment with EOSC standards and policies\, and their capacity to integrate in the EOSC Federation.\n\nScope: \nThis topic aims to further increase across Europe the adoption of open science and research data management practices in line with the FAIR principles\, and to support the development of a user-focused and science-driven EOSC Federation. \nIt capitalises on the previous work by Science Clusters in enabling open science practices\, FAIR implementation and managing open calls for multi-disciplinary science projects. It also builds on the experience by several RIs and other organisations as active participants in building the EOSC Federation\, either through the establishment of EOSC nodes or the onboarding of resources to EOSC nodes[1]\, to support the engagement of underrepresented RIs and research communities into the EOSC ecosystem. \nProposals should cover both the following activities: \n1) Accelerate FAIR adoption and the contribution to and use of EOSC resources by multiple research communities through open science projects. \nThis activity should be implemented through open calls that provide grants to third parties for open science projects through a cascading grant mechanism. The open calls should encourage\, where applicable\, cross-RI and/or cross-domain collaborations\, including for data access\, use and reuse. \nOpen science projects should address questions of high scientific impact\, adopting best practices for FAIR data and service management and demonstrating their benefits. Their activities may include developing\, annotating\, curating and making FAIR high-value datasets\, developing direct pipelines to integrate large-scale experimental data in repositories federated in EOSC\, operationalising data access for AI-based applications\, reusing existing datasets\, enhancing existing and developing new vocabularies\, data standards\, metadata mappings and crosswalks\, developing software\, tools and services\, or supporting open science community building. \nThey should cover a broad range of (academic and/or industrial) research communities and scientific disciplines\, including those less represented in the EOSC Federation. They should make use of resources available in the EOSC Federation and adopt existing EOSC policies and standards[2]\, where possible. Projects should strive to ensure the sustained\, beyond the projects’ duration\, integration\, deployment and operation of relevant outcomes in the EOSC Federation. \nAt least EUR 29 million of the EU contribution to this topic should be used in this activity[3]. The financial support to third parties for the open science projects must be provided in the form of grants that should be between EUR 100 000 and 250 000 per grant for a duration of 12 to 24 months. The consortium shall put in place adequate measures to support the integration of the open science projects’ results into the EOSC Federation. These could include mentoring\, training and any other activities providing effective linkage to the EOSC Federation and EOSC Nodes\, as needed for the specific nature of each project. \n2) Support the integration of thematic research and RI communities in the EOSC Federation \nThe following activities should be included: \n\nCoordinating\, aligning and networking existing community-based competence centres on FAIR and open science practices developed within the EOSC ecosystem.\nDeveloping training programmes\, modules and material on FAIR and open science practices tailored to the specific needs of different thematic research communities. This activity should include feedback mechanisms to ensure that the training services are responsive to the evolving needs of EOSC user communities.\nDeveloping frameworks for the provision and continuous evolution of high-impact services and data repositories onboarded to the EOSC Federation\, fostering interoperability and integration of data and resources from diverse scientific domains and promoting their sharing through the EOSC Federation.\nEstablishing mechanisms for the integration and long-term sustainable provision of all relevant outcomes into the EOSC Federation\, as well as for continuous feedback and adaptation\, ensuring evolving requirements of researchers and RIs are met within the EOSC ecosystem.\nEngaging underrepresented thematic research and RI communities to increase their integration in EOSC.\n\nProposals are expected to cooperate and align with activities of the EOSC Partnership and to coordinate with relevant initiatives and projects\, including actions awarded under topics HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-01\, HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-02 and HORIZON-INFRA-2027-01-EOSC-01. This may include the upgrade\, deployment and adoption where appropriate of existing community-endorsed pilot\, tools\, services and standards developed by past and ongoing INFRAEOSC projects. To this extent\, proposals should provide for dedicated activities and earmark appropriate resources. \nIn this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement. This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership for the European Open Science Cloud[4]. \n[1] Relevant information and documentation about the EOSC Federation can be found in the EOSC Federation Handbook and other relevant documentation adopted by the EOSC Federation. \n[2] As described in the EOSC Federation Handbook and other relevant documentation potentially adopted by the EOSC Federation. \n[3] Including reasonable administrative and management costs related to the open calls for the financial support to third parties. \n[4] https://eosc.eu/partnership/
URL:https://eosc-austria.at/events/uptake-of-fair-data-management-practices-and-of-eosc-by-research-communities-and-research-infrastructures-eosc-partnership/
CATEGORIES:Funding Calls
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SUMMARY:Förderprogramm: Digitale Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Zielsetzung\nSeit der Initiative “Kulturerbe digital” ist es gelungen\, Institutionen aus dem GLAM-Sektor (Galeries\, Libraries\, Archives\, Museums) in einem ersten Schritt zur Öffnung ihrer Sammlungen für den digitalen Raum zu gewinnen. Dieses Ziel\, welches in der “Strategie Kulturerbe digital” strategisch verankert ist\, soll durch das Förderprogramm “Digitale Transformation” nachhaltig unterstützt werden. \nGefördert werden: \nDigitale Erfassung von Sammlungen des österreichischen Kulturerbes durch die \n\nDigitalisierung analoger Bestände (z. B. Objekte\, Archivalien\, Fotografien\, audiovisuelle Medien) von Kulturinstitutionen und analoger Bestände (z. B. Objekte\, Archivalien\, Fotografien\, audiovisuelle Medien) aus Nachlässen österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturschaffender;\nEtablierung der entsprechenden technischen Workflows und digitaler Repositorien.\n\nVerbesserung der Datenqualität insbesondere durch \n\nStandardisierung und Anreicherung von Metadaten;\nAnwendung kontrollierter Vokabularien\, Normdaten und anerkannter Datenstandards;\nQualitätssicherung\, Datenbereinigung und Konsistenzprüfungen;\nVerbesserung der technischen und semantischen Interoperabilität.\n\nRessourcen und Informationen zu allen Fragen rund um die Digitalisierung von Sammlungen des österreichischen Kulturerbes finden Sie in der Kulturpool Wissensdatenbank. \nFörderkriterien\n\nKonzept und Umsetzung: Bewertet werden Inhalt\, Methodik und technische Umsetzung\, Innovationsgrad und Durchführbarkeit.\nRelevanz und Wirksamkeit: Bewertet werden die Verfügbarkeit im digitalen Raum\, Vermittlungsaspekte\, der Mehrwert für die Kunst- und Kulturlandschaft sowie der Standortkontext.\nQualifikation und Eignung: Bewertet werden die fachliche Qualifikation\, Erfahrungen und gegebenenfalls Referenzen\, wirtschaftlich-organisatorische Struktur des Vorhabens sowie die digitale\, soziale und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit.\nKosten und Finanzierung: Bewertet werden die Angemessenheit und Ausgewogenheit der Kostenplanung\, die Finanzierungsstruktur sowie der Förderbedarf.\nZudem wird ein besonderer Fokus gelegt auf:\nNachhaltigkeit des Projekts in Bezug auf Nachnutzung und Absicherung möglicher Folgekosten nach der Projektlaufzeit;\nBereitschaft\, die Daten der Öffentlichkeit unter einer möglichst offenen Lizenz zugänglich zu machen und diese\, sofern keine zwingenden urheberrechtlichen oder persönlichkeitsrechtlichen Beschränkungen vorhanden sind\, auch dauerhaft auf Kulturpool anzubieten. Infos und Beratung zur Teilnahme finden Sie auf Kulturpool: Schritte zur Teilnahme.\n\nFörderhöhe\n\nFörderhöhe: max. EUR 50.000\nNach Maßgabe seiner wirtschaftlichen Leistungsfähigkeit hat der Förderungswerber eine finanzielle oder sachliche Eigenleistung zu erbringen.
URL:https://eosc-austria.at/events/forderprogramm-digitale-transformation/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Funding Calls
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