2024 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2024)
2024-06-24 - 2024-06-29 | Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
The Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) is an annual conference focused on the use and development of the Galaxy platform for data-intensive biomedical research. The conference brings together scientists, software developers, and trainers of Galaxy from a variety of disciplines to share their experiences, knowledge, and skills.
The conference included talks, posters, and workshops on a wide range of topics related to Galaxy, including genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and more. The GCC provides an opportunity for attendees to learn about the latest developments in the Galaxy platform and to connect with other members of the Galaxy community.
GCC2024 will have over 50 talks and about 40 posters presenting methods, tools, pipelines, and software improvements for the Galaxy framework.
Check out the schedule page for more details. The abstract book with all the details is coming soon!
And don’t forget the amazing lineup of keynote talks.
If you haven’t registered yet, registration is (still) open.

Handle with CARE? Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen für ethischen und sensiblen Umgang mit Forschungsdaten
2024-07-03 14:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie,, Universitätsstraße 7, 4. Stock, Wien, 1010
Die Ansprüche an Forschungen und an Forschungsdaten werden immer größer. Der Aufwand auch. Gerade in der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, bei der nicht nur bei, sondern auch gemeinsam mit beforschten Menschen Daten entstehen. Das bringt große Verantwortung mit sich. Besonders beim Umgang mit sensiblen Daten, Daten aus Gewalt-, Kolonial-, rassistischen Kontexten. Die CARE-Prinzipien (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics) für indigene Daten werden immer öfter als Lösungsansatz für alle diese ethischen Fragen herangezogen. Sie sind von indigenen Aktivist*innen nur für indigene Daten gedacht und entwickelt worden. Können diese Prinzipien auf andere, nicht-indigene Daten angewendet werden? Wenn ja, wie? Wie können wir in unserem Fach ethisch, respektvoll, möglichst kollaborativ und gemeinwohlorientiert forschen und Daten sammeln und archivieren? Gibt es andere Ansätze? Und wie umgehen mit unseren vorhandenen Daten? Ob und wie können diese Daten dekolonialisiert und weitergenutzt werden? Wem gehören die Daten? In Vorträgen von Christian Huber und Ingolf Ortner zum Thema „Beware! Take CARE! Überlegungen zum praktischen Umgang mit sensiblen Daten im Forschungsdatenmanagement“ und von Veronika Kocher über „IMAGE+ und die Frage der praktischen Anwendung von CARE Principles im Umgang mit Bildmaterial in Repositorien“ werden diese Fragen beleuchtet und danach diskutiert. Im Anschluss soll mit praktischen Beispielen aus dem ethnographischen Datenarchiv, der Ethnographischen Sammlung des Instituts für KSA oder auch von Teilnehmenden diskutiert werden, welche Möglichkeiten es gibt, gut und ethisch vertretbar mit Forschungsdaten umzugehen.
Vortrag: Christian Huber und Ingolf Ortner – Beware! Take CARE! Überlegungen zum praktischen Umgang mit sensiblen Daten im Forschungsdatenmanagement
Vortrag: Veronika Kocher – IMAGE+ und die Frage der praktischen Anwendung von CARE Principles im Umgang mit Bildmaterial in Repositorien
Anmeldung: bis 25.06.2024 unter eda.ksa@univie.ac.at
Datum: 03.07.2024, 14–18
Ort: HS A, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, NIG, 4. Stock, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien

Abstracts:
Christian Huber und Ingolf Ortner – Beware, take CARE! Überlegungen zum Umgang mit sensiblen Daten im Forschungsdatenmanagement
Die CARE-Prinzipien werfen in ihrer praktischen Anwendung mitunter mehr Fragen auf, als diese beantworten können. Forschungsdaten, gerade solche die ethische Fragestellungen implizieren, können auf allen Ebenen, bis hin zu den Metadaten, in ihrem gesamten Datenzyklus hochsensibel sein. Deshalb wurden 2019 die CARE-Prinzipien (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics) als ein Komplementär zu den 2016 postulierten FAIR-Prinzipien (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable) formuliert. Die FAIR-Prinzipien erkennen im Gegensatz zum reinen Open Data Konzept auch Restriktionen des Datenzuganges an, fokussieren aber auf Merkmale, die den Datenaustausch erleichtern und sind eher als Grundsätze eines guten Forschungsdatenmanagements zu sehen, welche aber ethische Aspekte und historische Kontexte in der Datenproduktion und in der Nachnutzung von Daten weitestgehend unberücksichtigt lassen. Gerade aber in der ethnographischen Forschung müssen die Beforschten, die Forschenden und die aus dem Forschungsprozess hervorgebrachten Daten bzw. Metadaten, von der Entstehung bis zur Nachnutzung, als sich gegenseitig bedingende äquivalente Aktanten angesehen werden. Was bedeutet dies nun für den praktischen Umgang mit sensiblen Forschungsdaten? Im Vortrag werden unter anderem 10 Punkte präsentiert, welche aus qualitativen Interviews mit ExpertInnen erhoben wurden, die ein Desiderat darstellen und zu einer weiteren Beschäftigung bzw. zur praktischen Umsetzung der CARE-Prinzipien im Umgang mit qualitativen sensiblen Forschungsdaten führen sollen. Die 10 Punkte, die zum weiteren Diskurs anregen sollen, umreißen Themenfelder wie sensible Forschungsdaten vs. Open Data, aktuell gehaltene Metadaten als Schlüsselelement, das Spannungsfeld Beforschte – Forschende (Datenschutz als Hürde, Wer spricht?, Macht und Teilhabe u.v.m.), institutionelle Langzeitarchivierung, der Faktor Zeit und seine Risiken, finanzielle Ressourcen (prekäre Forschungs- und Arbeitsbedingungen), die Schwierigkeiten einer praxisnahen Umsetzung der CARE-Prinzipien sowie eine frühzeitige Sensibilisierung durch Schulungen und Einbindung in die universitäre Lehre.
Veronika Kocher – IMAGE+ und die Frage der praktischen Anwendung von CARE Principles im Umgang mit Bildmaterial in Repositorien
In den letzten Jahren ist eine Debatte immer stärker in der Öffentlichkeit ausgetragen worden: Wie mit rassistischen oder diskriminierenden Inhalten verantwortlich umgehen? Sei es der Sturz öffentlicher Statuen von Menschenhändlern, der Umgang mit bekannten Kinderbüchern, die neu aufgelegt werden und eine Revision erfahren oder Kunstwerke, deren rassistische Titel in digitalen Datenbanken überarbeitet werden und mithilfe einer Sternchen-Barriere gekennzeichnet sind – ein Wandel im Umgang mit diesen Inhalten ist festzustellen. Das Sammeln, Bewahren und Erforschen von Ressourcen ist darauf ausgelegt, diese zu erhalten und entsprechend der Textautonomie so abzubilden, wie sie sich präsentieren – als Abbild einer Gesellschaft. Oftmals finden auf diesem Weg aber gerade die exklusiven und diskriminierenden Seiten einer Gesellschaft Eingang in die historisch gewachsene Welt von Bibliotheken, Archiven, Sammlungen und Datenbanken und können hier ohne weiteren Kommentar verwendet werden. Auch in Bibliotheken, Archiven und Museen muss daher die Frage gestellt werden, welche Methoden Anwendung finden sollen, sodass rassistische und diskriminierende Inhalte nicht weiter reproduziert werden. Inwieweit und in welcher Form können archivarische Strukturen diverser und aktueller gestaltet, und wie auch andere gesellschaftliche Perspektiven abgebildet werden? Gleichzeitig scheint damit aber ein Konflikt mit dem bewährten Selbstverständnis dieser Einrichtungen unausweichlich.

FOAM 2024: FAIR principles for Ontologies and Metadata in Knowledge Management
2024-07-15 | Enschede, Netherlands
FOAM is a new workshop merging the Workshop on Ontologies for FAIR and FAIR Ontologies (Onto4FAIR), the Conceptual Modeling, Ontologies and Metadata Management for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Data (CMOMM4FAIR) and the FAIR Ontology Harmonization and TRUST Data Interoperability Workshop (FOHTI).The main objectives of this workshop are:

to bring together new methods for enabling FAIR research outputs (data, software, workflows, ontologies, mappings, etc.) through ontologies and vocabularies
discuss techniques, metrics and guidelines to improve the FAIRness of ontologies and vocabularies
to share experiences, identify new challenges and opportunities applying FAIR for different communities

FOAM will be an in-person event.

Topics of interest
Making the resources produced by researchers fully reusable and understandable requires complex efforts. To address these issues, the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles have been developed to provide guidance on making resources more reusable and interoperable. These principles have gained increasing attention in a number of different domains and applications. On the one hand, a key aspect is the ability to describe resources correctly and semantically, in particular using ontologies. On the other hand, ontologies themselves have to comply with the FAIR principles.
The workshop aims to bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to discuss the adoption of the FAIR principles and share real-world requirements, challenges and experiences in their respective domains. In addition, we aim to explore how the FAIR principles are supported by the use of ontologies that are ideally FAIR themselves, and to discuss the challenges and perspectives in adopting the FAIR principles.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

ontologies, schemas and vocabularies for FAIR data and metadata;
domain and cross-domain ontologies for FAIR research outputs (data, software, mappings, workflows, ontologies, ML models, etc.);
techniques, methods and tools to increase the FAIRness of vocabularies and ontologies;
FAIR ontology harmonisation, mapping, alignment, merging and modularisation;
best practices on modeling FAIR research outputs;
semantic descriptions of FAIR digital objects;
challenges in FAIR research output management and modeling;
novel applications of the FAIR principles, FAIRification process and use cases;
metrics for FAIRness assessment;
provenance in FAIR environments;
FAIR principles and open science;
FAIR principles and linked open data;
Application of the FAIR principles in scientific communities (life science, digital humanities, health, smart cities, etc.)

Submissions
Submissions can be made in the following categories:

Full papers (10 – 12 pages, including references)
Short papers (6 – 9 pages, including references)
Posters (up to 5 pages, including references)

Submissions should be original work and follow the CEUR one-column template (Overleaf template, CEUR author kit). However, FOAM 2024 explicitly welcomes alternative and enhanced submission formats, such as HTML submissions. Authors who are preparing such a submission should contact the workshop organizers in advance to make sure we can accommodate for them in the submission and review process.
Submissions should be managed through Easychair. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop (in person).
FOAM embraces the adoption of FAIR best practices. If your paper proposes a dataset, has associated source code or proposes a new ontology or demo, please make sure these resources conform with the FAIR Best practices from FOIS.

EASST-4S 2024 Conference
2024-07-16 - 2024-07-19 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
As governments and funding agencies increasingly demand alignment with Sustainable Development Goals, STS scholars grapple with the tension between societal expectations and the transformative potential of their research. Rather than offering predetermined solutions, scholars are encouraged to reframe problem spaces through empirical analyses and innovative practices. Key questions will be addressed, such as how to frame transformations within STS frameworks, avoid co-optation and technosolutionism, and foster collaboration between STS and other disciplines.
This conference embraces diverse topics within STS, including speculative ethics, governance of science and technology, decolonial scholarship, and innovation studies. Join us for stimulating conversations and explore new avenues for mobilizing STS sensibilities in addressing global challenges.

Workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis with Galaxy
2024-07-22 - 2024-07-26 | Werthmannstrasse 4, Freiburg, 79104, Germany
Target Audience: Scientist with no or little Galaxy experience who want to analyse sequencing data.
Learning Objectives:

To get introduced to Galaxy as data analysis platform and the GTN training material
To learn how to use use tools and databases in Galaxy
To be able to run different tools and workflows

Training material: For the hands-on course, we will use the training material from the Galaxy Training Network.

NORDUnet Conference 2024 – NDN2024
2024-09-10 - 2024-09-12 | Bergen, Bergen, Norway
This 32nd edition will take place on 10th-12th September, 2024 in Bergen, Norway where Norwegian NREN Sikt together with NORDUnet will welcome everybody with a vested interest in the research and education community.
In line with the long-established way of shaping the conference there will be plenary sessions with compelling keynote speakers, parallel sessions that cover some of the most recent and relevant topics, ample room for hallway conversations, not forgetting the social networking events such as the opening reception and the dinner.
Participation continues to be both relevant to NREN and Campus staff, including researchers and scientists from all areas.
We will meet up at the Radisson Blu Hotel where the programme will unfold.

From open data to knowledge: enhancing European resilience to health crises
2024-09-11 10:00 - 17:00 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
The BY-COVID project is hosting a high-level event entitled “From open data to knowledge: enhancing European resilience to health crises” to highlight and discuss the value of open data and showcasing the impact of the project on science and society.
The event will feature panel discussions with experts from various sectors, including policy-makers from the European and international scene, industry and academia, who will share their insights and experiences when building innovative products, structuring alliances and sustaining long-term initiatives.
The event will also showcase a series of success stories from the BY-COVID project, demonstrating how integrating data from a range of domains can support research, public health and policy.
The interactive format of the event will allow all the participants to share experiences and discuss ways to empower pathogens and infectious disease research and sustain a good basis for future health crises.

Open Science Stories
2024-09-16 - 2024-09-22
Amplifying the work of the scientific community made possible through our open science tools.
Now in its fifth year, Open Science Week will take place Sept. 16-22, 2024. Leaders, producers, educators and users of open science are encouraged to engage with this campaign. A celebration of open science in all its forms – Open Science Week calls attention to scientists and organizations who share their tools, resources and data openly to accelerate research and discovery. This annual celebration, founded and coordinated by the Allen Institute, takes place during the third week of September.

Open Science Festival
2024-09-17 - 2024-09-18 | Mainz
What is Open Science? How can openness and the culture of sharing be practiced and promoted in science? What methods are there to live more openness in scientific practice? Under the motto Meet, Share, Inspire, Care, the 3rd Open Science Festival in Germany offers the opportunity to pursue these and other questions, to network and to learn from one another.
Open Science creates encounters within and with science, enables access to knowledge, data and research processes. Openness as a principle shapes the framework conditions of science. Open access and open data facilitate access to scientific findings. Open standards and methods enable cooperation and are inspiration for new research approaches. At the same time, Open Science rethinks the relationship between science and society.
The 3rd Open Science Festival is aimed equally at newcomers, interested parties and experts and aims to enable encounters and exchanges in a wide variety of formats. Whether students or scientists, research managers or decision-makers, science journalists or interested members of the public, the Rhine-Main Universities cordially invite you to the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from September 17-18, 2024 .
What awaits you:

A first-class keynote and panel discussions on the potentials and challenges of open science with national and international experts
Ignite Talks about successes and stumbling blocks in the scientific practice of Open Science
Workshops with practitioners from the Open Science Community
A poster slam to get to know various projects of Open Science enthusiasts
A marketplace with information on Open Science
Speed ​​networking to get to know the other participants

This year’s Open Science Festival is based on a concept from the Netherlands . The first German festivals took place in Hanover and Cologne .

2nd Open Science EARMA Thematic Group Event
2024-09-18 - 2024-09-19 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
About the Event
This event, presented by the Open Science Thematic Group and sponsored by Digital Science, will explore Open Science in a global context. Considering the geopolitical landscape and consequent security concerns and regulations, the event will provide a forum for dialogue on how to negotiate the policy gap(s) between open science and global security, the issue of ‘dual use’, and look at tools to assist this process.
Further, the event will look at the impact of Open Science for lower income countries, and whether the advantages – enhanced access to publications, increased collaboration – outweigh the costs and work effort required of research communities in these often-under-resourced jurisdictions. It will explore how funder mandates and publishing models can both assist and challenge progress, and showcase how cross-jurisdictional support can aid progress.
Programme Points
Day 01 of the event aims to address multiple goals, including identifying key security regulations and recommendations, enhancing awareness and education for research managers and administrators, and fostering ongoing dialogue to adapt Open Science principles in the current geopolitical landscape. The session will help participants to:

1. Understand the relevance of the new geopolitical landscape in applying the Open Science principles in research.
2. Discuss the EU Council’s recommendations for enhancing research security and its intersection with Open Science with an emphasise on the need for awareness and education among research managers, administrators, researchers, and other stakeholders.
3. Discuss best practices like “as open as possible, as closed as necessary,” FAIR principles, and various funding models with particular knowledge exchange on the federative nature of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
4. Explore policy gaps and identify the best compliance tools to ensure robust implementation of Open Science.

Day 02 will explore the advantages of Open Science for lower income countries, such as enhanced access to publications, heightened collaboration prospects, and expanded audiences, while also providing consideration of whether the expectations placed on researchers and research institutions in these regions to reciprocate these practices might pose disadvantages and potentially prohibitive costs. Specifically the session will look at:

1. Attitudes to open science in different jurisdictions
2. Transformative agreements, APCs and the issue and impact of inequity in this system.
3. Whether the European requirement to use CC-By licences negatively affects important revenue streams.
4. How cross-jurisdictional supports can be developed and enabled.

Registration Information
Participation is free of charge. Participants do not have to be EARMA members in order to participate. Registration for this event is open until September 09, 2024, or until reaches maximum capacity.

European Research Area: Fostering Greater Integration. Advancing Competitiveness
2024-09-18 12:00 - 2024-09-19 14:00 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and global competition, the European Research Area (ERA) stands as a cornerstone for Europe’s future. Almost 25 years after its launch, the ERA is an established, well-known framework enabling policy reforms, cross-border cooperation, mobility and joint breakthroughs in research and innovation. The upcoming ERA Conference titled: “will focus on addressing its future advancement and contribution to the EU’s overall prosperity and sustainable competitiveness.
While on-site participation is by invitation only due to limited space, the plenary sessions of the event will also be livestreamed via the website of the consortium supporting the EU Commission in the organisation for this event INSPIRING ERA as well as the ERA Policy Platform.

Conference of Rectors and Presidents of European Universities of Technology
2024-09-20 08:00 - 2024-09-21 17:00 | Bucharest
In 1980, this Conference has been started following a joint initiative of Aachen and Vienna,
to establish an informal group of representatives from leading engineering universities in Europe,
The basic objectives of The Conference are to offer an open forum for

discussing topics of major common concern, that are not discussed in other fora,
identifying differences and commonalities of existing solutions to problems of common interest,
developing new ideas and – if appropriate – preparing recommendations on specific topics, and, thus,
forming a “think tank” for the future development of the universities of technology in Europe.

Paris Conference on Open Research Information
2024-09-23 - 2024-09-24 | Paris, Paris, France
Paris Conference on Open Research Information
The Paris Conference on Open Research Information, held at Sorbonne University on 23-24 September 2024, aims to support the Barcelona Declaration’s signatories by facilitating the exchange of best practices and developing a collaborative roadmap for open research information. The event seeks to enhance transparency, accessibility, and the effective dissemination of research data and findings, fostering a more open and inclusive research environment.
The conference spans two days, with the first day dedicated to presentations from signatories and updates on the Barcelona Declaration. This includes sharing success stories, challenges, and innovative approaches to open research. The second day focuses on interactive sessions aimed at collaboratively developing a comprehensive roadmap for open research information. Participants will engage in workshops and discussions to identify priorities, set actionable goals, and outline strategies for implementation, ensuring a cohesive and practical approach to advancing open research practices.
GraspOS is monitoring the developments of the Barcelona Declaration with great interested as partners of the projects are both signatories and supporters of the declaration. It also aligns perfectly with the GraspOS spirit on enabling OS Aware Responsible Research Assessment.
For more information on the Barcelona Declaration, please go to the website.

UNESCO Workshop on AI and Open Science
2024-09-23 12:00 - 16:30 | Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
Research is being transformed by (new) AI applications. But what happens when we aim to make science more open? Can artificial intelligence help us achieve that?
On the afternoon of Monday, September 23rd, the Netherlands Commission for Unesco and the Unesco Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science (Leiden University) will host a workshop on AI and Open Science. The event will focus specifically on engaging societal stakeholders. How can AI applications enable a broader public to become involved in the research process? Can artificial intelligence help launch citizen science projects or enhance scientific volunteerism?
The workshop will be held in Leiden at the Pieter de la Court Building, room 5A.42. The language of the event will be English.
Program:
12:00 h: Unesco, Open Science, and AI (Jon Verriet, Nederlandse Unesco Commissie)
12:15 h: AI and open engagement of societal actors with presentations from representatives of these projects: WODAN vs. Heritage Quest, CitiObs, FORRT
13:15 h: Discussion
13:45 h: Coffee break
14:15 h: Break-out sessions: What do we need to know to start using AI for open engagement of societal actors?
15:00 h: Panel discussion of questions and feedback from break-out sessions. With representatives from Netherlands eScience Center, SURF, Open Science-NL, and TNO.
16:00 h: Next steps: how to connect researchers to AI opportunities for societal engagement. Opportunities for researchers in the Netherlands.
16:30 h: Networking reception until 18:00
Registration for the workshop is required. You can sign up via this form. Once the first fifty spots are filled, we will begin a waitlist.

Open Science Day 2024
2024-09-24 11:00 - 16:00 | Mannheim
The 6th annual Mannheim Open Science Day will occur on the September 24th, 2024. The Open Science Day is a fantastic opportunity to showcase, share and discuss the diverse array of Open Science activities and experiences taking place at the University of Mannheim and beyond.
This year the University Library Mannheim Open Science Day will feature Best Practices in Open Science from researchers at the University of Mannheim including Open Science implementations in Economic History, Software Engineering and the value of connecting research with society. Additionally, they will also feature lightning talks from the newest Open Science Grant 2024 awardees and national efforts to improve Open Science and reproducibility from members of the German Reproducibility Network.
All members and researchers of the University of Mannheim and beyond are invited to join the Open Science Day.

2024 Fisheries Science Seminar – Artificial Intelligence
2024-09-25 14:00 - 18:00 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
The annual Fisheries Science Seminar, organised by the Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries will take place on 25 September 2024. This year’s seminar will focus on the potential contribution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) towards achieving fisheries sustainability.
The 2024 science seminar will be dedicated to exploring the rapid developments in the area of artificial intelligence to support the scientific process, and in particular how this approach can be instrumental towards sustainable fisheries management with increased transparency of fishing activity and reduced impact on the environment.
The seminar will include presentations from experts in the field followed by discussions involving seminar’s participants. In addition, a poster exhibition, showcasing successful fisheries science projects integrating AI based knowledge, will be displayed at the event premises.
Blue-Cloud 2026 at the event
Blue-Cloud2026 will be presenting a poster in collaboration with IRD France – leaders of the Global Fisheries Atlas VLab.
CHECK THE POSTER

Erlebe Forschung hautnah bei der European Researchers' Night
2024-09-27 15:00 - 22:00 | Universität Graz, Universitätsplatz 3a, Graz, 8010, Austria
Tauche ein in die Welt der Wissenschaft und schlüpfe in die Rollen eines “Earth Explorers“, “Health Enthusiasts“, “Tech Pioneers” oder “Science Reporters“. Entdecke spannende Mitmachstationen, erlebe faszinierende Science Shows, besuche unser Pop-up Planetarium und sei dabei, wenn das Österreich-Finale des Science Slams ausgetragen wird.

EGI Conference 2024
2024-09-30 - 2024-10-04 | Hilton Garden Inn Lecce, Via Cosimo de Giorgi, 62, Lecce, 73100, Italy
We’re happy to announce that EGI2024 will take place in Lecce, Italy – from September 30th to October 4th.
For this edition of our annual conference, EGI are closely collaborating with Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), based in Lecce.
About CMCC
The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change is an Italian research centre dedicated to climate and climate related research, including climate variability, its causes and consequences, carried out through numerical models ranging from Global Earth System to Regional models within the Euro-Mediterranean area.
About Lecce
Located in the very heel of Italy, Lecce is a gorgeous, baroque city with a delightful Mediterranean climate at the end of September, known for its olive oil and wine culture.
About the venue
The main location for the conference will be the Hilton Garden Inn in Lecce. Some side meetings will take place at the CMCC offices.
Preliminary timeline

End of February 2024: Call for Abstracts & Exhibition Partners
End of April 2024: Programme (draft) available
May 2024: start Registration

Ocean Optics XXVI
2024-10-06 - 2024-10-11 | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The organizers are eagerly anticipating Ocean Optics XXVI in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, from October 6–11, 2024. This six-day conference will take place at the Palacio de Congresos, located along Playa de Las Canteras. The venue offers various meeting spaces, state-of-the-art technology, and a welcoming, professional staff. Over 350 attendees from around the world have already registered, and registration remains open through October 11, 2024.
https://oceanopticsconference.org/registration/Register here

ESFRI Roadmap 2026 InfoDay
2024-10-08 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
The ESFRI Strategic Report on RIs in Europe, known as the ESFRI Roadmap, has been, for the past 22 years, the prestigious result of a laborious collaborative process aspiring to guarantee the creation of and access to large European Research Infrastructures with the vision to expand European scientific excellence.
ESFRI organises an Information Day, on 8 October 2024 in Brussels, to kick-off the process of updating its Roadmap (to be completed in 2026). Top Roadmap stakeholders will provide a thorough presentation of the requirements, the procedure and the methodology of selection of proposals for new RI Projects to enter the Roadmap. There will also be further presentations on the monitoring of ESFRI RI projects already on the Roadmap.
The Info Day will last the whole morning of the 8 October and will be hosted by the European Commission in Brussels.
Attendance requires physical presence and registration is open to all, until maximum venue capacity is reached. We expect that

max 1 person per existing ESFRI RI project or other stakeholder organisation can be accommodated
at least one person per provisional new project proposal can be accommodated

Please express your interest to attend the InfoDay via the registration form and you will receive a follow-up confirmation email during the first week of July.

CRAFT-OA Tech Event
2024-10-10 - 2024-10-11 | Turin
From 10-11 October 2024, CRAFT-OA organises the CRAFT-OA Tech Event in Turin, Italy.
The gathering aims to bring together various stakeholders, including members of the Diamond Open Access (OA) community, institutional publishing service and technology providers, journal editors, and technical professionals working with publishing systems like OJS, Lodel, and Janeway.
The event will feature presentations, workshops, and hands-on sessions on topics such as:

the Diamond Discovery Hub – the registry of Diamond OA journals
OJS core and plug-in developments
Indexes and Aggregators Knowledge Base
Journals Visibility Pathfinder for indexing and harvesting services
Training materials and curriculum for technical standards
the Living Handbook for Diamond OA publishing
AAI – single sign-on service for the community
and much more (detailed information on topics is given on the registration website)

This event is a unique opportunity to share knowledge on the technological advancements within the CRAFT-OA project, collaborate and shape the future of equitable, scholar-led, digital publishing.
The registration is open until the 25th of September 2024: https://events.gwdg.de/event/834/overview
To ensure an engaging and interactive event, the number of participants is limited to 99.
Please note that a PKP sprint, hosted by CRAFT-OA, will also take place in the same location from October 08-09, 2024: https://events.gwdg.de/event/833/
If you have any questions regarding the event, please do not hesitate to reach out to the CRAFT-OA coordination team at craft-oa.coordination@sub.uni-goettingen.de.

Ocean Data Action Day
2024-10-10 09:00 - 14:30 | Oslo
Hosted by HUB Ocean, Microsoft and Accenture on October 10th, the Ocean Data Action Day will provide insights into the invaluable role of industrial ocean data sharing in promoting ocean health and sustainable management. Sharing this data bridges knowledge gaps, benefiting both the environment and ocean-dependent industries.
Under the auspices of the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, these organizations spearhead the coalition, contributing to the Ocean Panel’s goal of achieving a 100% sustainably managed ocean. Unlocking industrial ocean data is a specific goal for ODAC, as it is for the UN Ocean Decade’s Corporate Data Group, of which HUB Ocean is also a key member.
Moderated by David Eades, broadcaster and journalist, the event will feature leaders from industry, science and regulatory, and offer a 360° perspective on the significance of industrial ocean data sharing. HUB Ocean will introduce their report, Tides of Transparency: A First Mapping of Industrial Ocean Data Sharing, including insights, use cases and guidelines explaining why and how private industry can make their ocean data publicly accessible, empowering all joining to contribute to the sustainable management of the ocean.
Blue-Cloud 2026 at the event
Blue-Cloud 2026 will be represented by Dick Shaap (MARIS), Technical Coordinator of Blue-Cloud, who will be giving a presentation at 10:20 CEST on Enriching Open Ocean Data Repositories with Industrial Data.
Register here

FAIR-EASE Open Day on Open Science for Earth Systems
2024-10-10 10:00 - 17:30 | Napels
This event is dedicated to policy makers, institutional authorities, external scientists and stakeholders, and will be held in Naples on 10 October 2024.

Second All Hands Meeting in The Hague | 15-17 October 2024
2024-10-15 - 2024-10-17 | The Hague
The second FAIR-IMPACT All Hands Meeting will occur middle of October in The Hague.

The FAIR-IMPACT consortium will gather in person in The Hague from October 15th to 17th to assess progress and finalise the project work plan.
This All Hands meeting presents a valuable opportunity for collaboration, emphasising milestones and achievements.
The agenda includes plenary sessions on October 15th to outline the project’s trajectory, followed by task sessions for in-depth discussions and focused meetings on specific topics.
Moreover, this event will enable reunions with the FAIR-IMPACT EOSC Champions and coordination with our sister project, FAIRCORE4EOSC

Open Innovation in Life Sciences 2024
2024-10-17 | Zurich
The Open Innovation in Life Sciences conference is a premier life science conference motivated and organized by early career researchers. The program consists of keynote lectures, science pitches, poster sessions, and panel discussions that aim to:

Foster interactions among early career researchers in all life science fields as well as explore career development in the context of open science.
Enhance interactions between academia, industry, and society by bringing together all relevant stakeholder groups to discuss topics pertaining to open science and innovation.

This year’s overarching scientific theme of the OILS24 conference is Aging in the Digital Age, where the participants will explore the growing role of Artificial Intelligence in driving Open Innovation to support Aging.
Register: https://oils24.b2match.io/

Open Access Week 2024
2024-10-21 - 2024-10-27
Open Access Week is an invaluable chance to connect the global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge with the advancement of policy changes and the importance of social issues affecting people around the world. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions, and organizations around the world, and its organization is led by a global advisory committee, which selects each year’s theme.
The theme of International Open Access Week for 2024 will continue with last year’s focus on “Community over Commercialization.” This theme contributed to a growing recognition of the need to prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. Taking the unprecedented step to build on this theme for a second year highlights the importance of this conversation and presents the opportunity to turn more of these deliberations into collective action.

3rd Annual Forum 2024
2024-10-21 - 2024-10-23 | Qatar
Bringing together leading international experts and key regional stakeholders, the Annual Forum for Open Research in MENA supports the Arab world’s transition towards more accessible, sustainable and inclusive research and education models.

The 2024 Annual Forum will offer a series of carefully tailored presentations and panels addressing key themes and topics related to the advancement of Open Science policies and practices in research institutions and research communities throughout the Arab world. Qatar National Library are the Host Partner for this event, the continued support and funding from the Knowledge E Foundation.
This year’s conference theme is: Transforming Knowledge Into Action. Librarians, researchers, policy makers, higher-education institutions are invited to join and work together towards a more open Arab world.

Workshop: Making the Competence Centres Network sustainable and enhanced
2024-10-21 09:00 - 12:30 | Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The Skills4EOSC project has organised a collaborative workshop bringing together Competence Centres from our European network, project partners, and guests from other related projects, all focused on Open Science competence development.
This interactive session will focus on three key areas:

Ensuring the sustainability of our Competence Centre network
Exploring how the network can better support individual Competence Centres
Enhancing the overall experience and effectiveness of our collaboration

Participants can share insights, challenges, and innovative ideas through facilitated discussions and breakout groups. We aim to generate concrete proposals that will shape the future of Open Science training and support across Europe.

Participation

This workshop is a closed event, reserved for:

Representatives from Skills4EOSC Competence Centres
Skills4EOSC project partners
Invited professionals involved in Open Science training and support
Guests from other related projects

If you have received an invitation please proceed with the registration process.
For any questions, or if believe you qualify to attend, please contact coordinator@skills4eosc.eu .

Draft Agenda
October 21, 2024, from 9:00 to 12:30 CEST

9:00 – 9:15

Welcome and introduction to the Workshop

9:15- 9:45

Skills4EOSC offerings for Competence Centres and presentation of the Competence Centre Network

9:45 – 10:30

Breakout Session 1: Network aspects (two tables for each topic)

Topic 1: Sustainability and Governance of the Network
Topic 2: How the Network Can Support Competence Centres
Topic 3: EOSC Node & Competence Centre

Participants will be divided into tables of around 10 people to discuss these topics in depth.

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:30

Breakout Session 2: Competence Centre aspects (two tables for each topic)

Topic 4: Services Offered by Competence Centres
Topic 5: Integrating the Data Stewardship Curriculum into Competence Centre Services
Topic 6: Sustainability and Governance of Competence Centres

Again, participants will be divided into tables of around 10 people to ensure focused discussions.

11:30 – 12:30

Final Session: Wrap-up and closing remarks
This session will briefly overview the discussions from both breakout sessions, highlighting key points and action items.

This event will take place in the same location as the EOSC Symposium, which will begin at 13:00 on October 21.

National Open Science Festival 2024 at Maastricht University
2024-10-22 | Maastricht, Netherlands
Maastricht University (UM) will be the venue for the National Open Science Festival on 22 October 2024 at the School of Business and Economics (SBE). Since the founding of Open Science NL, it has taken over the organisation of the festival and made an annual budget available for it. However, the National Open Science Festival is truly a festival for and by the community. The organising committee of the 2024 edition comprises staff from UM, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM) and Open Science NL. Additionally, a programme committee reflecting the broad Open Science community is currently being formed. Read more about this event on the website of Open Science NL.
Registration
The opening of registration will be announced via the Open Science NL website and newsletter, as well as via DANS, LCRDM, UM and OSCNL. Furthermore, the National Open Science Festival will once again feature its own website, offering people the opportunity to sign up as presenters for programme components or register as visitors.
The importance of Open Science at UM
The aim of Open Science is to strengthen collaboration, both among individual researchers and between other parties and scientists. Open Science makes research more transparent, controllable, faster, more efficient, reproducible and more sustainable. The idea is that civil society organisations, patient organisations, companies and other organisations can all benefit from easy access to scientific research. The National Open Science Festival embodies this vision and invites researchers and support staff with an interest in Open Science to attend, learn from each other and exchange ideas.
Visit the UM website on Open Science to learn how to incorporate it into your research.

EOSCxNFDI
2024-10-23 - 2024-10-24 | Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The EOSC Symposium will take place in Berlin from October 21-23, 2024. NFDI is the mandated organisation for Germany in the EOSC Association and is a partner at the EOSC Symposium.
NFDI would like to use this opportunity for exchange in Germany and is therefore organising a side event together with EOSC on October 23-24, 2024.
The objective of the side event is to demonstrate the intertwined developments and communities of NFDI and EOSC. It is intended to provide a framework for participants from EOSC and NFDI to address and discuss common topics and facilitate mutual understanding. Presentations, panel discussions and sufficient time for exchange are planned. Additionally, an interactive format will be provided with the planned world café.
We are pleased to be able to allocate some additional places due to changes in room capacities. We therefore cordially invite you to register for the event:

EOSCxNFDI
NFDI side event to the EOSC Symposium
H4 Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 32, 10178 Berlin

23 October (from 4 p.m.) to 24 October 2024 (approx. 3:30 p.m.)

Registration
If you are able to attend the event, please register by 25 September at https://eveeno.com/eoscxnfdi. We will keep you up to date via the portal in future and provide you with further information on the agenda and travelling to the event.

Please note: Registration is on a first-come-first-served basis. If the available places are full, there will be a waiting list.

Taking part in the event is completely free of charge. Unfortunately, we cannot cover the costs of accommodation and travel.

Registration for the EOSC Symposium and EOSCxNFDI takes place separately. The EOSC Symposium is now fully booked on site, but the online participation is still possible.

Evening Programme
An evening event is also planned for 23 October. This will take place from 6.30 pm at the Landesvertretung Schleswig-Holstein (Schleswig-Holstein State Representation), In den Ministergärten 8, 10117 Berlin.
