GÉANT General Assembly 34
2024-11-20 - 2024-11-21
This event is under planning. Further information will follow soon.

MTSR Conference 2024
2024-11-20 - 2024-11-22 | Athens, Athens, Greece
Cultural Heritage collections are essential knowledge infrastructures that provide a solid representation of the historical background of human communities. These knowledge infrastructures are constructed from and integrate cultural information derived from diverse memory institutions, mainly libraries, archives and museums. Each individual community has spent a lot of effort in order to develop, support and promote its own systems, tools and metadata for the management of cultural information, mainly related to its particular resources and use.
In this framework, the management of the cultural information has to deal with challenges related to (i) metadata modeling, specification, standardization, extraction, (semantic) enrichment, mapping, integration, effective use, and evaluation, (ii) knowledge representation as conceptualization to provide the context for unambiguously interpreting metadata, and (iii) information integration from different contexts for the provision of integrated access, reuse and advanced services to users.
At the same time, there are also inter-domain efforts targeted to semantically align data (research data, educational data, public sector information etc.) to cultural information. New challenges are also emerged from the need to incorporate cultural information into the new publication paradigms, where a variety of resources (data, metadata, processes, results, etc.) are linked and integrated, providing better shareability and reusability. Currently, Linked (Open) Data, as part of the Semantic Web Technology, is having a major role in modernizing cultural heritage collections. Providing to users the possibility to re-use and integrate data into their own systems is currently more than a need, given that transparency and access to information is a prerequisite. A critical factor to the effectiveness of many aspects of all the above efforts is the quality of metadata, as interpreted by its context and use and evaluated by the proper measures and methods. Many institutions and aggregate infrastructures are dealing with the poor quality of metadata that inevitably results in poor integration, search and reuse, while their enrichment, in terms of contextualization, co-referencing, alignment, etc., is really challenging.
The aim of this Special Track is to maintain a dialogue where researchers and practitioners working on all the aspects of the cultural information will come together and exchange ideas about open issues at all stages of the cultural heritage information life cycle. The track also welcomes works related to semantics and applications for new approaches to cultural information publication and sharing, as well as to interlinking to other datasets published in the Semantic Web universe.

11th GDI Forum
2024-11-21 - 2024-11-22 | Viseu
The 11th Research Data Management Forum will take place on the 21st and 22nd of November, at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu.
IMPORTANT DATES

Proposal submission period : April 15th to September 11th
Notification to proponents (flash talks and posters): September 23
Participant registration : June 3rd to November 15th
Holding of the 11th GDI Forum : 21st and 22nd November

The 11th GDI Forum takes place in person at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu. As in previous years, we will have a program that will last two days. It is planned to hold technical workshops, flash talk sessions and posters for demonstration and presentations of projects and good practices, a coffee with Data and even discussion panels.
The GDI Forum’s annual event aims to bring together and energize the community of professionals and researchers involved in activities to support research data management with the aim of developing technical skills, capitalizing on knowledge and practices and promoting knowledge about national initiatives.
It is a training and debate space for sharing ideas, emerging initiatives, projects and good practices to support research data management that seeks to bring together managers of digital repositories and data centers, information technicians, libraries, archives and data curation, IT specialists, researchers, data scientists and science managers at research institutions and science funding bodies.

Digitale Bibliothek: Zurück (und) in die Zukunft
2024-11-28 - 2024-11-29 | Meerscheinschlössl, Universität Graz
Die Tagungsreihe Digitale Bibliothek lädt vom 28.-29. November 2024 zum Jubiläum an die Universität Graz, Österreich!
Die 10. Digitale Bibliothek trägt den Titel “Zurück (und) in die Zukunft”
Technische und gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen für Kultur- und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen
Was bleibt, was kommt, was geht?
Die Tagung bietet ein bewährtes Forum zur Diskussion der spezifischen Herausforderungen, denen sich die Kultur- und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen bei der Gestaltung moderner Online-Wissensspeicher, der Forschung und dem Wissenstransfer stellen müssen.
Anlässlich des Jubiläums wollen wir zurück und in die Zukunft blicken:

Welche Themen begleiten uns weiterhin, welche Fragestellungen sind gelöst, vor welchen neuen Herausforderungen stehen wir jetzt und in der nächsten Zeit?
Können uns die Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre Wegweiser für zukünftige Konzepte und Vorgehensweisen sein?

Und wir werden in Vorträgen, Postern und Workshops außerdem folgende Themen erörtert:

Technologie: Bewährtes und Aktuelles (zB: KI, Maschinelles Lernen, …)
Netzwerke: Kooperationen, Partnerschaften, Zusammenarbeit heute&morgen…
Nachhaltigkeit: Wie sichern wir Wissen? Überprüfbarkeit von Wissen? Neue Wege der Wissensvermittlung?

EUDAT Conference 2024
2024-12-03 - 2024-12-05 | Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
The end of 2024 brings us the next edition of the EUDAT Conference from amidst the historical surroundings of Athens to the jovial seasonal Christmas markets in Karlsruhe.
From 3-5 December 2024, the EUDAT Conference will be held at the ZKM Karlsruhe (Center for Art and Media). The EUDAT Conference is EUDAT’s flagship event which provides a forum for the latest developments in research data management and enabling tools and solutions.
As part of its regular programme, the first day will be dedicated to sessions that showcase RDM solutions that address the research data lifecycle. A poster parade and exhibition will bring you face-to-face with some of the innovators in the field and allow networking opportunities. As a new aspect of this year’s conference, there will be a call for demonstrations where a select few will be able to demonstrate their solutions to the conference audience.
The second and third day of the conference will then be dedicated towards providing a holistic view of the fast-changing landscape. Topics such as EOSC, the Data Spaces, the connection with HPC and handling sensitive data will be tackled in dedicated sessions that provide a view of developments on a European level. At the same time a session will also be dedicated to looking at individual national experiences and best practices providing various perspectives from the EUDAT members. This EUDAT Conference also aims to showcase more outside perspectives with calls for sessions.
Why participate?
Don’t miss out on the research data management conference in Europe.

Join as an attendee and get acquainted with the latest advances in research data management in Europe and beyond.
Share and discuss your innovation or developments with delegates from different research fields that use alternative solutions.
Exchange best practices and experiences.
Get visibility and participate as an exhibitor, or present your demos and posters or in sessions!

Who should attend

German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) representatives and initiatives, to showcase developments and establish or strengthen links with the EUDAT and wider community.
Researchers and citizen scientists, repository and community managers to discover services for research data management, storage, preservation and sharing.
Actors in the EOSC community, ESFRI, science clusters, and research infrastructures to get the latest on the state of the art and use cases of some of the core services for supporting European research
Projects, research institutions and national and European initiatives to gain visibility and network with stakeholders to further their activities
Service providers to learn what EUDAT can offer from them
Current and prospective EUDAT users and user communities to learn about new major functionalities

Registrations to launch on or before July 2024.
Open Call for Sessions, Workshops and Presentations
As part of the aim of the EUDAT Conference this year to be more inclusive, provide a space for the community to introduce new ideas, as well as establish closer links with new communities, an Open Call for Sessions, Workshops, and Presentations is being launched. Proposals on the following topics are being accepted:

EOSC advancements for the research data lifecycle
Data spaces, FAIR and RDM
Cross-border or cross-domain data management
International RDM
Policy and Ethics in Data Management (AI and ML)
Data Orchestration
Research Software – making it FAIR
HPC and data management
Existing RDM solutions
Enabling open science nationally
User requirements
Crazy ideas: Dream RDM solutions
Establishing or strengthening collaborations across the ecosystem
Sensitive Data: Access conditions, access management, and processing

Criteria for selection

Relevance of the proposal to the EUDAT Conference programme topics.
For sessions, confirmation that at least 80% of the planned speakers will be present on-site.
For presentations, ability to deliver the presentation on-site.

How to apply:
Send your application by 31 August 2024 using the form on our website which you can access below.
Apply now
Timeline:

06 Jun.: Launch of the call.
31 Aug.: Proposal submission deadline.
09 Sep.: Acceptance/rejection communication.
16 Sep.: Start of session organisation with the programme committee

Open Call for Posters and Demos
EUDAT is providing the opportunity for you to display a poster or present a demo at the EUDAT Conference. During the EUDAT Conference Exhibition, there will be space for a limited number of posters. Posters can be submitted through this Open Call, and will be evaluated by the EUDAT team.
We are looking for poster and demo proposals which show at least one of the following:
-Research Data Management solutions
-RDM solutions use cases and best practices
– The use of EUDAT services in community data workflow
-Integration of EUDAT services with other services
Timeline:
–06 Jun: Launch of the call.
–31 Aug: Proposal submission deadline.
–09 Sep: Acceptance/rejection communication.
–15 Nov: Final design/demo file sent for approval.
Format:
Poster: Ao portrait format
Demos: Video format, max 5 minutes
How to apply:

send your application by 31 August 2024 using the form on the website which you can access below.
Apply now

2024 International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI)
2024-12-03 08:00 - 2024-12-05 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Brisbane, Australia
Join policymakers, research institution leaders, facility operator, users and researchers at the 2024 International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2024) in Brisbane to discuss pressing topics of interest, trends and challenges facing research infrastructures around the world.
The 2024 International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2024) will be hosted in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia.
Hosted biennially, the ICRI is the major professional forum for the global research infrastructure community. ICRI 2024 will bring together policymakers, research institution leaders, facility operator, users and researchers, to discuss pressing topics of interest, trends and challenges facing research infrastructures around the world.
ICRI 2024 will be delivered by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency.

EOSC Cafe
2024-12-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Teinfaltstraße 8, A-1010 Vienna, Teinfaltstraße 8, Vienna, 1010
We are very happy to invite you all to our next EOSC Café on Tuesday, 3rd of December (10:00 – 12:00).
This time we will hold the meeting in physical format only; We would be happy to meet and exchange news and ideas with many of you in person this time.
The Agenda for the Meeting will follow soon; The venue will be in Teinfaltstraße 8, A-1010 Vienna (Room E01)

INFRA-Stammtisch
2024-12-03 12:15 - 14:00 | Restaurant Giorgina, Bankgasse 2, Vienna, 1010
In ungezwungener Atmosphäre möchten wir Ihnen die Möglichkeit bieten, sich bei einem gemeinsamen Mittagessen und Getränken zu vernetzen und mit anderen Akteur:innen aus dem Bereich der Forschungsinfrastrukturen auszutauschen. Nach einer kurzen Begrüßung und einem Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen werden wir bewusst auf eine fixe Agenda verzichten, um Raum für spontane Themen und offene Diskussionen zu schaffen.
Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit, eigene Inputs und Fragen einzubringen, Diskussionsthemen vorzuschlagen und Herausforderungen sowie Erfahrungen bei der Implementierung von Forschungsinfrastrukturprojekten zu teilen.
Natürlich stehen auch wir, die Nationalen Kontaktstellen – Manfred Halver und Nina Thomann – für Gespräche und fachlichen Austausch zur Verfügung.
Anmeldung: Bitte senden Sie Ihre Anmeldung ehest per E-Mail an: nina.thomann@ffg.at.
Wir freuen uns darauf, beim gemeinsamen Mittagessen interessante Gespräche zu führen und den Austausch mit Ihnen zu vertiefen!

REvaluation Conference 2024
2024-12-04 - 2024-12-06 | Vienna, Vienna, Austria
At the REvaluation Conference 2024 we will explore the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapidly changing landscape of research and innovation policy and its implications for assessment and evaluation. Traditionally set in the city of Vienna, Austria, from December 4-6, 2024, this conference promises to be a gathering of thought leaders, academics, and practitioners who are charting the course through these dynamic times.
Have a look at our programme overview or dive into the programme details.

Driving EU Prosperity: The Future of Knowledge Valorisation
2024-12-10 09:00 - 18:00 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
EU’s knowledge valorisation policy aims to accelerate the uptake of R&I results to realise the full potential of R&I investments for a prosperous Europe. It is key for Europe’s economic resilience, innovation capacity, strategic autonomy and societal welfare.
With the Political Guidelines of the new Commission placing R&I at the heart of the economy, and also the publication of the Letta and Draghi reports, this effort has received new strong impetus.
Registration is now open for the annual EU flagship knowledge valorisation event, which will take place on 10 December 2024 in Brussels and online!

Register here

Description

The event will feature international perspectives and host a variety of sessions covering business-academia collaboration, socially responsible licensing, standards for innovation, citizen science, insights from the EUIPO and the EPO on the role of academia and SMEs, prize ceremonies and much more. A panel will discuss the future of knowledge valorisation.
You will be able to ask questions to the speakers, network extensively and visit interactive stands of valorisation support services.
The event is open to attendance in person or online through live broadcasting, free of charge.
Should you require any further information, please contact the organisation team at: RTD-VALORISATION-POLICIES-IPR@ec.europa.eu
The event’s context is the intensive work stemming from several, recently unveiled EU policy initiatives (Council Recommendation on Guiding principles and Codes of practice on the management of intellectual assets, standardisation, citizen engagement and industry-academia co-creation as well as Council conclusions on strengthening knowledge valorisation) supporting a thriving valorisation ecosystem and the wrapping up of a two-year long EU-wide awareness raising campaign.
We will take stock of this intensive dialogue with national stakeholders and discuss where the new measures took us and what is the way forward together.

4th EOSC Support Office Austria General Assembly
2024-12-17 12:00 - 17:00 | Aula am Campus at the University of Vienna, Aula am Campus Hof 1.11, Wien, 1090
We are pleased to announce that the fourth General Assembly of the EOSC Support Office Austria will take place on December 17, 2024, at the Aula am Campus, University of Vienna. This event brings together members of the EOSC SOA community to review achievements over the past year, elect new representatives to governing bodies, and discuss the strategic direction for the future.
It will be a key moment for advancing shared goals within the EOSC SOA community and fostering stronger collaboration across diverse areas, including Open Science, data stewardship, and research infrastructure. The General Assembly will provide an opportunity to report on developments and to strengthen the community’s impact in supporting Austria’s engagement within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Agenda:
12:45-13:15 – Registration and Arrival
13:15 Short Greeting with Icebreaker via Slido (5 mins)
13:20 Welcome – (5 mins) – Andreas Brandtner, Director of the University of Vienna Library
13:25 Opening – (15 mins) – Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi and Barbara Sánchez Solís, First and Second Chairs of General Assembly
13:40 EOSC SOA Steering Committee – (10 mins) -Beate Guba
13:50 The Year in Review (Summary of EOSC SOA Secretariat and Management Board activities) – (10 mins) – Matthias Schwarz, Management Board
14:00 Welcome to New Partners – (10 mins) – Matthias Schwarz
14:10 ACONET Association – (10 mins) – Petra Karlhuber
14:20 Official Business & Voting – (40 mins) – Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi
15:00 Coffee and Snack Break – (30 mins)
15:30 Keynote Speakers: Jiri Marek, Sarah Davies, Sara Garavelli – (3x 10 min input – 30 mins)
16:00 Panel Discussion and Q&A with Keynote Speakers – (40 mins) – Meghan Bohardt, EOSC SOA Secretariat
16:40 Short feedback survey via Slido (5 mins)
16:45 Closing Remarks + Recognition of Guests of Honor – (20 mins) – Stefan Hanslik, Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Education
Break
18:00 Meet at Christmas Market on the University of Vienna Campus (optional)

Registration:
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Cluster Forschungsdaten Expo 2025
2025-01-16 | Kuppelsaal, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien, 4.OG., Wien, 1040, Austria
Der Cluster Forschungsdaten lädt herzlich zur Expo am Donnerstag, dem 16. Jänner 2025 an die TU Wien. Der thematische Schwerpunkt wird auf Forschungsinformationssysteme, Forschungsdatenmanagement und forschungsunterstützende Infrastrukturen gelegt.
Die Veranstaltung soll auf nationaler Ebene Infrastrukturen, Services, Projekten und Anwendungsfällen eine Bühne bieten, stellt eine Kooperationsplattform dar und dient als Netzwerkveranstaltung.
Das Programm beinhaltet eine Bandbreite an Vorträgen, Produktdemonstrationen, Posterpräsentationen und Workshops, um die unterschiedlichen und breitgefächerten Infrastrukturen, Tools und Services aus Österreich vorzustellen. Die Veranstaltung schließt mit einer interdisziplinär besetzten Podiumsdiskussion und einem Vernetzungsprogramm am Abend. Am Folgetag besteht die Möglichkeit für Arbeitsgruppentreffen.
Zielpublikum sind operative und strategische Akteure, sowie Forschende im weiteren Umfeld von Forschungsdatenmanagement, forschungsunterstützenden Services, Open Science und EOSC-Aktivitäten.

EOSC Winter School 2025
2025-01-20 - 2025-01-24 | Spain
The EOSC Winter School is an initiative by EOSC-A, with the support of the EOSC Focus project, taken up in response to collaboration needs among Horizon Europe EOSC-related projects.
The EOSC Winter School was conceptualised following a suggestion at the European Commission’s June 2023 coordination meeting, which identified a significant collaboration gap in the Horizon Europe EOSC-related projects.
A roundup of the Winter School 2024, photos, and the official report can be found here.

Data Research Austria Roadshow
2025-01-28 13:00 - 16:00 | Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Wien
As in previous years, the ÖAW accompanies the tender with a roadshow for all interested people from research institutions in Vienna (cooperation partners: BMBWF, Statistik Austria, WWTF). The event will take place on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, from 13:00-16:00 at WU Wien. Further details, the program, and the registration form can be found in the “Roadshow 2025” section of the Data:Research:Austria page.

ISC General Assembly
2025-01-29 - 2025-01-30 | Muscat
The ISC General Assembly is the premier occasion for ISC Members and Affiliated Bodies, Fellows and partners from all domains of science and regions of the world to meet for cross-disciplinary, strategic discussions on challenges and priorities for international cooperation in science. The ISC General Assembly meets in ordinary session every four years.
The Muscat Global Knowledge Dialogue, which takes place on 27–28 January, is the segment of the ISC General Assembly focusing on science and is open to a wider public.
The 2025 ISC General Assembly will be hosted by our Member, the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation of Oman, on 26–30 January 2025. It is the first in-person General Assembly of the ISC since the creation of the organization in July 2018.

Skills4EOSC Workshop: Science4Policy - Bridging the gap between research and decision-making
2025-01-30 - 2025-01-31 | CNR, Piazzale Aldo Moro 7, Roma, 00185, Italy
What

Communicating science effectively is becoming increasingly crucial in empowering society to take evidence-informed decisions to address its challenges, especially in the context of evidence-informed policymaking (often referred to as “science4policy”).
The SKILLS4EOSC two-day interactive workshop aims to enhance researchers’ communication skills and facilitate dialogue with policymakers by upskilling communication competencies through theoretical learning and practical application.

Who

Are you a scientist, communicator or policy enthusiast and want to bridge the gap between research and decision-making? Join this interactive workshop to improve your skills in science communication in the context of policy making!
The ideal participants are researchers – in any field – wishing to improve their ability to interact with policy makers. They can be already involved in science4policy activities or simply motivated to start a journey into this new realm. In the registration form they should provide their motivation and experience in the field.

19th International Digital Curation Conference
2025-02-17 - 2025-02-19 | The Hague
The 19th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC25) will take place in The Hague, the Netherlands between 17-19 February 2025.
About the International Digital Curation Conference
The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is an established annual event with a unique place in the digital curation community, reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in curating data and providing an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice.
Workshop submissions are now open
As part of our IDCC25 programme, we invite submissions for in-person and online workshops. Workshops are events taking place before the main IDCC conference, on Monday 17 February 2025.
In the past the workshops have focused on practical, hands-on work, often being used for training. If you have an established tool or working practice that yields results in the world of research data management, you are also welcome to submit an application and show everyone how it works!
This year we are offering organisers the opportunity to host a workshop in person or online. Learn more about Workshop formats and the submission process via the Workshop page.
Calls for papers, lightning talks and posters have all been extended!
Submissions for papers and lightning talks have been extended to 11 August 2024. Poster submissions are now open until 15 September 2024.

FAIRfest: Celebrating advancements of FAIR solutions in EOSC
2025-02-20 - 2025-02-21 | Madurodam, Madurodam, The Hague, Netherlands
FAIR-IMPACT and FAIRCORE4EOSC partners are glad to invite the broad European research community to FAIRfest, a festival celebrating advancements of FAIR solutions in the European Open Science research landscape.
FAIR in Europe and Worldwide
The Festival will take place on the 20th and 21st of February 2025 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
The event is tied up with the 19th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC25), and will be an opportunity for the European community to meet with the IDCC international audience to learn and debate aound the latest achievements around:

F for Findability: Persistent Identifiers & Knowledge Graphs
A for Accessibility: Semantic Artefacts
I for Interoperability: from the technical to legal interoperability
R for Reusability: Certification, metrics & guidelines for FAIR data and software

A true Festival, with Marketplace
Adopters and implementers of FAIR enabling solutions, tools, methodologies and practices will do a showcase in a marketplace-like settled area. You will have the chance to go around stands, coffee tables and poster areas, stop at those that grab your attention and ask all your questions to those who already “did it”. You’ll get demonstrations of the FAIRCORE4EOSC components, you’ll listen to stories of implementation of the FAIR techniques in real research scenarios from the teams who received support from the FAIR-IMPACT support programme, and you’ll meet FAIR Champions, FAIR ambassadors, interoperability experts and practitioners.
Standing Keynotes, real-life adopters: the agenda
Four plenary sessions will be mixed up with parallel, technical sessions. Standing keynotes will kick-start provocative discussion items, and case studies and use cases will be described during two parallel sessions in the afternoon of day 1. The wide-ranging agenda is conceived to leave you time to think, discuss, and enjoy food, coffee, tea and company.
Never visited Madurodam? Then come!
The FAIRFest is taking place in Madurodam (www.madurodam.nl), a beautiful miniature park in the Scheveningen district of The Hague. It is home to a range of 1:25 scale model replicas of famous Dutch landmarks, historical cities and large developments. Join us for a unique opportunity to also have a special dinner in the charming atmosphere of the park!
Register now

Target audience: Researchers and data practitioners, data stewards, data service providers and repository managers, research performing organisation staff, open science national level initiatives, and representatives of projects, initiatives, and actors in both EOSC and FAIR ecosystems.
Venue: Madurodam, George Maduroplein 1, 2584 RZ The Hague, The Netherlands

Open Data Expo 2025
2025-03-05 09:00 - 13:00 | FH Technikum Wien
Anlässlich des internationalen Open Data Days 2025 laden die FH Technikum Wien und die Wirtschaftsagentur Wien zur 4. Open Data Expo am 5. März 2025 ein. Auch in diesem Jahr lautet das Motto “Daten erleben und begreifen”. Dabei werden zahlreiche Anwendungen und Projekte präsentiert, die auf öffentlich zugänglichen Daten basieren. Teilnehmer*innen der Open Data Expo haben die Möglichkeit, in 3 Gruppen zu je 20 Personen die Zentrale des Wiener Luftmessnetzes zu besuchen. Zusätzlich werden Workshops angeboten.

Programm

09:00 bis 09:20 Uhr: Eröffnung
09:20 bis 13:00 Uhr: freie Besichtigung der Stände und Projekte der Open Data Expo
09:30 Uhr: Netzwerktreffen “DataConnect Community AT” / “DataBusiness Community AT”, Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, Stadt Wien, Gaia-X Hub Austria, Data Intelligence Offensive, Know-Center, Hörsaal HS_F0.02
11:00 Uhr: Workshop “Datenanalyse und Visualisierung”, FH Technikum Wien, Universität für Weiterbildung Krems, EDV-Saal EDV_F2.02
ab 11:00 Uhr: Besuche der Zentrale des Wiener Luftmessnetzes:

11:00 Uhr: Gruppe 1
11:45 Uhr: Gruppe 2
12:30 Uhr: Gruppe 3

Datenlehrpfad 2025
2025-03-06 13:00 - 16:30 | Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Am 6. März richtet die Stadt Wien den Open Data-Lehrpfad aus.
Diese Initiative zielt darauf ab, „Veränderungen in der Stadt mit Hilfe von Daten“ aufzuzeigen.
Der Treffpunkt ist um 13:00 Uhr am Stephansplatz, beim Südturm des Stephansdoms.
Der Lehrpfad endet auch 2025 mit einem Besuch im Parlament, wo Expert*innen der Parlamentsdirektion und der Universität Wien Einblicke in das erweiterte Open Data-Angebot des Parlaments geben.
Den Abschluss der Veranstaltung bildet eine Führung durch das historische Gebäude mit besonderem Fokus auf die Parlamentsdaten.
Hinweis: Für den Zutritt ins Parlament ist eine extra Registrierung erforderlich.
Auf diesem Lehrpfades werden folgende Stationen besucht:

Bundesdenkmalamt
Wien Digital
Wiener Wasser
Urban Innovation Vienna
Stadtvermessung Wien
Wiener Linien
Parlament Österreich

Wann findet diese Veranstaltung statt?6. März 2025
Beginn: 13:00
Ende: 16:30
Zum Kalender hinzufügen

Building the EOSC Federation: Kick-off workshop for the build-up phase of the EOSC Federation
2025-03-17 - 2025-03-18 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
The EOSC EU Node will take part in the upcoming Kick-off Workshop for the build-up phase of the EOSC Federation, organised by the EOSC Tripartite Governance under the auspices of DG RTD, on 17-18 March 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. This event will bring together representatives from 12 invited organisations and one consortium, the European Commission with the EOSC EU Node contractors, and the EOSC Association to shape the early phase of the EOSC Federation build-up.
As the first reference node in the unfolding EOSC Federation, the EOSC EU Node implements core federating capabilities and provides horizontal infrastructure and application services to support cross-node scientific workflows. The workshop will create a unique opportunity to present the EOSC EU Node’s technical architecture and solutions to the other node candidates and actively contribute to discussions on the key aspects of the early federation building exercise, ensuring alignment with the common interests of all involved organisations and other stakeholders of the EOSC ecosystem.
The workshop agenda will focus on:

Planning the main activities of the build-up phase based on draft project proposals of the node candidates.
Defining the organisational modalities for effective collaboration.

EOSC EU Node representatives will contribute to discussions across
multiple highly relevant topics:

Identity and resource management
How can we ensure seamless authentication and authorisation (AAI) across the EOSC Federation? What role do PIDs, metadata standards, and resource discovery play in enabling interoperability?
Federated workflows, application orchestration, and monitoring
How can we enable cross-node scientific workflows? What tools and standards should be in place for workflow management, orchestration, and Virtual Research Environments (VREs)?
Security, privacy, and policy frameworks
What security policies and IT certifications should the EOSC Federation adopt? How do we ensure GDPR compliance and define clear Rules of Participation (RoP) for nodes and services?
Scientific services, FAIR research objects, and use cases
How do we ensure EOSC services and research objects (data, software, workflows) are FAIR? What are the best practices for data curation, provenance tracking, and real-world use cases?
Skills, training, and engagement strategies for the EOSC Federation
What training and capacity-building efforts are needed to support researchers and service providers? How do we engage new communities and structure EOSC onboarding processes effectively?

2. Österreichischen Bibliothekskongress
2025-03-25 - 2025-03-28 | Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Unter dem Motto „Demokratisch – Divers – Nachhaltig“ öffnen wir die Türen zu einem bedeutenden Forum, das den aktuellen Wandel unserer Welt reflektiert.
Aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen verlangen eine umsichtige Auseinandersetzung in der Arbeitswelt, der Lehre und Ausbildung wie auch im privaten Umfeld.
Wissenschaftliche und öffentliche Bibliotheken spielen hierbei eine zentrale Rolle. Sie sind nicht nur Knowledge Hubs, sondern auch aktive Akteure unserer Gesellschaft. Mit ihrem technischen Know-how, ihrer administrativen Expertise und ihrem breiten Informationsangebot tragen sie dazu bei, Lösungsansätze zu entwickeln und neue Dienstleistungen zu etablieren. Darüber hinaus fördern sie Kooperationen und bieten somit einen wichtigen Mehrwert für die Gesellschaft.
Der Bibliothekskongress dient als bedeutende Plattform für Austausch, Information, Diskussion und Vernetzung. Er zeigt die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den renommierten nationalen Bibliotheksverbänden – der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare (VÖB) und dem Büchereiverband Österreichs (BVÖ) – in einem inspirierenden Rahmen auf.
Es erwarten Sie zahlreiche Vorträge von Expert*innen und ein spannendes Rahmenprogramm!
Wir freuen uns auf wegweisende Diskussionen und Impulse beim 2. Österreichischen Bibliothekskongress in Wien!

2025 EUA Annual Conference
2025-04-10 - 2025-04-11 | Latvia
While sustainability is about building a better future, resilience is about overcoming internal and external challenges. Crucially, both elements are needed for universities to succeed in today’s world.
The 2025 EUA Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Latvia in Riga from 10-11 April, will strive to define what sustainability and resilience, as multi-faceted concepts, mean for universities. By ‘Connecting the dots on sustainability and resilience’, this event will explore how universities can contribute to a more sustainable future, both on and off campus, while strengthening institutional and societal resilience. So, how can university leadership and communities best pursue sustainability and resilience as key objectives of institutional missions, strategies and activities?
To reflect on this, the 2025 Annual Conference will explore what sustainability means from the point of view of funding, digitalisation, academic careers and university leadership. Sessions will also shine a spotlight on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), showcasing how they can be put into action by universities. At the same time, participants will reflect on how institutions can become resilient without turning inwards on themselves, in sessions dedicated to knowledge security and inclusion.

Open Science – Chance oder Herausforderung?
2025-04-14 08:45 - 17:20 | Unicorn, Schubertstraße 6a, Graz, 8010, Austria
Die Idee von „Offener Wissenschaft“ (Open Science) ist bereits seit Langem in vielen Disziplinen und Forschungseinrichtungen etabliert und verspricht unter anderem eine bessere Überprüfbarkeit von Forschungsergebnissen und damit mehr Vertrauen in die Wissenschaft; schnelleren Erkenntnisgewinn durch mehr Austausch, Kooperation und Nachnutzung; mehr Fairness in Bezug auf den Zugang zu Tools und Infrastruktur. Sie birgt aber auch Herausforderungen: Diese können technischer und organisatorischer Natur sein (Entwicklung, Finanzierung und Governance von Plattformen, Software o.Ä.) oder in verschiedenen Auffassungen einer bestmöglichen Nutzung und Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse liegen. Zudem beinflussen ethische und rechtliche Grundsätze (Umgang mit Versuchstieren oder Proband:innen, Anonymisierung von Forschungsdaten, Verwertung von Forschungsergebnissen etc.) den Umgang mit Open Science.
Im Rahmen dieser Tagung werden Personen aus unterschiedlichen Arbeitsbereichen an der Universität Graz zu diesen Aspekten Stellung nehmen und aus ihrer eigenen Perspektive dazu berichten.
Programm

Ready to normalise openness?
2025-04-24
Wir sind es gewohnt, Open Education von bestehenden Frameworks und (Infra-)Strukturen her zu denken – und Openness “aufzupfropfen”.
Warum nicht die Richtung umdrehen und Umgebungen und Praktiken grundlegend offen erdenken?
Was, wenn offene Lehre die Norm wäre und nicht die Ausnahme?
Dann sei dabei beim Barcamp #3!
Am 24. April 2025 findet das dritte OER-OER-Infrastruktur-Barcamp #oertopia an der Universität Innsbruck statt.
Weitere Infos
* Website: https://oerbase.github.io/Barcamp3/
* Anmeldung unter oer@uibk.ac.at<mailto:oer@uibk.ac.at>
* Nachlese vergangene Barcamps: https://oerbase.github.io/Barcamp2/barcamp-1/ und https://oerbase.github.io/Barcamp2/barcamp-2/
Beim dritten OER-Infrastruktur-Barcamp #oertopia laden wir Dich dazu ein, radikal neu zu denken und bestehende Paradigmen in Frage zu stellen!
Von Widersprüchen, Ambivalenzen oder Vorläufigkeiten lassen wir uns dabei nicht aufhalten.
Diskussionsthemen

Wie verändert die zunehmende Fähigkeit von KI, Inhalte zu generieren, unser Verständnis von Urheberschaft und Originalität?
Welche alternativen Modelle gibt es, um Wissen und Kreativität zu teilen und zu schützen?
Welche Widersprüche existieren innerhalb der Open-Bewegung und wie können wir diese konstruktiv angehen?
Open Educational Practices (OEP) als Standard
Welche neuen Technologien oder alte Ideen können die Verbreitung und Nutzung von OER verbessern?
Community-Building in der OER-Welt – zeigemäß?
Nachhaltige Finanzierung von OER-Projekten
OER und (hochschul-)politische Maßnahmen und Strategien
OER und Inklusion
Creators Corner: Welche Best Practices und Tools gibt es, um hochwertige OER-Inhalte effizient zu erstellen und zu verwalten?
Gamification und OER
Interaktive und multimediale OER: Welche Möglichkeiten bieten interaktive und multimediale Inhalte für die OER-Landschaft?
OER-Qualitätssicherung – technologisch und organisatorisch
Kooperation zwischen OER-Repositorien: Wie können OER-Repositorien weltweit besser zusammenarbeiten, um Ressourcen zu teilen und zu verbreiten?
KI als adminsitrative oder technische Unterstützung bei der Verwaltung oder Bereitstellung von OER
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Diese Themen sind nur der Anfang. Wir ermutigen euch, im Sinne eines Barcamps als Teilgeber:innen eure eigenen Ideen und Fragen mitzubringen, um neue Sichtweisen zu generieren

Kulturpool Stakeholder Forum 2025
2025-05-05 - 2025-05-06 | Linz
Das diesjährige Stakeholder Forum ist zu Gast im Ars Electronica Center Linz und beleuchtet das digitalisierte Kulturerbe im Zusammenspiel von (Nach)Nutzung, Infrastruktur und Innovation. Die zweitägige Veranstaltung richtet sich an Fachleute aus dem GLAM-Bereich sowie Interessierte aus Wissenschaft, Kunst, Kultur, Politik und Kreativwirtschaft.
Wie sieht die Zukunft des digitalisierten Kulturerbes aus? Welche Infrastrukturen fördern Innovationen? Welche Möglichkeiten zur (Nach)Nutzung gibt es? Und welche Herausforderungen gilt es anzugehen?
Ganz nach dem Motto „Innovation braucht Infrastruktur, Infrastruktur braucht Innovation“ lädt das Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport (BMWKMS) gemeinsam mit dem Kulturpool, der Österreichischen Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG) und dem Ars Electronica Center zu einem vielfältigen Programm mit viel Raum zum Diskutieren und Austauschen.

HMC Conference 2025
2025-05-12 - 2025-05-14 | Cologne
The Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) promotes the qualitative enrichment of research data by means of metadata – and implements this approach across the whole organization.
HMC develops and implements novel concepts and technologies for a sustainable handling of research data through high-quality metadata. Its main goal is to make the depth and breadth of research data produced by Helmholtz Centres findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) for the whole science community. Read more

Let’s Talk about Science Reform! A Workshop on Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Investigating the Open Science Movement
2025-05-12 09:00 - 18:00 | Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Over the last decade the science system has been going through some fundamental changes and even something of a structural reformation. Spearheaded primarily by groups of biomedical scientists, psychologists and economists, a reform movement pushing for more openness and verifiability in science has been underway: the Open Science Movement. This movement first started to gain momentum when claims about a credibility crisis were made. Failures of large-scale replication attempts, seeking to test key studies in some (sub-)disciplines, worsened initial fears and were quickly treated as proof that fundamental problems did in fact exist and a crisis was indeed unfolding. As a result, the narrative of a broken science or science in crisis was quickly adopted and promoted across the boundaries of these disciplines. Trans-disciplinary communities began to form, pushing for systematic interventions to improve the science system overall and to remedy perceived issues of wide-spread irreproducibility as well as a general opacity in science.
While Open Science reforms have garnered quite a bit of positive attention from researchers, the media, funders, and policymakers alike, they have also received some fundamental criticism over the years. Critics have, for instance, pointed to a rather narrow understanding of what constitutes ‘good’ science and how this produces new mechanisms of exclusion rather than inclusion. Similarly, critics have questioned if the implementations of Open Science measures have in fact benefitted all stakeholders of the global science system as promised. In addition to issues with the assumed universal virtue of Open Science, critical voices have pointed towards an often abrasive discourse culture associated with the Open Science movement (see “brOpen Science” and “the tone debate”). Hence, Open Science principles, their implementations, and those communities promoting them, have themselves become the objects of critical scientific inquiry in recent years.
To explore these critical debates around Open Science and science reform, we are bringing together leading scholars who contributed to these debates as part of a one-day in-person workshop in Berlin. Each of our invited speakers will briefly present their own research on the varying aspects of the Open Science reform movement and elaborate on how they theoretically and/or methodologically address the issues they sought to investigate.
To start off the workshop, Sheena F. Bartscherer will present her ongoing investigations into the value systems and narratives underlying the Open Science movement. In her talk, she will explore the self-perception and public communication of reformers’ activism, highlighting international replication initiatives and their surrounding community.
Sven Ulpts will proceed with a talk on agreements and discrepancies between researchers’ perspectives and the ideals promoted by Open Science reformers on issues like the practice and role of preregistration, replication as well as reproducibility. Hence, in his talk he will explore how current notions of Open Science reform relate to the actual realities and aims of researchers, who are supposed to live by the standards proposed or even demanded by reformers.
This will be followed by Fernanda Beigel who will highlight the social and technical conditions underlying the advancements, controversies and resistances to Open Science reform in the social sciences and humanities. In particular, she will compare the ideals of Openness as propagated by current reform movements with implemented forms of Openness in Latin America and the historical conditions as well as developments that such local (indigenous) forms of Openness are contingent on.
Stefanie Haustein will explore the publishing side of Open Science in her talk, discussing her research on the financial dimensions underlying the actual implementation of Open Science. In particular, she will speak on open access models and how large academic publishers are able to make an even larger profit with new formats such as APCs.
Afterwards, Bart Penders will talk about how current science reform relates to the War on Science. Based on theories of politics of quantification, he will explore how the Open Science reform movement elevates specific epistemologies to be the guiding principle for all of science and how the roles of statistics, fraud, reliability and retractions are used and sometimes even weaponized.
Lastly, David Peterson will conclude the round of talks by presenting his work on theoretically approaching Metascience as a social movement, reflecting on how this conceptualization of the Metascience community behind the Open Science reform has been taken up by other researchers since, to characterize and investigate Open Science reform.
We will wrap up the workshop with an open panel discussion involving all six speakers, encouraging the audience to participate in a communal discussion and reflection of the day’s proceedings. We intend to find topics as well as perspectives that we – as researchers interested in researching science reform – still need to address.
The aim of this event is to provide a forum for the critical reflection of theoretical and methodological approaches to investigate modern science reform and Open Science more specifically. We invite scholars interested in the social and epistemic dimensions of Open Science as well as those curious about studying science reform more broadly, to attend this workshop. Everyone, whether critical or enthusiastic about Open Science, is invited and welcome to join!
For registration please send an email directly to Sven Ulpts via: su@ps.au.dk
Deadline for registrations is Sunday, April 20th 2025

Europe Biobank Week 2025
2025-05-13 - 2025-05-16 | Bologna
The most important event of the year in the global biobanking community!
Join us at Bologna Congressi, Italy from 13-16 May 2025 at #EBW25 for the biggest biobanking networking opportunity, to meet industry representatives at the exhibition, discuss the newest findings and hot topics with experts from healthcare, academia, and industry, and attend high-quality scientific programmes.
The congress will highlight state-of-the-art biobanking innovations and research. This action-packed congress will feature keynote presentations, panels and workshops organised by ESBB and BBMRI-ERIC.
Details on sponsorship and registration will follow shortly on the EBW website.

EOSC-A’s 10th General Assembly
2025-05-27 - 2025-05-28 | Antwerp
The 10th General Assembly meeting of the EOSC Association will be held as an in-person, lunch-to-lunch event on 27-28 May 2025 in Antwerp. Details regarding registration, event venue, accommodation options, and recommendations for things to do in Antwerp are provided below.
GA#10 will take place alongside the closing event for the EOSC Focus project and the kick-off of its successor, EOSC GRAVITY. Members planning to attend the handover from EOSC Focus to EOSC GRAVITY on 26 May 2025 need to complete a separate registration form.

Registration
Registration for GA#10 is now open! To participate in this important event, where members will elect the next President of the EOSC Association, please complete the registration form by 5 May 2025 (23:59 CEST).

Venue
EOSC Association’s 10th General Assembly will take place at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Antwerp City Centre.
The hotel is ideally located in front of the magnificent Antwerp Central Station, just steps away from the city’s trendy and historic center. The venue is easily accessible by train and car, with a direct train from Brussels Airport (Zaventem) to Antwerp Central Station in just 30 minutes. There is also a direct Eurostar connection to Antwerp.

Address: Koningin Astridplein 7, 2018 Antwerp
Telephone: +32 (0) 3 203 12 34
E-mail: info.astrid.antwerp@radissonblu.com
Parking: Private underground parking with direct hotel access (€21.00/24h)
