OSCA Perspectives - From Institutional Commitment towards National and European Infrastructures
2025-09-11 - 2025-09-12 | Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, Vienna, 1010, Austria
The OSCA (Open Scientific Collections Austria) consortium is an association of natural science museums and university collections with the aim of building up skills and capacities for the digitization of natural science collections in Austria. The consortium will meet from September 11th to 12th, 2025, at the Natural History Museum in Vienna to discuss perspectives related to the digital transformation of natural science collections. In 2025, Austria will also become part of the European Research Infrastructure DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections) as an early adopter, with the goal of establishing a federated European Infrastructure as a powerful tool for data-intensive research based on real world collection objects.
On the first day the talks will focus on the processes involved from institutional commitment towards national and European infrastructures. Various infrastructures will be presented and talks will outline the overall visions, emphasizing the richness and contextualization within the landscape of Research Infrastructures.
On the second day, a hands-on workshop and interactive training will give the opportunity to work on data transfer from institutions to the OSCA Cache, the national data aggregation node for DiSSCo.

The conference is free of charge. We kindly ask participants to organize their own travel to Vienna and accommodation in Vienna.
If you are interested in participating, please register by August 25, 2025 via osca@nhm.at

Open Science FAIR 2025
2025-09-15 - 2025-09-17 | CERN
The fifth edition of the event, hosted by CERN’s Open Science Section and co-organised with OpenAIRE, will bring together a diverse and influential community of researchers, policymakers, publishers, funders, and Open Science advocates from around the world.

ENRIO 2025
2025-09-22 - 2025-09-24 | Ljubljana
The ENRIO 2025 Congress in Ljubljana will continue the newly established series of biennial events addressing research integrity practice (RI) and the development of responsible research in Europe. ENRIO 2025 is organised by the European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO) and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The Congress is aimed at all experts in research integrity and research ethics, RI officers and practitioners, members of ethics and investigation committees, representatives of research funding organisations and sponsors, and all interested and involved in the enhancement and sustainable implementation of good RI practices and policies.
Thematically, the Congress will emphasise power dynamics in research and institutional responsibility to foster an open, safe and inclusive research environment as a foundation for RI in everyday practice. In a broader global context, this also implies the recognition of fairness, equity and diversity as essential components of RI, as outlined in the Cape Town Statement of 2022. Contributions will reflect the range of challenges, as well as practical and emerging solutions for prevention and awareness raising.

ERIS 2025
2025-09-29 - 2025-09-30 | Bulgaria
Since 2005 the Association for the Development of Information Society jointly with the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Science launched the EIS conference (Education in the Information Society). Initially, it was intended to serve as a forum attracting educational topics capturing the fast development of learning technologies but in 2013 it was rebranded to Education and Research in the Information Society (ERIS). During that initial period various topics on emerging technologies such as E-learning and education support systems, Serious games and virtual reality, Web technologies and cloud computing, Social networks and security of the Web environment, User modelling and user-adaptive systems, Natural language processing and information retrieval, Big data management and analysis, Knowledge discovery from data and text, Approaches for addressing cultural diversity and users with special needs, Innovative systems for e-governance, e-health and e-libraries, Social and legal aspects of the information society were discussed.
The forum targeted mainly leading research from Bulgarian academic institutions, adding to the programme contributions by invited speakers.
Responding to the interest beyond Bulgaria, since 2021 the ERIS conference was again updated with a new look and structure, and a vision to become again one of the leading computer science events in South-Eastern Europe.
The conference has several strengths:

Possibility to publish your work.
Useful feedback: The conference follows a thorough review process – each paper is reviewed by two members of the international programme committee.
Reasonable registration fees: Being supported by ADIS, the conference also has a very moderate conference fee.
Offering state-of-the-art content: the cycle for submitting and selecting papers is compact which allows project research with new results to be presented very expediently.

Shape the Future of Research Data Curation in Europe!
2025-10-01 - 2025-10-02 | Leuven
Join us in Leuven, Belgium, on October 1-2, 2025, for a transformative 2-day workshop to establish the European Expert Curation Network!
Are you passionate about research data curation, quality management, and long-term preservation? Do you want to be at the forefront of shaping FAIR and TRUST principles for the future? This is your chance to collaborate with leading experts and make a lasting impact.

Why Attend?
The EOSC EDEN project invites research data curation and long-term preservation experts to a hands-on workshop where we will:

Lay the foundations of a European Expert Curation Network.
Share expertise, experiences, and best practices.
Build a collaborative vision for advancing data curation and long-term preservation across disciplines and repositories.

This workshop is the first of two events designed to bring together experts from diverse domains, including organizations, repositories (generalist/specialist), collections, and digital object types. Together, we aim to harmonize curation practices and address the challenges of ensuring that data remains FAIR over time.

Event Details
📅 Dates: October 1-2, 2025
📍 Venue: Leuven, Belgium
💡 Travel Support Available: We will be offering travel support for selected participants. Participants will be selected based on criteria to ensure a balanced and diverse representation. This includes expertise in research data curation and long-term preservation, as well as coverage across disciplines, organization types, and digital object types.

Who Should Attend?
We are looking for approx. 20 experts with:

Expertise in research data curation, quality management, or long-term preservation.
Representation across organizations, repositories, collections, or digital object types.
A commitment to advancing FAIR+Time and TRUST principles.

If you and your organization are ready to lead the way in long-term FAIR data practices, this workshop is for you!
A second workshop is planned in 2026, focusing more on training and endorsement of the EOSC EDEN project outcomes.

Why This Matters
Curation is the cornerstone of long-term digital preservation, yet it remains a challenge for many institutions. By establishing a European Expert Curation Network, we aim to:

Address gaps in expertise and experience.
Provide a platform for collaboration and knowledge exchange.
Harmonize curation practices across disciplines and repositories.
Ensure data remains accessible and reusable as technology evolves.

This initiative is part of the EOSC EDEN project, which will develop and establish a framework to identify what data are candidates for long-term preservation based on use, benefit, and quality and a model for re-appraisal points along data lifecycle and test usability. EOSC EDEN will identify practices to support the creation of curation, long-term preservation, and access strategies in Europe. In collaboration with our sister project FIDELIS, we will work to facilitate the sustainable embedding of the European Expert Curation Network to ensure its long-term growth after the conclusion of the project.

Mark Your Calendar!
📅 Dates: October 1-2, 2025
Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking initiative that will shape the future of research data curation in Europe.
To stay tuned for more details and the official call for contributions, make sure to subscribe to the FIDELIS & EOSC EDEN newsletter! See the sign-up form at the bottom of our homepage.

Contact
For more information about the workshop or the EOSC EDEN project, feel free to reach out to us:
📧 Email: pmo.eden(at)postit.csc.fi
🌐 Website: https://eden-fidelis.eu/

Open Science Conference 2025
2025-10-08 - 2025-10-09 | Hamburg
The Open Science Conference is an annual international conference dedicated to the Open Science movement. It provides a unique forum for researchers, data stewards, librarians, practitioners, infrastructure providers, policy makers, and other important stakeholders to discuss the latest and future developments in Open Science. In 2025, the conference returns to its roots and takes place as a face-to-face event in Hamburg again.
This year’s conference will have a special focus on the intersection between Open Science and AI. The rapid integration of artificial intelligence and corresponding tools into scientific research poses both new challenges but also opportunities for Open Science practices. This requires a reflection on how this can be aligned with transparency, accessibility, reproducibility, and reusability as core principles of Open Science.
The Open Science Conference is hosted by the Leibniz Strategy Forum Open Science and organised under the lead of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.

Programme Committee

Marie Alavi / Nicolaus Wilder (Kiel University)
Eileen Clancy / Tim Errington (Center of Open Science)
Daniel Mietchen (FIZ Karlsruhe)
Jan Rörden (German Institute for Global and Area Studies)
Guido Scherp (ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics)
Michela Vignoli (University of Vienna)

International Data Week 2025
2025-10-13 - 2025-10-16 | Brisbane, Australia
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are delighted to announce the International Data Week 2025: Trusted Research Data Driving Innovation and a Better World taking place on 13–16 October 2025, in Brisbane, Australia.

IDW 2025 will be hosted by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) with assistance from the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).

EconData Workshop
2025-10-14 - 2025-10-15 | Kiel
Struggling to turn data into valuable insights? Wondering where to find the right research data for your topic? Finding it tough to choose the right algorithms and methods?
Or maybe you just have a data-related question that has been on your mind for a while, but you have not had the right space to ask it?
You are a PhD candidate, early-career researcher, or advanced Master’s student in business, economics, or the social sciences, and you are facing questions like these? Then join our EconData Workshop and bring any data question you have not yet had the chance to ask. Choose the topics you want to focus on, and we will provide practical advice you can use right away in your research. No prerequisites are needed. Just come with your questions, and leave with fresh strategies.

4th Annual Forum for Open Research in MENA
2025-10-20 - 2025-10-23 | Sharjah
This year, the Annual Forum will offer a mixture of individual presentations, moderated round table discussions, and workshops. As accessibility lies at the hearts of everything we do, this will be a fully hybrid event, with all in-person activities live streamed, in English and Arabic. The programme will include a full day of online presentations, two days of in-person presentations, and a half day of high-impact workshops.
Reflecting the overarching message of last year’s Annual Forum concerning the need to collaborate as individuals, as institutions, as communities and countries – within our local environment and as a region – this year’s theme focuses on building our open science communities and developing our open science capacities.
Given the UAE has designated 2025 as the Year of Community, we are therefore particularly delighted to be able to announce that this year’s Annual Forum, will take place in the UAE, in partnership with the American University of Sharjah. We are honoured to be partnering with this institution, a regional leader for research and education in the Arab world. We are also excited to be able to host the Annual Forum in the Emirate of Sharjah, which is home to so many of the region’s leading publishers and collaborative research and innovation centers.

AI & Data Governance
2025-10-22 08:30 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris) | LOFFICE, Schottenfeldgasse 85, Wien, 1070, Austria
Program

Overview
This workshop explores how ethical reflection, legal regulation, and responsible data use intersect in research practice in the age of AI and large language models (LLMs).
Participants will explore how principles such as ethics, democracy, and scientific integrity translate into concrete research practices with AI and data, addressing issues like bias, transparency, and the responsibilities of universities and researchers. They will also discuss regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act and the Data Governance Act, examining their implications for everyday research practices, data access, institutional compliance, and scientific accountability..
A key theme is data governance: understanding data as both a research resource and a matter of power, access, and control. Participants will consider how data infrastructures shape knowledge and how ethical and legal principles can ensure fairness and trust in research.
Guided by the idea of digital humanism and through interactive discussions, participants will engage with real-world scenarios, such as handling training data, ensuring fairness in automated systems, and aligning institutional practices with evolving EU regulations.
Who is the trainer?
Matthias C. Kettemann is Professor of Innovation, Theory and Philosophy of Law and head of the Department for Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck. He leads the University’s Quantum Ethics Lab and heads research programmes at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin and Leibniz Institute for Media Research in Hamburg.

Goal

By the end of the workshop, participants will:

Understand the ethical and governance frameworks shaping the use of AI and data in research.
Gain insight into European regulatory developments and their relevance for scientific practice.
Reflect on their own role and responsibility as researchers in a datafied ecosystem.
Develop a critical understanding of digital humanism as a guiding idea for responsible, human-centered innovation.

The workshop encourages researchers to act as ethical stewards of data and AI, combining legal awareness, normative reflection, and scientific responsibility in the pursuit of good science.

Precondition

Who can join?
This Workshop is organized for researchers affiliated with a Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, a university or research organization in Austria.

National Open Science Festival
2025-10-24 | Groningen
Open Science NL is delighted that the University of Groningen (UG) and the University Medical Center (UMCG) have generously offered to host this year’s festival. The one-day event will be held in the buildings of the UMCG.
Like last year, the festival is organised by a team with representatives from the host institution, Open Science NL, DANS, and the National Coordination Point for Research Data Management (LCRDM). In addition, the programme will be curated by an independent committee, ensuring broad community representation. The programme committee will be chaired by Casper Albers, dean of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences and chair of the steering committee of the Open Science Programme at the University of Groningen, and Ana Ranitović, chief of Open Science at the University of Groningen.
Previous editions of the festival were hosted by Wageningen University (2021, online), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2022), Erasmus University Rotterdam (2023), and Maastricht University (2024).
The opening of registration will be announced via the festival’s communication channels and those of the participating organisations.

Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: “Better Science for Better Policies”
2025-10-27 | Berlin, Berlin, Germany
ZBW ─ Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, DIW Berlin (the German Institute for Economic Research), WZB (Berlin Social Science Center), and RWI ─ Leibniz Institute for Economic Research are pleased to invite to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies.
With the growing importance of the social sciences in addressing societal challenges, the significance of a meta-scientific perspective is also increasingly on the rise. We need a deeper understanding of how evidence is generated and communicated to society and policymakers.
Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of scientific research findings. These approaches help identify heterogeneities and biases, improve methodological standards, and foster transparency, ultimately enhancing the credibility of scientific knowledge.

30th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy
2025-10-29 - 2025-10-31 | Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Over the course of three days, October 29-31, 2025, you will have the opportunity to engage with experts from a variety of fields, including bibliometrics, research policy and library & information science. The aim of the workshop is to integrate bibliometric research with research policy, showcase the latest bibliometric research from the Nordic region and beyond, and strengthen connections between bibliometric research groups and their PhD students.
Important dates
Submission of abstracts: March 17 – May 31, 2025.
Notifications of acceptance: June 20, 2025.
Registration: July 1 – September 15, 2025.
Nordic Workshop: October 29 – 31, 2025.
Organizing committee
Dag W. Aksnes, NIFU
Caroline S. Armitage, University of Bergen
Marta Eide, University of Bergen
Henrik Karlstrøm, NIFU
Eli Heldaas Seland, University of Bergen
Contact
Follow us on Bluesky: @nwb2025.bsky.social
Hashtag on social media: #nwb2025
NWB Steering group
Denmark: Birger Larsen, Aalborg University
Finland: Susanna Nykyri, Tampere University
Iceland: Baldvin Zarioh, University of Iceland
Norway: Dag W. Aksnes, NIFU – Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
Sweden: Fredrik Åström, Lund University

Open Science in the light of geopolitical polarisation
2025-11-10 - 2025-11-11 | Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The current geopolitical landscape is characterised by rising political and trade tensions as well as heightened economic interest in scientific innovation. This polarisation has significant implications for the global scientific community, particularly in the pursuit of Open Science. Could the naivety of science be exploited? Where is the line between scientific idealism and naivety?
As major global powers engage in systemic rivalries, the conduct of science is increasingly influenced by national security concerns, export controls, and sanctions that can restrict the free flow of ideas, data, and researchers across borders. Meanwhile, global challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and technology-based development require international scientific collaboration and universal knowledge development. The normative nature of the scientific ethos is increasingly in tension with political forces that demand that science be both vigilant and competitive.
How can Open Science – with its emphasis on transparency, collaboration, efficiency and validity of scientific results – be sustained in the light of these competing interests?
During this year’s Open Science Days, we will explore these tensions by discussing the interrelations of Open Science, political interests, and innovation. We will ask how research organizations can reconcile Open Science policies with resilience and competitiveness.

About Open Science Days
The Open Science Days (OSD) are periodically organised by the Max Planck Digital Library.
In the context of this conferences we deal with various aspects of a global movement towards a more open, transparent and reproducible approach to science. Aside from invited expert talks, participants get the opportunity to present their own ideas, experiences, initiatives or activities in a Lightning Talk session. It is an open discussion platform around current Open Science developments.
The hybrid event is directed at researchers and specialists outside the Max Planck Society as well as within. It is for anyone, who is interested in an interdisciplinary communication about Open Science.

Open Science Week 2025
2025-11-10 - 2025-11-12
Open Science Week 2025, organised by the Open Science Working Group of the Association of Libraries of Czech Universities, is approaching!
We are preparing three days full of inspiration, experience sharing, and practical demonstrations focused on Open Science, research data management, open access, citizen science, and the legal aspects of open science. You can look forward to expert lectures, live discussions, and networking that will connect researchers, PhD students, librarians, project support staff, data stewards, and all other friends of open science – everyone will find something to their liking!
Follow us on social media for more information – the program details will be published soon.
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Registration will open soon.

Opening Research Assessment
2025-11-12 - 2025-11-13 | Pisa
For research assessment to truly support Open Science, we must prioritise transparency, inclusivity, and fairness in how we recognise research activities and contributions. This means not only ensuring that all contributions to Open Science are valued but also promoting openness in the data, tools, services, and other resources used in the assessment process.
We invite you to our Conference on Opening Research Assessment, where we will present the results of the GraspOS project and engage in discussions on transforming research assessment into a system that is open, responsible and aligned with the principles of Open Science.

The GraspOS project supports the emerging policy reforms and paves the way for a responsible research assessment system that is fully aware of and integrated with Open Science practices. GraspOS focuses on developing, assessing, and operating an open federated infrastructure designed to aggregate open resources that can catalyse the implementation of relevant policy reforms.
The Conference will not only showcase the key outcomes and insights of the project, but will also feature invited talks and expert panels addressing critical topics for advancing a responsible research assessment system that fully embraces Open Science principles including:

Open infrastructures for responsible research assessment
Transparency and inclusivity of the assessment processes
Recognition of contributions to Open Science

We also invite poster contributions aligned with these themes by anyone interested. Guidelines on how to submit a contribution for the Poster Session are available below.

Austrian ERA SYMPOSIUM 2025
2025-11-17 10:00 - 19:00
The Austrian ERA Symposium 2025: “Towards Europe’s Fifth Freedom” will be held as a full-day, in-person event in Vienna on 17 November 2025.
This year’s symposium offers a unique opportunity to explore and shape the future of the European Research Area (ERA). We are honoured to welcome Commissioner for Start-ups, Research and Innovation Ekaterina Zaharieva, who will share first-hand insights into the evolving EU R&I landscape. We will furthermore discuss the path towards the ERA Act – an envisaged landmark initiative introducing legally binding measures to strengthen the ERA.
The symposium will also spotlight priorities of Austria’s next ERA Action Plan 2026–2028 with dedicated workshops.
Visit the ERA Symposium website for the full agenda and registration details. We kindly ask you to revisit this website which will be regularly updated with speaker information.

Munin Conference on Scholary Publishing
2025-11-18 - 2025-11-20
This is the programme for the 19th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing 2024.
All presentations will take place in Auditoria 1 and 2 (see information about the conference venue). Registration, poster sessions and coffee breaks will take place in the hall outside of the auditoria. The workshop rooms are above the conference hall, accessible by lift or stairs.
Short abstracts for the parallel workshops can be seen on the Workshops-overview page. See also an overview of posters that will be displayed during poster lunches on 26 and 27 November.
For the digital audience: all presentation and panel sessions will be streamed. The streaming links for the sessions in Auditorium 1 are posted at the top of the programme for each day. For Auditorium 2, see the specific session. Munin is in the CET zone.

5th EOSC Support Office Austria General Assembly
2025-11-18 13:30 - 18:00 | TUtheSky, Getreidemarkt 9, 1060 Wien, Gebäude BA, 11. OG, Vienna, 1060, Austria
We are pleased to announce that the 5th General Assembly of the EOSC Support Office Austria will take place on November 18, 2025, at TUtheSKY, TU Wien. 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

Time:

Item:

Presenter:

13:30-14:30

Lunch and Networking

14:30-14:45

Opening

Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi (1st Chair GA) & VR Wolfgang Kastner (TU Wien)

14:45-14:55

ACONET Association: Legal Entity & Strategy 2030

Petra Karlhuber
ACONET Association

14:55-15:10

Year in Review

Barbara Sánchez Solís
Chair of the EOSC SOA Management Board

15:10-15:25

Official Business: Elections

Group photo

15:25-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:45

Nodes Development in the EOSC Federation

EOSC Federation: current developments and next steps

EOSC Node in Poland

Update: Austrian developments towards an EOSC Node

Q&A

Bob Jones
EOSC Association

Stefan Hanslik
BMFWF

Aneta Pazik-Aybar
NCN Poland

Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi
1st Chair of the EOSC SOA General Assembly

17:45-18:00

Closing

Registration has closed.
If you still want to join the event, please contact contact@eosc-austria.at

FAIR&AI: How research data and AI can empower each other
2025-11-27 | TU Graz, Graz, Austria
Der Cluster Forschungsdaten lädt herzlich ein zum FAIR&AI Symposium am 27. November 2025 an die TU Graz. Die Veranstaltung thematisiert die Schnittstellen zwischen Forschungsdatenmanagement (RDM) und Künstlicher Intelligenz (AI): Wie können FAIR-Prinzipien KI-Anwendungen unterstützen, und wie kann KI RDM-Prozesse beeinflussen?
Das Programm beinhaltet Keynotes von internationalen und nationalen Expert*innen, Lightning Talks und Breakout Sessions für interdisziplinären Austausch und Möglichkeiten zum Networking. Gemeinsam werden Infrastruktur-Herausforderungen diskutiert, Supportstrukturen präsentiert und die Synergien zwischen FAIRen Daten und künstlicher Intelligenz aufgezeigt.
Die Veranstaltung beginnt um 13 Uhr, davor findet die Registrierung und der Networking-Lunch statt.
Wir hoffen Ihr Interesse geweckt zu haben und Sie in Graz begrüßen zu dürfen – halten Sie sich den Termin frei. Die Anmeldung beginnt im Oktober 2025, weitere Informationen finden Sie hier.

EOSC Winter School 2026
2026-01-27 - 2026-01-29 | Nizza
Mark your calendars for the EOSC Winter School 2026, which will take place during the week of 26 January 2026 and 1 February 2026! While the location and exact dates are yet to be decided, you can already now look forward to an engaging programme.
As in the first two Winter Schools, the third edition will bring together broad representation from the EOSC community, including from the EOSC-related Horizon Europe projects, the EOSC-A Task Forces, the Opportunity Area Expert Groups, the EOSC-A Board and Secretariat, the European Commission and others.
To review the reports and materials from previous editions, visit EOSC Winter School 2025 and EOSC Winter School 2024.

Tag der guten Daten
2026-02-10 | Universität Graz, Universitätsplatz 3a, Graz, 8010, Austria
In der International Love Data Week, in der dieses Jahr die Frage “Where’s the data?” diskutiert werden soll, gibt es an der Universität Graz eine ganztägige Veranstaltung zu diesem Thema. In der Keynote, welche die Vortragsreihe am Vormittag (9:00-13:00) eröffnet, wird Verantwortung, Wartbarkeit und Langzeitdenken am Beispiel eines DH Urgesteins – der Mittelhochdeutschen Begriffsdatenbank – thematisiert. Dabei stellen die Vortragenden KI-gestützte Arbeitsmethoden vor, zeigen auf, dass KI Forschung zwar unterstützen kann, Forschungspersonal aber nie ersetzen wird und stellen fest, dass offene, menschenlesbare Standards wie XML durchaus kein Rückschritt sind, sondern der Schlüssel für digitale Zukunftsfähigkeit. Die weiteren Vorträge behandeln Lizenzierung in AUSSDA, den Health Data Research Hub der Meduni Graz, die Performancetests und Metadaten aus den Digital Skills Austria Studien und ein übertragbares Modell für heterogene (psychologische) Forschungsdaten.
Dieser Teil der Veranstaltung wird auch per Livestream übertragen.

Am Nachmittag findet ein Workshop mit dem Titel “Forschungsdaten zur Verfügung stellen / Forschungsdaten nachnutzen” statt, in dem nach einer Reihe von Impulsvorträgen, in denen Daten aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen charakterisiert werden, an einer Handreichung für Forschende zu diesem Thema gearbeitet wird.
Der Workshop findet nur in Präsenz statt und die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt.

Veranstaltungslink: https://forschungsdatenmanagement.uni-graz.at/de/veranstaltungen/tag-der-guten-daten-2026/

Anmeldung: https://ub.uni-graz.at/de/beratung-kurse/kurse-veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen/tag-der-guten-daten-2026/

Data Spaces Symposium 2026
2026-02-10 - 2026-02-11 | Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Mark Your Calendars!
The world’s premier event on data spaces returns for its fourth edition!
Under the theme “Scaling cross-border data ecosystems”, the Data Spaces Symposium 2026 will spotlight how data spaces drive collaboration, innovation, and global competitiveness.
Hosted by the Data Spaces Support Centre together with BDVA – Big Data Value Association, FIWARE Foundation, Gaia-X Association for Data and Cloud (AISBL), and the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA), this year’s symposium takes place in Madrid, in partnership and under the coordination of the Gaia-X Hub España. As a leading actor in Spain’s data sharing and data space initiatives, the Hub brings national expertise to a truly European stage.
2026 Highlights:

Data Spaces as value creators – enabling collaboration and economic growth
Trustworthy data for AI – how data spaces power the future of artificial intelligence
Standards and interoperability – driving international harmonisation and cross-border alignment
The inaugural European Data Spaces Awards Ceremony

and much more to come!
Registration opens soon — stay tuned for updates!
Questions or sponsorship opportunities? Contact us at events@dssc.eu

20th International Digital Curation Conference
2026-02-16 - 2026-02-18 | Zagreb
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.

RICH Europe Symposium
2026-02-25 - 2026-02-26 | Rome
RICH Europe kindly invites you to the Second RICH Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures, which will take place on 25–26 February 2026 in Rome, Italy, at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.
European Research Infrastructures (RIs) play a pivotal role in advancing frontier research, fostering innovation, and addressing societal challenges. As strategic assets of the European Research Area (ERA), RIs support excellent science, enable cross-border collaboration, and contribute to Europe’s global competitiveness.
The Symposium will provide an opportunity to promote synergies among Research Infrastructures and relevant stakeholders; to showcase successful models of collaboration among RIs, partnerships, and clusters; to encourage the involvement of RIs in other parts of Horizon Europe; to assess and analyse cooperation between Research Infrastructures and other European programmes; to promote interoperability and data sharing; to facilitate dialogue among stakeholders; and to support capacity building.
You can use the QR code in the Save the Date or this link to register. Registration to the symposium is temporary closed, due to the maximum capacity of the Venue. Here is the Programme. Here is the InfoPack for your stay and attendance.
The Symposium will be also streamed live. The link will be available few days before the event.
NCPs from Third Countries can rely on the call of the GSF that focuses on funding participation of official Third Country NCPs for RIs (here attached the document with further info and criteria. Deadline to submit the application: 4th December 2025).

ECSA 2026
2026-03-03 - 2026-03-06 | Finland
The ECSA 2026 conference is framed around the notion of Citizen Science bridging Centre and Periphery. This theme explores the diversity of contexts in which citizen science unfolds — from urban metropolitan hubs to remote northern and southern spaces — and emphasizes its role as a link between centre and periphery. Here, we encourage collective analysis and visioning for the potential of citizen science to reduce inequalities between centres of power and scientific attention and their associated hinterlands (which may indeed have little geographic distance between them). The theme invites reflections on how citizen science acts as a bridge across geographic, cultural, social and institutional divides. Doing so invites contributions that consider the ability of citizen science to work towards sustainability, support evidence-based decision-making, improve public health, engage with political and legal frameworks, promote integrated resource management, and honour cultural and historical contexts.
In light of ongoing global challenges, we invite scholars, practitioners, and community actors to assess the current state of citizen science — giving attention to emerging directions and pressing challenges, and to promising opportunities for the forms of critical, engaged work that have long shaped the practice.
Dimensions

Challenges and opportunities of citizen science across centres and peripheries
What are the specific challenges and opportunities of implementing citizen science in contexts that are socially, geographically, institutionally, or scientifically distant from centres of power? How can citizen science serve as a tool for inclusion, innovation, and transformation in areas or fields that are often overlooked or underrepresented?
Citizen science and inclusion: reaching marginalised communities
How can citizen science empower and engage marginalised communities in scientific research and decision-making processes — if at all? What conditions are necessary to ensure that such engagement is meaningful, respectful, and equitable? What potential impacts — both positive and negative — can citizen science have on marginalised communities, and how can these be addressed or leveraged for lasting benefit? Is citizen science an appropriate or welcome framework, particularly where dominant or Eurocentric models may risk reinforcing unequal power dynamics? And if so, how might citizen science be reimagined to centre diverse forms of knowledge, representation, and community agency?
Citizen science across borders
How can citizen science foster collaboration across different kinds of borders and frontiers — including geopolitical, disciplinary, organizational, or cultural? What role can it play in connecting diverse knowledge systems and enabling inclusive, equitable, and cooperative approaches to research, learning, and action?
Citizen science in extreme conditions and situations of crisis
How can citizen science be mobilised in challenging or high-risk contexts — from remote environments and polar regions to situations of conflict, environmental disaster, or public health emergencies, which might be familiar to practitioners but in which academic researchers may hesitate to tread? What strategies support safe and effective participation, resilient data collection, and sustained knowledge co-production when institutional, logistical, or technological infrastructures are disrupted?
Citizen science and Indigenous knowledges and practices
How can citizen science contribute to the respectful co-creation of knowledge with Indigenous communities? How can projects be designed in ways that are ethical, collaborative, and supportive of Indigenous perspectives, values, and knowledge systems — while safeguarding sovereignty and cultural integrity?
Other compelling dimensions of citizen science
What other emerging, overlooked, or unconventional dimensions of citizen science deserve greater attention? We welcome contributions that challenge current assumptions, explore new scientific, methodological, or societal frontiers, or reimagine how citizen science can engage with communities, technologies, and institutions.

Cloud Services for Synchronization and Sharing 2026
2026-03-17 - 2026-03-19 | Oslo
About The Conference
CS3 2026 is an in-person event and part of the CS3 conference series
The 2026 CS3 Conference will take place on 17-19 March 2026 at University of Oslo
We look forward to meeting old and new colleagues within the CS3 community. Reconnect, inspire and get inspired, learn from each other and have some fun together, too.
The main session will start on Tuesday, 17 March and will be preceded on Monday 16 March afternoon by a co-located SIG-CISS session of the GEANT Association.
Registration
We are now accepting registrations! Please use this form to register. The early bird offer expires end of December 2025, (or earlier, depending on availability).

Open Science Retreat
2026-04-07 - 2026-04-11 | Wales
The Open Science Retreat Global Edition is a week full of scientific discussions and reflections, getting work done, making new friends and resetting.
The Retreat follows an unconference model. Except for the plenary sessions, all activities are optional.
This year, we will host one session of lightning talks for you to present your research in. We are aware that it can be difficult to attend an event with an unconventional agenda and therefore would like to offer a slot that fulfills more traditional academic criteria. Please submit an abstract if you want to be part of the lightning talks session.
Submitting an abstract is absolutely not mandatory for your application!

Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 – ASHPC26
2026-04-08 - 2026-04-10 | Vienna, Vienna, Austria
ASHPC26 will continue the tradition of the annual Austrian HPC Meetings (2015–2020) and the Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meetings (2021–2025) bringing together users and providers of large-scale computing resources for both academic and non-academic research and development.
ASHPC26 will focus on various aspects of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and provides a great opportunity to discuss HPC-related topics and present your latest results. It will also provide an overview and update on the rapidly improving AI and HPC landscape available to European researchers and serve as a platform for exchanging experiences related to the usage and operation of large-scale computing resources and the challenges encountered.
Central European NCCs Workgroup Meeting – CE-NCCs-WG, 7 April 2026
On Tuesday, 7 April 2026, in the afternoon preceding ASHPC26, there will be a Central European NCCs Workgroup Meeting (for NCC / EuroCC 3 staff only) where the National Competence Centres (NCCs) address their most challenging topics and further regional collaboration.

OER-Barcamp Österreich 2026
2026-04-09 - 2026-04-10
#reOPEN – OER gemeinsam gestalten
Wir treffen uns als österreichische OER-Community, tauschen Erfahrungen aus, bringen Ideen ein und entwickeln Innovationen – in Barcamp-Sessions, Workshops, Pro-Action-Cafés und Co-Creation-Räumen. Von bewährten Praktiken bis zu neuen Trends – die breiten Aspekte offener Bildung werden gemeinsam erkundet und weiterentwickelt.
Termin & Ort:

9.–10. April 2026
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, Universität Wien

Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos – wir freuen uns sehr, euch die Möglichkeit zu geben, gemeinsam als OER-Community der österreichischen Hochschulen Ideen zu entwickeln, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und neue Impulse für offene Bildung zu setzen. Wir freuen uns auch über OER-Expert:innen und Interessierte aus dem gesamten Bildungsbereich und über Österreich hinaus.
OER-Practitioner Special:
Am Vormittag des 10. April gibt es die kostenlose Möglichkeit, die OER-Practitioner-Ausbildung mit einem Präsenzworkshop bei OER-Expertin Sandra Schön zu starten. Auf die Teilnahme folgen individuell absolvierbare Teilleistungen, und die Ausbildung schließt mit der offiziellen OER-Zertifizierung von FNMA ab – ideal für alle, die aktuell an ihrer Hochschule keinen Zugang zu diesem Angebot haben. Anmeldung und weitere Informationen folgen auf der Veranstaltungshomepage.
Alle Details zum Programm und zur Anmeldung findet ihr auf der Veranstaltungshomepage:
https://shared-oer-services.univie.ac.at/oer-barcamp-oesterreich-2026/
Veranstaltet wird das OER-Barcamp Österreich 2026 von den Shared-OER-Services in Kooperation mit österreichischen Hochschulen und Partnernetzwerken.
