5th EOSC Support Office Austria General Assembly
2025-11-18 13:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | 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.

PATTERNs of Change: Building an Open and Responsible Future for European Research
2026-04-15 09:00 - 15:00 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
The PATTERN project is happy to invite you to attend its final event: PATTERNs of Change: Building an Open and Responsible Future for European Research.
Join policymakers, research organisations, SMEs and EU-funded projects to reflect on how we can scale up open and responsible research and innovation (Open RRI) across Europe and to share what actually works (and what doesn’t) in real-life implementation.
The programme
Morning: Policy-oriented sessions (09:00–13:00)
A high-level roundtable and a practical outreach workshop focused on aligning researchers’ needs with EU-driven policies and strengthening Open RRI practices.
Afternoon: Story Slam Session with Sister Projects (14:30–15:30)
A short, fun and refreshingly honest format: projects share an “unsuccessful” story (something that didn’t go to plan, a failed approach, a lesson learned) and the presentation must include a MEME.
Afternoon: Walkthrough poster session and networking (15:30–16:30)
A dedicated space to showcase posters and dissemination materials, walk around, connect and exchange ideas. Feel free to bring posters, roll-ups, flyers, postcards, or any other comms materials you’d like to share.
Learn more and register here!

FOR2026 Conference: The Future of Open Research: Reliable, Responsible, Equitable
2026-05-04 - 2026-05-06 | Technical University of Munich
The future of open research is uncertain. On the one hand, decades of activism and institutional support have placed the value and significance of intelligent strategies and formats for open research (and its dissemination) beyond doubt. Openness is central to the development of trustworthy, accountable, collaborative, and socially engaged knowledge. On the other hand, open research measures need to be tailored to diverse research conditions around the globe and across domains, which in turn requires substantial investment, local engagement, responsiveness to the ethical and social dimensions of inquiry, and attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
While the implementation of open science principles is certainly facilitated by ever more accessible digital technologies and training programmes, for many researchers around the world, acquiring the expertise and skills to engage in open research practices remains elusive. Exposure to open research initiatives often happens as an end-user rather than as an active contributor. This is because well-resourced environments produce the tools, set the research goals, define the standards and methods, which leads to them benefiting disproportionally from the opportunities. This makes even the best-intentioned projects into opportunities for the best-resourced environments (which are often in charge of producing open science tools) to impose their own understanding of research goals, standards, and methods on everybody else. Therefore, without domain- and location-specific input, the risk is that open research amplifies existing inequities and discrimination in the production, use, and evaluation of knowledge, thereby inflicting damage to the research system instead of the promised improvements. And this is not to mention the ongoing debates over how politically unpalatable open science may be, the extent to which open research has been appropriated by commercial entities such as large publishing companies and digital platforms, the fraught intersection between open science and artificial intelligence, and the ongoing difficulties in supporting and maintaining open research activities and tools in the long term.
This conference brings together scholars, activists, and policymakers to consider this challenging landscape and discuss the future of open research. Our goal is to facilitate the development of open research practices explicitly geared to serve the public interest, which involves interrogating what may constitute that ‘public interest’ to different audiences and in different locations around the world. A central element for our discussions will be the development of a Munich Manifesto for Equitable Open Research, detailing ways to utilise open research to foster reliable, responsible, and equitable forms of inquiry. A draft text of the manifesto will be circulated two weeks before the conference to all participants, and one session of the conference will be dedicated to discussing and finalising the declaration and its possible signatories.
We call for contributions by researchers across all fields of knowledge, including the arts and humanities, policy-makers interested in research and development, representatives of scholarly and commercial institutions involved in research, and civil society associations engaged in knowledge production.

Sprache / Macht / Daten
2026-05-05 - 2026-05-06 | Klagenfurt
Wie sprechen wir über unsere Welt? Und wer legt die Begriffe, Bedeutungen und Beziehungen fest? Mit der steigenden Menge an Daten und den technologischen Möglichkeiten, diese zu verknüpfen, verschieben sich auch Machtgefüge – mit teils massiven Folgen. Denn wer Daten sammelt, speichert und modelliert, beeinflusst, wie Wissen entsteht und welche Perspektiven und Erzählungen (un)sichtbar werden.
Um das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Sprache, Macht und Daten im digitalen Kulturerbe gemeinsam zu beleuchten, lädt das Bundesministerium für Kunst und Kultur (BMWKMS) mit dem Kulturpool, der Österreichischen Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG), der Topothek und dem kärnten.museum zum Stakeholder Forum 2026, am 5.-6. Mai 2026 in Klagenfurt ein.
Wie können Museen, Archive, Bibliotheken und Akteure wie Kulturpool ihre Verantwortung wahrnehmen? Welche Infrastrukturen und Voraussetzungen sind zur Öffnung und Vernetzung von Sammlungen notwendig?
Und was braucht es, um die nachhaltige Nutzung, interdisziplinäre Forschung sowie die verantwortungsvolle und innovative Vermittlung von Kulturerbe-Daten zu fördern?

KU Leuven Open Science Day
2026-05-06 | Kasteelpark Arenberg 41 , 3001 Heverlee
Open Science is an integral part of today’s research. It encompasses a wide range of practices and outputs across all stages of the research lifecycle. For instance, researchers share their publications via repositories, publish in Open Access journals, and disseminate early findings through preprints. They make their data FAIR, preregister their research protocols, and engage the public through Citizen Science initiatives.
Challenges include selecting the most appropriate channel for publishing research, considering the economic implications of this choice, as well as managing the learning curve and time investment required to implement certain Open Science principles. At the same time, researchers must navigate various considerations, including GDPR compliance, intellectual property rights, and research security. KU Leuven is committed to Open Science, guided by the principle: “as open as possible, as closed as necessary.”
The Open Science Day is an opportunity for researchers of the KU Leuven Association to take part in this discussion, to showcase their own Open Science efforts, to shed a light on difficulties they might encounter, to share experiences and solutions.

Open Science Conference 2026
2026-05-20 | London
This one-day hybrid event will bring together researchers, professional services staff and key stakeholders, with the aim to advance open science in the social sciences. Building on the work of the CIVICA Open Science Communities, this event aims to build capacity and promote Open Science in the CIVICA partner institutions.
The programme will feature keynotes, panels, lightning talks, and workshops. Our aim is to highlight the specific opportunities and challenges that open science brings to the social sciences, and to invite discussion about best practices between disciplines.
This will be a hybrid event, and will take place at LSE.
How to apply
Any submissions on opening the social sciences are welcome, and CIVICA si especially keen to receive proposals on the following topics:

Open Educational Resources (OER)
Interaction between Open Science and AI
Managing and sharing data in the social sciences
Open access monographs

Please contact library.openresearch@lse.ac.uk for more information.

EOSC-A 13th General Assembly
2026-05-27 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
The EOSC United and EOSC Gravity projects will hold a joint General Assembly meeting on Wednesday, 27 May 2026 in Brussels. This full-day, in-person meeting will bring together partners from both projects to review progress to date, discuss key achievements, and align on strategic priorities. The programme will conclude with a networking dinner, offering participants an opportunity to connect and exchange insights in an informal setting.

Registration
Registration for the General Assembly meeting is now open. Representatives of partner organisations from the EOSC United and EOSC Gravity projects are invited to register by 07 May 2026.

Venue
The meeting will take place at the Renaissance Brussels Hotel, located in the European Quarter, close to the city centre.

Accommodation
Participants are kindly requested to arrange their own travel and accommodation. In addition to the Renaissance Brussels Hotel, the Radisson RED Brussels is situated just a few metres from the event venue and offers a convenient alternative.

Data Week Leipzig 2026
2026-06-01 - 2026-06-05 | Leipzig
Data Week Leipzig is a networking event that highlights the scientific, economic and social perspectives of data and its use. Representatives from authorities, industry, science and business will enter into a dialog.
We welcome the participants to Leipzig to get exciting insights in a week of events with numerous sessions. The latest trends and developments relating to the digital city and the use of artificial intelligence will be presented. There will be a special focus on climate and energy. There will also be the opportunity to take part in training sessions and workshops. One day will be dedicated to semantics and AI, and speakers will provide insights into how these technologies can contribute to a sustainable and resilient future.

TNC26
2026-06-08 - 2026-06-12 | Helsinki
The largest and most prestigious research and education networking conference, TNC attracts a truly diverse audience of over 800 participants from more than 70 countries, representing national and regional research and education networks, schools and universities, technology providers, and many of the world’s most exciting scientific projects. By bringing together decision-makers, networking and security specialists, identity and access management experts, researchers, academics and students, TNC offers a unique collaborative experience.
For more information about previous TNC editions, check out tnc.geant.org.
If you are attending TNC for the first time, don’t miss the TNC101 – TNC for Newcomers session on Tuesday morning.

Open Science Festival
2026-06-11 - 2026-06-12 | Heerlen & Maastricht
On 11–12 June 2026, the Open Science Community Maastricht and Open Science Community Parkstad will jointly organize an Open Science Festival in Heerlen (11th) and Maastricht (12th) with the theme: Interdisciplinarity.
Expect inspiring workshops, engaging keynotes, and plenty of opportunities to connect with people from within and beyond the open science community.
📅 Save the dates in your agenda — more information will follow!
For questions please contact osc-maastricht@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Summer School for Data Stewards 2026
2026-06-16 - 2026-06-18 | Jeseníky Mountains
The Summer School for Data Stewards is a three-day intensive programme focused on developing skills in research data management in line with FAIR principles.
The programme will guide participants through the full data workflow – from organisation and documentation to practical use. It will focus on creating and managing data management plans using the Data Stewardship Wizard, illustrated with practical examples from the national research data infrastructure. We will also show when and how Jupyter Notebooks can help streamline data work, supporting both analysis and documentation.
The programme will include discussion sessions, providing space for participants to share practical experiences. Attention will also be given to communication skills, which are essential for data stewards in everyday collaboration. The programme will be enriched by an international guest, Matthias Täschner from Leipzig University, whose work and approach we introduced in a recent interview.
The Summer School is intended for both project and institutional data stewards. On the second morning, the programme will be divided into two parallel tracks according to focus areas, allowing participants to choose the option that best suits their interests.
The language of instruction will be adapted to the composition of participants.
All participants will receive a certificate of completion.
The workshop recordings from the Summer School and the presentations will be available. The event will not be streamed (it will not be possible to attend online).
The Summer School has a capacity of 35 participants. If you are considering registering multiple participants from the same institution, please take this into account.
Organisational Information:

Meals and accommodation will be provided for registered participants. Any accommodation required on the day before the programme is the responsibility of the participant.
Travel expenses must be covered individually by participants.
The event is funded by the IPS EOSC-CZ project.

Registration

LIBER 2026
2026-07-01 - 2026-07-03 | Trondheim
The conference brings library directors and their staff together for three days of networking and collaboration. Delegates mainly come from Europe but people from around the world are welcome, and we regularly welcome guests from countries including Australia, Canada and the United States.
The goal of the conference is to identify the most pressing needs for research libraries, and to share information and ideas for addressing those needs.

Towards a Swiss EOSC Node: White Paper Presentation and Outlook on the EOSC Candidate Node Switzerland
2026-07-01 14:00 - 15:00
During the event, the White Paper on a Swiss EOSC Node, developed in the context of a temporary SERI Working Group together with key Swiss stakeholders in the field of Open Science and research data infrastructures will be presented.
As the international research landscape is undergoing rapid transformation towards federated, interoperable, and secure data-sharing ecosystems, the White Paper aims to inform and enrich the national discussion on how Switzerland can position itself in relation to evolving international data-sharing initiatives, and to support strategic preparation for future engagement—particularly in the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation.
At the same time, a Swiss proposal submitted under the second EOSC Federation wave call was positively evaluated earlier this year. Switzerland was therefore formally designated as an EOSC Candidate Node in May 2026.
In this context, Prof. Dr Thomas Schulthess (ETH Zurich, Director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, CSCS) will present the current status and outlook of the Swiss EOSC Candidate Node.

EOSC Cafe
2026-07-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Teinfaltstraße 8, A-1010 Vienna, Teinfaltstraße 8, Vienna, 1010
We are pleased to invite you to our next EOSC Café, which will take place on Tuesday, 9 July, from 13:00 to 15:00.
This session will be held in person at the premises of the BMFWF (Teinfaltstraße 8, 1010 Vienna – Room E01). We would be delighted to welcome many of you there and to take the opportunity to exchange news, ideas, and perspectives face to face.
The agenda will focus primarily on relevant updates from the Steering Board, the current status quo, and reflections on future perspectives.

We look forward to seeing you there.

UNESCO Open Science Outlook 2
2026-07-16 14:00 - 15:30 | Paris, Paris, France
We are pleased to invite you to register for the launch of the UNESCO Open Science Outlook 2. This in-person event will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, during the 2026 Global Conference of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD).
📅 16 July 2026
⏰ 14:00 – 15:15
📍 UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
Further details on the session agenda will follow.
The launch of Open Science Outlook 2 marks an important milestone in advancing the implementation of the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. It builds on Open Science Outlook 1 (2023) and is informed by the first monitoring cycle conducted with member states in 2025. The Open Science Outlook 2 presents a global landscape of open science implementation, highlighting progress, challenges, and emerging trends worldwide.
Participation in the Open Science Outlook 2 launch is open to all registered participants of the 2026 Global Conference of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD).
To attend, please register for the Conference at: https://indico.un.org/event/1021402/
We look forward to welcoming you to UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

12th SCAR Open Science Conference
2026-08-08 - 2026-08-18 | Oslo
The SCAR Open Science Conferences offer scientists from various disciplines and countries the opportunity to present their work, network and participate more actively in SCAR’s scientific activities. SCAR and the Norwegian Polar Institute are pleased to invite you to the 12th SCAR Open Science Conference, in Oslo, Norway, from 8–18 August 2026. The SCAR Open Science Conference 2026 comprises a diverse program featuring plenary lectures, mini-symposia, parallel sessions, panel discussions, posters, and various social and excursion opportunities in Oslo, Norway, and its surroundings.

Open Science Days
2026-09-07 - 2026-09-08 | Lausanne
For the first time in Switzerland, four prestigious academic institutions are joining forces to bring you a unique event: an entire week dedicated to open science! The University of Lausanne (UNIL), the HES-SO, the Haute école pédagogique du canton de Vaud (HEP Vaud), and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are joining forces to promote collaboration, innovation and discovery in the field of research, transforming themselves over 4 days into centres for exchange, sharing and inspiration.
Join us for Open Science Days 2024 and open up your perspectives on the fascinating world of open science!
At the heart of this ambitious programme are inspiring lectures, interactive workshops and captivating keynotes. The aim is clear: to make research a public good accessible to all.

EOSC Federation Build-up Group Meeting
2026-09-08 - 2026-09-09 | Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
The next in-person meeting of the EOSC Federation Build-up Group will take place on 08-09 September 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The meeting will be hosted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at the invitation of the German EOSC Node and its coordinating organisation, NFDI, together with EUDAT EOSC Node.
The main objective of the meeting is to assess the operational progress of the EOSC Federation and prepare for the EOSC Symposium 2026, where a major milestone in the transition to operational activities will be marked.
The meeting will be held in person only. Remote participation will not be possible.
Registration
Registration is now open and will close on Monday, 31 August 2026, at 23:59 CEST.
Participation is limited to representatives of the first-wave and second-wave candidate EOSC Nodes, the EOSC EU Node, EOSC-A, co-chairs of EOSC Federation working groups, the European Commission, and the EOSC Steering Board. A maximum of two participants per Node may attend.
Transportation
Participants are responsible for arranging and covering the costs of their own travel and accommodation.
The most convenient airports for travelling to Karlsruhe are Frankfurt am Main (FRA), Strasbourg (SXB), and Stuttgart (STR). Each offers convenient rail connections to Karlsruhe, with a travel time of approximately one hour from the airport or city centre.
Karlsruhe is also well connected by direct train services from major European cities, including:

Paris (2.5 hours)
Amsterdam (5.5 hours)
Brussels (5.5 hours)
Berlin (6 hours)

Accommodation
The following hotels are recommended due to their proximity to the venue. Participants can benefit from discounted rates by using the booking codes provided below, where applicable.

IntercityHotel Karlsruhe: next to Karlsruhe Central Station (approximately 15 minutes by tram lines 2 or 3), booking code: CINOQZ
Novotel Karlsruhe: approximately 1.5 km walking distance
Motel One Karlsruhe: approximately 1.5 km walking distance, booking code: BUND26
Hotel Kaiserhof: approximately 1 km walking distance

Venue
The meeting will be hosted at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
A map of the venue and surrounding locations is available under resources.

Open Science Week 2026
2026-09-14 - 2026-09-18
To celebrate and advance the practice of Open Science, the Open Science Community Delft as part of the Network of Open Science Communities in the Netherlands (OSC-NL) proudly presents the third National Open Science Week at TU Delft.
This year’s theme, “How to Open Science”, focuses on the practical side of making research more open, transparent, reproducible, and inclusive. While support for Open Science continues to grow across the academic community, many researchers are still looking for concrete ways to integrate Open Science practices into their daily work. This edition of Open Science Week aims to provide hands-on guidance, tools, and inspiration to help researchers move from intention to implementation.
Throughout the week, participants can take part in a series of practical workshops showcasing different approaches to Open Science in research, education, and societal engagement. Whether you are taking your first steps or looking to deepen your existing practice, the programme will offer opportunities to learn from experts, peers, and support professionals across TU Delft.
In addition to the workshops, the week will feature the annual Open Science Meet-up, bringing together researchers, support staff, and students to connect and exchange experiences, as well as the TU Delft Open Science Awards Celebration, recognising individuals and teams who have made outstanding contributions to Open Science.
