Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata
2025-05-28 - 2025-05-29 | Bologna
We invite to the Workshop Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC) researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, institutions, and open citations advocates, interested in the widespread adoption of practises for creation, sharing, reuse and improvement of open scholarly metadata.
This year edition of the workshop will gravitate around the following theme:
“Open Access of Research Information”
In particular, the first day will be dedicated to the Bologna Meeting on Open Research Information, to encourage discussion between the signatories and supporters of the Barcelona Declaration and other interested bodies and collaboratively orient the common roadmap, thus allowing the articulation of the outcomes that have recently been discussed during the Paris Conference on Open Research Information.
The second day will be dedicated to invited contributions, presentations and a poster session selected among the participants in the call for contributions on the workshop theme.
The participation to both the days of WOOC 2025 is open to everyone, and in particular OpenCitations and the WOOC organizing committee aim to welcome the signatories and supporters of the Barcelona Declaration, and anyone interested in Open Research Information in an interactive event that aspires to encourage the incubation of ideas to strategically orienting the development of practices in open research information.
The Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2025 will be organized in the spaces of the University of Bologna, one of the signatories of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and CoARA, of which it is also leader of the CoARA National Chapter.

FDM in den Geisteswissenschaften
2025-05-27 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/Paris) | Online
Mag.phil. Elisabeth Steiner, MA
Spezifika und Best Practice anhand von Beispielen

Im Webinar werden die verschiedenen Aspekte im Umgang mit geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschungsdaten dargestellt. Dabei werden die Themen Langzeitarchivierung und Transparenz von Daten, Bedeutung von Datenformaten sowie die Einhaltung von FAIR-Prinzipien (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) dargestellt und Best-Practice-Beispiele zur Veranschaulichung herangezogen. Zudem werden die Zertifizierung und Vertrauenswürdigkeit von Repositorien, die Rolle von Open Science, rechtliche und ethische Fragestellungen, sowie die Bedeutung von Ausbildungsmaßnahmen und der Vernetzung innerhalb der Forschungsgemeinschaft thematisiert.
Elisabeth Steiner studierte Linguistik, Germanistik und Digital Humanities und absolvierte die Ausbildung zum Data Steward. Sie verstärkt das Team des Instituts für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften an der Universität Graz in den Bereichen Metadaten- und Repositorienmanagement. Sie beschäftigt sich dabei praktisch und theoretisch mit Archivierung, Verfügbarkeit und Management von geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschungsdaten und vermittelt ihre Erfahrung in Vorträgen und in der Lehre.

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)

Call for evidence
2025-05-22 23:59 | Online
The European Commission has launched a call for evidence to gather input from researchers, policymakers, industry leaders and all other interested stakeholders for the upcoming European Strategy on Research and Technology Infrastructures. The Strategy will ensure that researchers, innovators and industry in Europe have access to these cutting-edge facilities and services that support scientific and technological excellence and industrial competitiveness.
Submit your feedback by 22 May 2025!

Q&A Session on 2025 Calls in Horizon Europe Cluster 4: Digital, Industry & Space
2025-05-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Planning to submit a proposal in the upcoming Horizon Europe Cluster 4 calls (Digital, Industry & Space)? Join our Q&A session and get direct input from Austria’s National Contact Points!
This interactive session will focus on your specific questions – whether they’re about call topics, proposal strategy or the application process.
👥 Who is it for?
Anyone interested in applying to Cluster 4 – regardless of prior experience.
📝 Submit your questions in advance:
Use Mentimeter to send us your questions anonymously before the session.
You’re also welcome to ask questions live during the event.
ℹ️ Please note:

The session will be held in English, but feel free to ask your questions in German as well.
The session will not be recorded.

Research Data Day & EOSC National Tripartite Event
2025-05-21 - 2025-05-22 | Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
Are you interested in the latest trends in research data management and advancement in science related to data and AI? The conference titled Research Data Day & EOSC National Tripartite Event is a compelling event linking information on the latest developments in research data curation together with reporting progress on EOSC implementation at the national and international levels.
Topics and areas we will focus on

​​European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), EOSC Federation
Relationship between EOSC, high quality FAIR research data and Research Infrastructures
Relationship between EOSC, high quality FAIR research data, AI and machine learning (ML)​

Deep Dive "Research Infrastructures in Horizon Europe – 2025 Calls"
2025-05-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Funding opportunities, strategic insights and expert advice from the FFG
The Research Infrastructures programme under Horizon Europe offers targeted support for researchers and infrastructure providers – from developing and upgrading infrastructures to enabling transnational access.
In this Deep Dive, you’ll get a compact overview of the 2025 Work Programme, including current funding opportunities, strategic priorities and practical tips for proposal preparation. FFG experts will guide you through the key aspects and answer your questions.
What to expect:
– Introduction to the 2025 Work Programme “Research Infrastructures”
– Overview of funding opportunities across destinations
– Strategic advice for successful proposal preparation
– Q&A session with FFG experts
The 2025 calls focus on sustainable funding, the integration of technologies like AI and digital twins, open science, transnational access, interoperability of research data and environmental sustainability.
Calls will be open from 6 May to 18 September 2025.
The updated call page will be linked here as soon as it’s available.
This webinar will be held in English.
Login information
To participate in the event, registration on the website is necessary. During registration (or afterward under the heading “Events”), one can register for this and other events.
10 minutes before the start of the event, the button “Join online session” will appear in the section “Events”, which allows you to join the event (ATTENTION: You have to be logged in to see the button!):

Skills4EOSC Digital Collections Curators Training
2025-05-19 - 2025-05-20 | Online
We would like to kindly invite you the 19.-20.05.2025 to the two-days training course “Open Science skills for Digital Collection Curators”. Under the framework of the Skills4EOSC Horizon Europe Project, this training aims to promote the establishment of Open Science (OS) skills and practices in Research Data Management (RDM) of digital scientific collections. Expected participants are data stewards/curators/scientists and RDM leaders and/or trainers working on the digital transformation of collection-holding institutions, such as libraries, archives, museums and universities (among others).
This event will provide an opportunity to gain general knowledge about OS and the importance of its use in the management of digital data from collections of different research fields through lessons and case studies. We also hope that it will serve as a platform for us to connect as a community and establish enriching contacts that can help us to settle these practices in a sustainable and long-term manner.

Dates: 19.-20.05.2025
Time: 9:00 – 16:00h (CET)
Location: Online (Zoom)
Registration: Skills4EOSC Courses Registration Form – select the course “Open Science Skills for Digital Collections Curators (From 19/05 to 20/05)”
Registration closes on 12.05.2025

A more detailed overview of the training course and information about all Skills4EOSC training courses can be found in the documents attached. Feel free to also disseminate this information to potential interested people in your community/network!
We look forward to welcoming you to this important exchange!
If you have any questions or queries, please contact skills4eosc@nhm.at.

Horizon Europe Research Infrastructures info day
2025-05-19 | Online
About the event

The info day will focus on the 2025 calls of the Horizon Europe Research Infrastructures work programme 2025, for its main destinations.
First, INFRADEV, which aims to develop, consolidate and optimise the European research infrastructures landscape, and maintain global leadership.
Second, INFRAEOSC, with the objective to enable an operational, open and FAIR European Open Science Cloud ecosystem.
Third, INFRASERV, with the objective to support transnational access to state-of-the-art facilities for researchers, relevant for a large research domain or in support of societal challenge and EU priorities.
Fourth, INFRATECH, aiming to contribute at developing the next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools, methods, and advanced digital solutions for Research Infrastructures.
The info day will also offer horizontal information on the submission, evaluation and management of the 2025 Research Infrastructures calls. In addition, the Q&A sessions will give participants the opportunity to ask any remaining questions.
The Info Day will take place on 19 May 2025 and will be online only.
The programme and more details on how to participate will be made available shortly on this page.
Documents

Horizon Europe strategic plan
Horizon Europe Programme Guide

Past info days

November 2023

Contact
Any questions? Contact the Research Enquiry Service (RES) for any general question on Horizon Europe

Opening announcement | 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects and services
2025-05-14 17:00 | Online
We are glad to announce the opening date of our 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects and services, which will take place on 14th March, 2025, at 10:00 am CET. The full text of the call will be published in the “Open Calls” section of our OSCARS website.
The cascading grant action is aimed at supporting researchers in uptaking FAIR data analysis and providing a series of new scientific results and services, demonstrating the role the Science Clusters as thematic Nodes for “Open Research” in Europe could play for the benefit of the scientific impact of EOSC.
Who can apply: Research Infrastructures, Universities, Institutes, SMEs and large companies, consortia, as well as individual researchers. Individual researchers, or a group of researchers, in different countries of the EU, Associated Countries and beyond can apply with their own affiliation (a university or a research institute). A Science Cluster by itself cannot apply.

Opening date: March 14th, 2025, 10:00 CET
Projects’ duration: 12 to 24 months
Budget: 100 k€ – 250 k€
Application deadline: May 14th, 2025, 17:00 CEST

We are keen to maximise the impact of our funding by supporting a diverse range of innovative projects from different communities and organisations. High quality applications by organisations that have not received funding in the 1st OSCARS Open Call, for subjects distinct from those previously supported, will therefore be prioritised in the 2nd Open Call.
The organisation and management of the cascading grant calls, together with the mentoring and training activities that the Science Clusters will provide in OSCARS, contribute to performing excellent science and pursuing societal benefits by leveraging an Open Research approach.
By the end of OSCARS, it is expected that a series of valuable scientific results and new services will be available, leading to an increased uptake of Open Science by researchers and to promote cross-border and cross-domain cooperation in the long run.

Austrian NeuroCloud: FAIR data operations for neuroscience
2025-05-14 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
Content:
The Austrian NeuroCloud (ANC) is a FAIR-enabling platform designed to support sustainable research data management in cognitive neuroscience. It facilitates the entire lifecycle of neuroscientific data, from acquisition and storage to validation, metadata curation, publishing, and sharing. The platform equips researchers with essential tools to ensure data integrity and compliance with community standards. By providing controlled access to research data, the ANC ensures adherence to GDPR and European Open Science policies.
This webinar will provide an overview of the ANC and its key features, focusing on its operational workflows for data storage, validation, metadata curation, and dissemination.
Time and place:
14 May 2025, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Target group:
Research support staff, Researchers dealing with neuroscience
Language:
English
Speakers:
Barbara Strasser-Kirchweger, Mateusz Pawlik and Florian Hutzler, Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg
Registration:
For attending this webinar, please register here.
Materials:
The materials for this webinar will be published here afterwards.

FIDELIS Network Launch : Introductory Webinar
2025-05-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Over its three-year duration, FIDELIS will set up, develop and operate a European Network of trustworthy digital repositories. This includes developing and implementing a business model for sustaining the Network beyond the project duration. With this initiative, FIDELIS responds to a community need that was expressed in the Working Paper “Towards a European network of FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs)”.
What is the FIDELIS Network webinar about?
The Network’s mission is to support digital repositories in Europe to become and remain trustworthy over time. The FIDELIS project operates the Network while working on its development. The webinar will be held online, on Tuesday, May 13th, at 14:00 to 15:00 CET. During this webinar, we will discuss the Network’s strategy, roadmap, governance and membership and encourage provisional members and the wider community to provide feedback.
Digital repositories that practice or aspire to practice TRUST-inspiring and FAIR-enabling ways of working are welcome to join. To save a spot, make sure to register for the webinar!

Agenda
Speaker

Welcome (5 minutes)
Jan Meijer, SIKT

History and introduction to FIDELIS
(10 minutes)
Ingrid Dillo, DANS

Benefits of provisional membership
(15 minutes)
Marjan Grootveld, DANS
Mari Kleemola, CESSDA/TAU-FSD
Laurence Horton/Joy Davidson, DCC

Q&A
(25 minutes)
Jan Meijer, SIKT

Wrap up and next steps
(5 minutes)
Jan Meijer, SIKT

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.

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

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

Data Stewards 2025
2025-05-09 12:00 | Online
Implementing Data Stewards for EU Missions Austria

Die Datenmenge, die Organisationen zur Verfügung haben, wächst kontinuierlich. Insbesondere in Forschungseinrichtungen nehmen die Bedeutung von Daten, der Austausch sowie die Möglichkeiten, komplexe Forschungsfragen mithilfe großer Datenmengen zu beantworten, zu. Damit steigt die Verantwortung für die korrekte Handhabung von Daten und insbesondere für deren Qualität.
Data Stewards sind in einer Forschungseinrichtung für die Datenverwaltung und das Datenmanagement zuständig. Sie helfen, Daten effektiv zu verwalten, zu nutzen, zu schützen und zu speichern und unterstützen so Forschende in ihrer Arbeit.
Die Ausschreibung unterstützt Forschungseinrichtungen beim Verwalten, Vorantreiben und Aufbauen von Forschungsdaten und -strukturen aus mindestens einer der fünf EU-Missionen (Mission CITIES, Mission WATERS, Mission CLIMATE, Mission SOIL, Mission CANCER).

Was wird gefördert?
Gefördert wird die Anstellung eines Data Stewards an der Organisation bzw. Organisationseinheit. Die Stelle kann dabei durch eine neue Person besetzt werden oder durch eine bereits an der Organisation bzw. Organisationseinheit angestellte Person, die bisher nicht als Data Steward bzw. in vergleichbarer Tätigkeit eingesetzt war.
Es werden ausschließlich die Personalkosten des Data Stewards und Drittkosten für externe Aus- und Weiterbildung für Data Stewards gefördert.

Wer wird gefördert?
Förderbar sind Forschungseinrichtungen (Universitäten, Fachhochschulen, außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen und Privatuniversitäten) im Rahmen ihrer wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit am Standort Österreich.

Wie hoch ist die Förderung?
Pro Projekt werden maximal 150.000 Euro bzw. maximal 100% der Gesamtkosten gefördert. Pro Data Steward ist ein Antrag einzureichen. Wird mehr als ein Antrag einer Organisation eingereicht, ist nachvollziehbar darzustellen, warum es mehr als einen Data Steward braucht.
Insgesamt stehen 1,8 Millionen Euro des Fonds Zukunft Österreich zur Verfügung.

Was sind die Einreichkriterien?

Anstellungsausmaß von zumindest 860 Stunden pro Jahr für die Tätigkeiten als Data Steward
Personalentwicklungsmaßnahmen und gute Einbindung in die Organisation

Wie erfolgt die Einreichung?
Projekte können ab dem 20. Jänner 2025 bis längstens 09.05.2025 über den eCall eingereicht werden.

Wann gibt es eine Entscheidung?
Ende Sommer 2025

Science as a Shared Journey: Engaging Communities, Building Trust, and Advancing Open Science for the SDGs
2025-05-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Online
The United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library in the Department of Global Communications would like to invite you to a virtual panel discussion: “Science as a Shared Journey: Engaging Communities, Building Trust, and Advancing Open Science for the SDGs,” scheduled for Wednesday, 7 May, 2025, 8:30 – 9:45 a.m. (ET). This virtual event is a side event to the 10th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The right to participate in and benefit from science remains fundamental to human progress and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Open Science is collaborative and inclusive, allows new social actors to engage in scientific processes, contributes to the democratization of knowledge, upholds scientific integrity, and addresses systemic inequalities and enclosures of knowledge. Open Science, with its focus on participatory methods and citizen science initiatives, is integral to supporting SDG localization. Through examples like community-led environmental monitoring and crowd-sourced health data collection, citizen science, an integral component of Open Science, has demonstrated the power of inclusive knowledge creation. Science cannot function as a public good if the public cannot engage with it.
Building momentum toward the 4th Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference, this side event will convene diverse stakeholders – researchers, librarians, publishers and citizen science initiatives – to discuss the mechanisms through which public contributions and permanent access to scientific discoveries and innovations can strengthen public trust in scientific and knowledge organizations. This dialogue aims to produce actionable recommendations for scientific institutions to meaningfully engage diverse publics in knowledge creation and validation processes.
Speakers include:
Opening remarks by Mr. Maher Nasser, Department of Global Communications
Dr. Shalini Dhyani, CSIR-National Environment Engineering Research Institute
Mr. Thomas Kaarsted, University Library of Southern Denmark
Ms. Heather Page, United Nations Statistics Division
Dr. Mónica D. Ramírez-Andreotta, University of Arizona
Moderator: Mr. Thanos Giannakopoulos, Chief, Information Management Section & Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Department of Global Communications

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.

5. EOSC Coffee Lecture "Die EOSC Föderation – Aktueller Stand und nächste Schritte"
2025-04-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Die Europäische Open Science Cloud (EOSC) hat das Ziel, in Europa einen integrativen und offenen Raum für den Austausch und die Nutzung wissenschaftlicher Forschungsdaten zu schaffen. Die Aufbauphase der so genannten “EOSC Föderation” hat mittlerweile begonnen, wichtige Entscheidungen wurden getroffen und Maßnahmen zur Weiterentwicklung der Föderation festgelegt.
Um darüber zu informieren, lädt die ZBW – Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft Sie am Donnerstag, den 8. Mai 2025, von 16-17 Uhr zur fünften EOSC Coffee Lecture ein.
Diese Coffee Lecture stellt folgende Inhalte in den Mittelpunkt:

Aufbau der EOSC Föderation
Identifikation von EOSC Kandidaten-Knoten
Zeitplan bis zum EOSC Symposium 2025
EOSC Föderationshandbuch
Zukunft der EOSC post-2027

Durch das einstündige, deutschsprachige Webinar (30 min Vortrag, 30 min Fragen/Diskussion) führt Sie Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann, Direktor der ZBW und Mitglied im Board of Directors der EOSC Association sowie involviert in mehrere Konsortien der NFDI und Mitglied im NFDI-Senat.
Die EOSC Coffee Lectures richten sich an alle, die sich in ihrer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit mit Forschungsdaten beschäftigen oder an der Umsetzung und dem Betrieb von Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen beteiligt sind.
Infos und Anmeldung: https://www.zbw.eu/de/eosc-coffee-lectures

Promoting Open Science at Universities
2025-04-29 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Insights from the Arqus Open Science Ambassador Network

Dienstag, 29.04.2025, 12:30-13:15

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Hildrun Walter

Open Science – just the next buzz word or a remarkable development? Open Science (OS) seems to pop up here and there, often in embellished contexts that suggest a tendency towards arbitrariness. However, if one looks at the development of the policies of funding agencies, e.g., for the framework programs of the European Commission, the increase in mandatory deliverables assigned to OS shows a certain relevance of the movement. As a member of the Arqus European University Alliance, the University of Graz is committed to promoting OS and to coordinating efforts to improve openness within and outside the Alliance. The Arqus Open Science Ambassador Network is dedicated to sharing best practices, supporting students and researchers in OS practice and leveraging synergies between member universities to advocate for OS. The point is not to fall into ideology, but to become aware of opportunities and risks by critically reflecting on areas of tension.
Hildrun Walter is researcher in science communication at the University of Graz since 2019. Her research focuses on the evaluation of science communication strategies and formats. She is interested in how open science practices and participatory approaches in research can influence the societal perception of science.

RDA TIGER Cascade Grant Call for Adoption Grants – Apply by 27 April
2025-04-27 23:59 | Online
This call for Cascading Grants seeks applications from researchers, research institutes, universities, enterprises, consortia and other legal entities who wish to receive financial support to adopt the results of the RDA Working Groups (WGs). Applicants must be eligible to receive Horizon Europe funding, or be affiliated to an entity that is eligible.

Specifically, the call invites applications from:

RDA Working Groups: Groups who require support for projects that aid the adoption or testing of WG outputs. The grant funds can be used to cover the personnel and travel costs of the Group’s existing members, stipends or salaries of new team members, conference and open access fees and fees of external experts (e.g., to solve specific legal, technical, IPR, or standardisation-related issues). See the section “Eligibility Criteria” for more details. We also invite applications from RDA WGs launching a formal standardisation process to have the WG Recommendations recognised as input by an established technical standards organisation.
Entities or researchers who wish to adopt an RDA output. Specifically, the grant funds can be used to support the adoption, testing, harmonisation, and/or implementation of RDA Recommendations or Outputs produced by RDA Working Groups.1 We also invite organisations focusing on the technical implementation, prototyping and/or proof-of-concept using RDA Recommendations or Outputs to support the interoperability of open science solutions, especially in the EOSC context.

Applications are received up until 27.04.2025 (AoE).2

The selected projects are expected to be launched in May 2025 and need to be concluded by the end of October 2025.

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

CoARA's Second Call for Cascade Funding
2025-04-21 17:00 | Online
Summary of the Call

This call for Cascade Funding aims to enhance institutional change and target pilot and exchange-of-knowledge initiatives. It will fund +20 projects facilitating knowledge-exchange, piloting new initiatives within institutions, and enabling lasting institutional change. As such, it encourages and supports research organisations to investigate and test what will efficiently work ‘in real life’.
More specifically, the first call aims to:

Facilitate the exchange, transfer and adaptation of proven good practices and their adoption in research organisations.
Catalyse the set-up or transformation of research assessment practices and tools in line with the commitments of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment.
Support the development and testing of new and innovative research assessment approaches, models and procedures.

Projects can be proposed by any of the organisation types specified below through a cascading grant mechanism. By the end of the programme, it is expected to have a diverse portfolio of projects available that will translate the shared vision outlined in the Agreement into tangible, lasting institutional changes in research assessment practices.

Key Figures

Total funding
€2.33m total funding – €1.22m to be released in the second round.

Funding per project
€ 30,000 to € 60,000: a lump sum, depending on the type of project

Number of projects
to be funded
50 overall: 25 projects selected in the first round. Up to 25 projects to be selected for the second round

Target applicants
Legal entities interested in reforming research assessment practices in their institutions

1st call
26 April – 26 June 2024

2nd call
21 February – 21 April 2025 (closes at 17h CET)

Duration of the projects
Implementation within 12 months after signature of a Third-Party Project Agreement – TPPA

Start of the projects
1 September 2025

Context of the Call

Over 800 research organisations, funders, assessment authorities, professional societies, and their associations have agreed on a common direction and principles for reforming the assessment of research, researchers and research organisations, outlined in the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment. They have also committed to implement changes within their organisations.
CoARA, the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, offers a platform for collaboration and mutual learning. However, given the complexity of the reform process, providing support for institutions to test, design, and carry out in-depth institutional changes is crucial to implement the Agreement commitments.
The CoARA Boost project,funded by the European Union, strengthens CoARA’s operational capacity. It provides a means to develop a critical mass for reforming research assessment, to generate gravitas for new members as well as to investigate and implement new models for research assessment.
The Cascade Funding Programme within CoARA Boost represents more than half of the project’s overall budget. This programme will support a minimum of 50 organisations in tackling specific challenges related to reforming research assessment and implementing the Agreement commitments. By supporting different types of proposals, the programme will maintain a balanced portfolio of projects. The cascade funding programme consists of two rounds of open calls, the first one launched in April 2024 and second one in mid-February 2025.

Cascade Funding Second Call Text

Introducing OSTrails: Your Companion to Streamline Planning, Tracking, and Assessing Research Practices
2025-04-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This session is an introduction to the OSTrails project, aimed at informing the broader research community of its main objectives and preliminary results, and involving them in the co-creation of its foundational Plan-Track-Assess (PTA) Framework.
Limited interoperability across the research stages, inconsistent practices between Research Data Management (RDM) services and varying Open Science maturing levels across countries and scientific domains, hinder collaboration and scientific progress. OSTrails addresses this challenge by creating a collection of open, reusable, and adaptable resources that collectively enable seamless information exchange among Data Management Planning (DMP) Platforms, Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) and FAIR Assessment Tools. This approach empowers research communities to mor effectively manage, share, and evaluate their outputs research.
In this webinar, Elli Papadopoulou from ARC (Deputy Project Coordinator) will introduce how the PTA Framework is defined and used within the project, to enable interoperability, connectivity and machine actionability.
Two of the 24 OSTrails pilot initiatives will be featured to demonstrate how project solutions are being co-created and implemented in national and domain-specific settings.

Andrew Hoffman (Leiden University) and Eileen Waegemaekers (SURF) will showcase the Dutch National Pilot, highlighting how dynamic, workflow-integrated DMPs support collaboration and knowledge sharing across institutions.

Renaud Duyme (ESRF), representing PaNoSC, will present a use case, illustrating the use of DMPs, SKGs, and FAIR evaluation for datasets from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

The webinar marks also the launch of our OSTrails Mentorship Programme, presented by Pedro Principe (UMinho). He will inform about how the programme is structured and run to support IT infrastructure managers, Research support staff and Funders’ support officers advance their skills and deepen their expertise in DMPs, SKGs and FAIR assessment using the OSTrails Toolkit. Participants selected through the Open Call for Mentees will benefit from personalised guidance by experts across the OSTrails consortium.
The webinar will conclude with a live Q&A session.
*This session will be recorded and made available through the organiser’s official ch

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

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.

Workshop on Industry and Open Science: Bridging Academia and Innovation
2025-04-09 | Online
Exploring the Future of Open Science and Industry Collaboration
The intersection of academia and industry is a driving force behind innovation. On 9 April 2025, experts in the public and private sectors, as well as researchers with experience in both academia and industry will convene online for the Workshop on Industry and Open Science. This event will delve into the power of Open Science (OS) and Open Innovation (OI) in transforming industries and fostering strategic collaborations.
Hosted under the OPUS Project, the workshop will showcase real-world applications of OS/OI, highlight best practices, and examine the evolving role of researchers navigating both academia and the private sector. Participants will gain first-hand insights from industry pioneers, engage in interactive discussions, and explore pathways to stronger cross-sector partnerships.
Why Attend?

Discover how Open Science and Open Innovation are shaping industries and driving sustainable growth.
Learn from experts at AstraZeneca, CERN, and BrainZell, who will share firsthand experiences in leveraging OS/OI.
Examine collaboration models that are breaking barriers between research institutions and businesses.
Engage in an interactive discussion and Q&A with leading figures in the field.

Who Should Attend?
This workshop is tailored for:

Researchers exploring new collaboration opportunities
Universities seeking to bridge the gap between academia and industry
Funders looking to maximize research impact
Policy makers driving innovation frameworks
Industry experts engaging with Open Science strategies

How to Register
Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of an important conversation on the future of industry-academia collaboration. Please register here.
Please note: While the workshop is held online, some project partners will be present at the University of Cyprus. Researchers on campus are welcome to join in person.
Join us in shaping the future of Open Science and Innovation!

Die Bedeutung von wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen und Open Science Kompetenzen für Politik, Kultur, Wissenschaft und Kunst in Österreich
2025-04-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Im Rahmen des Horizon Europe Projekts Skills4EOSC (Skills for the European Open Science Commons) lädt diese Veranstaltung Akteure aus Politik, öffentlicher Verwaltung, Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftsvermittlung ein, sich mit der Entwicklung und Strategie von Open Science in Österreich zu beschäftigen. Ziel der Veranstaltung ist, die Open Science Community in Österreich zu unterstützen. Dafür werden die Ergebnisse aus dem Skills4EOSC Projekt vorgestellt, das sich dem Kompetenzaufbau zu diesem Thema widmet.
Die Veranstaltung bietet einen Einblick in speziell für Entscheidungsträger*innen entwickelte Trainingsmaterialien. Diese Trainingsmaterialien vermitteln entscheidende Kompetenzen für die Nutzung von Open Science-Daten in der Politikgestaltung. Sie sollen es politischen Entscheidungsträger*innen ermöglichen, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse effektiv zu beschaffen, zu verwalten und zu analysieren. Der gezielte Einsatz dieser Daten kann fundierte politische Entscheidungen unterstützen und den Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik stärken. Aus europäischer Perspektive und mit Fokus auf Österreich soll beispielhaft ein Einblick in rechtliche und ethische Aspekte des Themas geboten werden. Es soll außerdem Raum für Austausch und Diskussion zu Relevanz und Nutzen von Open Science und Möglichkeiten zu deren Verstetigung bieten.
Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an alle, die Open Science Initiativen fördern und die Bedeutung von Open Science und wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen für Politik, Wissenschaft, Kunst und Kultur stärken möchten.
Programm:

Begrüßung und Ziele der Veranstaltung: Generaldirektion Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Skills4EOSC-Team, EOSC-Support Office Austria
Europäische Perspektive: Open Science in der EU
Skills4EOSC: Aufbau von Open Science – Kompetenzen in Europa mit Fokus auf rechtliche und ethische Aspekte
Einblick in die Open Science Landschaft in Österreich: Standpunkte und Entwicklungen aus verschiedenen Institutionen
Geleitete Diskussion:

Institutionelle Relevanz und Nutzen von Open Science sowie Möglichkeiten der Verstetigung in Österreich
Open Science an den Universitäten Österreichs

Abschluss und Ausblick

Zielgruppe: Policy Makers, Civil Servants, Honest Brokers
Im Rahmen von Skills4EOSC wird spezielles Trainingsmaterial entwickelt, das sich an Akteure aus Politik, öffentlicher Verwaltung und Wissenschaftskommunikation richtet. Ziel ist es, grundlegende Kompetenzen im Bereich Open Science zu vermitteln, die Nutzung offener wissenschaftlicher Daten im öffentlichen Sektor zu fördern und evidenzbasierte Politikgestaltung zu stärken.
Dazu werden Fähigkeiten in der Datenakquise, -verwaltung und -analyse gestärkt, um wissenschaftliche Daten gezielt für fundierte und transparente politische Entscheidungen einzusetzen. Insgesamt soll das Training den Dialog und die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik fördern. Die Schulungsinhalte umfassen Forschungsdatenmanagement (RDM), Open Science (OS) und evidenzbasierte Entscheidungsfindung. Anhand gesellschaftlich relevanter wissenschaftlicher Themen (wie z.B. Gesundheit, Umwelt und Klima) wird veranschaulicht, wie Entscheidungsprozesse durch wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse unterstützt werden können. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf der Kommunikation wissenschaftlicher Ergebnisse, ihrem Lebenszyklus und ihrer Interpretation für politische Entscheidungsträger*innen und Förderinstitutionen.
Das Trainingsmaterial vermittelt sowohl allgemeine Prinzipien der Open Science als auch konkrete Best Practices. Die Hauptthemen sind:
• Open Science als neue Norm
• Stakeholder-Management
• Gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen
• Interventionen
Die Inhalte basieren auf den zentralen Botschaften der Open-Science-Bewegung und bewährten Methoden für deren erfolgreiche Umsetzung in der politischen Praxis.

Open FDO Workshop: The EPOS Research Infrastructure – Practical Challenges in Creating an Integrated Dataspace
2025-04-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
The FDO Forum is happy that Daniele Bailo and Jan Michalák from the EPOS ERIC Research Infrastructure will share their experiences in building a European wide infrastructure that amongst others is working on creating an integrated dataspace for researchers in the field of solid earth science and discuss with us about future perspectives of data infrastructure development.
Motivation
The FDO Forum (FDOF) has as the major topic to develop the FDO specifications and foster their implementation to help enabling the creation of a unified and joint dataspace which should facilitate data sharing and reuse to the benefits of the researchers. Taking a naïve viewpoint, one would assume that for people responsible for the building of “research or data infrastructures (RDI)” FDOs would immediately be welcomed as the standard that would solve all integration problems. Of course, this is not the case. Not surprisingly, the many technological challenges that need to be overcome to stepwise improve data accessibility and reuse bind much person power and require long-term agendas, so that the responsible persons are very careful in jumping on new “technology waves”. Architecture designs which account for the FDO and that are enough general and abstract to allow the RDI implementation in different scenarios, are required. This endeavour has been pursued in research infrastructures such as EPOS, which are highly distributed, with many partners all over Europe and beyond, all of them having their individual technology stack, policies and processes, requiring a lot of synchronisation effort to make new steps. In addition, the available funds for RDI and thus the availability of technological experts are limited.
EPOS is an excellent example to understand the challenges in improving data sharing and reuse in detail. Therefore, this workshop is a very good opportunity to understand the practical challenges and the architectural approach in research infrastructure building and the achieved results in detail on the one hand, and discuss possible future developments on the other hand.
