Open Science and Reproducible Research in RStudio and Jupyter Notebook​
2024-11-28 - 2024-11-29 | Online
In the first part of this two-day workshop, participants will learn the basics of open science and reproducible research.
They will learn the difference between replicability and computational reproducibility, know what FAIR data is, and be aware of how to handle personal and sensitive data.
In the second part, participants will learn the basic reproducible research workflow for the three main stages of research (i.e. data acquisition, data processing, and data analysis) by using tools such as RStudio, Jupyter Notebooks, and the version control system GIT.
Participants will find out how to organize a research project using RStudio and Jupyter Notebooks, how to use Quarto and Markdown for documenting the research steps, how to organize files and folders, and how to use the version control system GIT for collaboration.

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

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

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

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

Webinar FAIR Data Principles 3 | Applying FAIR Principles through the (ocean) data management value chain
2024-11-27 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris) | Online
This webinar is the third in a series of three Blue-Cloud 2026 Training Academy webinars on FAIR* Data Principles.
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Following on from our Blue-Cloud 2026 FAIR Data Principles 1 (Sep 2023) and 2 (Apr 2024) webinars, the upcoming third webinar is dedicated to exploring the practical application of FAIR Principles throughout the entire data value chain. This comprehensive focus will encompass every stage, from the collection of data and transmission (e.g sensors) through its processing, curation, and application in various products and services. The session will feature real-world use case experiences, showcasing how these principles are effectively implemented across different stages to enhance data utility and integrity.
The webinar aims to broaden the understanding of FAIR Principles beyond their traditional association with research and academic environments. It will highlight their relevance and growing significance in industry and other sectors, demonstrating how adopting these principles can drive innovation, efficiency and collaboration across different domains. Participants will gain insights into how best practices can be leveraged to optimize data management processes and facilitate interoperability between systems.
By presenting a range of sector-specific examples and use cases, the webinar will illustrate the tangible benefits of implementing FAIR Principles in real-word scenarios. This includes not only improving the accessibility of data but also ensuring its long-term usability, interoperability and compatibility with various technologies and standards. It offers perspectives on how to effectively integrate FAIR Principles into data management strategies to maximize the value and potential of data in various contexts.
Who should attend
Open science projects in Europe and beyond, Research teams in Research Infrastructures, Ocean Data community, Industry sector, amongst others.
Agenda (available soon)
Wednesday 27 November 2024; 15.00 CET
Chair: Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Trust-IT Services and Blue-Cloud Coordinator

*About FAIR
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship were first published in Scientific Data, 3:160018 [Wilkinson et al (2016)]. The principles apply to both data and metadata and are: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. They put specific emphasis on enhancing the ability of machines to automatically find and use the data, in addition to supporting its reuse by individuals. In pursuit of FAIR, there is a need for increased efforts in optimisation, standardisation, best practices and harmonisation across methodologies for ocean data management, applications and digital assets

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RDA TIGER Cross-Fertilisation Webinar Series – Semantic Interoperability
2024-11-27 09:30 - 10:30 | Online
RDA TIGER is pleased to announce an upcoming series of webinars on cross-fertilisation and knowledge-sharing between RDA Working Groups across different domains. Each of the three webinars will be thematically focused, allowing WGs to share their work with peers and identify shared challenges and opportunities for further collaboration.

We’re inviting anyone with an interest in the specific activities of RDA Working Groups, in the topics and themes to be discussed, or in the planned outcomes of these Working Groups to join us for this series, where there will be an opportunity to ask about any aspects of the WGs’ activities.

REGISTER

Webinar #1 – Semantic Interoperability

The first of the series will take place on Wednesday 27th November at 09:30 UTC and will focus on the theme of ‘Semantic Interoperability’. Presenting at the webinar will be the co-chairs of the FAIR Mappings WG, the Alignment of Multilingual Vocabularies in the Social Sciences and Humanities WG, and the InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminology (I-ADOPT) WG.

The FAIR Mappings WG, which is in the final stages of RDA Council endorsement, will present its preliminary work so far, focusing on the various communities and the RDA WGs which have generated mappings, with the aim to converge toward common guidelines to make different types of mappings FAIR, and a common machine-readable/actionable set of representations of the mappings beyond the capabilities of the current existing specifications.
The Alignment of Multilingual Vocabularies in the Social Sciences and Humanities WG, which has been endorsed by RDA Council and has recently started its regular meeting schedule, will present on how it intends to address challenges concerning the interoperability multilingual nature of SSH controlled vocabularies by providing collectively approved recommendations for creating, extending, updating, and aligning multilingual vocabularies in the SSH.
The I-ADOPT WG is currently working to to embed the I-ADOPT framework in existing standards to demonstrate its capability in promoting interoperability, also seeking examples of the I-ADOPT framework in different scientific areas. The WG is planning a close collaboration with the FAIR Mappings WG in its planned activities, demonstrating the potential impact that collaboration within RDA can have.

Future instalments of the series will take place in December 2024 on the topics of (Meta)Data Standards and FAIR/CARE/TRUST Principles Adoption. Keep an eye on the RDA events page and our social media channels for updates on these.

EOSC-A 9th General Assembly
2024-11-22 | Online
The 9th EOSC Association General Assembly will take place online on Friday, 22 November 2024. The virtual meeting gives you the opportunity to conveniently join us from your preferred location, to vote on decision items, and to contribute to critical discussions that impact the direction of EOSC-A.
Notably, we anticipate that four Board of Directors positions will be filled at GA#9 via direct election by the EOSC-A membership. This represents a significant turnover of the EOSC-A leadership at a critical time in EOSC’s development, and we encourage all qualified Members to strongly consider enrolling as candidates. A formal Call for Candidates, detailing the roles and responsibilities, requirements and process will be issued on 03 September.
Please mark your calendars for GA#9, and stay tuned for more details. In the meantime, you are welcome to revisit the wrap-up article of our last GA meeting held at the end of May in Leuven, Belgium.

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

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

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

Series of webinars: The Data Act in contracts
2024-11-20 - 2024-12-05 | Online
Help us develop model contractual terms for data sharing and standard contractual clauses for switching between data processing services (cloud computing contracts) by sharing your opinion.

Before the Data Act starts applying from 12 September 2025, the Commission will recommend model contractual terms for data access and use and standard contractual clauses for cloud computing. The Commission has set up an Expert Group to develop these models, which will form the basis for the Commission Recommendation in 2025. These models intend to help especially small and medium-size companies and other organisations which may lack resources to draft and negotiate fair contractual clauses for data sharing or for cloud computing.
In November and December 2024, the Commission will be hosting a series of 6 webinars with businesses, policymakers, lawyers, and experts to discuss the development of both the draft Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for cloud computing contracts and the draft Model Contractual Terms (MCTs) for data sharing.
The webinars are open to Member State authorities, companies, lawyers, professors, and organisations. You can register via the links below to take part in the discussions and help shape the contracts. Note that registrations will only be accepted if a professional email address is provided.
Following registration, participants will receive a Webex link and relevant documentation to support the discussion (including draft model terms and clauses) a few days before the event.
Webinars
20 November – Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)
This webinar will cover SCCs implementing the provisions of the Data Act: Switching and Exit, Termination, Security and business continuity. Registration fom
21 November – Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)

This webinar will cover SCCs on Liability, Non-amendment, Non-dispersion. Registration form
27 November – Model Contractual Terms (MCTs)
The topics covered in this webinar includes the contract between data holders and data users, as well as the data use by the data holder, arrangements for access to data by the user, and transfer of the connected product to successors. Registration form
28 November – Model Contractual Terms (MCTs)
The topics covered in this webinar includes the contract between data holders and data recipients but also the link with the user’s request, the contract between the data recipient and the user, as well as the ways in which data can be accessed by the data recipient. Registration form
4 December – Model Contractual Terms (MCTs)
This webinar will cover the reasonable compensation for making data available agreed between data holders and data recipients under the Data Act, as well as a possible compensation for the user in exchange of access and use of the data by the data holder in certain circumstances (for example when the user agrees not to share the data with other entities). Registration form
5 December – Model Contractual Terms (MCTs)
This webinar covers voluntary data sharing and is relevant for bilateral or multilateral data sharing agreements but also for the use of MCTs in data spaces. Registration form

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

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

Data Visualization with R and Jupyter
2024-11-19 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
As part of Infra4NextGen, AUSSDA – The Austrian Social Science Data Archive is hosting a webinar on Data Vizualisation in R and Jupyter for social science researchers, MA and PhD students.
In the first part of the webinar, participants will learn the basics of visualizations, understand the criteria for good science graphics, get to know the process of visualizing data, and learn more about the role of colours and fonts.
The second part of the webinar will introduce them to ggplot2 and its functions to create state-of-the-art plots following the principles from part one of the webinar.
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to use ggplot2 to visually communicate their research results.
They will understand the basic purpose of data visualizations and increase their visual literacy.
Attendees will be able to perceive, interpret and comprehend all sorts of different visualizations and create these visualizations for their own research.
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to:

Use ggplot2 to visually communicate their research results
Know the basic purpose of data visualizations and increase their visual literacy
Perceive, interpret and comprehend all sorts of different visualizations and
Create these visualizations for their own research.

Info webinar on data access for researchers under the Digital Services Act
2024-11-19 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Under article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA), vetted researchers will be able to request data from very large online platforms (VLOPs) and search engines (VLOSEs) to conduct research on systemic risks in the EU.
A draft delegated act clarifies the procedures leading to the sharing of data by VLOPs and VLOSEs with vetted researchers. It also specifies conditions for providing such data and establishes a DSA data access portal to serve as a one-stop-shop for researchers, data providers and Digital Services Coordinators (DSCs).
The European Commission is hosting an info webinar, targeted at researchers who would like to learn more about the delegated act and how it might benefit their research. It will take place on 19 November, 10:00-11:30.

PHAIDRAcon
2024-11-14 09:00 | Universität Wien
Almost a whole year has passed since our last PHAIDRAcon. Our team is already busy planning this year’s meet-up and we are really looking forward to catching up with our PHAIDRA partners and familiar faces over exciting presentations, coffee and cake.
This year’s theme, “Building and Preserving the Value of Digital Assets”, promises insightful sessions on collections and cultural assets, open source, open education, and PHAIDRA use cases. Attendees will also have the opportunity to engage in discussions with actual PHAIDRA users.
As always, delicious refreshments will be provided.
For a detailed program, head over to our agenda!

Die EOSC ist Online! Was heißt das und wie geht es weiter?
2024-11-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Seit den drei EOSC Coffee Lectures im ersten Quartal 2024 hat sich die EOSC in großen Schritten weiterentwickelt. Besonders erwähnenswert ist, dass während des EOSC Symposiums in Berlin die Produktivversion des EOSC EU Node der EOSC Community vorgestellt wird. Damit sind Basisfunktionalitäten der EOSC nutzbar, was die Voraussetzung dafür ist, dass sich weitere nationale, regionale oder thematische Infrastrukturen andocken können. Das Ziel einer produktiv nutzbaren EOSC Federation rückt damit in greifbare Nähe.
Daher lädt die ZBW – Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft Sie am
Dienstag, den 12.11.2024, 16-17 Uhr
zur vierten EOSC Coffee Lecture ein. Diese Coffee Lecture stellt insbesondere den EOSC EU Node sowie die nächsten Schritte zur Auswahl von Infrastrukturen, Diensten und Daten vor, die in einem ersten Schritt an den EOSC EU Node angebunden werden.
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

World Science Day 2024 Webinar
2024-11-12 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Celebrated each year on 10 November, this year’s World Science Day for Peace and Development theme at UNESCO Headquarters is ‘Why Science Matters – Engaging Minds and Empowering Futures’.
On this occasion, UNESCO is organising a webinar with experts in the field on 12 November to highlight the significant role of science in society and in our daily lives.
Click here to sign up for the webinar.
Context
In August 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) proclaimed the period 2024-2033 as the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development. This marks an important step in global efforts to harness scientific knowledge for a sustainable future. Led by UNESCO, this Decade aims to mobilize a wide range of scientific disciplines, including basic and applied sciences, social and human sciences, as well as interdisciplinary and emerging fields, to contribute to transformative change in societies, economies, and the environment. By promoting scientific literacy and encouraging collaboration among governments, UN agencies, the private sector and civil society, the Decade seeks to enhance science’s role in pursuing sustainable development goals and working towards a safer, more prosperous future for all.
Youth at the forefront
This year’s World Science Day for Peace and Development will be held under the aegis of the Decade. It will present an opportunity to engage a wide-range audience, with a focus on young people (including through the UNESCO Youth Forum and Science Youth Network) and non-scientific participants in discovering and exploring the role of science in our rapidly-changing digitalized world. Young people will have the opportunity to ask questions to distinguished scientists about the ways in which science affects our daily lives and contributes to finding solutions to the most pressing challenges that the world is facing from local to global levels.

RDA 23rd Plenary Meeting
2024-11-12 - 2024-11-14 | San José, Costa Rica
The Research Data Alliance is delighted to announce the 23rd Plenary Meeting taking place in the capital of Costa Rica – San José on 12-14 November 2024. The 23rd Plenary edition will be held in a hybrid format with in-person and online audience.

San José sits in the middle of the country in the Central Valley, and it is surrounded by untouched cloud forests. San Jose is considered as a traditional Central American city and a cosmopolitan urban city. It is home to solid history and culture, outstanding architecture, and friendly locals.

Hosted by Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CONARE) in collaboration with Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC), Universidad Nacional (UNA), Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), Universidad Técnica Nacional (UTN), a three-day hybrid conference will bring together leaders from around the world to tackle some of the biggest data challenges and questions we face today, to share new ideas and explore best practices in using data.

(Spanish translation) Research Data Alliance se complace en anunciar la 23rd Plenary Meeting que se llevará a cabo en la capital de Costa Rica, San José, del 12 al 14 de noviembre de 2024. La 23rd Plenary Meeting se desarrollará en un formato híbrido con audiencia presencial y en línea.

San José se encuentra en el centro del país, en el Valle Central, y está rodeado de bosques nubosos vírgenes. Es considerada una ciudad tradicional centroamericana y urbana cosmopolita. Es hogar de una sólida historia y cultura, una arquitectura excepcional y gente amable.

Organizado por el Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CONARE) en colaboración con la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), el Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC), la Universidad Nacional (UNA), la Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), y la Universidad Técnica Nacional (UTN), una conferencia híbrida de tres días reunirá a líderes de todo el mundo para abordar algunos de los mayores desafíos y preguntas sobre datos que enfrentamos hoy, compartir nuevas ideas y explorar las mejores prácticas en el uso de datos.

European Tripartite Event
2024-11-07 09:30 - 12:30 | Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
The fifth European Tripartite Event will take place on Wednesday, 07 November 2024 09:30-12:30 CEST in Budapest, Hungary.
The participation is on invitation only.

Fair Open Access Funds - What libraries can do to promote Diamond Open Access
2024-11-06 13:00 - 14:15 | Online
The BMBF-funded project open-access.network invites you to an information event as part of the information series “Shaping the Open Access transformation sustainably. Diamond OA as an alternative”:
Fair Open Access Funds – What libraries can do to promote Diamond Open Access
Wednesday, 6 November 2024 | 1pm – 2:15 pm (CET) | online | The event is held in English.
As both subscription and publication costs for scientific journals and monographs continue to rise, there is much discussion about Diamond Open Access as an alternative funding option. But how can academic libraries support Diamond Open Access? One approach is to create seperate publication funds for Fair Open Acccess. In Fair Open Access, the focus is primarily on supporting publishing infrastructures and academic initiatives in order to strenghten scholar-led publishing. The Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA) has outlined five key principles that journals must adhere to in order to qualify as Fair Open Access. These include: 1) being led by the academic community, 2) ensuring that authors retain the copyright to their work, 3) providing immediate and unrestricted Open Access to all content, 4) separating submission and publication from mandatory fees, and 5) maintaining low, transparent, and proportionate costs for any necessary fees. To support Fair Open Access initiatives, some university libraries allocate dedicated financial resources through Fair Open Access funds:
Demmy Verbeke will introduce the KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access, which is dedicated to promoting a cost-effective and sustainable implementation of Open Science. The fund supports the development of new publishing models, as well as Open Science initiatives and infrastructures, with the goal of steering away from expensive, for-profit business models and empowering scholars to regain control of the publishing process.
Michaela Voigt will talk about the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin and its University Library which will launch a Fair Open Access Fund in 2024. to further expand the existing support for Open Access. The focus of Fair OA funding is on publication or infrastructure projects that strengthen sustainable and open publication structures, promote diversity instead of monopolism and see cooperation as a driving force for innovation.
At the event, we want to present these best practices and discuss the following topics:

What considerations preceded the establishment of a Fair OA Fund at KU Leuven and TU Berlin and what criteria do they use as a guide?
How do Fair Open Access Funds work?
What experience has been gained?
How can the approach be transferred to other institutions?

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Karin Stork (karin.stork@uni-konstanz.de) or Martina Benz (martina.benz@uni-konstanz.de).

Empowering Europe’s Green Deal: Open Science Skills and Taxonomy for sustainable innovation
2024-11-06 09:00 - 14:00 | Vienna House / Brussels; Avenue de Tervueren 58; B-1040
For policy-makers, this event offers a unique opportunity to understand how Open Science skills can enhance evidence-based decision-making across various domains. The focus on taxonomy provides a tangible example of how these skills can be applied to support key policy areas such as biodiversity conservation and the implementation of the EU Green Deal. The event also aims to gather other major categories of stakeholders including organisations in the area of Citizen Science, education and training, private sector and research. The event will open pathways to understand how the fundamental sciences centred around taxonomic research and the overarching principle of open science can largely contribute to societal advances.

Blue-Cloud first federation workshop
2024-11-06 08:00 - 18:00 | Lisbon
Workshop Overview
The Blue-Cloud Horizon Europe project is introducing a federated model where Blue research infrastructures (RIs) and other data and service infrastructures and technological providers make their services available to the community via agreed, FAIR formats and technology that the Open Science Community in Europe (under the umbrella of EOSC) recommends or accepts.
The Blue-Cloud collaborative environment allows researchers to retrieve marine data, exploit them in the VRE, access distributed cloud resources, exploit analytical services and interdisciplinary Virtual Labs. Blue-Cloud is offering e-infrastructure services (computing, storage, analytics, SSO, AAI, generic service), a data discovery service (10M+ datasets and products from European marine infrastructures such as EMODnet, SeaDataNet, Copernicus, Ecotaxa and others), and research-intensive virtual labs, embedded in a Virtual Research Environment open to any users with federated identity to the marine research community in Europe (and beyond).
In this workshop, we aim at assessing Blue-Cloud federated services towards the needs and challenges of other research infrastructures active in marine and climate research, ultimately stimulating a debate around the impact of open science federation in practice.
Who is this workshop for
The Blue-Cloud first federation workshop is by invitation. Invited participants are the Blue Data Infrastructures contributing to the Blue-Cloud service offer, and managers, decision makers, service and data providers at other Research Infrastructures (RIs), projects and initiatives working on marine, environmental and climate related topics.
Register now
Workshop Draft Agenda
Session 1 Blue-Cloud federated service offer
6 November 2024, 09:00 – 13:00 CET

Time
Session title

09:00 – 09.15
Welcome & Introduction

09:15 . 09:30
RIs & projects tour de table

09.30 – 10:30

Blue-Cloud core federated services

09:30 – 09.45
Blue Cloud VRE
and its comprehensive suite of services and tools, including cloud storage, computing resources, collaborative workspaces, R-Studio, JupyterHub, JupyterLab, Galaxy, a Software Importer, an Analytics Engine, to empower researchers to create and manage Virtual Labs

09:45 – 10:00
Blue Cloud Collaborative Data Analytics as a Service
Streamlined platforms for executing complex data analysis tasks and workflows.

10:00 – 10:15
Blue Cloud Community-Driven Catalogue
A dynamic data repository that facilitate the publication and discovery of valuable marine research resources, aligning with FAIR principles

10:15 – 10:30
Open discussion

10:30 – 11:15

Blue-Cloud Data Discovery services

10:30 – 10:45
DD&AS (metadata federation approach)
A gateway to a vast repository of marine data,providing seamless discovery and retrieval of datasets and products from diverse Blue Data Infrastructures.

10:45 – 11:00
Beacon technology

11:00 – 11:15
Open discussion

11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break

11:45 – 12:30

Overview of Blue-Cloud Federated thematic services

11:45 – 12:30
Presentations from some of the operational services available in the Blue-Cloud federated environment

12:30 – 13:00
Q&A and moderated debate around reusability of those services

Session 2 Assessing federation at thematic level
6 November 2024, 14:30 – 17:00 CET

Time
Session title

14:30 – 15:30

Invited presentations of federated services

15:30 – 16:00

Open discussion on common challenges and sharing of services

16:00 – 17:00

Towards an EOSC Federation: discussion about EOSC EU Node federation

Blue-Cloud | General Assembly & Technical and Scientific Committee
2024-11-05 09:00 - 2024-11-08 13:00 | Lisbon
The Blue-Cloud 2026 team is gathering for its 4th General Assembly (GA) meeting and Technical and Scientific Committee (TSC) meeting, which takes place at the Instituto Hidrográfico in Lisbon, Portugal, from 5 to 8 November 2024. This meeting offers the consortium a valuable opportunity to reflect on the progress made over the first two years of the project and to plan the upcoming activities necessary for the successful implementation of Blue-Cloud.
As part of the event, the Blue-Cloud team also hosts the 1st Federation Workshop. The workshop aims to evaluate Blue-Cloud’s federated services in relation to the needs and challenges of other marine and climate research infrastructures. It will encourage discussions on the practical impact of open science federation.
The agenda is still under development, but the main activities for each day are as follows:

5 November 2024: General Assembly and internal meetings with Blue-Cloud partners
6 November 2024: Federation Workshop
7-8 November 2024: Technical and Scientific Committee meeting

Please note that registration for the General Assembly and Technical and Scientific Committee meetings is closed and is limited to Blue-Cloud 2026 members. If you are a member and have not yet registered, please do so using this link.

Marine User Days Conference
2024-11-05 09:00 - 2024-11-06 17:00 | Lisbon
The EUMETSAT Marine User Days will bring together existing and prospective users from across the diverse marine user community. Focusing on the data provided by the European organisations involved in the Copernicus programme and their role in oceanography and marine applications, the event will act as a showcase for use cases. It is also a networking opportunity for users across the value chain, and will feature a workshop to engage with user needs and feedback.
Emphasis will be placed on data from across the value chain including satellite data, derived products, climate data records and their applications. Copernicus contributing mission data from EUMETSAT’s meteorological missions and data from the satellite application facility specialising in ocean and sea ice will broaden the scope.
The Marine User Days will be open to participation from across the community including those involved at the policy and governance level, academia and research and commercial entities. Attendees will benefit from the opportunity to present their use cases to the wider community of users and potential customers, but also to the European Commission and Copernicus entrusted entity representatives. They will have to opportunity to discuss their use cases and needs with the latter.

Skills4EOSC Workshop: Science4Policy - Bridging the gap between research and decision-making
2024-11-04 - 2024-11-05 | Rome
November 4-5, 2024. Rome, CNR (National Research Council), Piazzale Aldo Moro 1
The ability to communicate science effectively is becoming increasingly crucial in empowering society, especially in the context of evidence-informed policymaking.
To address this need, SKILLS4EOSC is organising a two-day interactive workshop to enhance researchers’ communication skills and facilitate dialogue with policymakers.
This workshop offers a unique opportunity for researchers to upskill their communication competencies through a combination of theoretical learning and practical application.
The program is structured as follows:
Day 1 (November 4):

Session 1: Exploring effective science communication paths, led by Joana Lobo Antunes

Session 2: Focus on the “science4policy” framework, conducted by Alessandro Allegra

Day 2 (November 5):

Interactive session: Simulations of political debates and role-playing exercises, facilitated by Petra Buljevic and Marko Košiček

Registration will open in September, with limited spots available.
Don’t miss this chance to enhance your science communication skills and contribute to bridging the gap between research and decision-making.
Mark your calendars and be ready to secure your place when registration opens!

Consultation on the EOSC Federation Handbook
2024-10-31 23:59 | Online
We are pleased to share with you the draft of the first three chapters of the EOSC Federation Handbook.
The writing of the text has been coordinated by the EOSC Association and supported by the EOSC Focus project, following the task assigned by the Tripartite Group (a sub-group of the EOSC Partnership’s Tripartite Governance) to draft “a single reference document describing the EOSC Federation, its operational structure and responsibilities, its legal and governance framework, and its technical operations”.
The first version of the EOSC Federation Handbook covers the build-up phase of the Federation in 2025 and 2026. The first three chapters describe the purpose, initial governance and organisational structure of the Federation.
Also in preparation, but not yet completed, are chapters 4, 5 and 6, to be developed and released for consultation in the coming months. These chapters will address operational aspects, services and policies of the EOSC Federation, and the chapter outlines are included in the present consultation.
Once completed, the first iteration of the Handbook will serve as a guide for the initial implementation of EOSC Nodes and the Federation as a whole.
The deadline to provide feedback on the first three chapters of the EOSC Federation Handbook is 31 October 2024 (23:59 CET).

DeiC Conference 2024
2024-10-29 - 2024-10-30 | Copenhagen
The conference is the annual event for everyone interested in e-infrastructure in Danish research. Here you can gain new knowledge and professional input in areas such as Data Management, HPC, Security, Network & Services, and Quantum Computing. The DeiC Conference is also the place to nurture and develop your professional network.
By registering before August 30, you can get your ticket at the early bird price. Read more and register here.
Collaboration at the Center
The theme of this year’s conference is “Collaboration on digital research infrastructure for a better tomorrow,” and for the first time, the conference program will be organized around cross-disciplinary topics rather than specific fields. Program committee member Hannah Mihai explains:
“This year, we have worked to reflect the significant overlap between our fields in the structure of our conference program. None of our fields stand entirely alone, and we need each other’s expertise. A good example is DeiC’s involvement in various projects concerning measurements on fiber cables, where the cables are owned by the Research Network, data is processed in HPC computing centers under strict security requirements as they can potentially be sensitive, and the data is stored in accordance with good and FAIR Data Management principles.” Hannah Mihai, Data Management Consultant, DeiC.
The program committee is currently working hard to put together this year’s exciting program, and they look forward to presenting the first names in the upcoming DeiC newsletter.
New Social Activities
The opportunity to meet with old and new acquaintances is a central part of the conference for the participants. To support this even more, the program committee is planning a series of social activities this year, where participants can interact in informal settings. Keep an eye on DeiC’s upcoming newsletters and our website for more details.

IBERGRID 2024
2024-10-28 - 2024-10-30 | Porto
Better Software for better Science
The 13th Iberian Grid Conference will take place in Porto, Portugal, from Monday 28th to Wednesday 30th of October.
Important Dates

5th July – 30th September – Call for abstracts (submission in this Indico)
3th July – 4th October – Registration (at this indico)
28th – 30th October – Conference

FAIR-DI European Conference on Data Intelligence 2024
2024-10-27 08:00 - 2024-10-30 17:00 | Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Building on the success of previous editions, we are pleased to announce the upcoming FAIR-DI European Conference on Data Intelligence 2024. Following the remarkable achievements and insightful discussions at the 2020 and 2022 Conferences on a FAIR Data Infrastructure for Materials Genomics, we are excited to continue the discussion and further collaboration and innovation in this growing field with the theme of Data Intelligence.

Post-deadline Abstract Submission:
In response to the overwhelming interest in our conference and the rapid advancements in the field of data intelligence, we are excited to announce that we are now accepting post-deadline submissions for abstracts. We have reserved 4 post-deadline talk slots and multiple poster presentation opportunities during the conference program.
We invite you to submit your abstracts by September 8, 2024.

POST-DEADLINE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION>

Conference topics:

The “NFDI Cosmos”
Data management, stewardship & databases (FAIR research, repositories, ontologies, error quantification, etc.)
Machine learning (ML) applications using existing data repositories
New strategies for materials synthesis based on ML-approaches
Developing strategies for scale-bridging workflows in computational materials science
Digital twins
High-throughput simulation
Automation (autonomous experimentation)

FAIR-DI European Conference on Data Intelligence 2024
2024-10-27 - 2024-10-30 | Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Building on the success of previous editions, we are pleased to announce the upcoming FAIR-DI European Conference on Data Intelligence 2024. Following the remarkable achievements and insightful discussions at the 2020 and 2022 Conferences on a FAIR Data Infrastructure for Materials Genomics, we are excited to continue the discussion and further collaboration and innovation in this growing field with the theme of Data Intelligence.

Call for candidates for four EOSC-A Director positions
2024-10-25 23:59 | Online
The call for candidates for four EOSC-A Board of Director positions has been launched for the 2024 elections, which will take place during the 9th General Assembly of the EOSC Association. GA#9 is an online meeting to be held 22 November 2024. The terms of three EOSC-A Directors are concluding (with one of these eligible to stand for re-election), and a fourth vacancy has arisen prematurely due to the December 2023 passing of Director Sarah Jones. Sarah’s position will initially be filled on a one-year interim basis.
Members interested in potentially serving on the Board for either four years (one + three) or six years (three + three) are encouraged to apply for both the three-year and one-year term options. Currently there is a need for Directors with specific skills, including political insight, policy expertise, and relevant technological know-how, which would best serve to continue the ongoing work of the Board. The full requirements and a description of the role of EOSC-A Directors can be found here. You can download the call text at this link.

3rd International Conference on Open Science and Innovation in Ukraine
2024-10-24 - 2024-10-25 | Online
The 3rd International Conference on Open Science and Innovation in Ukraine will feature a comprehensive program including keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops, and presentations by renowned researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers. The conference sections have been meticulously designed in alignment with the National Action Plan for Open Science, covering topics such as the development of national open research infrastructure, reforming practices of scientific research evaluation, ensuring open access to research results, open research data and reproducibility of scientific research, citizen science, and innovation in Ukraine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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