Introducing OSTrails: Your Companion to Streamline Planning, Tracking, and Assessing Research Practices
2025-04-15 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris) | 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

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

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
…

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!):

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)​

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.

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!

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)

FDM in den Geisteswissenschaften
2025-05-27 12:30 - 13:30 | 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.

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.

We dare to open science
2025-06-03 08:45 - 17:00 | TU Wien Bibliothek, Vortragsraum
TU Wien Bibliothek invites you to the first Open Science Day at TU Wien — an event by and for researchers. Organized by TU Wien Bibliothek with the support of the Vice Rector for Digitalisation and Infrastructure, this event is your platform to share, learn, and connect – whether you publish open access, manage research data, work with open source code, or engage in citizen science.
When and where?
Date: Tuesday, 03 June 2025
Time: 08:45 – 17:00
Location: TU Wien Bibliothek, 5th floor, lecture room
Language: German, English
Why attend?

Learn how Open Science is taking shape at TU Wien
Discover good-practice examples from colleagues
Explore services and tools to support your research
Talk openly about challenges and needs
Connect with peers in an informal setting

Register now
Questions? Contact us at sekretariat@tuwien.ac.at
We look forward to seeing you there!
Programme
08:45–09:00 | Welcome Coffee
09:00–09:15 | Opening by Library Director Beate Guba and Overview by Moderator Philipp Steger
09:15–10:30 | Session I: Participatory Research – Good Practices & Challenges

“Citizen science and urban transformation” – Christian Peer (future.lab Research Center)
“Citizen Science data supported forest monitoring: Potential, Challenges, and Limitations” – Markus Hollaus (Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation)
“Soil Walks: How Numbers and Data can raise Awareness for Soil Protection” – Elias Grinzinger, Barbara Steinbrunner (Institute of Spatial Planning)

10:30–11:00 | Discussion
11:00–12:30 | Session II: Research Practices From Open Access to AI

“Community led publishing: Opportunities, challenges and pitfalls using the example of Quantum” – Marcus Huber (Faculty of Physics)
“Automated Reasoning” – Laura Kovacs (Faculty of Informatics)
“Open Science in Industry Collaborations: Challenges in Recommender Systems and Behavioral Data Analysis” – Julia Neidhardt (Faculty of Informatics)

12:30–13:00 | Discussion
13:00–14:00 | Lunch & Networking
14:00–14:20 | Pitch Session: Services for Open Science @ TU Wien

Citizen Science, Open Access Publishing, Journal Hosting, Recognising Predatory Publishing, PID-Services, Davis as an Open Infrastructure, Text- and Data Mining, TU Wien Academic Press, TU Wien Research Data Repository

14:30–15:30 | Session III: The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

Short introduction to the EOSC – Beate Guba (Library)
“Data Quality Framework for EOSC” – Chris Schubert (Library)
“Different shades of FAIR” – Tomasz Miksa (Center for Research Data Management)

15:30 | Closing Remarks
Afterwards | Informal networking with refreshments

Forschungsdaten finden und nachnutzen
2025-06-03 15:30 - 17:00 | Universität Graz, Universitätsplatz 3a, Graz, 8010, Austria
Die Wiederverwendung von Daten ist eine entscheidende Fähigkeit für moderne Forscher, die erhebliche Vorteile in Bezug auf Effizienz, Kosteneffektivität und wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt bieten kann. Dieser Workshop will den Teilnehmenden praktische Techniken zum Auffinden und verantwortungsvollen Wiederverwenden von universitären Forschungsdaten vermitteln.
Er behandelt die Navigation durch führende Datenrepositorien, das Verständnis der FAIR-Datenprinzipien und die Berücksichtigung ethischer und lizenzrechtlicher Aspekte. Die Teilnehmenden diskutieren umsetzbare Strategien zur Nutzung bestehender Datensätze, die potenziell Zeit und Ressourcen sparen und gleichzeitig neue Wege für innovative Forschung eröffnen.
Durch die Förderung einer effektiven Datenwiederverwendung unterstützt das Nachnutzen von Forschungsdaten die Open-Science-Initiativen der Europäischen Union, fördert die grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit und steht im Einklang mit den Zielen von Horizon Europe für einen stärker integrierten Europäischen Forschungsraum.

Wann: Dienstag 03.06.2025, 15:30 – 17:00
Wo: SR 62.31 (0062030188)
Sprache: DE

International conference of Core Technologies for Life Science (CTLS)
2025-06-10 - 2025-06-12 | Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
We’re excited to invite you to join us at the CTLS 2025 Congress happening in the beautiful city of Brno! This gathering is going to be an excellent opportunity, bringing together core facility administrators, managers, researchers, and professionals to talk, collaborate, and dive into why core facilities are key to shaping the scientific world.
Registration open: September 2024
Early registration deadline: February 2025
Abstract submission deadline: March 2025

Barrierefreiheit von PDF-Dokumenten
2025-06-10 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Inhalt
Das PDF (Portable Document Format) als Format, das plattformunabhängig eine originalgetreue Darstellung gewährleistet, ist allgemein verbreitet für die Publikation von Forschungsergebnissen. Hinsichtlich Barrierefreiheit bereitet diese stets identische Darstellung eine Herausforderung, die erst bewältigt werden kann, wenn die Inhalte unabhängig vom visuellen Layout greifbar und auch mit assistiven Technologien bedienbar sind. Wie eine Strukturierung der Inhalte im Hintergrund gestaltet wird, kann bei PDF-Dokumenten veranschaulicht werden – etwa mit dem Tool Screenreader-Vorschau.
Dabei stellen sich folgende Fragen. Was ist ein barrierefreies PDF-Dokument? Was bedeutet „PDF/UA-Konformität“ und „WCAG-Konformität“? Was ist bei Dokumenten in unterschiedlichen Formaten (z.B. Word oder PowerPoint) zu beachten, um aus ihnen ein möglichst barrierefreies PDF zu erstellen? Wie kann man ein PDF-Dokument auf Barrierefreiheit überprüfen und Fehler beheben? Diesen Fragen widmet sich der Workshop.
Zeit und Ort
10. Juni 2025, 10 – 11:30 Uhr
Zielgruppe
Forschende, Personen aus der Forschungsunterstützung, RDM-Support Staff
Sprache
Deutsch
Vortragende
Maria Guseva, Universität Wien
Anmeldung
Um an dem Webinar teilzunehmen, melden Sie sich bitte hier an.
Materialien
Die Materialien zu diesem Workshop sind im Nachgang hier verfügbar.

Building Capacity for Open Science
2025-06-11 | Paris, Paris, France
The Skills4EOSC project’s final conference, ‘Building Capacity for Open Science’, will take place on June 11, 2025. The event is co-organized with the French Ministry of Research and other national partners and will be held at the Condorcet Campus in Paris. The conference will highlight the achievements of Skills4EOSC, which aims to empower researchers and professionals with the skills needed to advance the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

The conference will feature discussions on key topics, including the strategic vision for Open Science skills and the role of Competence Centres in supporting research and training. Sessions are also dedicated to exploring the impact of data stewardship and collaborative networks in driving Open Science forward and innovative approaches to upskilling professionals, decision-makers, and academia.
