Call for EOSC Federation Handbook Contributors
2024-05-23 23:59 (Europe/Paris) | Online
The EOSC Federation Handbook will comprehensively address the purpose, structure, governance, architecture and operations of the EOSC Federation.
The Tripartite Group, which has the remit within the EOSC Partnership’s Tripartite Governance to steer the community development of the EOSC Federation, has endorsed EOSC-A to continue to lead the community-wide co-creation of the EOSC Federation Handbook.
The decisions taken by the EOSC Tripartite Governance on the EOSC Federation will be reflected in the Handbook, which will through this process of iteration become the reference document for the operation of the EOSC Federation.
The EOSC Federation Handbook will be written collaboratively with open consultations, meetings, events and sprints.

The planning and events during 2024 that will impact the drafting process, include:

Tripartite Events and Tripartite Group meetings preparing for the post-2027 governance of the EOSC Federation
Milestones in the deployment of the EOSC EU Node
27-28 May 2024
The 8th General Assembly of the EOSC Association will include consultation sessions with the membership on the preliminary draft
June 2024
Writing of the draft EOSC Federation handbook starts
05 July 2024
Discussion of preliminary draft at EOSC Partnership Board meeting #6
September 2024
First consultation meetings take place to facilitate revision of handbook
21-23 October 2024
The EOSC Symposium 2024 in Berlin, where a mature draft of the EOSC Federation handbook will be presented
November 2024
European Tripartite Meeting, where the mature draft will be presented for endorsement

Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs
2024-05-26 - 2024-05-30 | Crete, Greece
The Extended Semantic Web Conference is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations around semantic technologies. Building on its past success, ESWC is seeking to broaden its focus to span other relevant related research areas in which Web semantics plays an important role.
The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a Web of knowledge and services in which the semantics of content is made explicit and content is linked to both other content and services allowing novel applications to combine content from heterogeneous sites in unforeseen ways and support enhanced matching between users needs and content. This network of knowledge-based functionality will weave together a large network of human knowledge, and make this knowledge machine-processable to support intelligent behaviour by machines. Creating such an interlinked Web of knowledge which spans unstructured text, structured data as well as multimedia content and services requires the collaboration of many disciplines, including but not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science. These complementarities are reflected in the outline of the technical program of the ESWC 2024. ESWC 2024 will present the latest results in research, technologies and applications in its field. Besides the technical program organized over numerous tracks, the conference will feature a workshop and tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters exhibition and a doctoral symposium.
All information on the ESWC conference series and past conferences can be found at www.eswc-conferences.org.

Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2024
2024-05-26 - 2024-05-31 | Chiba Prefecture, Japan
The JpGU Meeting 2024 will be held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture for six days from May 26 to 31, 2024. The coming meeting will be held in a hybrid format, as was the case in previous two meetings. While retaining the advantages of the hybrid format, including the ability to allow participation from remote locations, we will be able to hold more full-fledged face-to-face discussion. I hope that many of the participants will come to the venue to meet face to face and engage in a frank exchange of ideas and opinions. The JpGU is an organization of about 10,000 individual members and about 50 domestic society members related to Earth and planetary sciences.
FAIR-EASE at JpGU
Project coordinator Alessandro Rizzo (IRD) and Jerome Detoc (Ifremer) will give an oral presentation on FAIR Earth and environmental sciences: challenges and opportunities for improving FAIR principles across-domains. The experience of the FAIR-EASE project during the Open and FAIR Science: strategies, concepts, infrastructures and opportunities session 9:00-10:15 JST on 28 May 2024.

EOSC-A General Assembly #8
2024-05-27 - 2024-05-28 | Irish College Leuven, Janseniusstraat 1 Leuven, 3000 Belgium, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
The EOSC Association’s 8th General Assembly will be a lunch-to-lunch, in-person meeting to be held 27-28 May 2024.

IMDIS 2024
2024-05-27 - 2024-05-29 | Bergen, Bergen, Norway
The IMDIS series of conferences provides an overview of current information systems addressing the needs of a wide range of users in ocean science. This year’s edition is structured around four main sessions: data services and tools in ocean science; technical developments for marine information and data management; marine environmental infrastructures for observation data; and data products, information, and knowledge.
The Conference will present different systems for on-line access to data, meta-data and products, communication standards and adapted technology to ensure platforms interoperability. Sessions will focus on infrastructures, technologies and services for different users: environmental authorities, research, schools, universities, etc.

Infectious Diseases Toolkit (IDTk) Contentathon 2024
2024-05-27 - 2024-05-30 | Tallinn, Estonia
BeYond-COVID (BY-COVID) project collects comprehensive open data on SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases across scientific, medical, public health and policy domains.
Into the Infectious Disease Toolkit (IDTk), we gather knowledge we wish we had when the pandemic hit us in the spring of 2020.
At the contentathon participants will contribute to writing guidelines for data handling, analysis and visualisations in the context of infectious diseases. We gather knowledge into the following subsections of IDTkit – attributing credit, data analysis, data communication, data description, data sources, ethical legal and social issues, provenance, and quality control. Additionally, applied examples are part of the showcases and country-specific examples form national resources.
Goal:

Provide content to the pages that are still missing information.
Write up more use cases; finish up the pages as much as possible.
Prepare the paper about IDTkit.

Practicalities: Participants need to cover their own travel expenses, but local costs will be covered by the organisers (hotel room and food, except for one dinner in town).

CRAFT-OA Summer School 2024
2024-05-27 - 2024-06-01 | Telc, Czech Republic
CRAFT-OA 2024 Summer School for Journal Editors
Designed for editors proficient in Open Journal Systems (OJS), this program offers basic as well as advanced training to refine editorial skills and elevate the standards of Diamond Open Access publishing. Participants will delve into diverse aspects of OJS, gain insights into alternative journal management systems, and engage in meaningful discussions regarding the broader landscape of Diamond OA publishing.
Connect with peers, share expertise, and explore collaborative opportunities to advance the field of scholarly communication.
This summer school is organised as part of the CRAFT-OA project. CRAFT-OA is an EU-funded project that aims to make state-of-the-art Open Access publishing available to everyone. Running from January 2023 to December 2025 the project helps editors and publishers by improving the technical and organisational infrastructure of Diamond Open Access.

Advancing Data Exchange Innovations in FAIR Data Spaces | Second Open Call
2024-05-27 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
Overview:
The FAIR Data Spaces project, coordinated by Fraunhofer, is at the forefront of integrating services from Gaia-X, International Data Spaces (IDS), the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The project has already launched several demonstrators (see Technical Foundations), showcasing its practical applications in areas such as biodiversity, research data quality assurance, and cross-platform data analysis. To further explore new areas, the first open call was released inviting companies to develop innovative data exchange scenarios between industry and academia. This call announced three research and development contracts, each funded with a budget of €60,000. Fraunhofer is set to announce a second round soon, continuing with the same overall budget of €180,000.
Objective of the Webinar:
This webinar will introduce the upcoming second round of the FAIR Data Spaces project’s open call. Ideal for existing partners and new participants, this session aims to enhance understanding of the project’s scope and to streamline the submission process for new tenders. Attendees will gain insights into the project’s achievements and learn about the expectations for upcoming submissions, including opportunities for creating new demonstrators.
Key Discussion Points:

Introduction to the FAIR Data Spaces project and its significance in the current research and industry landscape.
Overview of the developed demonstrators and an explanation of the expectations and requirements for the second round of tenders, including potential areas for new demonstrators and improvements.
Open discussion for feedback from participants to understand their perspectives and expectations, ensuring the upcoming tender aligns with the needs and capabilities of the community.

Your Work | Your Choice. Open Research an der UdK Berlin am Beispiel des Forschungsdatenmanagements
2024-05-29 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
Die Universität der Künste Berlin betrachtet Open Research und damit auch Forschungsdatenmanagement immer im Kontext von Kunst und Wissenschaft. Die damit verfolgte offene Zugänglichkeit, Nachvollziehbarkeit und – wo möglich – Nachnutzbarkeit künstlerischer wie wissenschaftlicher Prozesse ist ein Zusammenspiel diverser Aspekte, die noch dazu zahlreichen rechtlichen wie technischen Fragen unterliegen. Zudem sind an der UdK Berlin Forschung und Lehre eng miteinander verknüpft, sodass auch primär forschungsrelevante Themen wie Open Research ebenso für die Lehre von großer Bedeutung sind.
Am Beispiel der Universitätsbibliothek wird der Vortrag die Komplexität des Forschungsdatenmanagements in den Künsten verdeutlichen und aufzeigen, welche Möglichkeiten jetzt schon bestehen und wo / bei wem angesetzt werden muss, um das jetzt noch Unmögliche perspektivisch umsetzen zu können.

European Maritime Day
2024-05-30 09:00 - 2024-05-31 17:00 | Svendborg, Denmark
Established in 2008, European Maritime Day (EMD) is the annual EU meeting point on maritime affairs and sustainable blue growth, and the place where ‘Ocean Leaders Meet’ as the slogan goes. It is also a public event reaching out to young people and citizens across Europe through local events.
EMD has not only enabled many project partnerships and co-operations among stakeholders, but it has also contributed to getting the need for sustainable management of ocean resources higher on the EU’s agenda.
Stakeholders generally find the European Maritime Day a great opportunity to touch base with strategic partners, make new contacts and network, get visibility for their projects, ideas, activities and achievements, gain new insights into the evolving EU policy and funding landscape and provide input into European Maritime Policy formulation.
European Maritime Day takes place every year at the end of May. The conference takes place in a different EU country each year, see the current list until 2029 below. The cities are selected following a call for interest launched by the Council of Ministers every five years. The latest call took place in 2022.
The call for expressions of interest for exhibitors will be launched early 2024.
Blue-Cloud 2026 at the European Maritime Day
Blue-Cloud 2026 will take part to the event with a workshop on Observations to knowledge: Unlocking Ocean Insights. The workshop aims to explore the intricate connection between AI technologies, data governance, and policymaking within marine ecosystems, and how collaborative efforts among initiatives like Blue-Cloud, iMagine, SeaDataNet, and EuroGOOS address them. In addition, the audience can discover how they cooperate effectively to avoid duplication in efforts and enhance data quality. These discussions harness the collective expertise of the initiatives, reinforcing their position as leaders in advancing operational oceanography for comprehensive marine knowledge.
The initiatives involved, fully or partially funded by the EC, gather data from European research infrastructures that cover diverse European countries and sea-basins. Moreover, the initiatives foster a shared commitment to advancing technology, sustainability, and economic resilience in the maritime domain, contributing to the overarching goals of the EU in this sector.

The WorldFAIR Webinar Series: Guidelines and Recommendations from the Case Study on Population Health
2024-05-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
The Implementation Network for Sharing Population Information from Research Entities (INSPIRE) project is assembling technologies and standards in support of a data hub that facilitates federated and/or shared research capable of interoperating across often-neglected low-resource settings: it aims to provide a platform-as-a-service, which can make data of disparate types available to many different styles of analysis, among which AI systems are increasingly prominent.
INSPIRE uses OMOP, a common data model that is becoming the gold standard for systematically integrating health data from disparate sources and conducting observational research at scale using routine clinical care data. However, OMOP is not completely FAIR29 and further work is needed to improve the ability to integrate diverse sources of data.
This case study team will improve the interoperation of OMOP with other standards to enable machine-actionable descriptions of data structure and provenance (e.g., DDI-CDI, PROV-O, SDTL); the composition of measurements focused on the objects of research (e.g., I-ADOPT); record linkage modeling for creating and evaluating bridges that connect domains, vocabularies (e.g., SKOS); and data discovery (e.g., Schema.org, DCAT). This suite of standards forms the basis of an ‘AI-Ready’ description of data suitable for use across domain and institutional boundaries.

The research data insider: Introducing the GORC model
2024-05-31 09:00 - 09:30 | Online
The Global Open Research Commons International (GORC) model describes how the research infrastructure ecology is moving towards providing shared virtual spaces or platforms, presenting the researchers with a marketplace of and for data and services. But what is the GORC Model actually? And how does this approach apply to and affect the development of research data infrastructure?

Open Science Community Incubator Program
2024-06-01 | Online
In this online incubator program, offered twice per year, we will assist up to 10 participants from around the globe in setting-up their local Open Science Community.
The incubator program is a 16-week online program, based on the OSC Starter Kit, and consists of six modules:
1. Community Identity
2. Community Engagement
3. Communication Strategy
4. Stakeholder Engagement
5. Governance and Sustainability
6. Open!
We are able to offer the OSC Incubator Program and free of charge, thanks to support from the EU funded projects AURORA RI and Skills4EOSC. The program is suited both for researchers and research support staff – both are well suited to set-up an OSC. The estimated workload, including meetings, assignments and reading materials, is about 100 hours in total. Please find below the dates of the upcoming Incubator Program. All online sessions are from 15.00 – 17.00 CEST (meet-up’s) or 15.00 – 16.00 CEST (check-in’s).
Registration for the Fall Edition 2024 of the OSC Incubator Program open is now open until the 1st of June. You can click the button above to apply. As the number of participants that we can accommodate is limited, we’ll evaluate all applications and select participants, based on motivation and geographical spread. We’ll let you know whether your are selected early July.

8th World Conference on Research Integrity
2024-06-02 - 2024-06-05 | Athens, Athens, Greece
Join this established conference on research integrity in Athens. One output of this biannual conference will be the Athens Statement following the same practice that has been applied in the previous conferences. The activities within the Focus Track on catalysing the translation of research into trustworthy policy and innovation will be used to enrich the Athens Statement.
Participate and network with a host of experts in the field of ethics and research integrity. The discussions are diverse and look at ethnic, gender, geographical, disciplinary and career stage diversity. Particular focus is given to early career professionals with the opportunity to participate in the doctoral forum, , workshops, and meet-the-expert sessions for them during the conference.
If you haven’t booked your place yet, you can still do so here.
Have a further look into the full programme!

Call for EOSC Symposium Posters
2024-06-02 23:59 | Online
This year’s EOSC Symposium is steadily approaching and the work has started to prepare an interesting, engaging and thought-provoking event for you! To ensure that the Symposium programme reflects the voice of the EOSC community, we would like to invite you to join us in shaping the programme through a call for posters.
This is an opportunity to give ample visibility to your personal, institutional, or national contributions to the implementation of the EOSC Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA) objectives and take credit for your activities in supporting the implementation of EOSC! The EOSC Symposium will give visibility to 20 posters. This call is for the selection of use cases from the wider EOSC community.

Call for posters timeline

2 June 2024: Abstract submission deadline
17 June 2024: Notification of acceptance and/or rejection
15 September: Final poster submission in digital format
21-23 October 2024: EOSC Symposium in Berlin

Open Repositories Conference 2024
2024-06-03 - 2024-06-06 | Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
OR2024 is an excellent place for companies and organisations that deal with digital asset management, digital storage, research information systems, scholarly publications, open access and open data to be seen and interact with participants. The event gives access to a large audience of potential customers and partners as well as insights into what is hot in the area from a user perspective.
The event is expecting approximately 450-500 attendees from all over the world. These will include directors of digital initiatives, technical staff and developers, librarians, and repository managers as well as applied researchers in digital libraries and similar fields.
Please visit the Call for Proposals page to learn more about the sub-themes and submission categories of the conference, including a full list of submission templates and key dates for submission deadlines and approvals. Submission categories include posters, workshops, lightning talks, roundtable discussions, papers, and panels. The deadline for submissions is the 15th December 2023.
FAIR-IMPACT at the event
DANS, coordinator of FAIR-IMPACT project, will present a poster, focused on how to expose repository information to foster connections and trust.

UNESCO Working Groups on Open Science: Infrastructures
2024-06-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Online
The meeting will focus on open science and artificial intelligence.

Research Infrastructures in a Changing Global, Environmental and Socio-economical Context
2024-06-04 - 2024-06-05 | Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts 28, Bruxelles, 1000, Belgium
The “Research Infrastructures in a Changing Global, Environmental and Socio-economical Context” conference organised in the frame of the Belgian Presidency of the European Council, will take place on June 4th and June 5th 2024, in Brussels, at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR).
The conference will focus on 3 main issues:

Research Infrastructures (RIs) as key players of strategic autonomy in a changing global context;
the socio-economic and environmental impact of RIs;
the broad ecosystems of RIs.

Research infrastructures are increasingly faced with a changing global context, facing a volatile and unstable geopolitical situation on the global scene, new and rapidly changing political priorities (open strategic autonomy, digital and environmental transition, mission-oriented policies…). This requires flexibility, capacity to adapt and resilience. RI’s are already confronted with the scarcity of some crucial raw material and disruption in the supply chain. The conference will explore the value of RIs to open strategic autonomy, their contributions to key political objectives like the Green Deal and look at the broad ecosystem, the relation with national/regional RIs and other initiatives and instruments.
The conference room can accommodate up to 220 participants. You will receive a confirmation of your registration a few days after you sent your request.
The conference will be livestreamed, and the recording will be available on the website.

EULiST Alliance interactive Virtual Round Tables (VRT) on the European Open Science Cloud
2024-06-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
A moderated interactive virtual round table with Karel Luyben, President of the EOSC Association.

The discussion will be moderated by Paolo Budroni, EULiST Alliance Local Coordinator at TU Wien.
The VRT will have the character of a mini-workshop and a duration comparable to a radio broadcast, in which an expert (Karel Luyben) will be led in the broadcast by a moderator. After a short introduction, Karel Luyben will present the EOSC Association and its aims for a few minutes, opening the door to a moderated discussion intended as the beginning of a possible future interaction between the EOSC Association and the EULiST Alliance.
With this VRT the EULiST Alliance is aiming at…:

Offer a direct communication channel with one of the leading experts in the EOSC field
Establish a communication channel with the EOSC Association
facilitate possible future interaction between the European University Alliance EULiST and the EOSC Association
Achieve alignment of knowledge concerning the European Open Scioence Cloud
Promote community building within the Alliance regarding crucial Pan-European initiatives
Foster the extended competencies of the whole Consortium beyond the ongoing project objectives
Promote potential future training activities that could result in the possible cooperation with the EOSC Association

The moderate discussion will take place with the technical and logistical assistance of the EOSC Focus project partner TU Wien, which will be responsible for providing a take-away message of the transmission, as well as for depositing the transmission records (presentation material and recorded material in a Data Repository of the TU Wien).
Technical assistance: Barbara Sánchez and Juliana Giroletti, both EOSC Focus projects.

Duration: 55 minutes –
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About Karel Luyben: https://eosc.eu/board-directors/karel-luyben/
Karel Luyben is Rector Magnificus Emeritus of the Delft University of Technology as of 2018. He was Rector Magnificus of the Delft University of Technology from 2010 to 2018. Before that he served as Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences for almost 12 years.
In 1983 he was appointed full professor in Biochemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and from there has gained experience in research, starting a SME, research leadership and leading European organisations like the European Federation of Biotechnology, CESAER and now the European Open Science Cloud Association.
Presently he is primarily active in the domain of Open Science. Until 2023 he was National Coordinator for Open Science in the Netherlands. He was the Chairman of the Board of the Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences for ten years and is involved with the Open Science Task Forces of CESAER and EUA since 2020.
Since 2021 he is the President of the European Open Science Cloud Association (EOSC-A).

Forthcoming webinar: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) in the Institutional Publishing Ecosystem
2024-06-04 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
You are invited to a webinar on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) in the Institutional Publishing Ecosystem. This joint DIAMAS/C4DISC webinar will be a thought-provoking, 90-minute webinar where the findings of the DIAMAS Institutional Publishing Landscape survey, and the sections of the DIAMAS Extensible Quality Standard in Institutional Publishing (EQSIP) and Toolsuite and Guidelines, concerning gender and accessibility will be presented. The Webinar will also provide insights into developments in EDIB in scholarly publishing from C4DISC. There will be time for questions.
Registration: https://tsv-fi.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkd-ivrjouHdbnxFqBe5bQG5xCbjZYVtW2
Zoom link: provided by email to registered participants.
Programme:

Mikael Laakso: DIAMAS project and Landscape survey on EDIB (synopsis and report)
Lynne Bowker: DIAMAS Toolsuite and Guidelines on EDIB (Gender equity Toolsuite and Guidelines and SURVEY; Accessibility Toolsuite and Guidelines and SURVEY)
Sandra Shaw: C4DISC activities to promote and support EDIB
Janne Pölönen (moderator)
Open discussion

Embrace the Open: How to start an institutional OE pilot project
2024-06-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Online
We are delighted to invite you to the eighth event in our ENOEL Workshop series, on 4 June 2024 at 4-5:50 PM CEST. The workshop topic is “Embrace the Open: How to start an institutional OE pilot project”.

Our workshop facilitators are Claudia Hackl, Open Education Austria Advanced | University of Vienna (Austria), Mira Buist-Zhuk, University of Groningen (Netherlands), and Marta Bustillo, University College Dublin (Ireland).

During this workshop, you will discover the importance of OER and the need for institutional anchoring and infrastructure development to ensure their availability and adoption in higher education. You will also get an opportunity to explore the diverse requirements and perspectives on OER from different stakeholders when starting an institutional OE project.
With other participants, you will further reflect on the development of infrastructure and services for OER to support university teaching and research in the long run. Lastly, you will be encouraged to decide on possible next steps for your own institution on how to start an institutional OE pilot project.
Don’t miss this chance to get a better look into successful interdisciplinary cooperations between e-learning centres, central IT, education support services, and libraries in the context of Open Education!
The chat will be open for the audience to ask questions and engage in the discussion directly with our experts.
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

understand the importance of OER and the need for institutional anchoring and infrastructure development to ensure
their availability and adoption in higher education
identify the diverse requirements and perspectives on OER from different stakeholders, including users, producers,
infrastructure managers, and policy makers.
generate ideas on the development of infrastructure and services for OER to support university teaching and research
in the long run.
decide on possible next steps for your own institution on how to start an institutional OE pilot project.

Please join us. Register using this link: https://tinyurl.com/ENOELWorkshop8

We hope you can make it, and we encourage you to share this with your colleagues!

e-IRG Workshop under BE EU Presidency
2024-06-05 | Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts 28, Bruxelles, 1000, Belgium
The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) organises two open workshops every year, each under the auspices of the corresponding presidency of the EU Council. The Belgian EU Presidency e-IRG Workshop will be organised as a hybrid event and will bring together e-IRG stakeholders in Brussels, Belgium, as well as online and worldwide. The e-IRG events are official EU presidency events which will take place in the framework of the “Conference on Research Infrastructures” and the “ESFRI Forum meeting”, similar to the Lund events under the Swedish EU presidency.
The overarching theme of the event will be “Sustainable e-Infrastructures for research results valorisation“, in line with BE EU presidency topic. There will be two sessions under the Belgian e-IRG workshop:
Day 1 – Wednesday 5 June 2024, 13:30-15:30
Session 1: Sustaining the role of e-Infrastructures in EOSC and beyond
This session aims to continue the discussions from the Valencia e-IRG Workshop and reflect on the draft RI orientation paper for WP 2025-2027 which includes the topic of sustainability of RIs, and refers to the federation and uptake of e-Infrastructures. The session will also touch upon the concept of federation and role of e-Infrastructures in the new EOSC node-based ecosystem, especially as e-Infrastructures are not formally part of the nodes ecosystem nor the procurement projects. The sustainability topic of RIs and e-Infrastructures is also relevant to the new ERA policy agenda for 2025-2027.
Day 1 – Wednesday 5 June 2024, 16:00-18:00
Session 2: The e-Infrastructure contribution to data and research outputs valorisation
On of the Belgian EU Presidency topics on Research and Innovation is improving the valorisation of research results. This is key for reducing the innovation gap, and tailoring academic research with the needs of society, policy-makers and industries, while stimulating the EU’s industrial recovery and revitalisation. The aim of the session is to highlight the crucial role of e-Inrastructures in this area, spanning several layers and components, with a cross-cuting one being the EOSC and thematic (domain-specific) or generic (domain-agnostic) data infrastructures.

88th ESFRI Forum Meeting
2024-06-05 - 2024-06-06 | Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts 28, Bruxelles, 1000, Belgium
The 88th ESFRI Forum Meeting will take place on 5-6 June 2024, in Brussels, Belgium.
The event is kindly hosted by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU.

EUNIS Congress 2024
2024-06-05 - 2024-06-07 | Athens, Athens, Greece
The EUNIS Congress 2024, taking place in the vibrant city of Athens, Greece, from June 5th to 7th. This premier event offers a dynamic platform for researchers, developers, and practitioners to showcase their latest findings and innovations in information technology and systems for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
At EUNIS 2024, participants will engage in rich exchanges of perspectives and experiences, delving into the intricate landscape of digital transformation within European Universities. With a focus on strategically evaluating challenges and seizing opportunities amidst evolving demographics, mobility trends, energy dynamics, and digital sovereignty concerns, the congress promises to be a pivotal gathering for HEIs.
The program encompasses a diverse range of activities, including oral and poster presentations, panel discussions, tutorials, hands-on sessions, and exhibitions. Additionally, attendees can look forward to an exciting social program that immerses them in the cultural splendor of Athens and its surroundings.
FAIRCORE4EOSC at EUNIS 2024
FAIRECORE4EOSC has submitted a paper on the Metadata Schema and Crosswalk Registry (MSCR). Developed within the framework of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), MSCR offers tangible solutions to the pervasive issue of information heterogeneity across semantic, structural, and syntactic domains.
Designed to bridge the gap between disparate datasets and standards, MSCR serves as a vital tool for harmonising data exchange within the EOSC ecosystem. By providing a centralised repository for metadata schemas and crosswalks, it empowers researchers and institutions to seamlessly navigate and integrate diverse data sources, fostering collaboration and innovation on a global scale.

FAIR-IMPACT’s virtual clinic for potential applicants to the 2nd open call for repository support programme
2024-06-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
FAIR-IMPACT launched our 2nd open call for Route 1 expert support (non-financial) on 2nd May 2024. Applications are invited to join the support programme targeted to Repositories & Data service Providers
The deadline for applications is June 14th, 2024.

For those who are considering applying to the open call for support this workshop provides an informal opportunity for potential applicants to ask the FAIR-IMPACT team any questions they have about the support actions, eligibility, and the application process.

BY-COVID Spring 2024 Baseline Use Case Workshop: Integration of individual-level socioeconomic data for infectious diseases research and prevention in Europe
2024-06-06 09:30 - 12:00 | Online
We are pleased to invite you and/or your representatives to the BY-COVID project Workshop on Integration of individual-level socioeconomic data for infectious diseases research and prevention in Europe.
The BY-COVID project aims to make data on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases available to scientists and the wider public. This workshop is part of the BY-COVID project’s Work Package 5 implementing Use Cases, and is co-organised by KNAW-DANS/CESSDA, Sciensano and IACS.
The workshop will take place online on 6th of June, 09:30 – 12:00 and will be recorded to access afterwards.

Thursday 6th of June, 2024

09:30 – 09:40
Welcome, goals of the workshop, recap previous workshop & brief tour de table

09:40 – 09:55
Overview of the BY-COVID Baseline Use Case (Enrique Bernal-Delgado)

09:55 – 10:25
Challenges of mobilising and linking individual-level data, from the perspective of social epidemiology (presenter TBD)

10:25 – 10:50
Experience from Baseline Use Case partners: mapping data availability, procedures, and challenges

10:50 – 11:00
Break

11:00 – 11:45
Breakout sessions

A. Exploring socioeconomic data sources in Europe: availability, limitations, and mobilisation

B. Navigating socioeconomic data sharing: overcoming barriers and leveraging facilitators

C. Socioeconomic and health data linkage for EU-level research: challenges and solutions

D. Advancing socioeconomic data integration: generalisation, sustainability, and policy relevance

11:45 – 12:00
Reporting back from breakout sessions & Wrap-up

ELIXIR All Hands 2024
2024-06-10 - 2024-06-12 | Uppsala, Sweden
Workshops must be inclusive and consider diversity in all aspects, including speakers, hosts and participants, especially regarding balanced gender representation. Please encourage contributions from everyone using different techniques, such as small group discussions or platforms that allow anonymous participation, such as Sli.do. Most negative feedback from previous workshops often relates to a lack of dynamic engagement, i.e. too many back-to-back slide presentations.
Workshops will run as hybrid events, so efforts should be made to include remote attendees to a similar level as those in the room.

TNC24
2024-06-10 - 2024-06-14 | Rennes, France
The largest and most prestigious research and education networking conference, TNC attracts a truly diverse audience of over 800 participants from more than 70 countries, representing national and regional research and education networks, schools and universities, technology providers, and many of the world’s most exciting scientific projects. By bringing together decision-makers, networking and security specialists, identity and access management experts, researchers, academics and students, TNC offers a unique collaborative experience.

The Emerging NREN Programme aims to integrate individuals from emerging NRENs from around the globe into the TNC community and create further synergies and connections at different organisational levels between European and international NRENs. Its purpose is to bring to TNC NREN staff members who would not be able to participate otherwise, focusing particularly on engineering and technical personnel. For further information, please contact Leila Dekkar at GÉANT.

The Future Talent Programme’s Lightning Talk Challenge offers students and young professionals the opportunity to present their project or idea to TNC’s international audience. Nominated by GÉANT project partners, participants receive training to help them master presentation skills and prepare to deliver an impactful presentation. For further information, please contact Lisa Melrose at GÉANT.

PID festival
2024-06-11 - 2024-06-13 | Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Embark on a three-day journey of enlightenment at this international summit, where captivating talks, engaging activities, and insightful workshops converge to explore the transformative power of persistent identifiers in shaping world-class research infrastructure. This event is organised by the National Library of Technology (NTK) and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), esteemed collaborators within the FAIRCORE4EOSC initiative.
The overarching objective of PIDfest is to unite global pioneers in the field of persistent identifiers, fostering collaborative solutions to tangible infrastructure challenges that stand in the way of expediting research and innovation. An event of this magnitude promises dynamic discussions, centred on practical strategies for overcoming real-world hurdles in the delivery of research infrastructure.
e-mail: contact@pidfest.org

EuroScience Open Forum 2024
2024-06-12 - 2024-06-15 | Katowice, Poland
The EuroScience Open Forum is a biennial meeting designed to offer the scientific community a platform for interdisciplinary and intersectional debate about scientific culture, scientific research, and innovation. It is created for the society’s benefit and carried out with the society’s participation.
The main goal of the ESOF2024 conference is to explore the connections between science and society, the conditions for conducting research, and their impact on society. We aim to stimulate debate on social changes related to science and analyze the social, cultural, and economic consequences of scientific breakthroughs at regional, national, European, and global levels. In the face of global challenges and to enhance international scientific cooperation, scientists want to discuss science as a factor of change in our lives and how the very life changes science.
The programme includes lectures, seminars, a debate, workshops, poster presentations and exhibitions, interactive sessions, and a wide array of public engagement forms. The theme for the ESOF2024 is: Life changes science. Katowice will host Europe’s and the world’s leading personalities in the world of science, academic researchers, representatives of public and non-public institutions supporting science, business people, representatives of media, and those interested in the role of science in the contemporary world.
