COST Open Call 2025
2025-10-21 12:00 (Europe/Paris)
Participants are invited to submit COST Action proposals contributing to the scientific, technological, economic, cultural or societal knowledge advancement and development of Europe. Multi- and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged.
The Open Call Action proposal submission, evaluation, selection and approval (SESA) procedure is fully science and technology-driven and will ensure a simple, transparent and competitive proposal evaluation and selection process, reflecting the bottom-up, open and inclusive principles of COST.
Participants planning to submit a proposal for a COST Action will need to refer to the COST Open Call proposers guidelines and to the Open Call Announcement available on the Documents and Guidelines page.
All proposals are submitted via the dedicated online platform of the COST Association used for grant management, known as e-COST.

AI & Data Governance
2025-10-22 08:30 - 16:30 | LOFFICE, Schottenfeldgasse 85, Wien, 1070, Austria
Program

Overview
This workshop explores how ethical reflection, legal regulation, and responsible data use intersect in research practice in the age of AI and large language models (LLMs).
Participants will explore how principles such as ethics, democracy, and scientific integrity translate into concrete research practices with AI and data, addressing issues like bias, transparency, and the responsibilities of universities and researchers. They will also discuss regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act and the Data Governance Act, examining their implications for everyday research practices, data access, institutional compliance, and scientific accountability..
A key theme is data governance: understanding data as both a research resource and a matter of power, access, and control. Participants will consider how data infrastructures shape knowledge and how ethical and legal principles can ensure fairness and trust in research.
Guided by the idea of digital humanism and through interactive discussions, participants will engage with real-world scenarios, such as handling training data, ensuring fairness in automated systems, and aligning institutional practices with evolving EU regulations.
Who is the trainer?
Matthias C. Kettemann is Professor of Innovation, Theory and Philosophy of Law and head of the Department for Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck. He leads the University’s Quantum Ethics Lab and heads research programmes at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin and Leibniz Institute for Media Research in Hamburg.

Goal

By the end of the workshop, participants will:

Understand the ethical and governance frameworks shaping the use of AI and data in research.
Gain insight into European regulatory developments and their relevance for scientific practice.
Reflect on their own role and responsibility as researchers in a datafied ecosystem.
Develop a critical understanding of digital humanism as a guiding idea for responsible, human-centered innovation.

The workshop encourages researchers to act as ethical stewards of data and AI, combining legal awareness, normative reflection, and scientific responsibility in the pursuit of good science.

Precondition

Who can join?
This Workshop is organized for researchers affiliated with a Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, a university or research organization in Austria.

National Open Science Festival
2025-10-24 | Groningen
Open Science NL is delighted that the University of Groningen (UG) and the University Medical Center (UMCG) have generously offered to host this year’s festival. The one-day event will be held in the buildings of the UMCG.
Like last year, the festival is organised by a team with representatives from the host institution, Open Science NL, DANS, and the National Coordination Point for Research Data Management (LCRDM). In addition, the programme will be curated by an independent committee, ensuring broad community representation. The programme committee will be chaired by Casper Albers, dean of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences and chair of the steering committee of the Open Science Programme at the University of Groningen, and Ana Ranitović, chief of Open Science at the University of Groningen.
Previous editions of the festival were hosted by Wageningen University (2021, online), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2022), Erasmus University Rotterdam (2023), and Maastricht University (2024).
The opening of registration will be announced via the festival’s communication channels and those of the participating organisations.

Call for Papers: FAIR Digital Objects Forum
2025-10-26 | Online
Call for Papers, Posters & Lightning Talks
FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) are autonomous information units that virtually bind all information in a machine-actionable way that is required to make data FAIR, including various kinds of metadata and globally unique and resolvable persistent identifiers (PIDs). FDOs provide a conceptual and implementation framework to develop scalable cross-disciplinary capabilities, deal with increasing data volumes and their inherent complexity, build tools that help increase trust in data, create mechanisms to efficiently operate in the domain of scientific assertions, and promote data interoperability. In addition, FDOs play a foundational role in implementing widely accepted trust frameworks, which are characterised by the STAP principles (Sovereignty, Transparency, Accountability, Persistence). These principles underpin large-scale data exploration supported by AI.
About the Conference
For the third time at this scale, the FDO2026 Conference (link) will bring together leading experts from science and industry, technologists, data stewards/managers, and policymakers engaged in advancing FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs). The conference will feature a mix of invited presentations, panels, posters and demonstrators. It will be associated with a day of tutorials and a newcomer session. The first conference focused on discussing and finalising basic specifications, while the second conference concentrated on practical implementations of the FDO concept (testbeds, demonstrators). This third conference will explore the relevance of the FDOs for turning to a global data landscape characterised by the STAP Principles, tackle the integration of FDOs with data use control technologies (dataspace technologies) and examine the challenges and showcase successful demonstrations of interoperability between different implementations. The conference will take place at the facilities of the Technische Universität Wien. Video interaction options and video recordings of all sessions and the training sessions will be provided.
Expected Contributions
For the conference the organisers are seeking contributions that (1) offer insights into practical developments and real-world functionality of FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs), or (2) outline strategic plans for their adoption, or (3) demonstrate how FDOs can interoperate and thus contribute to the advancement of global trust frameworks guided by the STAP principles. We invite the submission of extended abstracts consistent with the conference themes and objectives and address FDOs, in particular:

Use of the FDO concept for structuring the emerging domain of disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge in the research domain.
Importance of FDOs’ abstraction, binding and encapsulation properties for data-driven and cross-domain research.
Use of FDOs in data-driven projects or processes from the perspective of researchers and/or technologists using different approaches.
Reports on implementations of FDOs and associated components such as PIDs, PID/FDO Profiles, PID Kernel Attributes, Types, Type Registries, DOIP, FDO-compliant repositories, Signposting, etc.
Plans and use of FDOs to implement operations, workflows, secure environments and collections.
Applications of FDOs in research-based education or in specific skills development.
Showcases where FAIR Implementation and FDO compliance profiles led to a change of practices towards FDO usage or consumption, particularly across FDO deployments.
Validation or evaluation of FDOs, FDO profiles and/or FDO types.
Use of FDOs to build a cross-disciplinary, global and distributed testbed.
Implementing FDOs in the realm of dataspace technology to build bridges.
FDO interoperability solutions to enable cross-walks.
FDO in the European Open Science Cloud or any other large funding program..
Experiences of adopting FDO approaches in infrastructures and pathways to adoption.
The potential of FDOs to increase FAIRness and support Open Science.
The potential of FDOs to build a global data landscape characterised by the STAP principles.
Other contributions that focus on the concept, development, or application of FDOs.

Please note: Contributions that address FAIR and the STAP Principles in a general way should be submitted to other conferences. The focus here needs to be on the specific contributions using FDOs.
Submission of abstracts for Papers and Lightning Talks
For presentations, please submit extended abstracts of up to two pages (excluding references and diagrams). For posters and lightning talks, submit extended abstracts of up to one page (excluding references and diagrams). Abstract submissions should clearly indicate:
(i) how the work relates to the FDO concept
(ii) whether it is conceptual work, implementations, or applications
(iii) whether the submission is for a presentation, a poster or a lightning talk.
We will publish the abstracts and the full papers of accepted presentations and lightning talks via the peer-reviewed TIB Open Publishing (OJS) publication option. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Evaluation criteria include: timeliness and relevance, substance and soundness, clarity and potential impact. Prizes will be awarded in the final session to the best three lightning talks (based on content and presentation) as voted by the conference participants.
Submission Process

Deadline for submissions: 26 October 2025
Submission Link: tbd (see website: https://fairdo.org/fdo-conference-2026/ )
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2025

Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: “Better Science for Better Policies”
2025-10-27 | Berlin, Berlin, Germany
ZBW ─ Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, DIW Berlin (the German Institute for Economic Research), WZB (Berlin Social Science Center), and RWI ─ Leibniz Institute for Economic Research are pleased to invite to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies.
With the growing importance of the social sciences in addressing societal challenges, the significance of a meta-scientific perspective is also increasingly on the rise. We need a deeper understanding of how evidence is generated and communicated to society and policymakers.
Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of scientific research findings. These approaches help identify heterogeneities and biases, improve methodological standards, and foster transparency, ultimately enhancing the credibility of scientific knowledge.

Open Science Day 2025
2025-10-28 11:00 - 15:30 | University of Mannheim
The seventh annual Open Science Day will take place on 28 October 2025. This year, BERD@NFDI and the Open Science Office have co-organized the Open Science Day to showcase, share, and discuss the diverse range of open science activities and experiences taking place at the University of Mannheim and beyond.
We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker this year is Vasilka Paunova, the legal counsel for BERD@NFDI, who will present Open and GDPR-Compliant Science – highlighting the legal challenges posed by Open Science and Research Data Management and potential solutions.
BERD@NFDI will address the role of Open Science and Research Data Management in business and economics research. We will cover incentives for doing Open Science and their impact on research in the social sciences, as well as shifting journal requirements for transparency in the political sciences. Our latest 2025 awardees will also present their funded projects and the Open Science practices they will use in their diverse research.
All members and researchers of the University of Mannheim and beyond are invited to join our Open Science Day.
We would be delighted if you are able to attend this event. If you are interested in attending, please sign up below:
Click here for online registration
Click here for in-person registration
Programm

30th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy
2025-10-29 - 2025-10-31 | Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Over the course of three days, October 29-31, 2025, you will have the opportunity to engage with experts from a variety of fields, including bibliometrics, research policy and library & information science. The aim of the workshop is to integrate bibliometric research with research policy, showcase the latest bibliometric research from the Nordic region and beyond, and strengthen connections between bibliometric research groups and their PhD students.
Important dates
Submission of abstracts: March 17 – May 31, 2025.
Notifications of acceptance: June 20, 2025.
Registration: July 1 – September 15, 2025.
Nordic Workshop: October 29 – 31, 2025.
Organizing committee
Dag W. Aksnes, NIFU
Caroline S. Armitage, University of Bergen
Marta Eide, University of Bergen
Henrik Karlstrøm, NIFU
Eli Heldaas Seland, University of Bergen
Contact
Follow us on Bluesky: @nwb2025.bsky.social
Hashtag on social media: #nwb2025
NWB Steering group
Denmark: Birger Larsen, Aalborg University
Finland: Susanna Nykyri, Tampere University
Iceland: Baldvin Zarioh, University of Iceland
Norway: Dag W. Aksnes, NIFU – Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
Sweden: Fredrik Åström, Lund University

EOSC Symposium 2025
2025-11-03 - 2025-11-05 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Please mark your calendars for the EOSC Symposium 2025, the largest and most in-demand event on the EOSC calendar. Organised by the EOSC Association for the second consecutive year, the Symposium will take place 03-05 November in Brussels. Check back for details on venue and registration.
As an appetizer, please enjoy our compilation video from the 2024 Symposium in Berlin. The outcomes and resources from the 2024 Symposium can be found here: EOSC Symposium 2024: Outcomes

Open Science in the light of geopolitical polarisation
2025-11-10 - 2025-11-11 | Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The current geopolitical landscape is characterised by rising political and trade tensions as well as heightened economic interest in scientific innovation. This polarisation has significant implications for the global scientific community, particularly in the pursuit of Open Science. Could the naivety of science be exploited? Where is the line between scientific idealism and naivety?
As major global powers engage in systemic rivalries, the conduct of science is increasingly influenced by national security concerns, export controls, and sanctions that can restrict the free flow of ideas, data, and researchers across borders. Meanwhile, global challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and technology-based development require international scientific collaboration and universal knowledge development. The normative nature of the scientific ethos is increasingly in tension with political forces that demand that science be both vigilant and competitive.
How can Open Science – with its emphasis on transparency, collaboration, efficiency and validity of scientific results – be sustained in the light of these competing interests?
During this year’s Open Science Days, we will explore these tensions by discussing the interrelations of Open Science, political interests, and innovation. We will ask how research organizations can reconcile Open Science policies with resilience and competitiveness.

About Open Science Days
The Open Science Days (OSD) are periodically organised by the Max Planck Digital Library.
In the context of this conferences we deal with various aspects of a global movement towards a more open, transparent and reproducible approach to science. Aside from invited expert talks, participants get the opportunity to present their own ideas, experiences, initiatives or activities in a Lightning Talk session. It is an open discussion platform around current Open Science developments.
The hybrid event is directed at researchers and specialists outside the Max Planck Society as well as within. It is for anyone, who is interested in an interdisciplinary communication about Open Science.

Open Science Week 2025
2025-11-10 - 2025-11-12
Open Science Week 2025, organised by the Open Science Working Group of the Association of Libraries of Czech Universities, is approaching!
We are preparing three days full of inspiration, experience sharing, and practical demonstrations focused on Open Science, research data management, open access, citizen science, and the legal aspects of open science. You can look forward to expert lectures, live discussions, and networking that will connect researchers, PhD students, librarians, project support staff, data stewards, and all other friends of open science – everyone will find something to their liking!
Follow us on social media for more information – the program details will be published soon.
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Registration will open soon.

Opening Research Assessment
2025-11-12 - 2025-11-13 | Pisa
For research assessment to truly support Open Science, we must prioritise transparency, inclusivity, and fairness in how we recognise research activities and contributions. This means not only ensuring that all contributions to Open Science are valued but also promoting openness in the data, tools, services, and other resources used in the assessment process.
We invite you to our Conference on Opening Research Assessment, where we will present the results of the GraspOS project and engage in discussions on transforming research assessment into a system that is open, responsible and aligned with the principles of Open Science.

The GraspOS project supports the emerging policy reforms and paves the way for a responsible research assessment system that is fully aware of and integrated with Open Science practices. GraspOS focuses on developing, assessing, and operating an open federated infrastructure designed to aggregate open resources that can catalyse the implementation of relevant policy reforms.
The Conference will not only showcase the key outcomes and insights of the project, but will also feature invited talks and expert panels addressing critical topics for advancing a responsible research assessment system that fully embraces Open Science principles including:

Open infrastructures for responsible research assessment
Transparency and inclusivity of the assessment processes
Recognition of contributions to Open Science

We also invite poster contributions aligned with these themes by anyone interested. Guidelines on how to submit a contribution for the Poster Session are available below.

Austrian ERA SYMPOSIUM 2025
2025-11-17 10:00 - 19:00
The Austrian ERA Symposium 2025: “Towards Europe’s Fifth Freedom” will be held as a full-day, in-person event in Vienna on 17 November 2025.
This year’s symposium offers a unique opportunity to explore and shape the future of the European Research Area (ERA). We are honoured to welcome Commissioner for Start-ups, Research and Innovation Ekaterina Zaharieva, who will share first-hand insights into the evolving EU R&I landscape. We will furthermore discuss the path towards the ERA Act – an envisaged landmark initiative introducing legally binding measures to strengthen the ERA.
The symposium will also spotlight priorities of Austria’s next ERA Action Plan 2026–2028 with dedicated workshops.
Visit the ERA Symposium website for the full agenda and registration details. We kindly ask you to revisit this website which will be regularly updated with speaker information.

COMET-Zentren 2025: Exzellente themenoffene Forschung
2025-11-18 | Online
Exzellente Forschung an COMET-Zentren in Kooperation von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft

In COMET-Zentren forschen Unternehmen gemeinsam mit Forschungseinrichtungen an einem mehrjährigen Forschungsprogramm.
COMET-Zentren betreiben exzellente, kooperative Forschung auf hohem internationalem Niveau und setzen neue Forschungsimpulse. Sie bauen entsprechende Kompetenzen und Humanressourcen auf und bieten Forscher:innen vielfältige Aus- und Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten.
Erfolgreiche Zentren zeichnen sich durch die Dissemination von Forschungsergebnissen, sowohl in Form von innovativen Produkten, Prozessen und Dienstleistungen als auch durch eine hochrangige Publikationstätigkeit aus.
Internationalisierung als Qualitätsmerkmal exzellenter kooperativer Forschung zeigt sich insbesondere durch die Einbindung international renommierter Forscher:innen, Organisationen und Unternehmen sowie die Beteiligung an internationalen Projekten.
COMET Zentren tragen im Sinne der SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) zur Lösung gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen bei und unterstützen die Transformation der österreichischen Wirtschaft bei ihrem nachhaltigen Wandel.

Munin Conference on Scholary Publishing
2025-11-18 - 2025-11-20
This is the programme for the 19th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing 2024.
All presentations will take place in Auditoria 1 and 2 (see information about the conference venue). Registration, poster sessions and coffee breaks will take place in the hall outside of the auditoria. The workshop rooms are above the conference hall, accessible by lift or stairs.
Short abstracts for the parallel workshops can be seen on the Workshops-overview page. See also an overview of posters that will be displayed during poster lunches on 26 and 27 November.
For the digital audience: all presentation and panel sessions will be streamed. The streaming links for the sessions in Auditorium 1 are posted at the top of the programme for each day. For Auditorium 2, see the specific session. Munin is in the CET zone.

5th EOSC Support Office Austria General Assembly
2025-11-18 13:30 - 18:00 | TUtheSky, Getreidemarkt 9, 1060 Wien, Gebäude BA, 11. OG, Vienna, 1060, Austria
We are pleased to announce that the 5th General Assembly of the EOSC Support Office Austria will take place on November 18, 2025, at TUtheSKY, TU Wien. This event brings together members of the EOSC SOA community to review achievements over the past year, elect new representatives to governing bodies, and discuss the strategic direction for the future.
It will be a key moment for advancing shared goals within the EOSC SOA community and fostering stronger collaboration across diverse areas, including Open Science, data stewardship, and research infrastructure. The General Assembly will provide an opportunity to report on developments and to strengthen the community’s impact in supporting Austria’s engagement within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Agenda

Time:

Item:

Presenter:

13:30-14:30

Lunch and Networking

14:30-14:45

Opening

Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi (1st Chair GA) & VR Wolfgang Kastner (TU Wien)

14:45-14:55

ACONET Association: Legal Entity & Strategy 2030

Petra Karlhuber
ACONET Association

14:55-15:10

Year in Review

Barbara Sánchez Solís
Chair of the EOSC SOA Management Board

15:10-15:25

Official Business: Elections

Group photo

15:25-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:45

Nodes Development in the EOSC Federation

EOSC Federation: current developments and next steps

EOSC Node in Poland

Update: Austrian developments towards an EOSC Node

Q&A

Bob Jones
EOSC Association

Stefan Hanslik
BMFWF

Aneta Pazik-Aybar
NCN Poland

Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi
1st Chair of the EOSC SOA General Assembly

17:45-18:00

Closing

Registration has closed.
If you still want to join the event, please contact contact@eosc-austria.at

FAIR&AI: How research data and AI can empower each other
2025-11-27 | TU Graz, Graz, Austria
Der Cluster Forschungsdaten lädt herzlich ein zum FAIR&AI Symposium am 27. November 2025 an die TU Graz. Die Veranstaltung thematisiert die Schnittstellen zwischen Forschungsdatenmanagement (RDM) und Künstlicher Intelligenz (AI): Wie können FAIR-Prinzipien KI-Anwendungen unterstützen, und wie kann KI RDM-Prozesse beeinflussen?
Das Programm beinhaltet Keynotes von internationalen und nationalen Expert*innen, Lightning Talks und Breakout Sessions für interdisziplinären Austausch und Möglichkeiten zum Networking. Gemeinsam werden Infrastruktur-Herausforderungen diskutiert, Supportstrukturen präsentiert und die Synergien zwischen FAIRen Daten und künstlicher Intelligenz aufgezeigt.
Die Veranstaltung beginnt um 13 Uhr, davor findet die Registrierung und der Networking-Lunch statt.
Wir hoffen Ihr Interesse geweckt zu haben und Sie in Graz begrüßen zu dürfen – halten Sie sich den Termin frei. Die Anmeldung beginnt im Oktober 2025, weitere Informationen finden Sie hier.

7. EOSC Coffee Lecture: “Aktuelles aus der EOSC-Föderation”
2025-12-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Die European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) schafft einen integrativen, föderierten Raum für die gemeinsame Nutzung wissenschaftlicher Forschungsdaten in Europa. Sie stärkt die europäische Datensouveränität, indem sie gemeinsame Standards und sichere, transparente Rahmenbedingungen für den Austausch von Forschungsdaten etabliert. Mit dem weiteren Ausbau der EOSC-Föderation entstehen neue Möglichkeiten für Institutionen, sich zu beteiligen und entsprechende Förderangebote zu nutzen.
Um darüber zu informieren, lädt die ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft Sie am Dienstag, den 2. Dezember 2025, von 15:00–16:00 Uhr zur siebten EOSC Coffee Lecture ein.
Diese Coffee Lecture stellt folgende Themen in den Mittelpunkt:

Bericht vom EOSC-Symposium 2025 in Brüssel
Update zum Stand der EOSC-Föderation
Fördermöglichkeiten zur Vorbereitung eines EOSC-Knotens
Fördermöglichkeiten zum Andocken von Ressourcen (Services/Repositorien)

Durch das einstündige, deutschsprachige Webinar (30 Min. Vortrag, 30 Min. Fragen/Diskussion) führt Sie Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann, Präsident der EOSC Association, Mitglied im NFDI-Senat und in mehrere NFDI-Konsortien involviert.
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.
Weiterführende Informationen zu den Inhalten der 7. EOSC Coffee Lecture finden Sie außerdem hier: https://eosc.eu/news/welcome-to-the-eosc-federation-mou-establishes-shared-path-to-operations/

Commission seeks feedback on the future Charter of access for industrial users
2025-12-10
Brussels — The European Commission has opened a public survey to gather input from stakeholders on the upcoming Charter of Access for Industrial Users to Research and Technology Infrastructures.
Building on the revised Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures, the new Charter will focus specifically on improving access for companies. Its goal is to make it easier for businesses, particularly SMEs, startups, and scaleups, to benefit from Europe’s world-class research and technology infrastructures. The survey will close on 10 December 2025 and the final Charter is expected to be presented in 2026.
The Charter aims to improve access to infrastructures through six proposed principles:

Increased visibility and availability of services
Transparency and quality of services
Simplified contract and agreement procedures
Safe intellectual property management
Priority to companies in the EU
Cooperation between infrastructures and access to data

EOSC-A 12th General Assembly
2025-12-10 10:00 - 17:00 | Online
Mark your calendars! The 12th General Assembly meeting of the EOSC Association will be held online on the afternoon of Wednesday, 10 December 2025. This meeting will include the election of three Directors to the EOSC-A Board of Directors.
More details and registration information coming soon. Stay tuned!

Participate in the European Research Area Act consultation
2026-01-05 | Online
Brussels — The European Commission has opened a public consultation on the forthcoming European Research Area Act, inviting contributions from all stakeholders. The consultation is open until 5 January 2026.
The European Research Area (ERA) Act represents a major policy initiative to strengthen the EU’s research and innovation landscape. Its objective is to overcome persistent challenges such as fragmented regulatory frameworks, uneven research and innovation investments across Member States, and barriers that hinder researchers’ mobility, collaboration and knowledge sharing.
A central ambition of the ERA Act is to advance the EU’s “fifth freedom”, i.e. the free circulation of researchers, scientific knowledge and technology throughout the Single Market. Through this consultation, the Commission aims to gather evidence on the obstacles preventing the full realisation of the ERA, and to collect stakeholders’ views on the policy and legislative solutions needed at EU level.
Have your say on the ERA Act and share your insights on topic relevant for EOSC and the broader Open Science and research infrastructure ecosystem in Europe!

Participate in public consultation on the ERA Act

EOSC Winter School 2026
2026-01-27 - 2026-01-29 | Nizza
Mark your calendars for the EOSC Winter School 2026, which will take place during the week of 26 January 2026 and 1 February 2026! While the location and exact dates are yet to be decided, you can already now look forward to an engaging programme.
As in the first two Winter Schools, the third edition will bring together broad representation from the EOSC community, including from the EOSC-related Horizon Europe projects, the EOSC-A Task Forces, the Opportunity Area Expert Groups, the EOSC-A Board and Secretariat, the European Commission and others.
To review the reports and materials from previous editions, visit EOSC Winter School 2025 and EOSC Winter School 2024.

Call for evaluators of EOSC Gravity cascading grants
2026-01-30 14:00 | Online
BRUSSELS — A call for independent evaluators is now open to assess applications for the EOSC Gravity preparatory and inter-project grants aiming to grow the EOSC Federation. Interested candidates can submit their applications by 30 January 2026 (14:00 CET).
Evaluation work will take place from 25 February 2026 to 7 April 2026, with each evaluator receiving compensation for their work. Serving as an evaluator offers a unique chance to apply your expertise in shaping the future of the EOSC Federation. Full details of the call, including guidelines, rules and conditions, the selection process, timeline, and more, are available in the evaluator package.
Download full call text and evaluator package
EOSC Gravity may draw from the pool of applications submitted under this call for other EOSC Federation-related assessments, such as the Enrolment call of the EOSC Tripartite Governance or the second inter-project call under EOSC Gravity planned for the second half of 2026.
Selection criteria
The evaluators must meet the following mandatory criteria:

Understanding of the EOSC Federation ecosystem and its build-up process (more details are available in the EOSC Federation Handbook),
Broad knowledge of EOSC-A activities and initiatives, as well as Open Science principles and practices,
Understanding of the training and skills development needs of the EOSC Federation,
Familiarity with ICT technologies, software development processes, or service management systems,
Be legally established or resident in a Member State of the European Union, including outermost regions and associated Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT); or in a Horizon Europe associated country at the time the EOSC Gravity grant entered into force (October 2024),
Ability to work as a consultant and issue invoices/debit notes following the regulations of their own country.

Optional criteria:

Experience in evaluating proposals for the European Commission, or similar relevant experience, is considered a plus.

Tasks
The evaluators will be responsible for providing an impartial and unbiased review of the applications assigned to them, following the determined evaluation process and timeline. The evaluation workflow includes the following steps:

Participation in the onboarding session on 25 February 2026,
Pre-assessment of the applications between 25 February 2026 and 18 March 2026,
Participation in a panel meeting to determine a ranked list of applications. Each evaluator will participate in one remote panel meeting scheduled between 26-31 March 2026,
Preparation of the consensus report (one per application) between 26 March 2026 and 7 April 2026: A summary of the pre-assessments and panel discussions to be sent to each applicant.

Compensation
Evaluators will receive compensation of 100€ per evaluation, provided it is properly completed and validated by ESF. This includes all the steps listed above under Tasks.
The Panel Chair, selected by ESF among the evaluators, will receive an additional 200€ for the panel day.
How to apply
Applications can only be submitted via the European Science Foundation (ESF) Platform. If you are a first-time user of the ESF Platform, you will need to create an account before applying.
If you have any questions about the process, please reach out to us at EOSC-Gravity-grants@esf.org and include “Evaluator call” in the subject line.

Create an account on the ESF platform

Apply to become an evaluator

Public consultation on SRIA 2.0 is open!
2026-01-31 23:59
Dear EOSC community,
The Board of Directors of the EOSC Association warmly invites you to participate in the SRIA 2.0 public consultation.
Your input is essential for shaping the future direction of EOSC and ensuring that the voice of the community remains strong.
The purpose of this public consultation is to collect insights from the EOSC community on the main technological and innovation challenges of EOSC. SRIA 2.0 will have three core chapters:

Chapter 1 addresses the “Vision, Mission, and Strategic Objectives” of EOSC.
Chapter 2, “Current Landscape: Gaps, Trends, and Challenges”, will be informed directly by the insights gathered through this consultation. The consultation enables participants to rate the relevance of topics and suggest additional input.
The results of this consultation will provide the basis for Chapter 3: “Strategic Priorities for 2026–2030”, ensuring that the strategic focus truly reflects the needs and perspectives of the EOSC community.

The consultation will take approximately 10-15 minutes. Participation is possible until 31 January 2026.

Tag der guten Daten
2026-02-10 | Universität Graz, Universitätsplatz 3a, Graz, 8010, Austria
In der International Love Data Week, in der dieses Jahr die Frage “Where’s the data?” diskutiert werden soll, gibt es an der Universität Graz eine ganztägige Veranstaltung zu diesem Thema. In der Keynote, welche die Vortragsreihe am Vormittag (9:00-13:00) eröffnet, wird Verantwortung, Wartbarkeit und Langzeitdenken am Beispiel eines DH Urgesteins – der Mittelhochdeutschen Begriffsdatenbank – thematisiert. Dabei stellen die Vortragenden KI-gestützte Arbeitsmethoden vor, zeigen auf, dass KI Forschung zwar unterstützen kann, Forschungspersonal aber nie ersetzen wird und stellen fest, dass offene, menschenlesbare Standards wie XML durchaus kein Rückschritt sind, sondern der Schlüssel für digitale Zukunftsfähigkeit. Die weiteren Vorträge behandeln Lizenzierung in AUSSDA, den Health Data Research Hub der Meduni Graz, die Performancetests und Metadaten aus den Digital Skills Austria Studien und ein übertragbares Modell für heterogene (psychologische) Forschungsdaten.
Dieser Teil der Veranstaltung wird auch per Livestream übertragen.

Am Nachmittag findet ein Workshop mit dem Titel “Forschungsdaten zur Verfügung stellen / Forschungsdaten nachnutzen” statt, in dem nach einer Reihe von Impulsvorträgen, in denen Daten aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen charakterisiert werden, an einer Handreichung für Forschende zu diesem Thema gearbeitet wird.
Der Workshop findet nur in Präsenz statt und die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt.

Veranstaltungslink: https://forschungsdatenmanagement.uni-graz.at/de/veranstaltungen/tag-der-guten-daten-2026/

Anmeldung: https://ub.uni-graz.at/de/beratung-kurse/kurse-veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen/tag-der-guten-daten-2026/

Data Spaces Symposium 2026
2026-02-10 - 2026-02-11 | Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Mark Your Calendars!
The world’s premier event on data spaces returns for its fourth edition!
Under the theme “Scaling cross-border data ecosystems”, the Data Spaces Symposium 2026 will spotlight how data spaces drive collaboration, innovation, and global competitiveness.
Hosted by the Data Spaces Support Centre together with BDVA – Big Data Value Association, FIWARE Foundation, Gaia-X Association for Data and Cloud (AISBL), and the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA), this year’s symposium takes place in Madrid, in partnership and under the coordination of the Gaia-X Hub España. As a leading actor in Spain’s data sharing and data space initiatives, the Hub brings national expertise to a truly European stage.
2026 Highlights:

Data Spaces as value creators – enabling collaboration and economic growth
Trustworthy data for AI – how data spaces power the future of artificial intelligence
Standards and interoperability – driving international harmonisation and cross-border alignment
The inaugural European Data Spaces Awards Ceremony

and much more to come!
Registration opens soon — stay tuned for updates!
Questions or sponsorship opportunities? Contact us at events@dssc.eu

EOSC EU Node Ask Me Anything for Contributors
2026-02-12 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
Join our Ask Me Anything (AMA) session for Contributors and explore how to onboard, integrate, and build with the EOSC EU Node
When: Thursday 12 February 2026, 11.00-12.30 CET
Speakers & Moderators: Peter Szegedi, Policy Officer at the European Commission DG CNECT, Spiros Athanasiou, EOSC EU Node Contractors’ representative, Maja Dolinar
Who is it for?
Service providers, research infrastructures, candidate nodes, technical contributors, and developers interested in integrating their data sources, services, or tools into the EOSC EU Node. Ideal for anyone working on interoperability, open-source tooling, or technical onboarding.
What’s on the agenda?
This AMA session focuses on the contributor’s perspective and will cover:

Live demonstration of the testing environment with the enrolled Candidate Nodes and their onboarded services
Insights into the process of onboarding services from Candidate notes; how they were achieved, lessons learned, and what contributors can expect
Open-source components of the EOSC EU Node; what is available, how to access it, and how it can be reused, deployed, or customised

This interactive session is your opportunity to understand how to bring your services into the EOSC ecosystem and how to build on top of the software we develop.
How will the session work?

Interactive Q&A – Ask your questions about integration, and technical requirements
Live engagement – Submit and upvote questions using Zoom’s Q&A feature
Focused discussions – From onboarding services to open-source components and interoperability scenarios

Register now and join us for a hands-on discussion that will help you take the next step as a contributor to the EOSC EU Node. We look forward to seeing you there!

20th International Digital Curation Conference
2026-02-16 - 2026-02-18 | Zagreb
About the International Digital Curation Conference
The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is an established annual event with a unique place in the digital curation community, reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in curating data and providing an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice.

Three open calls to grow the EOSC Federation
2026-02-18 17:00 | Online
Enrolment call of the EOSC Tripartite Governance
This call invites organisations to join the second wave of the EOSC Federation’s build-up phase, requiring them to enrol as an EOSC Node, submit a Project Charter, develop use cases, and demonstrate their capacity to function as a community gateway.
Total funding: No funding is provided through this call
Maximum grant amount: Not applicable

Preparatory grants under EOSC Gravity

hese grants are designed to support the preparatory work of potential future EOSC Nodes. The main objective is to develop a Project Charter for a subsequent, separate application to the Enrolment Call of the EOSC Tripartite Governance.
Total funding: €800,000
Maximum grant amount: €50,000 per project
Read the call text on EU Funding & Tenders Portal

Inter-project grants under EOSC Gravity
This call aims to expand the services offered through the EOSC Federation and to demonstrate the benefits for end users. This can be achieved in two ways: by developing scientific use cases, or by piloting the onboarding of new services into existing EOSC Nodes, without the requirement to become an EOSC Node at this stage.
Total funding: €400,000
Maximum grant amount: €50,000 per project
Read the call text on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal

RICH Europe Symposium
2026-02-25 - 2026-02-26 | Rome
RICH Europe kindly invites you to the Second RICH Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures, which will take place on 25–26 February 2026 in Rome, Italy, at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.
European Research Infrastructures (RIs) play a pivotal role in advancing frontier research, fostering innovation, and addressing societal challenges. As strategic assets of the European Research Area (ERA), RIs support excellent science, enable cross-border collaboration, and contribute to Europe’s global competitiveness.
The Symposium will provide an opportunity to promote synergies among Research Infrastructures and relevant stakeholders; to showcase successful models of collaboration among RIs, partnerships, and clusters; to encourage the involvement of RIs in other parts of Horizon Europe; to assess and analyse cooperation between Research Infrastructures and other European programmes; to promote interoperability and data sharing; to facilitate dialogue among stakeholders; and to support capacity building.
You can use the QR code in the Save the Date or this link to register. Registration to the symposium is temporary closed, due to the maximum capacity of the Venue. Here is the Programme. Here is the InfoPack for your stay and attendance.
The Symposium will be also streamed live. The link will be available few days before the event.
NCPs from Third Countries can rely on the call of the GSF that focuses on funding participation of official Third Country NCPs for RIs (here attached the document with further info and criteria. Deadline to submit the application: 4th December 2025).

ECSA 2026
2026-03-03 - 2026-03-06 | Finland
The ECSA 2026 conference is framed around the notion of Citizen Science bridging Centre and Periphery. This theme explores the diversity of contexts in which citizen science unfolds — from urban metropolitan hubs to remote northern and southern spaces — and emphasizes its role as a link between centre and periphery. Here, we encourage collective analysis and visioning for the potential of citizen science to reduce inequalities between centres of power and scientific attention and their associated hinterlands (which may indeed have little geographic distance between them). The theme invites reflections on how citizen science acts as a bridge across geographic, cultural, social and institutional divides. Doing so invites contributions that consider the ability of citizen science to work towards sustainability, support evidence-based decision-making, improve public health, engage with political and legal frameworks, promote integrated resource management, and honour cultural and historical contexts.
In light of ongoing global challenges, we invite scholars, practitioners, and community actors to assess the current state of citizen science — giving attention to emerging directions and pressing challenges, and to promising opportunities for the forms of critical, engaged work that have long shaped the practice.
Dimensions

Challenges and opportunities of citizen science across centres and peripheries
What are the specific challenges and opportunities of implementing citizen science in contexts that are socially, geographically, institutionally, or scientifically distant from centres of power? How can citizen science serve as a tool for inclusion, innovation, and transformation in areas or fields that are often overlooked or underrepresented?
Citizen science and inclusion: reaching marginalised communities
How can citizen science empower and engage marginalised communities in scientific research and decision-making processes — if at all? What conditions are necessary to ensure that such engagement is meaningful, respectful, and equitable? What potential impacts — both positive and negative — can citizen science have on marginalised communities, and how can these be addressed or leveraged for lasting benefit? Is citizen science an appropriate or welcome framework, particularly where dominant or Eurocentric models may risk reinforcing unequal power dynamics? And if so, how might citizen science be reimagined to centre diverse forms of knowledge, representation, and community agency?
Citizen science across borders
How can citizen science foster collaboration across different kinds of borders and frontiers — including geopolitical, disciplinary, organizational, or cultural? What role can it play in connecting diverse knowledge systems and enabling inclusive, equitable, and cooperative approaches to research, learning, and action?
Citizen science in extreme conditions and situations of crisis
How can citizen science be mobilised in challenging or high-risk contexts — from remote environments and polar regions to situations of conflict, environmental disaster, or public health emergencies, which might be familiar to practitioners but in which academic researchers may hesitate to tread? What strategies support safe and effective participation, resilient data collection, and sustained knowledge co-production when institutional, logistical, or technological infrastructures are disrupted?
Citizen science and Indigenous knowledges and practices
How can citizen science contribute to the respectful co-creation of knowledge with Indigenous communities? How can projects be designed in ways that are ethical, collaborative, and supportive of Indigenous perspectives, values, and knowledge systems — while safeguarding sovereignty and cultural integrity?
Other compelling dimensions of citizen science
What other emerging, overlooked, or unconventional dimensions of citizen science deserve greater attention? We welcome contributions that challenge current assumptions, explore new scientific, methodological, or societal frontiers, or reimagine how citizen science can engage with communities, technologies, and institutions.
