FAIR Principles in national and institutional data management policies in Denmark
2024-10-04 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online
The FAIR National Roadshow series is visiting Denmark on the 4th of October 2024!
The event will be virtually hosted by the Danish e-Infrastructure Consortium (DeiC), the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School, in Denmark.
The aim of this event is to present the FAIR principles in Danish national and institutional data management policies, as well as promote the outcomes and ongoing work of the FAIR-IMPACT project to the research community in Denmark.
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Target audience: RDM community at large, data support staff, researchers and policy makers at universities.
Language: English
Date: 4 October 2024, 13:00 – 15:00 CEST
Local facilitator(s): ‘Danish e-Infrastructure Consortium (DeiC), University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School, in Denmark.
AGENDA
Moderator: Sara Garavelli, Strategic European Engagement & Coordination Development Manager at CSC – IT Center for Science and Board Member at EOSC Association

Time (CEST)
Title
Presenters

13.00 – 13:10
Welcome & context of the event in the framework of the FAIR-IMPACT project
TBD

13:10 – 13:15
Outline of the agenda, presentation of speakers
Sara Garavelli, Development manager – IT Center for Science (CSC), and board member at EOSC Association

13:15 – 13:25
EOSC in Denmark
Gitte Julin Kudsk, Director, Danish e-Infrastructure Consortium (DeiC)

13:25 – 13:40
Data management policies in the Danish national strategy for data management based on the FAIR principles
John Renner Hansen, Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen and Chairperson for the Danish national strategy for data management based on the FAIR principles

13:40 – 14:00
Examples of practical implementation of DM policy at The University of Copenhagen (success stories and difficulties)
Richard Dennis, Research Consultant / Data Manager and FAIR-IMPACT Champion. University of Copenhagen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine – reNEW

14:00 – 14:20
Examples of practical implementation of DM policy at Copenhagen Business School (success stories and difficulties
Mareike Buss, Senior advisor, research data management Copenhagen Business School

14:20 – 14:30
FAIRSharing and machine-readable data management policies
Laurence Horton, Research Data Specialist, Digital Curation Center (DCC) and FAIR-IMPACT

14:30 – 14:40
TBD
FAIRCore4EOSC

14:40 – 14:55
Open Discussion
Sara Garavelli, development manager – IT center for science at CSC, and board member at EOSC Association

14:55 – 15:00
Wrap-up and closure
Sara Pittonet, Trust-IT & FAIR-IMPACT Outreach Manager

OpenAIRE Content Providers Community Call
2024-10-02 14:30 - 15:30 | Online
The OpenAIRE PROVIDE management team are hosting a webconference call with the OpenAIRE content providers community.
This is an opportunity to present and discuss recent developments from OpenAIRE, upcoming releases from the provide related services and other related relevant topics, in particular a time to discuss and give feedback about interoperability issues and the OpenAIRE infrastructure.
Topic: TBC
Time: 14h30 – 15h30 CET
Where: Zoom
Register here
More detailed information at https://www.openaire.eu/provide-community-calls

CARE-Prinzipien
2024-10-02 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Die FAIR-Prinzipien (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) sind mittlerweile die anerkannten Leitlinien im Umgang mit Forschungsdaten und legen den Fokus auf technische und organisatorische Aspekte wie die Annotation von Metadaten, die Veröffentlichung und Registrierung von DOIs sowie die Vergabe von Lizenzen für eine möglichst freie Nachnutzbarkeit. Die möglichst freie Verfügbarkeit und ein freier Datenaustausch sind die gesetzten Ziele.
Die CARE-Prinzipien (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics) hingegen stehen für einen angemessenen Umgang mit Daten, die indigene Gemeinschaften betreffen, und sollen die FAIR-Prinzipien ergänzen. Im Gegensatz zu FAIR fokussiert sich CARE nicht auf die Erleichterung des Datenaustauschs, sondern auf die Wahrung der Interessen indigener Gemeinschaften, einer fairen Beteiligung an der Wertschöpfungskette und der Rückgabe von Kontrolle über Daten wie Bildern und Artefakten.

Collective Benefit zielt darauf ab, Daten indigener Gemeinschaften so zu verwenden, dass diese daraus Nutzen bei öffentlichen Entscheidungsprozessen, der Selbstbestimmung und der gerechten Realisierung von generierten Werten haben.
Authority to Control verfolgt das Ziel, die Rechte indigener Gemeinschaften an ihren Daten anzuerkennen und zu wahren. Das erstreckt sich über die Erhebung und Nutzung von Daten im Rahmen der Selbstbestimmung bis hin zur aktiven Kontrolle des Zugangs zu Daten indigenen Ursprungs.
Responsibility richtet sich an diejenigen, die mit Daten indigenen Ursprungs arbeiten. Diese müssen belegen, wie sie mit diesen Daten umgehen und welcher Nutzen für die indigene Gemeinschaft daraus entsteht. Die Nutzung indigener Daten verlangt dabei die Sicherstellung eines respekt- und würdevollen Umgangs mit den Daten. Gleichzeitig soll die Data Literacy indigener Gemeinschaften soweit ausgebaut werden, dass diese Daten eigenständig und im Einklang mit ihren Werten erstellen kann.
Der Ethics-Aspekt legt fest, dass die Rechte indigener Gemeinschaften und deren Wohlergehen gewahrt werden. Dazu zählt die Vermeidung von Schaden durch die Datennutzung, ein gerechter Umgang mit dem Ungleichgewicht von Macht und Ressourcen sowie die Berücksichtigung der zukünftigen Datennutzung.

Der Vortrag streift Fragen der Forschungsethik und stellt die CARE-Prinzipien sowie deren praktische Umsetzung vor. Dabei wird die Relevanz von CARE für Forschungsdaten über Daten indigenen Ursprung hinaus skizziert.
Zeit und Ort: 02. Oktober 2024, 10:00 – 11:30 Uhr, online via Webex
Zielgruppe:
Forschende, Personal aus der Forschungsunterstützung, Data Stewards
Sprache: Deutsch
Vortragender:
Holger Gauza, Uni Tübingen
Registrierung:
Um an dem Webinar teilzunehmen, registrieren Sie sich hier.
Materialien:
Die Materialien zu diesem Webinar werden nachher hier zur Verfügung gestellt.

EGI Conference 2024
2024-09-30 - 2024-10-04 | Hilton Garden Inn Lecce, Via Cosimo de Giorgi, 62, Lecce, 73100, Italy
We’re happy to announce that EGI2024 will take place in Lecce, Italy – from September 30th to October 4th.
For this edition of our annual conference, EGI are closely collaborating with Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), based in Lecce.
About CMCC
The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change is an Italian research centre dedicated to climate and climate related research, including climate variability, its causes and consequences, carried out through numerical models ranging from Global Earth System to Regional models within the Euro-Mediterranean area.
About Lecce
Located in the very heel of Italy, Lecce is a gorgeous, baroque city with a delightful Mediterranean climate at the end of September, known for its olive oil and wine culture.
About the venue
The main location for the conference will be the Hilton Garden Inn in Lecce. Some side meetings will take place at the CMCC offices.
Preliminary timeline

End of February 2024: Call for Abstracts & Exhibition Partners
End of April 2024: Programme (draft) available
May 2024: start Registration

Erlebe Forschung hautnah bei der European Researchers' Night
2024-09-27 15:00 - 22:00 | Universität Graz, Universitätsplatz 3a, Graz, 8010, Austria
Tauche ein in die Welt der Wissenschaft und schlüpfe in die Rollen eines “Earth Explorers“, “Health Enthusiasts“, “Tech Pioneers” oder “Science Reporters“. Entdecke spannende Mitmachstationen, erlebe faszinierende Science Shows, besuche unser Pop-up Planetarium und sei dabei, wenn das Österreich-Finale des Science Slams ausgetragen wird.

The cOAlition S initiative and the road ahead
2024-09-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This presentation highlights cOAlition S, an initiative dedicated to making full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality. The Executive Director of cOAlition S, Johan Rooryck will briefly present the work of cOAlition S in the last five years and subsequently present the plans that cOAlition S is currently preparing for the next five years, pending approval of the cOAlition S Leaders’ Group. These plans aim to facilitate the transition towards an open, trustworthy, and equitable scholarly communication system that meets the needs of both research and society. cOAlition S will seek to do this in partnership with the research community, and through its funding requirements and research assessment processes.
Join the webinar on Friday, September 27, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm UTC-3 (Santiago, Chile). Register to watch the presentation and ask the speaker questions
Program:

Welcome and Introduction
Wouter Schallier, Chief of the Hernán Santa Cruz Library, ECLAC
The cOAlition S initiative and the road ahead
Johan Rooryck, Executive Director of cOAlition S
Q&A with Johan Rooryck
Moderator: Wouter Schallier

About the speaker:
Johan Rooryck has been the Executive Director of cOAlition S since 2019, and a co-PI with Pierre Mounier of the DIAMAS project. Since 2016, Rooryck has served as co-editor-in-chief of the Diamond Open Access journal Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics. This journal transitioned to Diamond Open Access when its Editorial Team and Board, as well as its reader and author community, decided to abandon the Elsevier-owned journal Lingua to found Diamond OA Glossa. Rooryck is a member of the Academia Europaea, a doctor honoris causa of the Arctic University of Norway (UiT), and a visiting professor at Leiden University, where he was chair of French linguistics from 1993 to 2020.

Shaping the Future of Cultural Heritage: “Connecting the Cultural Heritage Cloud with the common European data space for cultural heritage and the European Open Science Cloud”
2024-09-27 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
The Cultural Heritage Cloud – or European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) – is a European Union initiative to create a digital infrastructure that will connect cultural heritage researchers and professionals across the EU. It will develop specific digital collaborative tools for the sector while removing barriers for smaller and remote institutions. The goal is to help cultural heritage institutions, research organisations and other professional organisations of all kinds and sizes to work with their digital objects in a more visible, interconnected, harmonised, and informed way, to successfully cope with the challenges the digital transition poses to the sector and seize its opportunities. The Cultural Heritage Cloud will add a new digital dimension to cultural heritage preservation, conservation, restoration and enhancement by providing cutting-edge technologies, for instance for the digitization of artefacts or for researching artworks. The implementation of this initiative has now begun with the EU-funded project ECHOES – European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science, which started on the 1 of June 2024.
Two other initiatives are currently running at European level:

funded by the Digital Europe programme, the common European data space for cultural heritage is an EU flagship initiative to accelerate the digital transformation of the sector and foster creation, access and reuse of heritage data.
The vision for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is to put in place a system for researchers in Europe to store, share, process, analyse, and reuse data within and across disciplines and borders.

In this webinar, we’ll learn more about the Cloud and two other European initiatives, and how they are interconnected and complementary, how these initiatives interact with the Cloud, and what the added value of such connections is for the cultural heritage community.

Federation Handbook consultation
2024-09-26 23:59 | Online
In the context of its role in the Tripartite Group, EOSC-A is leading on the drafting of the EOSC Federation Handbook, which will comprehensively address the purpose, structure, governance, architecture and operations of the EOSC Federation.
The EOSC Federation Handbook is being written collaboratively with weekly meetings of the writers and monthly meetings with the reviewers and the Tripartite Group.
The first three chapters of the EOSC Federation Handbook addressing, respectively, the “Purpose”, “Governance and legal framework”, and “Operational structure and responsibilities” of the EOSC Federation have been drafted following this process, and will be made available for a community consultation from 16-26 September 2024.
The results of this consultation will be presented at the EOSC Symposium 2024 in Berlin and integrated into the initial chapters of the Handbook, which will be submitted for endorsement at November’s European Tripartite meeting.

2024 Fisheries Science Seminar – Artificial Intelligence
2024-09-25 14:00 - 18:00 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
The annual Fisheries Science Seminar, organised by the Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries will take place on 25 September 2024. This year’s seminar will focus on the potential contribution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) towards achieving fisheries sustainability.
The 2024 science seminar will be dedicated to exploring the rapid developments in the area of artificial intelligence to support the scientific process, and in particular how this approach can be instrumental towards sustainable fisheries management with increased transparency of fishing activity and reduced impact on the environment.
The seminar will include presentations from experts in the field followed by discussions involving seminar’s participants. In addition, a poster exhibition, showcasing successful fisheries science projects integrating AI based knowledge, will be displayed at the event premises.
Blue-Cloud 2026 at the event
Blue-Cloud2026 will be presenting a poster in collaboration with IRD France – leaders of the Global Fisheries Atlas VLab.
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DataCite Annual Community Meeting
2024-09-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
How Discovery Systems Use DataCite Metadata: Harvester Roundtable
During the session, we will provide an overview of some of the cutting edge tools and services available for working with DataCite metadata, including our APIs, DataCite Commons, the public data file, and beyond. Alongside this, we will hear from some of the key players who are leveraging DataCite’s 50+ million metadata records to develop innovative tools for locating research. This will be an opportunity to learn about how DataCite metadata is and can be used, to enable discovery and reuse, and the impact that rich metadata can have on the scholarly record.
Speakers: * Maria Gould (Director of Product, DataCite) * Kelly Stathis (Technical Community Manager, DataCite) * Alex Wade (VP – Product Management, Data Products, Digital Science) * Casey Meyer (Chief Technology Officer, OurResearch) * Patricia Tortosa (Editorial Content Manager, Clarivate Analytics) * Paolo Manghi (Chief Technology Officer, OpenAIRE AMKE).
*The slides and recording will be shared afterward through the DataCite Zenodo Community and YouTube Channel, respectively.
Learn more and register!

Advancing FAIR Policies and Practices in Tunisia (Evoluer les Politiques et Pratiques FAIR en Tunisie)
2024-09-25 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
The FAIR National Roadshow series is visiting Tunisia on the 25th of September 2024!

The event will be virtually hosted by CNUDST – University National Center of Scientific and Technical Documentation.
The aim of this event is to promote the ongoing work being carried out by CNUDST to advance FAIR policies and practices in Tunisia. The event will also provide an introduction to the FAIR-IMPACT project to the research community in Tunisia.

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Target audience: RDM community at large, data support staff, researchers and policy makers at universities.
Language: mainly in French but some content will be presented in English
Date: 25 September 2024, 13:00 – 14:45 CEST
Moderator: Chokri Ben Romdhane, IT Senior Analyst, CNUDST

Agenda

Time (CEST)
Title
Presenter

13:00-13:10
Welcome and introduction
Amel Smaoui Chemli, CNUDST DG

13:10-13:25
Overview of the FAIR-IMPACT project
Joy Davidson, FAIR-IMPACT and DCC

13:25-13:40
Presentation de l’action de support NLI
Salome Landel, FAIR-IMPACT and CNRS

13:40-13:55
FAIR Tunisian Action Plan
Chokri Ben Romdhane, IT Senior Analyst, CNUDST

13:55-14:10
Action Plan to improve PIST’s FAIR capabilities
Salaheddine Ben Ali, Senior Librarian, CNUDST

14:10-14:25
Consortium DOI Tunisian
Bessem Aamira, IT Senior Engineering, CNUDST

14:25-14:45
Open discussion and wrap up
Chokri Ben Romdhane, IT Senior Analyst, CNUDST

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Konsortialfinanzierung von Diamond Open Access -Welche Angebote gibt es und wie funktionieren sie
2024-09-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
Im Rahmen des BMBF-geförderten Projekts KOALA-AV möchten wir Ihnen
detaillierte Informationenzu verschiedenen
Diamond-Open-Access-Konsortialangeboten vermitteln. KOALA-AV ist
einKooperationsprojekt des Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum
(KIM) der UniversitätKonstanz und der TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum
Technik und Naturwissenschaften. Wir laden Sie herzlich zum digitalen
Workshop ein:
*Referent*innen*
* Juliane Finger von OLEcon (ZBW)
* Sebastian Schaarschmidt von KOALA (SLUB)
* Marco Tullney von KOALA (TIB)
*Workshop-Agenda*
* Einführende Inputs der Konsortialanbieter*innen
o Themengebiete: Welche fachlichen Themengebiete werden abgedeckt?
o Kosten: Wie hoch sind die Beiträge für die konsortiale
Finanzierung für die jeweilige Einrichtung?
o Mehrwert: Was ist der Mehrwert für die Bibliotheken?
o Teilnahme: Wie kann eine Einrichtung teilnehmen? (Deadlines,
Voraussetzungen, wiederkehrende Zyklen)
* Expert*innenbefragung und Austausch
o Nach den Inputs können die Teilnehmenden ihre Fragen direkt an
die Vertreter*innen der Konsortialangebote stellen.
o Es wird Raum für den Austausch unter den Teilnehmenden geben.
*Zielgruppe*
Der Workshop richtet sich an Bibliotheksbeschäftigte, die in ihrer
Einrichtung für Beratungen und/oder Entscheidungen im Bereich Open
Access zuständig sind und an Open-Access-Konsortialmodellen interessiert
sind.
*Teilnahme & Registrierung *(siehe auch PDF-Flyer im Anhang)*
*
Um am Workshop teilzunehmen, registrieren Sie sich bitte *bis zum 18.
September* HIER
<https://uni-konstanz-de.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpd-yspzsiGtMGrgEJPEc67oZGUDpASTQo>:
https://uni-konstanz-de.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpd-yspzsiGtMGrgEJPEc67oZGUDpASTQo
Die maximale Teilnehmenden-Anzahl liegt bei 25 Personen.
Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch mit Ihnen!
Bei Fragen zur Veranstaltung wenden Sie sich an Karin Silvia Stork
(karin.stork@uni-konstanz.de <http://uni-konstanz.de>).

MONITOR Community Call - For Funders
2024-09-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Are you interested in having a Dashboard in OpenAIRE-MONITOR and want to learn more about the service? Have you already got a Dashboard in OpenAIRE-MONITOR and interested in the recent updates of the service? Got questions about how you can fully benefit from the service? Join our dedicated community calls and learn more!
Agenda: TBC
Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0oc-uoqDMvEt2gR8xiA-aMld00aevojot2#/registration
* This meeting will be recorded and the recording will be shared via the OpenAIRE channels. By registering you accept the terms on which it will take place.

Open Science Day 2024
2024-09-24 11:00 - 16:00 | Mannheim
The 6th annual Mannheim Open Science Day will occur on the September 24th, 2024. The Open Science Day is a fantastic opportunity to showcase, share and discuss the diverse array of Open Science activities and experiences taking place at the University of Mannheim and beyond.
This year the University Library Mannheim Open Science Day will feature Best Practices in Open Science from researchers at the University of Mannheim including Open Science implementations in Economic History, Software Engineering and the value of connecting research with society. Additionally, they will also feature lightning talks from the newest Open Science Grant 2024 awardees and national efforts to improve Open Science and reproducibility from members of the German Reproducibility Network.
All members and researchers of the University of Mannheim and beyond are invited to join the Open Science Day.

MONITOR Community Call - For Institutions
2024-09-24 08:00 - 17:00 | Online
Are you interested in having a Dashboard in OpenAIRE-MONITOR and want to learn more about the service? Have you already got a Dashboard in OpenAIRE-MONITOR and interested in the recent updates of the service? Got questions about how you can fully benefit from the service? Join our dedicated community calls and learn more!
Agenda: TBC
Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcO6rrzIjGdRBa2CDx2isL-67ghbsuzFD#/registration
* This meeting will be recorded and the recording will be shared via the OpenAIRE channels. By registering you accept the terms on which it will take place.

UNESCO Workshop on AI and Open Science
2024-09-23 12:00 - 16:30 | Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
Research is being transformed by (new) AI applications. But what happens when we aim to make science more open? Can artificial intelligence help us achieve that?
On the afternoon of Monday, September 23rd, the Netherlands Commission for Unesco and the Unesco Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science (Leiden University) will host a workshop on AI and Open Science. The event will focus specifically on engaging societal stakeholders. How can AI applications enable a broader public to become involved in the research process? Can artificial intelligence help launch citizen science projects or enhance scientific volunteerism?
The workshop will be held in Leiden at the Pieter de la Court Building, room 5A.42. The language of the event will be English.
Program:
12:00 h: Unesco, Open Science, and AI (Jon Verriet, Nederlandse Unesco Commissie)
12:15 h: AI and open engagement of societal actors with presentations from representatives of these projects: WODAN vs. Heritage Quest, CitiObs, FORRT
13:15 h: Discussion
13:45 h: Coffee break
14:15 h: Break-out sessions: What do we need to know to start using AI for open engagement of societal actors?
15:00 h: Panel discussion of questions and feedback from break-out sessions. With representatives from Netherlands eScience Center, SURF, Open Science-NL, and TNO.
16:00 h: Next steps: how to connect researchers to AI opportunities for societal engagement. Opportunities for researchers in the Netherlands.
16:30 h: Networking reception until 18:00
Registration for the workshop is required. You can sign up via this form. Once the first fifty spots are filled, we will begin a waitlist.

Paris Conference on Open Research Information
2024-09-23 - 2024-09-24 | Paris, Paris, France
Paris Conference on Open Research Information
The Paris Conference on Open Research Information, held at Sorbonne University on 23-24 September 2024, aims to support the Barcelona Declaration’s signatories by facilitating the exchange of best practices and developing a collaborative roadmap for open research information. The event seeks to enhance transparency, accessibility, and the effective dissemination of research data and findings, fostering a more open and inclusive research environment.
The conference spans two days, with the first day dedicated to presentations from signatories and updates on the Barcelona Declaration. This includes sharing success stories, challenges, and innovative approaches to open research. The second day focuses on interactive sessions aimed at collaboratively developing a comprehensive roadmap for open research information. Participants will engage in workshops and discussions to identify priorities, set actionable goals, and outline strategies for implementation, ensuring a cohesive and practical approach to advancing open research practices.
GraspOS is monitoring the developments of the Barcelona Declaration with great interested as partners of the projects are both signatories and supporters of the declaration. It also aligns perfectly with the GraspOS spirit on enabling OS Aware Responsible Research Assessment.
For more information on the Barcelona Declaration, please go to the website.

Community consultation on MAR 2026-2027
2024-09-22 23:59 | Online
The EOSC Association Board of Directors has drafted a Multi-Annual Roadmap (MAR) for 2026-2027, outlining priority activities for implementing EOSC at the European, national, and institutional levels. A three-week consultation to gather community feedback on the draft MAR opened today and will run through 22 September 2024 (23:59 CEST). Submit your feedback here.
The EOSC Association periodically updates the MAR to define a set of actions and outcomes in line with the latest technical and policy framework developments. The MAR is a part of the EOSC Partnership’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), a document co-owned by the EOSC Association and the European Commission that defines the general framework for future research, development, and innovation activities in relation to EOSC.

Conference of Rectors and Presidents of European Universities of Technology
2024-09-20 08:00 - 2024-09-21 17:00 | Bucharest
In 1980, this Conference has been started following a joint initiative of Aachen and Vienna,
to establish an informal group of representatives from leading engineering universities in Europe,
The basic objectives of The Conference are to offer an open forum for

discussing topics of major common concern, that are not discussed in other fora,
identifying differences and commonalities of existing solutions to problems of common interest,
developing new ideas and – if appropriate – preparing recommendations on specific topics, and, thus,
forming a “think tank” for the future development of the universities of technology in Europe.

Future Engagement Model for the EOSC Federation (2024) (HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-02)
2024-09-19 17:00 | Online
The work of this CSA should build on the (federation) services offered by the European Commission’s EOSC Core Platform and provide feedback and input for the evolution of the EOSC Core Services and the EOSC Exchange to ensure a wider uptake. In this context, the CSA will also assist with the update and promotion of the EOSC Interoperability Framework and assist in the set-up a process for its updates.

The CSA should execute at least two use cases to demonstrate and promote the use of the federation services provided by the EOSC Core Platform (EU Node) and document the experience and lessons learned. The use cases should be driven by real-life user needs and consider the long-term sustainability of such federations. The use cases should include Research Infrastructures able to federate within EOSC and users which gain novel capabilities for their research work.
Through the outcomes of the use cases, the CSA should propose to the EC and current EOSC governance a set of operational Rules of Participation and common set of policies and minimum requirements to be applied consistently across the EOSC federation.
This set of rules, policies and requirements should be detailed in such a way they can be introduced in the operation of ESFRI, ERICs and other international, national or institutional RIs at the subdomain, domain and interdisciplinary levels as concerns the EOSC federation.
They should be developed, maintained, and updated in accordance with the progressive deployment of the EOSC Core, EOSC Exchange and EOSC sustainability models and be based on latest input by the Task Forces of the EOSC Association and any additional, relevant input by the research community.

Scope:
Proposals are expected to cover the following activities:
The CSA should explore concrete use cases of federations of Research Infrastructures and data/service providers to the EOSC Core Platform (EU Node). The CSA should contribute to the further evolution of the Rules of Participation and Acceptable Use Policies based on the identification of specific commitments and needs of the different contributors of the EOSC federation, and contribute to the related development of guidelines and recommendations on various aspects (incl. interoperability framework), and with this further promote the EOSC Core Platform (EU Node). This work should be done in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders, such as the contractors providing the Managed Services for the European Open Science Platform (EU Node)[1] , Research Infrastructures, thematic EOSC communities and EOSC national nodes.
To this end, the CSA should engage with and further build the EOSC federation community, and assist in the development of a common framework on the various aspects of the federation, including the following dimensions:

Legal
Business model and incentive structure
Interoperability framework, including the support for FAIR principle and handling of PIDs across EOSC federation
EOSC Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
EOSC Security Coordination
EOSC Rules of Participation.

Coordination and collaboration with the Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC) is required in order to take stock of identified common data infrastructure requirements, including technologies, processes, standards, and tools that will allow reuse of data across the various data spaces
Also, synergies should be established with the contractors of SIMPL[2] as foreseen in the latter’s procurement technical specifications, to avoid duplicating efforts and funding among major Union initiatives. The CSA should further provide an analysis of the status quo including the identification of gaps, on the basis of which an actionable roadmap shall be established with actions differentiated by main actors and levels (EU or national, topical or cross-cutting).
The proposed work should incorporate the necessary coordination efforts and resources with other relevant projects and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) governance structure in the context of the EOSC partnership.
[1]Managed Services for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Platform
[2]Smart middleware that will enable cloud-to-edge federations and support all major data initiatives funded by the European Commission

European Research Area: Fostering Greater Integration. Advancing Competitiveness
2024-09-18 12:00 - 2024-09-19 14:00 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and global competition, the European Research Area (ERA) stands as a cornerstone for Europe’s future. Almost 25 years after its launch, the ERA is an established, well-known framework enabling policy reforms, cross-border cooperation, mobility and joint breakthroughs in research and innovation. The upcoming ERA Conference titled: “will focus on addressing its future advancement and contribution to the EU’s overall prosperity and sustainable competitiveness.
While on-site participation is by invitation only due to limited space, the plenary sessions of the event will also be livestreamed via the website of the consortium supporting the EU Commission in the organisation for this event INSPIRING ERA as well as the ERA Policy Platform.

2nd Open Science EARMA Thematic Group Event
2024-09-18 - 2024-09-19 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
About the Event
This event, presented by the Open Science Thematic Group and sponsored by Digital Science, will explore Open Science in a global context. Considering the geopolitical landscape and consequent security concerns and regulations, the event will provide a forum for dialogue on how to negotiate the policy gap(s) between open science and global security, the issue of ‘dual use’, and look at tools to assist this process.
Further, the event will look at the impact of Open Science for lower income countries, and whether the advantages – enhanced access to publications, increased collaboration – outweigh the costs and work effort required of research communities in these often-under-resourced jurisdictions. It will explore how funder mandates and publishing models can both assist and challenge progress, and showcase how cross-jurisdictional support can aid progress.
Programme Points
Day 01 of the event aims to address multiple goals, including identifying key security regulations and recommendations, enhancing awareness and education for research managers and administrators, and fostering ongoing dialogue to adapt Open Science principles in the current geopolitical landscape. The session will help participants to:

1. Understand the relevance of the new geopolitical landscape in applying the Open Science principles in research.
2. Discuss the EU Council’s recommendations for enhancing research security and its intersection with Open Science with an emphasise on the need for awareness and education among research managers, administrators, researchers, and other stakeholders.
3. Discuss best practices like “as open as possible, as closed as necessary,” FAIR principles, and various funding models with particular knowledge exchange on the federative nature of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
4. Explore policy gaps and identify the best compliance tools to ensure robust implementation of Open Science.

Day 02 will explore the advantages of Open Science for lower income countries, such as enhanced access to publications, heightened collaboration prospects, and expanded audiences, while also providing consideration of whether the expectations placed on researchers and research institutions in these regions to reciprocate these practices might pose disadvantages and potentially prohibitive costs. Specifically the session will look at:

1. Attitudes to open science in different jurisdictions
2. Transformative agreements, APCs and the issue and impact of inequity in this system.
3. Whether the European requirement to use CC-By licences negatively affects important revenue streams.
4. How cross-jurisdictional supports can be developed and enabled.

Registration Information
Participation is free of charge. Participants do not have to be EARMA members in order to participate. Registration for this event is open until September 09, 2024, or until reaches maximum capacity.

Open Science Festival
2024-09-17 - 2024-09-18 | Mainz
What is Open Science? How can openness and the culture of sharing be practiced and promoted in science? What methods are there to live more openness in scientific practice? Under the motto Meet, Share, Inspire, Care, the 3rd Open Science Festival in Germany offers the opportunity to pursue these and other questions, to network and to learn from one another.
Open Science creates encounters within and with science, enables access to knowledge, data and research processes. Openness as a principle shapes the framework conditions of science. Open access and open data facilitate access to scientific findings. Open standards and methods enable cooperation and are inspiration for new research approaches. At the same time, Open Science rethinks the relationship between science and society.
The 3rd Open Science Festival is aimed equally at newcomers, interested parties and experts and aims to enable encounters and exchanges in a wide variety of formats. Whether students or scientists, research managers or decision-makers, science journalists or interested members of the public, the Rhine-Main Universities cordially invite you to the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from September 17-18, 2024 .
What awaits you:

A first-class keynote and panel discussions on the potentials and challenges of open science with national and international experts
Ignite Talks about successes and stumbling blocks in the scientific practice of Open Science
Workshops with practitioners from the Open Science Community
A poster slam to get to know various projects of Open Science enthusiasts
A marketplace with information on Open Science
Speed ​​networking to get to know the other participants

This year’s Open Science Festival is based on a concept from the Netherlands . The first German festivals took place in Hanover and Cologne .

EUDAT Conference 2024 - Open Call for Sessions, Workshops and Presentations
2024-09-16 23:59 | Online
As part of the aim of the EUDAT Conference this year to be more inclusive, provide a space for the community to introduce new ideas, as well as establish closer links with new communities, an Open Call for Sessions, Workshops, and Presentations is being launched. Proposals on the following topics are being accepted:

EOSC advancements for the research data lifecycle
Data spaces, FAIR and RDM
Cross-border or cross-domain data management
International RDM
Policy and Ethics in Data Management (AI and ML)
Data Orchestration
Research Software – making it FAIR
HPC and data management
Existing RDM solutions
Enabling open science nationally
User requirements
Crazy ideas: Dream RDM solutions
Establishing or strengthening collaborations across the ecosystem
Sensitive Data: Access conditions, access management, and processing

Criteria for selection

Relevance of the proposal to the EUDAT Conference programme topics.
For sessions, confirmation that at least 80% of the planned speakers will be present on-site.
For presentations, ability to deliver the presentation on-site.

Abschlussveranstaltung des Kooperationsprojekts DiTAH
2024-09-16 14:00 - 17:00 | Online
Einladung zur online Abschlussveranstaltung des Kooperationsprojekts DiTAH “Digitale Transformation in den Österreichisches Geisteswissenschaften”
Montag, 16. September 2024 von 14:00 bis 17:00 online unter https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/62306878063?pwd=[REDACTED]

Begrüßung durch Projektleiter (Univ.-Prof. Dr. M.A. Georg Vogeler)
Begrüßung durch BMBWF und Vorstellung der Förderungsschiene (ALIN Mag.a Ursula Brustmann)
DiTAH Projektvorstellung durch Projektleiter (Univ.-Prof. Dr. M.A. Georg Vogeler)
DH Infrastrukturen in Österreich: CLARIAH-AT (Mag. Walter Scholger)
Vorstellung der neuen DiTAH Webseite (Projektmanagement Team)
Vorstellung der einzelnen DiTAH Teilprojekte (Projektpartner:innen)

Open Science Stories
2024-09-16 - 2024-09-22
Amplifying the work of the scientific community made possible through our open science tools.
Now in its fifth year, Open Science Week will take place Sept. 16-22, 2024. Leaders, producers, educators and users of open science are encouraged to engage with this campaign. A celebration of open science in all its forms – Open Science Week calls attention to scientists and organizations who share their tools, resources and data openly to accelerate research and discovery. This annual celebration, founded and coordinated by the Allen Institute, takes place during the third week of September.

Call for nominations Sarah Jones Award
2024-09-12 23:59 | Online
On the occasion of what would have been Sarah’s 43rd birthday, the Research Data Alliance launched a call for nominations for The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in Open Science on 14 June 2024 in Prague. Sarah Jones served as a member of the EOSC Association Board of Directors since 2021 until her passing in 2023.

She was also an esteemed member of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Council and the RDA Technical Advisory Board. The annual award honours Sarah’s memory and her significant contributions to the Open Science community globally. You can read more about Sarah’s life and career on her EOSC-A webpage.
Nominations
The RDA invites nominations for the Sarah Jones Award for individuals who have demonstrated an exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in Open Science. The deadline for nominations is Thursday, 12 September 2024.
The impact the nominated individual has made can be on an organisational, community or individual level. The award is open to all nominees and not restricted to members of the RDA community, however a demonstration of contribution within the RDA community is of great importance.
The winner will be announced during the 23rd RDA Plenary Meeting between 12-14 November 2024 in Costa Rica and will receive a physical award, a certificate, and be included on the RDA Sarah Jones Award website listing with details of the exceptional contribution. Finally, the winner will have access to a fund to be invested in activities relevant to the winning activities.
Donations
The RDA is accepting donations to the fund for the Sarah Jones Award 2024. All contributions go to the award.

From open data to knowledge: enhancing European resilience to health crises
2024-09-11 10:00 - 17:00 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
The BY-COVID project is hosting a high-level event entitled “From open data to knowledge: enhancing European resilience to health crises” to highlight and discuss the value of open data and showcasing the impact of the project on science and society.
The event will feature panel discussions with experts from various sectors, including policy-makers from the European and international scene, industry and academia, who will share their insights and experiences when building innovative products, structuring alliances and sustaining long-term initiatives.
The event will also showcase a series of success stories from the BY-COVID project, demonstrating how integrating data from a range of domains can support research, public health and policy.
The interactive format of the event will allow all the participants to share experiences and discuss ways to empower pathogens and infectious disease research and sustain a good basis for future health crises.

NORDUnet Conference 2024 – NDN2024
2024-09-10 - 2024-09-12 | Bergen, Bergen, Norway
This 32nd edition will take place on 10th-12th September, 2024 in Bergen, Norway where Norwegian NREN Sikt together with NORDUnet will welcome everybody with a vested interest in the research and education community.
In line with the long-established way of shaping the conference there will be plenary sessions with compelling keynote speakers, parallel sessions that cover some of the most recent and relevant topics, ample room for hallway conversations, not forgetting the social networking events such as the opening reception and the dinner.
Participation continues to be both relevant to NREN and Campus staff, including researchers and scientists from all areas.
We will meet up at the Radisson Blu Hotel where the programme will unfold.

Towards a Transparent Transition to Open Access: The Current Data Landscape
2024-09-03 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
LIBER’s Open Access Working Group invites you to this webinar to learn about the findings from two recent studies published on the financial aspects of transitioning to open access and to have a discussion roundtable on implications in libraries’ open access strategies moving forward. The webinar will be facilitated by Dr. Birgit Schmidt, Head of Knowledge Commons at the Göttingen State and University Library.
Speakers: Bianca Kramer, Independent Research Analyst at Sesame Open Science. Her work focuses on open science, open metadata and open infrastructure. Najko Jahn, Data Analyst at the State and University Library Göttingen, University of Göttingen. His work focuses on scholarly communication analytics.
DISCLAIMER: The event has a capacity of 500 persons; The event will be recorded.
