FAIR Implementation Workshop: National Level Impact on FAIR – Introduction of the Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation and the national FAIR initiatives

The Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation and the national FAIR initiatives were introduced in the FAIR Implementation Workshop on National Level Impact on FAIR on the 1 October 2024. Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi, first speaker of the EOSC SOA General Assembly, was invited to give a keynote. She presented the Austrian Open Science and FAIR landscape and our initiatives such as EOSC SOA and Cluster Research Data as best practice examples of how to create FAIR implementation plans at the national level.

The workshop provided an in-depth look at the Austrian approach to fostering a coordinated development of Open Science Policy, with a special focus on the FAIR principles. Efforts led by the Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation, which includes stakeholders from government, research performing organizations, and the research community were presented. Central to the discussion were initiatives such as the FAIR Data Austria project, which aims to develop a research data management (RDM) infrastructure and expand the role of data stewards across the country. The workshop highlighted the importance of shared RDM services through ongoing projects, such as a three-year effort to develop operating models and tools, including data management plans (DMPs) and electronic lab notebooks in the follow-up project Shared RDM Services & Infrastructure. Despite the challenges—in particular the complexities of engaging interdisciplinary teams and communicating effectively with decision-makers—the initiatives aim to enable collaborative working while ensuring that FAIR principles are built into research from the outset.

In addition to the Austrian best practice example, Finnish initiatives were also presented in this workshop, which can be found here.

The EOSC Country page can be accessed here, the quarterly report on Austrians Country Profile can be found here.