On 8 April 2025, the webinar “Importance of Scientific Collections and Open Science Competencies for Politics, Culture, Science, and Art in Austria (DE: Die Bedeutung von wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen und Open Science – Kompetenzen für Politik, Kultur, Wissenschaft und Kunst in Österreich) was organised by NHMW and EOSC SOA in the framework of the project Skills4EOSC (https://www.skills4eosc.eu/).
BRUSSELS—Through an initiative under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Commission helps qualified researchers access the internal data of very large online platforms (VLOPs) and search engines (VLOSEs) in the European Union.
We are excited to introduce VisConnect, a new service by Open Knowledge Maps that enables responsible, evidence-based research assessment. VisConnect supports institutions to move beyond traditional metrics by offering rich, visual profiles of researchers. Powered by AI and built as open-source infrastructure, VisConnect helps evaluate scholarly contributions holistically, yet efficiently.
Stefan Reichmann, EOSC SOA: On 26 and 27 June 2025, the European Commission invited representatives of 33 Horizon Europe projects to Brussels who are working on the development of the European Open Science Cloud as part of the INFRAEOSC funding programme. The EOSC is intended to deepen the European Research Area by making research data accessible across Europe. With the establishment of the EOSC EU Node in October 2024, the selection of the first 13 Candidate Nodes in a lengthy selection process, and the establishment of the EOSC Federation Build-up Group, the EOSC has entered its build-up phase.
The final conference of the Skills4EOSC project, "Building Capacity for Open Science", took place on 11 June 2025 at Campus Condorcet in Paris. The event marked an inspiring moment of reflection and future vision, bringing together researchers, policymakers, trainers, and institutional stakeholders from across Europe.
On 27–28 May 2025, the EOSC Association community convened in Antwerp, Belgium, for its 10th General Assembly – a two-day, in-person lunch-to-lunch meeting.
On May 21–22, 2025, Brno hosted the international conference Research Data Day & EOSC National Tripartite Event, bringing together leading figures of European research, data science experts, representatives of research infrastructures, and science policy makers. The two-day programme—featuring lectures, panel discussions, expert workshops, and networking opportunities—attracted over 200 participants from 40 institutions across the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Finland, and other European countries, both in person and online.
ANTWERP – The EOSC Association welcomed three new Members and two new Observers to its membership base today. The five organisations were unanimously voted into the EOSC-A family during the Association’s 10th General Assembly.
ANTWERP — On 26 May 2025, members of the EOSC Focus and EOSC Gravity project consortiums met in Antwerp for a dedicated handover meeting ahead of the launch of EOSC Gravity in June.
The new president-elect of the EOSC Association is Klaus Tochtermann, Director of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Center for Economics, and current Treasurer of the EOSC-A Board of Directors. Klaus will begin his term on 01 July 2025.