Opinion

By: Sarah Jones, EOSC Executive Board member and EOSC FAIR Working Group Chair

Everyone likes to add letters to FAIR, so I thought we should change things up by redefining the letters instead. Within the EOSC FAIR Working Group we are examining researcher practice and developing a PID policy, metrics, certification guidelines and an Interoperability Framework to implement a web of FAIR data in EOSC. On Tuesday we held our first Working Group meeting of 2020 and I was overwhelmed by the progress and dedication of our four Task Forces. Read more

Researchers are at the very heart of the EOSC: So what do researchers really need to do cutting-edge research? How do they think the EOSC could support them in their endeavors? Let's see what TU Wien professor and researcher Wolfgang Wagner has to say.Read more

On the 27th of November 2019, the EOSC Landscape Working Group met in Budapest during the EOSC Symposium. During this 3rd F2F meeting, the Working Group members discussed the current stage and next formal steps towards the next version of the Landscape Analysis Report.Read more

Researchers are at the very heart of the EOSC: So what do researchers really need to do cutting-edge research? How do they think the EOSC could support them in their endeavors? Let's see what ERC grantee and physicist Toma Susi has to say.Read more

By: Cathrin Stover, EOSC Executive Board Co-chair

First things first: we now have a “in principle” agreement on the Horizon Europe candidate Partnership Proposal for EOSC. This is excellent news as the formation of a strategic partnership for EOSC beyond 2020 means that the governance and executive boards are delivering increased stability for EOSC activities under Horizon Europe. It means that an activity that was mainly Horizon 2020 project-led over the last years, now receives the full support from EU Member States and Associate Countries. In short, we have taken EOSC to its next level!Read more

Discover how to get contribute to the EOSC Working Groups activies, submit your outputs or join as a member or invited contributor in the latest blog post by Sarah Jones, EOSC Executive Board member and EOSC FAIR Working Group ChairRead more

It is with great sadness that the members of the EOSC Sustainability Working Group remember our highly esteemed colleague and Hungarian delegate Dr. Lajos Bálint, who passed suddenly in early December 2019.Read more

By: Rachael Kotarski, FAIR WG member and co-chair of the PID Task Force

Over the final half of 2019 a small taskforce has come together to draft a policy on persistent identifiers (PIDs) for the European Open Science Cloud. The initial draft of this policy is released today for community feedback and comment.Read more

The EOSC Sustainability Working Group (WG) met face-to-face for the second time on 23rd October 2019 in Helsinki. The objective of the meeting was to review the feedback received on the strawman document and get an update on the progress of the task forces.Read more

By: Cathrin Stover, EOSC Executive Board Co-chair

Time for a blog from the EOSC Executive Board summarizing a bit what has happened over a very busy summer and giving you links to stay up to date with our EB activities.Read more