Opinion

The EOSC Landscape Working Group kicked off the new year in an active way in order to finalise the next draft of the EOSC related infrastructures and initiatives landscape report.

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The third face-to-face meeting of the Sustainability Working Group was held at Bouchout Castle just north of Brussels, which is the site of the Meise Botanic Garden. It proved an ideal location for exploring how to plant solid roots for EOSC and allow it to grow into a secure environment for Europe’s research activities.Read more

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

As we co-create EOSC we must set our work in the broader international context. Research is global and the standards we deploy in a European context to create a web of FAIR data need to align, or at least interoperate with parallel initiatives in other countries, continents and sectors.Read more

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