The official launch of the EOSC took place during the Austrian EU presidency in November 2018. Since then, representatives of TU Wien and the University of Vienna have worked with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science (BMBWF) in initiatives intended to shape the EOSC, such as the EOSC Café.Read more
Researchers are at the very heart of the EOSC. What do our researchers say one year after the launch of the initiative? How do they think they will benefit from the EOSC? What are and what can be their roles? Let’s hear from Ottavio Quirico, an expert in international law.Read more
By: Iryna Kuchma, EOSC Skills & Training WG Rapporteur
The first face-to-face meeting of the EOSC Skills & Training Working Group, which will work on building competence and capabilities for EOSC.Read more
By: Cathrin Stöver, EOSC Executive Board Co-chair
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.
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. After more than one year after the launch, what do researchers say? How do they think will they benefit? What can be their roles? Let’s hear 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 our researchers say one year after the launch of the initiative? How do they think will they benefit from the EOSC? What are and what can be their roles? Let’s see what 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
By: Alizée Francey (Rapporteur of the EOSC Landscape Working Group), with contributions of Jan Hrušák (Chair of the EOSC Landscape Working Group)
On the 23rd of October 2019, the EOSC Landscape Working Group (WG) met in Helsinki. During this 2nd F2F meeting, the WG members reviewed the process of the Landscape Analysis report and looked forward the upcoming steps.Read more
By: Iiris Liinamaa (CSC, EOSCsecretariat Contact Point for the EOSC Landscape Working Group), with contributions by Jan Hrušák (Chair of the EOSC Landscape Working Group)
On the 27th of August, we had the 2nd meeting of the Landscape Working Group as teleconference. The main point on the agenda was the work plan which will help the WG members in writing a Landscape analysis. The analyses will bring the picture of current situation in open data chain and related legislation.Read more
The EOSC Sustainability Working Group (WG) met face-to-face and for the first time on 11th July 2019 in Frankfurt.
The meeting was intended to set the scene by reminding the members of the objectives of EOSC, its governance structure, the mandate of the Sustainability WG as well as its expected deliverables.Read more
By: Saara Kontro with contributions from Jan Hrušák.
Thursday, 18 July we had the 1st face to face meeting of the Landscape working group and saw our work kicking off in a good spirit of collaboration. We have 18 members representing Member States and Associated Countries on board.Read more
On the 4th of July 2019, we had a kick-off meeting in Brussels of the FAIR Working group of the EOSC European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) governance. Given that the FAIR Working Group consists of almost 30 members, we split into 4 teams to enable efficient and effective working: PID Policy, FAIR Practice, Interoperability and Metrics and Certification.Read more
Thursday, 4 July was the inaugural meeting of the EOSC FAIR Working Group. We have 26 members representing 20 different Member States and Associated Countries and a remit which covers FAIR practice, a Persistent Identifier policy, defining an EOSC Interoperability Framework, metrics for FAIR data, and service certification. We have clustered into four teams to make it feasible to drive forward this work in such a large group.Read more
The EOSC Executive Board (EB) met once more before the summer on 27 June in Brussels.
Most of the discussion in the EB meeting was around the EOSC EB Working Groups (Sustainability, Landscape, FAIR, RoP and Architecture.
By: Cathrin Stover, EOSC Executive Board Vice Chair
During the EOSC Executive Board (EB) meeting last Friday I felt that now we really had found our feet...Read more
By: Cathrin Stover, EOSC Executive Board Vice Chair
There is an excellent parable of the blind men and the elephant, which originated in ancient...Read more
By: Cathrin Stover, EOSC Executive Board Vice Chair
The EOSC Executive Board met on Wednesday 17 April in Brussels for its second formal meeting. The members of the...Read more
On Friday 1 March 2019, the EOSC Executive Board (EB) met formally for its first time. We are now fully constituted after publication in the Register of European Commission expert groups.Read more
Having met at the end of November 2018 in Vienna for the launch of the EOSC governance structure, the EOSC Executive Board kicked-off last Friday, 18 January 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. Read more
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