National Tripartite Event: Netherlands

This year’s meeting, titled “Towards a Dutch position on EOSC post-2027,” will bring together national stakeholders and European partners to discuss how the Netherlands can contribute to the next phase of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and align with evolving European policy developments.

The programme will open with updates from the European Commission (Ana Teresa Maia Mota), EOSC-SB (Volker Beckmann), and the EOSC Association (Licia Florio) on the policy foundations for EOSC post-2027. These updates will cover the emerging partnership frameworks, future governance and financial models, and the operationalization of the EOSC Federation.

A keynote by Prof. Daniel Oberski (Utrecht University) will bring the researcher perspective into the discussion. He will reflect on what EOSC enables in practice — including seamless access to FAIR data, interoperable tools, and trusted European research workflows — and what researchers need from a future EOSC Federation.

This will be followed by a short update on the Dutch involvement in EOSC and an in-depth discussion on the future Dutch participation. The discussion builds on the draft advice paper prepared at the request of the Open Science NL Strategy Council (OSNL-BO), which forms the starting point for developing a coordinated national vision on EOSC.