EOSC Symposium 2025: Session teasers

The EOSC Symposium 2025, taking place in Brussels on 03-05 November 2025, will serve as the debut of the EOSC Federation. The programme will feature insightful discussions, strategic updates, and showcase the first wave of 13 candidate EOSC Nodes along with the EOSC EU Node. Take an early look at the sessions set to unfold in Brussels through our exclusive video teasers.


Keynote speech

Collaborating Across Borders: Resilience for U.S. Research Data and Beyond

Shelley Stall, Vice President of the American Geophysical Union’s Open Science Leadership Program

Regular sessions

FAIR for AI

Klaus Tochtermann, President, EOSC Association; Director, Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW)
AI for FAIR

Klaus Tochtermann, President, EOSC Association; Director, Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW)
Integrating Training and Skills in EOSC

Kamran Naim, Director, EOSC Association; Head of Open Science, CERN
Cybersecurity in Research and Data Management

Licia Florio, Director, EOSC Association; Senior Strategy and Policy Officer, NORDUnet
Synergies with Data Spaces, EuroHPC, AI Factories and DestinE

Bob Jones, Special Envoy for the EOSC Federation, and senior member of staff, CERN
Knowledge Valorisation and Links with Industry

Bertil Egger-Beck, Policy Officer, European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD)
Long-term Data Retention

Jacques Flores, EOSC Association Long-term Data Retention Task Force, Utrecht University Library
EOSC Federation Policies

Peter Maccallum, Member, EOSC Federation Build-up Group; Chief Technical Officer, ELIXIR

Trustworthy repositories for data sovereignty

Ingrid Dillo, Senior Advisor, Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data, DANS

Leveraging National Capacities for Digital Services for Research

Volker Beckmann, Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space in France, MESRE & Co-chair of EOSC Steering Board
EOSC Federation: Opportunities and Challenges in Enrolling into the EOSC Federation and Onboarding into the EOSC EU Node

Spiros Athanasiou, Project Manager and Scientific Associate at ATHENA Research Center