Events

On September 28-29th, the NI4OS-Europe project organises one of its biggest in-person events, the EOSC Regional event in Budapest.

The conference aims to discuss the changes and challenges of Open Science & Open Infrastructure, the project’s impact on science itself, and policies as well. The event provides a great opportunity for all stakeholders of EOSC to participate in the discussions.

René Buch, CTO of the EOSC Association, takes part in the first session on 28 September, "Open Science Cloud in the Southeast European region and beyond", and in the opening session on 29 September "Policy aspects of EOSC".

Programme and live stream

EOSC Nordic will organise its final event, “The end or a new beginning,” in Tallinn, Estonia, on Wednesday 5th of October. At the same time, we are co-locating the Sensitive Data e-Infrastructure in the Nordics workshop and The First EOSC Tripartite event in the Nordic and Baltic countries the day before on Tuesday 4th of October.

Events at a glance

All times mentioned are EEST (+3 UTC)

Tuesday 4.10, 9:00-17:00 Sensitive Data e-Infrastructure in the Nordics workshop

Tuesday 4.10, 9:30-16:00 The First EOSC Tripartite event in the Nordic and Baltic countries (Invitation only)

Tuesday 4.10, 18:30-23:00 Social dinner for all participants
Venue: Proto Invention Factory (Peetri 10, Tallinn).

Wednesday 5.10, 9:00-17:45 The EOSC-Nordic Final event

Thursday 6.10 Data Science Seminar at the University of Tartu. Bus transfer from Tallinn to Tartu and back is provided. Arrival back in Tallinn around 23:00.

Read more about the program, venue, and accommodation options on our registration page. 

Registration ends 22.9.2022, so secure your place today!

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Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their career, and experts from the field to join its 18 and 19 October 2022 conference on Open Science to discuss two key questions:

• Is Open Science ready to become the norm in research?
• How do we ensure this becomes an equitable transition?

To find answers to these questions, the conference will provide a comprehensive overview of practical and policy initiatives, research assessment reforms, and financial measures that support the transition to Open Science. We will also look forward at new and emerging trends.

Goals of the conference

Participants are invited to discuss the many facets related to the transition in a highly interactive event. We will specifically cover:

• Open Science and society, including equity
• Open Access to all types of research outputs
• Evolving research assessment and evaluation practices
• Access to and use of open research infrastructures
• Open Science policies

Science Europe organises this conference at an important time for Open Science. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the value of open and collaborative research, and several recent publications have driven the implementation of Open Science policies and the need to discuss shared values, principles and standards. These include the final report of the Open Science Policy Platform (2020) and UNESCO’s ‘Recommendation on Open Science’ (2021). Earlier in 2022, the Open Science Conference organised under the French Presidency of the Council of the EU, took stock of the links between various aspects of Open Science.

Science Europe aims to bring clarity to an increasingly complex transition and sprawling number of interlinked initiatives that affect the future of the research and innovation landscape. The plenary sessions will focus on strategy and direction, and set the stage for practical, action-oriented breakout discussions. The conference will be one of the first to establish and explore equity as a key consideration in its own right when discussing Open Science.

The EOSC Association at the Conference

EOSC Association Director Sarah Jones participated in a breakout session on 18 October: "Are services and infrastructures in place to support Open Science across the entire research cycle?"

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In October 2022, Brno will host a gathering of leaders in the field of research infrastructures – their users, policymakers, and stakeholders. The South Moravian metropolis will host the International Conference on Research Infrastructures, a major worldwide event, a global forum encouraging cooperation and discussions on the importance of research infrastructures. The event will also offer an accompanying programme and will be open to the broader public for the first time in its history.

The Czech Republic will host ICRI – International Conference on Research Infrastructures, a worldwide event providing an opportunity for strategic discussions about international cooperation of research infrastructures. ICRI 2022 will visit Brno on the occasion of the upcoming Czech Presidency in the EU Council in the 2nd half of 2022. It will provide a platform for high-level debates of research infrastructure policymakers, operators and users, and research stakeholders from around the world to address the most pressing research infrastructure topics.

The conference will be held under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, the Masaryk University, and the Central European Institute of Technology in Brno. The organisers will closely collaborate with the European Commission´s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, financially contributing to the event's organisation via the 9th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon Europe.

„Our key themes will be the socioeconomic benefits and social responsibility of research infrastructures, their role and international cooperation, and ways of developing an integrated research infrastructure ecosystem,“ states Ondřej Hradil, the main organiser and Research Infrastructures Manager at Masaryk University. The ICRI 2022 programme will combine plenary and parallel sessions with 450 attendees participating in person and hundreds more online.

As the conference host, Brno will strengthen its position as an emerging science and technology hub in Central Europe and will become a worldwide centre for research infrastructure stakeholders' debates from 19th to 21st October 2022.

The programme will also include several satellite events and side events as well as site visits to research infrastructures located in Brno. And as the organisers also aim to reach out to the broader public, a new feature of the conference will be the so-called citizen programme prepared in cooperation with local institutions such as Brno Observatory or VIDA! Science Centre. Last but not least, as a back-to-back event, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) meeting will take place in Brno in the same week.

The EOSC Association at ICRI 2022

EOSC Association Director Suzanne Dumouchel is joining a panel discussion on Research Infrastructures and Sharing Scientific Data Globally on 19 October 14:00-15:30 CEST.

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ESCAPE (European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructures) is a H2020 project and one of the five ESFRI clusters that aims to produce versatile solutions to support the implementation of EOSC, encourage cross-fertilisation and foster joint multi-wavelength/multi-messenger capabilities in the astronomy, astrophysics and particle astrophysics communities.

The project brings together a cluster with ESFRI projects with aligned challenges of data-driven research, with demonstrated capabilities in addressing various stages of data workflow and concerned with fundamental research through complementary approaches.

To support the EOSC implementation, ESCAPE has created the “EOSC Cell”, a cross-border and multidisciplinary environment to enable the EOSC community to adopt the services, e-infrastructures, and data stewardship of ESFRI projects.

• Citizen Science (CS): an open gateway dedicated to the public through Citizen Science and communication actions.
• Data Infrastructure for Open Science (DIOS): a scalable federated data infrastructure as the basis of an open access data service for the ESFRI projects within ESCAPE and concerned by Exabyte-scale data volumes.
• ESFRI Science Analysis Platform (ESAP): a flexible science platform for the analysis of open access data.
• Open science Software and Service Repository (OSSR): the repository of scientific software services of the research infrastructures concerned by the ESCAPE.
• Virtual Observatory (VO): astronomical high-level products archive and related services.

The ESCAPE Final Event will take place between 25 and 26 October 2022, at the Royal Belgium Institute of Natural Sciences, located in Brussels (Belgium).

Join the community in Brussels or through remote connection. Please note there is a limit of 150 registrations for those who aim to join us in Brussels, so save your seat at earliest. Registration is open till 24 September 23:59 CEST.

The event is open to all and free of charge.

Purpose and scope

The members of the cluster will share their results and achievements, present ESCAPE services and discuss the future challenges of the ESCAPE Collaboration.

Learn about the ESCAPE results and foresee the future after the end of the ESCAPE project.

Who should attend

ESCAPE project members, as well as members of other Science Clusters, EOSC-Association members, ESFRI and other Research Infrastructure representatives. Astrophysics, Particle and Nuclear Physics scientific community members and all those interested in the ESCAPE services and in EOSC overall.

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The EOSC-Pillar Final Conference highlighted some of the main results of the EOSC-Pillar project alongside other EOSC regional projects and national initiatives.

From 26 to 28 October 2022 the city of Leiden, Netherlands, will host the 1st International Conference of FAIR Digital Objects. The event will bring together for the first time at this scale key technical, scientific, industry, and science-policy stakeholders with the aim to boost the development and implementation of FDOs worldwide and transform the Internet into more than just a data space: into a meaningful data space.

The conference will act as a milestone event with the potential of initiating the transformative process of turning FAIR data into reality in a systemic way. For that purpose, it sets four main goals: 

• Anatomy of a FDO
• FDO-based approaches 
• Studies and implementations
• Global adoption of FDOS

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The State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine with participation of national and international organisations, associations and other sponsors has the honor to invite for the 1st International conference "Open science and innovation in Ukraine 2022", which will be held on October 27-28, 2022 in Kyiv in online format.

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