The Architecture Working Group is working on the Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA) Document, currently analysing the feedback from the open consultation.

The new task force Scholarly Infrastructure for Research Software (SIRS) was launched. The task force does an inventory of the current operational infrastructures across Europe and compares their scope and approach. Following this inventory, it will be possible to draw lessons learned, and to establish the rationale for new initiatives to allow EOSC to include software in the realm of its research artifacts, next to publications and data.

AAI basic architecture and PID architecture documents will be opened for public consultation soon.

The FAIR Working Group is currently working on the Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA) Consultation, addressing survey responses relevant to FAIR WG.

The second draft of Persistent Identifier (PID) policy for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has been released by the PID Task Force at the beginning of May 2020. Last community call showed that there are no major objections to the text of the second draft. Many positive and constructive comments have been received during the consultation period, which ended on the 21st of August, and will be further addressed by the Task Force.

On the 9th of July 2020, FAIR practice Task Force held the webinar "How to move from FAIR principles to FAIR practice? Current practices and recommendations for the future". During this webinar, the outputs produced by the Task Force have been demonstrated. The blog post can be found here.

EOSC FAIR WG is planning to participate in two sessions during the EOSC Symposium.

The Landscape WG is reaching its ambitious goals as the EOSC EB Report Landscape of EOSC-related Infrastructures and Initiatives has been published! Please check out the latest blog post of Landscape WG Rapporteur Alizée Francey where she describes more of the published report.

Recently, the Digital Curation Center (DCC) has made a valuable effort for analysing the landscape in Member States and Associated Countries. Finalisation of the Landscape Analysis is currently following the comments and validation of the invited audience of the Final Validation Workshop. The invitation-only event took place as a hybrid event 28-29 September 2020 in the Thon Hotel EU in Brussels. Remote attendance in the event was possible which had raised the number of participants over 100 in total.

Would you like to get in contact with the Landscape WG? Please do not hesitate: inform-landscape-wg@eoscsecretariat.eu

Things for the Skills & Training WG have been quite prolific in the past months. As far as the SRIA is concerned the Group has written a section on the Skills Development, Training and Education and is currently running international consultation about it. The feedback received during the SRIA consultation is being analysed and hopefully be integrated in the next version.

The Group's first study "EOSC within National Strategies for Digital Skills" will be conducted by LDK Consultants EEIG and was presented to the members of the National Strategy Task Force (TF) earlier in September. The team is expected to deliver four deliverables by mid-December.

The other three TF's are working hard on their studies as well, with "Minimum EOSC Skill Sets" Task Force having released for public consultation a diagram about the EOSC actors' profiles and their interactions with the EOSC ecosystem open. The Competence Centres TF is conducting a series of interviews on reviewing the approaches that organisations use to implement their training activities and programmes.

The EOSC Skills and Training Working Group is prepared for a fruitful period ahead.