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The report has been published for the workshop on priorities and international alignment for the European Open Science Cloud, held at the RDA Virtual Plenary 17.Read more

The EOSC Association is looking to expand its operational staff in Belgium and are accepting applications for four new positions which will play a key part in contributing to the growth of the Association and the implementation phase of EOSC.Read more

EOSC Future launched a call for external evaluators by RDA. These experts will evaluate a series of diverse grants to be awarded over the course of the EOSC Future project. Though the call will remain open for submissions until June 2023, experts will be called on to evaluate grant applications as soon as October 2021.Read more

The EOSC Symposium 2021 focusses on the key priorities of the implementation of EOSC for 2021-22. The EOSC community is invited to submit its contributions for the EOSC Symposium 2021 until 20 May.Read more

EOSCsecretariat.eu is contributing to a series of interviews with the EOSC Association Board of Directors, in coordination with the InfraEOSC-05 projects. Let's hear from Bob Jones (CERN) on the main developments in the European OS landscape and the upcoming steps of the EOSC Association.Read more

Discover RDA4EOSC, an activity funded through an EOSCsecretariat.eu open call and with joint collaboration from the RDA, the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), which began in November 2020 and runs to the end of May 2021.Read more

The first EOSCsecretariat.eu co-creation webinar took place on 13 April 2021, presenting four impressive projects funded under the COVID-19 fast-track funding, launched in early 2020.

The webinar clearly showcased the multiplicity of applications of Big Data and AI in the fight against COVID-19, from mapping and prediction of geographical COVID hotspots to an AI assistant for triage.Read more

With the establishment of the EOSC Association on 11 September 2020 and the election of a board of directors and a president on 17 December 2020, EOSC is entering a new "convergence phase." The EOSC Association is so far made up of 142 members and 49 observers, who are research providing organisations, research funders, service providers, and other related organisations. The President of the Association Karel Luyben was interviewed this week about the future of the European Open Science Cloud by Science|Business.Read more

The European Commission has recently launched Open Research Europe (ORE), the open access academic publishing service announced by the Commission last year.

ORE provides all Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries and their researchers with the option of an easy, high-quality peer-reviewed venue to publish their papers open access, at no cost to them, and in full compliance with the European Commission’s open access policies. This is a great opportunity for the dozens of EOSC related projects funded under the Horizon schemes. Approximately 40 scientific papers from very diverse fields of research have already been submitted and are available for the scientific community to read and review.Read more

The final outputs produced by the EOSC Executive Board and its Working Groups (2019-20) have all been published via the Publications Office of the European Union. Find them in a dedicated page on EOSCsecretariat.eu.Read more