News & Publications

On 27-28 April 2020, the EOSC Landscape Working Group (WG) Validation Workshop took place remotely. The goal of the meeting was to discuss and validate the first draft of the Landscape Report “Landscape of EOSC related infrastructures and initiatives”.Read more

The feedback received by the EOSC Sustainability WG on the tinman version of the Solutions for a Sustainable EOSC report has been analysed and documented in order to be taken into account in the upcoming ironlady version. A list of subjects have also been identified where the Sustainability Working Group intends to pursue additional studies.Read more

By: Juuso Marttila, FAIR Working Group

The mapping of FAIR practices is underway, help us by commenting on our work.Read more

Researchers are at the very heart of the EOSC. What do our researchers say one year after the launch of the initiative? How do they think they will benefit from the EOSC? What are and what can be their roles? Let’s hear from Ottavio Quirico, an expert in international law.Read more

By: Cathrin Stöver, EOSC Executive Board Co-chair

The third face-to-face meeting of the Sustainability Working Group was held at Bouchout Castle just north of Brussels, which is the site of the Meise Botanic Garden. It proved an ideal location for exploring how to plant solid roots for EOSC and allow it to grow into a secure environment for Europe’s research activities.Read more

By: Sarah Jones, EOSC Executive Board member and EOSC FAIR Working Group Chair

Everyone likes to add letters to FAIR, so I thought we should change things up by redefining the letters instead. Within the EOSC FAIR Working Group we are examining researcher practice and developing a PID policy, metrics, certification guidelines and an Interoperability Framework to implement a web of FAIR data in EOSC. On Tuesday we held our first Working Group meeting of 2020 and I was overwhelmed by the progress and dedication of our four Task Forces. Read more

On the 27th of November 2019, the EOSC Landscape Working Group met in Budapest during the EOSC Symposium. During this 3rd F2F meeting, the Working Group members discussed the current stage and next formal steps towards the next version of the Landscape Analysis Report.Read more

By: Cathrin Stover, EOSC Executive Board Co-chair

First things first: we now have a “in principle” agreement on the Horizon Europe candidate Partnership Proposal for EOSC. This is excellent news as the formation of a strategic partnership for EOSC beyond 2020 means that the governance and executive boards are delivering increased stability for EOSC activities under Horizon Europe. It means that an activity that was mainly Horizon 2020 project-led over the last years, now receives the full support from EU Member States and Associate Countries. In short, we have taken EOSC to its next level!Read more

It is with great sadness that the members of the EOSC Sustainability Working Group remember our highly esteemed colleague and Hungarian delegate Dr. Lajos Bálint, who passed suddenly in early December 2019.Read more

The EOSC Sustainability Working Group (WG) met face-to-face for the second time on 23rd October 2019 in Helsinki. The objective of the meeting was to review the feedback received on the strawman document and get an update on the progress of the task forces.Read more

By: Alizée Francey (Rapporteur of the EOSC Landscape Working Group), with contributions of Jan Hrušák (Chair of the EOSC Landscape Working Group)

On the 23rd of October 2019, the EOSC Landscape Working Group (WG) met in Helsinki. During this 2nd F2F meeting, the WG members reviewed the process of the Landscape Analysis report and looked forward the upcoming steps.Read more

The EOSC Sustainability Working Group (WG) met face-to-face and for the first time on 11th July 2019 in Frankfurt.

The meeting was intended to set the scene by reminding the members of the objectives of EOSC, its governance structure, the mandate of the Sustainability WG as well as its expected deliverables.Read more

On the 4th of July 2019, we had a kick-off meeting in Brussels of the FAIR Working group of the EOSC European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) governance. Given that the FAIR Working Group consists of almost 30 members, we split into 4 teams to enable efficient and effective working: PID Policy, FAIR Practice, Interoperability and Metrics and Certification.Read more

The EOSC Executive Board (EB) met once more before the summer on 27 June in Brussels. 

Most of the discussion in the EB meeting was around the EOSC EB Working Groups (Sustainability, Landscape, FAIR, RoP and Architecture.

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By: Cathrin Stover, EOSC Executive Board Vice Chair

There is an excellent parable of the blind men and the elephant, which originated in ancient...Read more

On Friday 1 March 2019, the EOSC Executive Board (EB) met formally for its first time. We are now fully constituted after publication in the Register of European Commission expert groups.Read more