News and Events

Events

1 Mar–15 May

Project OSCARS – cascading grants!

Abroad ENG

OSCARS - Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research and Society

The OSCARS project brings together ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures organised in five "Science Clusters", (environmental science, life science, astronomy and particle physics, neutron and light source science and social science and humanities) that have cooperated over the last four years to rise the efficiency and productivity of researchers by providing open data services and infrastructures for discovering, accessing, and reusing data.

2 Apr–5 May

SPIA 2.0 Community consultation

Abroad ENG

The EOSC Partnership’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) defines the general framework for future research, development, and innovation activities in relation to EOSC, and will serve as the Partnership’s guiding document for the coming four years.

14–23 May

RDA’s 22nd Plenary Meeting

Conference Abroad ENG

The Research Data Alliance’s 22nd Plenary meeting (VP22) is now confirmed and will take place as a fully virtual event. Organised by the RDA Secretariat, VP22 will be held for half-days spread across two weeks, between 14-23 May 2024.

With the theme “Local Action – Global Connection”, which also aligns with the four themes of RDA’s Strategic Plan, the plenary will focus on collaboration and engagement with our global community through the sharing of local experiences, best practices and recommendations.

14 May

Assessing national current FAIR-enabling capabilities

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Conference Training ENG

The "FAIR Implementation Workshop - Assessing national current FAIR-enabling capabilities" will take place on 14 May 2024 14:00-16:00 CEST. Confirm your registration below. Note: Registration for the workshop is free but mandatory.

The Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) is a group of organisations who work on harmonising the assessment of research. It takes into account practices and activities that maximise the quality and impact of research. It involves basing assessment primarily on qualitative judgment, for which peer review is central, supported by responsible use of quantitative indicators.

This two-hour workshop will focus on the topic of research assessment to help the selected candidates to draft their FAIR implementation action plan by taking into account the research assessment aspect.

23 May

Why use Open Science?

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Training CZ

This course is held in the Czech language.

Most scientists still ask why they should open their data and what the point of the Open Science policy is. This presentation shows concrete cases where Open Science principles have proven their worth in practice and contributed to the development of scientific research. These principles can be used by future Data Stewards to establish relationships with future researchers in their institutions.

27–28 May

EOSC Association 8th General Assembly

Conference Abroad ENG

Registration is open!

The EOSC Association’s 8th General Assembly will be a lunch-to-lunch, in-person meeting to be held 27-28 May 2024. The meeting will be held in Leuven, Belgium.

A detailed programme and additional practical information will be shared in due course.

3–6 Jun

Open Repositories Conference 2024

Conference Training ENG

ORC2024 is an excellent place for companies and organisations that deal with digital asset management, digital storage, research information systems, scholarly publications, open access and open data to be seen and interact with participants. The event gives access to a large audience of potential customers and partners as well as insights into what is hot in the area from a user perspective.

The event is expecting approximately 450-500 attendees from all over the world. These will include directors of digital initiatives, technical staff and developers, librarians, and repository managers as well as applied researchers in digital libraries and similar fields.

Please visit the Call for Proposals page to learn more about the sub-themes and submission categories of the conference, including a full list of submission templates and key dates for submission deadlines and approvals. Submission categories include posters, workshops, lightning talks, roundtable discussions, papers, and panels.

5 Jun

e-IRG Workshop BE Presidency

1:30 PM – 6:00 PM Abroad Training ENG

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) organises two open workshops every year, each under the auspices of the corresponding presidency of the EU Council. The Belgian EU Presidency e-IRG Workshop will be organised as a hybrid event and will bring together e-IRG stakeholders in Brussels, Belgium, as well as online and worldwide. The e-IRG events are official EU presidency events which will take place in the framework of the “Conference on Research Infrastructures” and the “ESFRI Forum meeting”, similar to the Lund events under the Swedish EU presidency.

6–7 Jun

ESFRI Forum

Conference Training ENG

This event is being planned. Further information will follow.

11–13 Jun

PIDfest

Conference Abroad CZ

A three-day international summit of talks, activities and workshops focussing on how persistent identifiers can deliver world-class research infrastructure. This event is organised by the National Library of Technology (NTK) and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

The overarching objective of PIDfest is to unite global pioneers in the field of persistent identifiers, fostering collaborative solutions to tangible infrastructure challenges that stand in the way of expediting research and innovation. An event of this magnitude promises dynamic discussions, centred on practical strategies for overcoming real-world hurdles in the delivery of research infrastructure.

12–15 Jun

EuroScience Open Forum 2024

Conference Training ENG

The EuroScience Open Forum is a biennial meeting designed to offer the scientific community a platform for interdisciplinary and intersectional debate about scientific culture, scientific research, and innovation. It is created for the society’s benefit and carried out with the society’s participation.

The main goal of the ESOF2024 conference is to explore the connections between science and society, the conditions for conducting research, and their impact on society. We aim to stimulate debate on social changes related to science and analyze the social, cultural, and economic consequences of scientific breakthroughs at regional, national, European, and global levels. In the face of global challenges and to enhance international scientific cooperation, scientists want to discuss science as a factor of change in our lives and how the very life changes science.

18 Jun

Advancing Research Data Management and Open Science in Austria

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Conference Training ENG

The FAIR National Roadshow series is visiting Austria on the 18th of June 2024!

The event will be virtually hosted by the Graz University of Technology, in Austria

The aim of this event is to present the work done in Austria on the national level and also learn about European developments and results of EOSC-related projects such as FAIR-Impact. The event will debate around metadata and semantic interoperability, as well as FAIR-enabling repositories and Austrian National Open Science Policies.

20–21 Jun

2024 Coordination meeting of EOSC-related projects funded under Horizon Europe

Conference ENG

The 2024 edition of the “Coordination meeting of EOSC-related projects funded under Horizon Europe” will take place on 20-21 June in Brussels.

As in previous editions, the meeting will bring together representatives of project consortia, the European Commission, the Research Executive Agency and the EOSC Association.

24–29 Jun

2024 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2024)

Conference ENG

The general meeting portion of GCC2024 consist of a series of peer-reviewed talks, posters, demos, training sessions, Birds-of-a-Feather meetups, and sponsor talks.

The registration fee includes admission to the meeting events, snacks and drinks during the morning/afternoon break, and lunch for each day.

15–17 Jul

FOAM 2024: FAIR principles for Ontologies and Metadata in Knowledge Management

Conference Abroad ENG

FOAM is a new workshop merging the Workshop on Ontologies for FAIR and FAIR Ontologies (Onto4FAIR), the Conceptual Modeling, Ontologies and Metadata Management for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Data (CMOMM4FAIR) and the FAIR Ontology Harmonization and TRUST Data Interoperability Workshop (FOHTI).

The main objectives of this workshop are:

to bring together new methods for enabling FAIR research outputs (data, software, workflows, ontologies, mappings, etc.) through ontologies and vocabularies,
discuss techniques, metrics and guidelines to improve the FAIRness of ontologies and vocabularies.
to share experiences, identify new challenges and opportunities applying FAIR for different communities.

27–30 Oct

European Conference on Data Intelligence 2024

Conference Training ENG

Building on the success of previous editions, we are pleased to announce the upcoming FAIR-DI European Conference on Data Intelligence 2024. Following the remarkable achievements and insightful discussions at the 2020 and 2022 Conferences on a FAIR Data Infrastructure for Materials Genomics, we are excited to continue the discussion and further collaboration and innovation in this growing field with the theme of Data Intelligence.

News

25 Apr

EOSC CZ Secretariat at the CERIT MetaCentre seminar in Brno

In Brno, a two-day seminar "Solver Seminar" of the MetaCentrum CERIT took place on April 16-17, 2024, where the EOSC CZ Secretariat was also invited, presenting its current topics and projects.

24 Apr

The V4 Conference 2024 explored cutting-edge research infrastructures

Stakeholders from the Visegrád Group countries met in Brussels on April 18, 2024, to discuss the future of European research infrastructures.

5 Apr

"Archaeology has a great talent for using new methods," says David Novák in an interview

What does the term "digital repository" mean and what role does digital technology play in archaeology? Read the interview with scientist David Novák from the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

3 Apr

EOSC CZ knows the leaders of the working groups: How did it turn out?

EOSC CZ has completed its first election of working group leaders. Read more about how the polls went and see the election charts.

27 Mar

Czech initiative EOSC knows the leaders of its working groups

Press Release: The first elections of the leading working groups of the EOSC CZ initiative have brought twelve democratically elected leaders who actively engage in innovations and the development of research data management. Let's meet the newly elected leaders.

5 Mar

EOSC CZ election 2024: who will lead the working groups of the EOSC initiative? 

The first elections for the leaders of the EOSC CZ working groups are approaching. Let's find out how the selection process will happen and check the profile medallions of the candidates, where they present their visions for the initiative's future.

1 Mar

Advancing EOSC CZ: Representatives of the initiative have published a scientific paper about the future of research data management

The newly published article maps the EOSC's engagement in the Czech Republic. It explains the follow-up projects and emphasizes the promotion of scientific collaboration and the development of research data management infrastructure.

13 Feb

Upcoming Key Milestone: Inaugural Election of EOSC Working Group Leaders in the Czech Republic

Press release: EOSC CZ is organizing its inaugural election for working group leaders, who will actively influence scientific activities in the field of research data management.

7 Feb

Year 2023 with EOSC CZ: Interview with Jiří Marek, Head of the Secretariat EOSC CZ

Jiří Marek spent almost 365 days of the last calendar year with the initiative EOSC CZ. Read our interview with him about how the European initiative is finding its place in the Czech environment.