News and Events

Events

12 Mar 2024

Academic Integrity

Training ENG

This webinar includes academic integrity concepts and tips such as avoiding plagiarism or predatory journals.

11 Mar 2024

Seminar: the NRP project for EOSC CZ WG members (project presentation and discussion)

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Training CZ

This course is held in the Czech language.

The seminar is thematically related to the "Systems for the National Repository Platform (NRP)" lecture on 22 November 2023. It will be an interactive discussion with experts, not a standard lecture.

1 Mar–15 May 2024

Project OSCARS – cascading grants!

Abroad ENG Open call

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.

1–31 Mar 2024

FAIR-IMPACT - open call for financial support

Abroad ENG Open call

Project FAIR-IMPACT identifies practices, policies, tools and technical specifications to guide researchers, repository managers, research performing organisations, policy makers and citizen scientists towards a FAIR data management cycle. The focus is on persistent identifiers (PIDs), metadata, ontologies, metrics, certification and interoperability.

27 Feb 2024

Where is the EOSC today and what are the future prospects?

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Conference Training

Please note that the webinar will be held in German.

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a pioneering initiative that aims to create an inclusive and open space for the exchange and use of research data in Europe.Three free EOSC Coffee Lectures from the ZBW provide clarity about what the EOSC is and what it is not, present the current status and relevant developments in the context of the EOSC and show how you can get involved in the activities of the EOSC.The EOSC Coffee Lectures invite everyone who deals with research data in their scientific work or is involved in the implementation and operation of research data infrastructures.The Coffee Lectures are given by Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann. Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann is, among other things, a member of the Board of Directors of the EOSC Association (EOSC-A) and is also involved in several NFDI consortia and a member of the NFDI Senate.

Contents:

Current developments around the EOSC.
Future relevant EOSC concepts, such as EOSC EU Node, national, regional thematic EOSC nodes.
Status of discussions on EOSC in the 10th EU Framework Program from 2027 (EOSC-post 2027).
Possible role of NFDI in EOSC post 2027.

27 Feb 2024

Building FAIR skills at a national level

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Conference Training ENG

The "FAIR Implementation Workshop - Building FAIR skills at a national level" will take place on 27 February 2024 11:00-13:00. Confirm your registration below. Note: Registration for the workshop is mandatory.

The goal of this workshop is to include the FAIR skills and competences in a FAIR implementation action plan: How to develop FAIR skills and competences at a national level and how this aspect must be reflected in a FAIR implementation plan. This event is organised in conjunction with Skills4EOSC project.

News

3 Nov 2023

Czech EOSC Initiative Representatives Share Their Future Visions at Open Science Week 2023

This year's Open Science Week presented a diverse program of lectures delivered by Czech and foreing experts, focusing on open science and its core principles. Coordinated by the Association of Libraries of the Czech Republic, this event involved the active participation of universities in five different cities. Among the speakers, there were also representatives of the EOSC initiative in the Czech Republic.

1 Nov 2023

Scientist Terézia Slanináková highlights the advantages of Open Science for the community

Young scientist Terézie Slanináková from Masaryk University promotes using Open Science and its principles. In a recently published article in the international journal Information Systems, she and her colleagues show how to utilize Open Science in routine scientific practices in IT.

3 Oct 2023

Reaching for Progress: EOSC Symposium 2023 Advances Open Science

EOSC representatives from all European countries gathered in Madrid, Spain. During the EOSC Symposium 2023 in September, representatives from the Czech Republic actively engaged in discussions concerning the initiative's future steps, priorities, and strategic direction. The event was held under the auspices of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU.

6 Sep 2023

Press release: New era of Czech science. The EOSC initiative is entering a hot phase in the Czech Republic 

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic has approved funding for a project called "IPs EOSC-CZ". This project officially started its active phase on Monday, September 4, 2023.

31 Jul 2023

Interview with Luděk Matyska of CESNET, EOSC-A Czech Mandated Organisation

Professor Luděk Matyska, EOSC Mandatory Representative for the Czech Republic, spoke about the EOSC-CZ project in an interview with EOSC Focus. He talked about the history of the EOSC project in the Czech Republic, its personal motivation, and visions for the future.

16 Jun 2023

Representatives from across Europe met for the first National EOSC Tripartite

Open science and research data. They were the topics of the first-ever National EOSC Tripartite Event. More than 150 representatives of Czech and international organizations actively supporting the open science and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) project met at the National Technical Library in Prague.

12 Apr 2023

We’re Making History – the National Portal EOSC-CZ is Here

Seven years have passed since the EOSC Initiative was launched. And two years since the project was approved in the Czech Republic. Today, thousands of hours of work and scores of people involved in the initiative are turning into a major milestone, which is the launch of the national EOSC.CZ portal.

11 Apr 2023

Website on Persistent Identifiers Launched

In April 2023, the collaboration between the National Library of Technology and the National Library of the Czech Republic resulted in the publishing of a new website identifikatory.cz. Here, you will find everything about the topic of persistent identifiers and their support at the national level.