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Open Science Week 2026

Conference CZ

20 – 22 Oct

This year’s Open Science Week, organised by the Open Science Working Group of ALCU, will focus on different approaches to Open Science. Attention will be given to systemic and institutional aspects, inspiration from abroad, as well as discipline-specific practices and experience.

PIDfest 2026

Conference Abroad ENG

27 – 29 Oct 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

PIDfest is a three-day international summit featuring talks, activities, and workshops focused on the use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) for building world-class research infrastructure. The event aims to bring together users and leaders from around the world to address real challenges in research infrastructure and accelerate the development of research and innovation. PIDfest 2026 will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands.

21st International Digital Curation Conference

Conference Abroad ENG

9 – 12 Feb 2027 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

The 21st International Digital Curation Conference will bring together professionals working in research data management and digital curation across disciplines and institutions. This year’s theme, FAIR DO's: Centring People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects, highlights the crucial role of people in making digital objects FAIR.

News

14 May

EOSC Symposium 2026: Call for programme contributions

EOSC Association has opened a call for programme contributions for the EOSC Symposium 2026, which will take place on 14–16 October 2026 in Florence. Individuals, projects, and organisations are invited to propose topics, speakers, and discussion ideas focused on the future of the EOSC Federation, research data, AI, interoperability, and user experience. Submissions are open until 1 June 2026.

4 May

Infrastructure Is Not Enough. Open Science Requires a Cultural Change

How can artificial intelligence help scientists make better use of precious synchrotron beamtime? And why are metadata, databases, and FAIR principles becoming increasingly important in modern materials research? In this interview with Ridha Eddhib, a researcher from the New Technologies – Research Center at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, we discuss machine learning, photoemission spectroscopy, 2D materials, and the growing importance of research data management in physics.

1 May

EOSC CZ Networking Events Continue: Prague and Pilsen Connect the Research Data Community

EOSC CZ Networking events continued this spring with two more meetings, highlighting the gradual growth of the research data management community in the Czech Republic. The March event at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and the April follow-up at the University of West Bohemia combined a strong focus on practical work with data, sharing experience, and building concrete collaborations across institutions.

29 Apr

EOSC CZ Node Joins the EOSC Federation

The Czech Republic has reached a significant milestone in the development of research data management and open science. The EOSC CZ Node has been approved as a candidate node in the second wave of the EOSC Federation, which connects European services, infrastructures, and repositories for working with research data.

27 Apr

Data Stewardship Wizard: A Guide to Architecture, Templates, and Deployment Options

The second part of the introduction to the Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) is primarily intended for data stewards, service administrators, and other users who want to better understand how DSW works “under the hood.” It is also relevant for those considering customizing content, creating templates, or deploying DSW at the institutional level.

21 Apr

Data, Trust and Public Engagement: Citizen Science Through the Eyes of Researchers

April is dedicated to citizen science, which has become an increasingly important part of research and open science in recent years. How are data collected from the public actually used in practice? What benefits and challenges does this approach bring? And what is needed for its further development in the Czech Republic? We asked three researchers – Alena Fornůsková (Czech Academy of Sciences), Jakub Trojan (Faculty of Science, Masaryk University), and Michael Lažan (Senzorvzduchu, z.s.) – who have long been involved in citizen science.

20 Apr

Citizen Science as a Tool for Education: Insights from the Conference in Oulu

This March marked the sixth edition of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) conference, held this time in Oulu. The event attracted several hundred participants from across Europe and beyond. The programme covered a wide range of topics – from sharing experiences and presenting projects to legal aspects and the role of citizen science in education.

20 Apr

Does EOSC need a fundamental shift in mindset to become a fully fledged platform for science?

Research infrastructures are among the leading producers of scientific data in Europe, and their role will be decisive in determining whether the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) becomes a truly functional research environment. On 16-17 March 2026, representatives of European research infrastructures gathered at the historic Palazzo delle Stelline in Milan, originally founded in the 16th century as a hospital for the poor. Their goal was not to ask how to build EOSC, but how to ensure it delivers real value for science.

13 Apr

He started by hacking video games. Now he teaches data science at a university

Matthias Täschner first got into programming through computer games, spent twelve years in the army, and now works as a data scientist at Leipzig University. In this interview, he shares why data science isn’t about turning everyone into programmers, how to spark interest in AI, and what to expect from his course at the EOSC Summer School for data stewards.

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