Recent Activity: EOSC Liaison Platform

GAIA-X is an interesting international European initiative that will clearly have connections with the work we do within the EOSC.
As several of you may know, meetings between GAIA-X and EOSC are already taking place.
For users of the Liaison Platform:  Find at https://www.gaia-x.eu  more info on GAIA-X. 

On that website you will find all relevant info on:

• Vision, role, working and Impact of GAIA-X
• Architecutre and Policy Documents
• Invitation to receive the regular Newletter 
• Registration for GAIA-X events. 

Regarding the relationship to EOSC, we expect connections /  alignments on subjects like Data-sharing, Compliance & Governance and Technical infrastructure   

We expect more information by the end of May 2021.

BERT MEERMAN from GFF  ( involved in EOSCsecretariat.eu WP 3.4 and WP 7.2)

Email address  :    b.meerman@gofairfoundation.org

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The EOSC Portal is a gateway to information and resources in EOSC, providing updates on its governance and players, the projects contributing to its development and implementation, key events for the EOSC community, as well as training materials for its different components. 

The EOSC Portal Catalogue & Marketplace acts as a user-friendly entry point to the multitude of services and resources for researchers across different domains, provided by leading European and international organisations.

The Horizon 2020 project EOSC Enhance is launching an open survey targeting the entire EOSC community, to look more closely at individuals who create EOSC, understand who they are, where they come from and, most importantly, what they need in their everyday (research) activities. With this portion of knowledge, with the feedback gathered in this survey, the project wishes to capture most needed and expected enhancements that can be introduced in the next Portal release in autumn 2021. 

The survey only takes 15 minutes and it closes on Monday, 10 May 2021 18:00 CEST.

Take the survey now

Data Driven Policymaking Week (26-29 April 2021) wants to unite policymakers, public administrators, decision makers, and social science researchers around the four pilot use cases at the heart of the Policy Cloud project. 

26 April 2021  14:00 - 15:00 (CEST) The Radicalisation Pilot -  REGISTER HERE
27 April 2021  14:00 - 15:00 (CEST) The Urban Environment Pilot - REGISTER HERE
28 April 2021  14:00 - 15:00 (CEST) The Food Value Chain Pilot - REGISTER HERE
29 April 2021  14:00 - 15:00 (CEST) The Policies for Citizens Pilot - REGISTER HERE
 

More information here. 

The main objective of Blue Research and Innovation Days is to present ongoing cutting-edge projects along with a specially-shaped hackathon towards bringing together consortia, the scientific community and industry working at the core of the ‘blue economy’ by promoting synergies as well as shaping common future activities.

20 April | 11:00 - 13:00 CEST - Blue-Cloud & EuroSea joint workshop

The workshop provides an overview of the collaboration between EuroSea and Blue-Cloud, presenting the latest developments and highlighting their common objectives and future plans. Participants can interact with representatives from both projects in a dedicated Q&A session.

Agenda and registration

On the 29th of April, DICE and EUDAT CDI will be hosting a webinar to showcase the data storage and value-added services being made available free of charge by the European Commission. Register to learn about the services offered and how you can take advantage of them for your own research.

This webinar is jointly-organised by the EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (EUDAT CDI), one of the largest infrastructures of integrated data services for research sustained by almost 30 research organisations, and data and computing centres, and the Digital Infrastructure Capacity for EOSC project (DICE), an EU-funded initiative that enables a European storage and data management infrastructure for EOSC that provides generic services and building blocks to store, find, access and process data in a consistent and persistent way. DICE is providing these services free of charge to European researchers for the whole project duration. The webinar will take place on the 29th of April, at 10:00 CEST.

REGISTER NOW

The Horizon 2020 project Blue-Cloud project is introducing the "Plankton Genomics" demonstrator on 23 April 2021 at 14:00 CEST,  which aims to showcase a deep assessment of plankton distributions by mining data across biomolecular, imaging and environmental domains. Blue-Cloud is a thematic EOSC project with the overarching aim of federating and piloting innovative services for marine research and the blue economy.

Register now!

Register here!

Based on the knowledge and skills gaps identified during our 1st Vision Building workshop (‘Citizen & Open Science in Higher Education: Co-creating a Shared Vision‘), the aim of this 2nd workshop is to identify grounds for collaboration for a wide spectrum of stakeholders (HEI management staff, policymakers, funding bodies and members of networks/ consortia of European and international reach on OS, the HEI sector and business), to support and foster the deployment of Citizen Science within Higher Education Institutions.

Participants are encouraged to actively discuss and present their experience in this field, collaboration initiatives, models and tools they have found useful, as well as effective ways to engage external stakeholders to find innovative solutions to common problems.

An introductory lecture about the collaboration between different stakeholders for Citizen Science will precede the discussions. The outcome of this event is the creation of a report...

One and a half years after the RDA session in Helsinki, the five ESFRI cluster projects, the RDA community, and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) representatives come together again, to discuss the past, present and future of their collaboration during the journey of integrating thematic services into EOSC. 

On 19th of April this event will take place (13:00 CEST) in the form of a debade. The debate will look at the commonalities and collaboration in the ESFRI clusters, when contributing to the European Open Science Cloud on three pillar topics: 

• Thematic data services, 
• Connecting to end-user communities 
• Governance

For each of these topics, the ESFRI cluster projects will ask for input from members of the international RDA community, the ESFRI community, EOSC ecosystem and data experts and domain researchers being the end-user community. Input from these stakeholder groups will be collected through their involvement in the debating team and the active audience engagement. 

Please note that this event is free-of-charge.

Register here!

Event page on SSHOC website

DICE offers services for Research Infrastructures, service providers, research teams, individual researchers, and citizen scientists to support them in every step of the research data lifecycle. Learn how to take advantage of the DICE Calls for Service Requests and get free storage services!

To learn more and apply visit the Call for Service Requests page