RDA/EOSC Future satellite event

Eosc Future RDA

Gothenburg, Sweden, 20 March 2023.

Building blocks of Global Research Commons – Europe and beyond

On 20 March 2023 from 12–5pm CET, EOSC Future and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are organising a satellite event in conjunction with the RDA 20th Plenary Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden (21–23 March).

Under the heading, ‘Building blocks of Global Research Commons: Europe and beyond’, the half-day event will touch on the main issues related to practical implementation of research commons. To this end, the event will attract an international audience of key actors involved in implementing research commons at disciplinary, regional or national levels, funders, data experts, technical managers, and in general.

Panellists will open with global perspectives on implementation approaches, examining themes and challenges of assembling the main features of a research commons. The second part of the event will showcase examples of how RDA’s diverse data community are tackling challenges.

EOSC Future will also share examples, via its RDA Open Calls programme, related to the practical aspects of implementation such as:

  • interoperability
  • discovery
  • upskilling

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Do you want to get a deeper understanding of the different types of global research commons and their priorities? What about examples of roadmaps and frameworks for overcoming challenges associated with global research commons as well as an understanding of research community needs? This event will provide an opportunity to learn about different approaches and examples of implementation, with the ultimate goal of supporting global coordination and alignment for such research commons.

REGISTRATION – COMING SOON!

Registration will open later in 2023.

In the meantime, you can find more information about the programme via the RDA Plenary 20 site.  

About RDA

With over 12 500 members from 145 countries, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) provides a neutral international, community-driven forum where data professionals come together to develop and adopt infrastructure that promotes data-sharing and re-use. Read more about RDA here. RDA is well-placed to contribute to developing disciplinary standards from EOSC coming from its grassroots community.

Updates on the EOSC Future website.

BioDT Webinar: Towards FAIR Digital Twins – 2nd session

Towards FAIR Digital Twins

Online, 13 February 2023.

The Biodiversity Digital Twin‘s design, implementation, and maintenance present several issues, including the linkage and integration of various data types and related computing services. Consequently, FAIR principles are extremely important, especially during the modelling and prototyping process.

Over the last few months, the BioDT team has been discussing how to understand the FAIRness of the data sources. In particular, the team engaged in improving “Quality of Data, Workflows and Models through FAIR Principles” is tasked with delivering an implementation plan for FAIR Digital Objects over the FAIR data designs of the relevant Research Infrastructures. The team is working to find gaps in understanding FAIR implementation and how it connects to BioDT, even though FAIR principles and the technological elements supporting Digital Twins are not new.

To facilitate discussions around this topic, the BioDT consortium is organising a series of online webinars to stimulate conversations around FAIR with a focus on BioDT and the digital twinning paradigm. Experts and practitioners that deal with different aspects of FAIR implementation and digital twins are invited to join to stimulate discussions that help understand FAIR implementation in a more actionable way.

The second session is taking place on 13 February at 16:00 (CET) and provides an overview of FAIR tools applicable to digital twinning. 

Do not hesitate to learn more about this fascinating topic by registering for free!

Agenda

  • 16:00 – 16:05: Welcome and introduction
  • 16:05 – 16:35: An introduction to the FAIR Principles for Research Software
  • 16:35 – 17:00: Q&A 

BioDT Webinar: Towards FAIR Digital Twins – 1st session

Towards FAIR Digital Twins

Online, 26 January 2023.

The Biodiversity Digital Twin‘s design, implementation, and maintenance present several issues, including the linkage and integration of various data types and related computing services. Consequently, FAIR principles are extremely important, especially during the modelling and prototyping process.

Over the last few months, the BioDT team has been discussing how to understand the FAIRness of the data sources. In particular, the team engaged in improving “Quality of Data, Workflows and Models through FAIR Principles” is tasked with delivering an implementation plan for FAIR Digital Objects over the FAIR data designs of the relevant Research Infrastructures. The team is working to find gaps in understanding FAIR implementation and how it connects to BioDT, even though FAIR principles and the technological elements supporting Digital Twins are not new.

To facilitate discussions around this topic, the BioDT consortium is organising a series of online webinars to stimulate conversations around FAIR with a focus on BioDT and the digital twinning paradigm. Experts and practitioners that deal with different aspects of FAIR implementation and digital twins are invited to join to bring forward discussions that help understand FAIR implementation in a more actionable way.

The first session is taking place on 26 January at 14:00 (CET) and provides a conceptual overview of FAIR principles applicable on digital twinning. 

Do not hesitate to learn more about this fascinating topic by registering for free!

Agenda

  • 14:00 – 14:05: Welcome and introduction
  • 14:05 – 14:35: Presentation on FAIR principles and digital twinning
  • 14:35 – 15:00: Q&A

RESTORE4Cs Kick-off Meeting

RESTORE4Cs

Aveiro, Portugal, 16–19 January 2023.

The kick-off meeting of the RESTORE4Cs project (modelling RESTORation of wEtlands for Carbon pathways, Climate Change mitigation and adaptation, ecosystem services, and biodiversity, Co-benefits) will take place in the third week of January at the University of Aveiro.

The main objective of RESTORE4Cs is to provide tools and methodologies, applicable beyond the lifespan of the
project, to assess pressures and impacts on the status of wetland ecosystems at various scales and relate these to the climate mitigation and adaptation potential, to biodiversity, and other ecosystem service provision, and associated co-benefits, combining social, ecologic, and economic perspectives. The project aims as well to predict restoration and management effects on GHG emission/removal, biodiversity, and other ecosystem services, while maintaining functional biodiversity through conservation and/or restoration.

Night of Science

Finnish Night of Science

Helsinki, 12 January 2023.

The Night of Science is an annual event dedicated to scientists and researchers which is celebrated in Helsinki.

The next event takes place on 12 January 2023. The programme is made up from many different organisations and actors and the multiple events offer science and research in many different forms. All free of charge!

BioDT at the Night of Science

LifeWatch ERIC is partner in the Horizon Europe project BioDT, which will feature at the event. Jesse Harrison, BioDT Project Manager and Aleksi Kallio, BioDT Leader for Digital Twin Advanced Technical Platform, are joining a panel discussion during the Finnish “Night of Science”, which is streamed nationwide. Their presentations revolve around BioDT and ClimateDT with a focus on how supercomputing can help address major environmental problems.

More information on the event website.

18th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2023

OR 2023

South Africa, 12–15 June 2023.

The 18th International Conference on Open Repositories 2023 (OR 2023) will take place close to Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 12-15 June. The conference will be hosted by Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service. The venue of the conference will be the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West.

For more information about previous Open Repositories conferences and their governance please visit OpenRepositories.org.

More details on the programme upcoming.

Webinar: Pan-European digital assets supporting research communities – Benefits & opportunities

Online, 5–6 December 2022.

Recently, a range of new functionalities and resources have become available on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) to support data intensive research, data discovery and more. There has been much discussion on the EOSC vision, but what is the actual added value for researchers and end users?

On 5-6 December 2022, EOSC Future and the INFRAEOSC-07 projects (C-SCALE, DICE, EGI-ACE, OpenAIRE Nexus, Reliance) are hosting an online showcase event for researchers: “Pan-European digital assets supporting research communities – Benefits & opportunities”. The thematic focus of this event will be 3 UN Sustainable Development Goals: Climate action (SDG 13), Industry, Innovation & infrastructure (SDG 9) and Good health & wellbeing (SDG 3).

Over 2 half-day webinars, a series of use cases, presented by real users, will show how EOSC digital assets, developed and provided by EOSC Future & the INFRAEOSC-07 projects, can help research communities throughout and beyond Europe do their work more effectively. The interactive and first-hand format of the event will show how research communities working to address global challenges can be leveraged by EOSC services.

You can find the agenda as pdf here.

Sign up now!

How to write Privacy & Terms of Use documentation for EOSC Portal

Documentation for EOSC Portal

Online, 7 December 2022.

The EOSC Future project, in which LifeWatch ERIC is partner, is running a training session on 7 December. This module is intended for EOSC providers who will onboard services to the EOSC Portal on how to write the mandatory privacy policy (PP) and terms of use (TOU) documents. The module is disciplinary agnostic and applicable to providers working with a range of stakeholder groups.

Learning objective: to up-skill EOSC users how to write PP & TOU documents when onboarding services.

It is advised that providers taking this course will have first completed the introduction to EOSC course developed for the stakeholder communities in which they train.

Please note that the workshop will be limited to 40 participants and we will enforce the following criteria if there are excess numbers:

  • Evaluation criteria – Participants who are actively seeking to onboard services to EOSC
  • Additional criteria – Geographical location (to establish a balanced representation of European regions) and Gender (to ensure gender equity)

INSTRUCTORS AND SUPPORT

  • Prodromos Tsiavos, OpenAIRE
  • Luciano Gaido, INFN
  • Catalin Condurache, EGI Foundation
  • Giuseppe La Rocca, EGI Foundation

REGISTRATION

Registration is open until Friday, 2 December – 17.00 CET. Sign up here!