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Research infrastructures, research communities, and their members. The user base of existing OpenAIRE community gateways will be invited to the workshop, which is anyway open to any interested person

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities Training and skills for open science

OpenAIRE, Open science practices, Open Science toolkit, community building

Participants will learn about the different and common needs of research communities and infrastructures in terms of support for the implementation and uptake of Open Science practices. As output of the workshop, participants will define the high-level roadmap for the next releases of the OpenAIRE gateways, helping CONNECT to get even closer to the RCs and RIs and the gateways at becoming a more user-friendly and effective entry point to Open Science for researchers.

OpenAIRE offers a number of services and tools for the effective implementation of Open Science practices. With CONNECT, OpenAIRE engages with research communities (RCs) and infrastructures (RIs), delivering customised Open Science gateways to lower the barriers that hinder the adoption of Open Science practices and to support community building and strengthening. Each gateway is an Open Science toolkit that includes a customizable discovery portal, with which communities can interact via a web interface or API, tools to support reporting (e.g. to funders) and track the uptake of Open Science practices.

With this workshop, the (actual and potential) users of the gateways will gather together with the CONNECT product manager and key members of the technical team to discuss ideas, requirements and improvements to different aspects of the Open Science gateways such as GUI elements, user experience, content (documentation, best practices), integrated services (both OpenAIRE and community-specific services).

After a brief presentation of CONNECT and other relevant OpenAIRE services, the participants will be actively engaged in brain-storming and co-design sessions with the support of online collaborative tools (e.g. sli.do, Trello, Miro or similar).

The workshop is an opportunity for research communities to learn about their different needs in terms of support for the implementation and uptake of Open Science practices, for example by identifying (i) common challenges; (ii) strategic actions that can be applied at the communication, training and technical level; (iii) domain-specific barriers to Open Science that can be addressed with the help of OpenAIRE. As output of the workshop, participants will define the high-level roadmap for the next releases of the OpenAIRE gateways, helping to strengthen the connection and cooperation between OpenAIRE, RCs, and RIs and improving the effectiveness of the gateways as entry points to Open Science for researchers

Agenda

5’ Introduction and warm up

10’ Open Science: discussions with the audience on barriers and priorities in research communities

10’ OpenAIRE CONNECT and community gateways: an Open Science toolkit for research communities. Features and known gaps (presentation and demo)

10’ Brainstorming with the audience: the “good” and the “bad” of the OpenAIRE gateways for research communities (with the support of online tool)

45’ Co-design sessions (with the support of online tool) focusing on: 

• Access to community content about Open Science (e.g. training material and best practices)
• Integration with other OpenAIRE services and products (e.g. API, dumps, Argos, Amnesia)
• Integration with/link to community services (community/project web portal, community data analysis services, community forum, etc.)
• Using the gateway functionality (“Link”, “Deposit”, “Search”)
• Gateway content selection criteria

10’ Wrap up and draft of the high-level roadmap (with the support of online tool)

researchers, research Infrastructures and research communities, repository managers, libraries, service providers and innovators, organisations interested or already engaging with or contributing to EOSC

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities
Training and skills for open science
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data

EOSC, co-creation, strategy, community building

The learning outcomes of the workshop will be: 

• Topics and priorities of the EOSC Advisory Groups and Task Forces
• Contribute to the AGs and TFs
• Through collaborative discussion, understand existing resources and strategic priorities from the OS Fair community

This interactive session is organised by the EOSC Association and will provide information on the vision and priorities of the Implementation Phase of the European Open Science Cloud. It will also gather information on new ideas and resources coming from the OS Fair participants that can contribute directly to the newly set up EOSC Advisory Groups and their Task Forces.

The EOSC Association represents a single voice for the advocacy and representation of the broader EOSC Stakeholder community in Europe, promoting alignment of EU research policy and priorities. A key role of the Association is to continuously develop the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) which will influence future EOSC activities at institutional, national and EU level (including the EOSC-related work programmes in Horizon Europe). This living document will adapt to the changing EOSC ecosystem and the needs of EOSC stakeholders.

To achieve this, the Association has set up a series of Advisory Groups (AG) with Task Forces (TF) to engage with the EOSC community around priority areas which will be discussed.

EOSC Directors and TF coordinators will first present the charters and remit for each TF. Then we’ll be holding an open discussion, inviting participants to contribute directly to a pooling of ideas, current activities or resources that could contribute or be of interest to the TFs. We’re also interested in your concerns and priorities – what do you not see covered by the TFs or feel is a gap in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. In the end we’ll be summarizing the main advice, resources and outcomes of each in a final panel session.

presentationAgenda

9:30-9:50 – Introduction to the Task Forces - Sarah Jones, EOSC Association Director [presentation]

9:50-10:15 – Introductions to the EOSC Task Forces

• Implementation of EOSC AG – Britta Dreyer, PID Policy and Implementation Task Force Coordinator
• Technical challenges on EOSC AG – Ignacio Blanquer, EOSC Association Director [presentation]
• Metadata and Data Quality AG – Sarah Jones, EOSC Association Director
• Research careers and curricula AG – Gustav Nilsonne, Research Careers, Recognition, and Credit Task Force Coordinator
• Sustaining EOSC AG – Bob Jones, EOSC Association Director

10:15-11:00 – Moderated discussion with speakers on TF activities, useful resources and strategic gaps – Chair, Sarah Jones, EOSC Association Director

Researchers, research Infrastructures and research communities, repository managers, libraries, service providers and innovators, EOSC organizations.

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data
FAIR data policy and practice: from theory to implementation, National EOSC initiatives, Thematic Clouds, Rules of Participation in EOSC

EOSC, FAIR, interoperabilty, standards, federation, co-design

Learning outcomes of the workshop:

• Expectations on the EOSC Core
• Benefits of the EOSC Core
• Potential contribution from the engaged organisations

The EOSC Future project will develop an environment with interoperable research outputs, including publications and code, as well as access to professional data services and resources such as compute,storage and preservation. It will federate existing research infrastructure in a ‘system of systems’ approach that will support European researchers in managing the entire lifecycle of data: from sharing, managing and exploiting their own data to discovering, re-using and recombining the data sets of others.

In particular, the EOSC Future project will support the establishment of the so-called EOSC Core. “The EOSC-Core provides the minimum functionality that is required to enable the federation of data and services across domains and countries. It supports FAIR data principles by providing the means to discover, share, access and reuse data and services. These elements address key technical, cultural and policy decisions of EOSC and they must be maintained over the long term” (SRIA v0.1).

This 90-minute workshop will provide an overview of EOSC Future’s plans for the implementation of a fully functional EOSC Core, highlighting how it could support and facilitate the daily work of researchers in the future. After an initial EOSC Future presentation on the EOSC Core, the workshop with continue with a panel discussion focusing on the following questions:

• What will be the impact of the EOSC Core on national and international research infrastructures?
• What are the needs and expectations of the research institutions (e.g libraries, repositories, universities, etc.)?
• What role will the EOSC Core and the standards we adopt play in an international context?

The input collected during the workshop will be used by the EOSC Future project to collect requirements for the EOSC Core. The workshop will be also a way to establish direct collaboration channels with the above-mentioned stakeholders

Agenda

• 10´ Welcome and EOSC Future at a glance - Ron Dekker, EOSC Future Project Director
• 20´(incl. 5´for questions) EOSC Future’s plans for the implementation of a fully functional EOSC-Core - Klaas Wierenga, GEANT & Co-chair of the EOSC Future Technical Collaboration Board [presentation]
• Panel discussion moderated by Ron Dekker on the following topics:
• How do you interpret the EOSC-Core and how can it help you from your community perspective?
• How do you interpret the EOSC-Core and how can it help you from your organisational/institutional perspective?
• What is the contribution that you / the community you represent can bring to the EOSC-Core?

Panelists: Rudolf Dimper, PaNOSC cluster representative in EOSC Future & IT advisor to the ESRF Directorate; Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General, Research Data Alliance; Steven McEachern, Director of the Australian Data Archive, Australian National University; Natalia Manola, CEO, OpenAIRE; Jan Meijer, Senior advisor international strategy, Uninett AS; Klaas Wierenga, GEANT & Co-chair of the EOSC Future Technical Collaboration Board

3 Researchers, Policymakers, Research infrastructures, EOSC, Service providers, Citizen scientists

1 Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities Value added data products/services from open science Training and skills for open science European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data Citizen science: barriers and opportunities for collaboration

Ocean science, Sustainable Development, Blue economy

Experts, researchers and IT developers from the transport (BE OPEN) and food thematic (FNS-Cloud) clouds as well as ESFRIs and discipline projects and actors (Cos4Cloud and others) will be invited to discuss challenges and gaps of Open Science technological frameworks where to tackle cross-disciplinary research aspects, raising from management and mining of nutrition data from fisheries and aquaculture, environmental data, data coming from the transport and mobility sector, energy sector or tourism.

The workshop wishes to contribute to the further development of discussions and collaborations in Open Science towards a better management of the ocean, in the context of European and international initiatives such as the EU Green Deal, the UN Ocean Decade, the Belém and Galway Statements and the SDGs.

As demonstrated by the requirements of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, Open Science has become a fundamental aspect of research across all disciplines. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative is a crucial part of this commitment and will link scientific communities, infrastructures, institutions, projects in Europe and beyond, ensuring that research data and results can be accessed, reused, combined to better tackle grand societal challenges.

This need for strengthening OS principles and practices is also reflected in a range of long-term initiatives in specific domains, such as the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development launched by the UN this year. One of its goals is to bring about “a transparent ocean with open access to data, information and technologies”.

The H2020 project Blue-Cloud sails between these two currents, as the envisioned thematic entry point to EOSC for the ocean science community, strengthening and promoting OS culture in the marine domain by federating existing infrastructures and developing collaborative tools for research.

Ocean science has tight connections with a range of overlapping domains, increasingly involved in the EOSC ecosystem and with each other via joint use cases and successful collaborations. In this workshop, we are bringing together perspectives on Open Science and its future development towards contributing to a better management of the ocean, in the context of European and international initiatives such as the Green Deal or the SDGs.

Agenda

5' Welcome & introduction, Sara Pittonet Gaiarin 

30' Channeling Open Science for a sustainable management of the ocean: best practices and collaboration opportunities

• A transport Observatory for Promoting Open Science. Afroditi Anagnostopoulou, CERTH and BE-OPEN
• Food Nutrition Security (FNS)-Cloud, Siân Astley, EuroFIR (BE)
• Piloting innovative services for Marine Research & the Blue Economy.  Dick Schaap, Maris and Blue-Cloud
• Co-designed citizen observatories for the EOSC. Karen Soacha, ICM-CSIC and Cos4Cloud

 7' pitch session from each speaker including brief introduction of the projects, best practices in the Open Science and collaboration opportunities among the projects

50' Challenges and gaps of Open Science technological frameworks

Moderated Panel discussion with open poll questions (moderator: Sara Pittonet Gaiarin)

• Dick Schaap, MARIS (Blue-Cloud),
• Afroditi Anagnostopoulou, CERTH (BE OPEN),
• Siân Astley, EuroFIR & Karl Presser Premotec (FNS-Cloud),
• Karen Soacha & Jaume Piera, ICM-CSIC (Cos4Cloud),
• Iván Rodero, EMSO ERIC (Cos4Cloud)

5' Wrap-up and closure, Sara Pittonet Gaiarin