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September 2020
ICOS Science Conference 2020
The 4th ICOS Science Conference will be held in the Netherlands from Tuesday 15th to Thursday 17th of September 2020 in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht. The overall, overarching theme of the conference is "Knowledge for shaping the future – understanding the Earth's biogeochemical processes”. Monday 14th and Friday 18th will probably be dedicated to excursions and side-events, so be sure to reserve the whole week in your 2020 calendar! Important dates: 11 May: Abstract submission is closed 11 June: Registration opens (either…
Find out more »European Research and Innovation Days
The European Research and Innovation Days will take place on 22, 23 and 24 September 2020 and it will be entirely online. The European Research and Innovation Days brings together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond. This edition will feature three days of intensive policy co-designing, thought-provoking panels and matchmaking opportunities. The interactive sessions will let participants provide input on how research and innovation policy and funding…
Find out more »October 2020
Big Science Business Forum 2020
BSBF 2020 is a business oriented congress which congregates all the European Research Infrastructures, focused on technology and with the aim to be the main meeting point between Research Infrastructures and industry. This will be the second edition of the event after the success of the previous edition in Copenhagen, where more than 1,000 participants from more than 500 organisations and 29 countries gathered together to discuss the future prospects of the Big Science Market. Programme Registration
Find out more »2nd ESFRI RIs-EOSC Workshop “Research Infrastructures shaping EOSC” goes digital
The 2nd Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC),"Research Infrastructures shaping EOSC" that was planned to take place as a physical event will be transformed into a virtual event. This is due to the restrictions on the number of participants in physical conferences in the host country, the travel restrictions across Europe and the great uncertainty and dynamic evolution of the Covid-19 outbreak. The virtual event is planned to take place on the same dates, namely on 6 & 7 October 2020. The…
Find out more »The EOOS Technology Forum to be launched at SeaTechWeek
We are pleased to invite you to the 1st European Ocean Observing System Technology Forum, which will take place online on 13 October 2020. The event is organized by EuroGOOS through its Technology Plan Working Group and hosted by SeaTechWeek2020. The EOOS Technology Forum aims to: Bring closer the marine instrument manufacturers, technicians, technologists and scientists, in the public and private sectors – to drive development and innovation in the European ocean observing technologies; Support regular assessments of the technological…
Find out more »November 2020
European Photon and Neutron EOSC Symposium AND PaNOSC & ExPaNDS Annual Meeting
The Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud (PaNOSC) and the European Open Science Cloud Photon and Neutron Data Service (ExPaNDS) projects are organizing, jointly with the Extreme-Light-Infrastructure (ELI), a "Photon and Neutron EOSC symposium" on 9 November 2020 followed by the "2020 PaNOSC & ExPaNDS Annual meeting" on 10-11 November 2020. REGISTER HERE Due to the pandemic of COVID-19 this event is planned to be held as an online event only. The connection details to the event will be announced…
Find out more »Online events strengthening the Network of RI Industry Liaison Officers
ENRIITC, e H2020 project supporting the establishment of strategic, cross-border partnerships between industry and research infrastructures, is launching a new series of mini-webinars called #ENRIITCyourCoffee. It will be 20 minutes where members of the ENRIITC community can join together virtually to network, learn, collaborate and stay connected. Each session will cover one topic that will be briefly introduced by that week’s host, followed by an open discussion with the participants. Season 1 starts on 17th November between 11:00 – 11:20…
Find out more »Webinar “Introduction to the Marine Arctic Data Portal”
Our marine colleagues have taken the initiative to establish a dedicated Marine ArcticDefinitions of the Arctic vary according to environmental, geographical, political, cultural and scientific perspectives. Some scientists define the Arctic as areas having a high latitude, long winters, short, cool summers, with the purpose to: Provide marine ArcticDefinitions of the Arctic vary according to environmental, geographical, political, cultural and scientific perspectives. Some scientists define the Arctic as areas having a high latitude, long winters, short, cool summers,... More in-situ…
Find out more »6th SIOS webinar: Marine science in Svalbard!
The 6th SIOS webinar will use the momentum of the SIOS marine infrastructure network workshop and shed light on the global and local perspective of marine science in Svalbard. When? 27 November 2020, 10:00 - 11:30 (CET) More information: https://sios-svalbard.org/RSWebinarSeries
Find out more »December 2020
e-IRG Virtual Workshop: e-Infrastructures in support to address societal challenges
Each of the three virtual sessions of the e-IRG workshop will address one of the above-mentioned challenges from different perspectives, ranging from the European Commission to Member States/Associated Countries and from provider to the user level. Each session will feature a short introduction and 3-4 presentations, followed by an interactive Q&A session and wrap-up. The 1st session on 'Research Data Infrastructure' is on Tuesday 1 December, 14:00-16:00. The 2nd 'Digital Transformation and Public Health' and 3rd 'Digitalisation and Green Deal' sessions…
Find out more »Webinar: EOSC Portal Release 1 – What’s new?
Building on the fruitful requirement gathering activity carried out throughout 2020, the EOSC Enhance consortium is pleased to announce the official release of the new and improved EOSC Portal. This marks another exciting step in the collaborative journey towards the further development and improvement of useful and dynamic tools for the growing EOSC community. The launch will be accompanied by a series of four webinars introducing different aspects of the Portal, starting with an overview of its main upgrades for the entire stakeholder community. Join…
Find out more »ELISE webinar “Using synonyms to improve discovery of geospatial data
ELISE invites you to a webinar “Using synonyms to improve discovery of geospatial data” that will be held on 3rd December 2020 at 14:00h CET (UTC+1). The expert Marc Olijslagers from KU Leuven will walk us through the findings and achievements of the study commissioned by the EC Joint Research Centre to demonstrate the role of semantic interoperability as an enabler for enhancing the usability of data retrieval. This research takes as reference the INSPIRE Directive and the INSPIRE Geoportal…
Find out more »Workshop on Impact Assessment, Evaluation and Monitoring of Research Infrastructures
Recently, impact assessment and/or monitoring have been highlighted as an important element of the long-term sustainability of research infrastructures by ESFRI, European Commission, Competitiveness Council as well as OECD. This has resulted in an adoption of a report Monitoring of Research Infrastructures Performance by ESFRI in 2019, and a focus on impact assessment and monitoring by a number of research infrastructures. The present workshop intends to highlight the recent developments in the field of impact assessment, scientific evaluation and monitoring…
Find out more »January 2021
ENVRI Community International Winter School on DATA FAIRness
Click here to see the programme. Deadline for registration: Thursday December 17th [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0s4fMy0Xyc] The 2021 ENVRI Community International Winter School on Data FAIRness is taking place on January 11-22, 2021. The theme of the school is "ENVRI-FAIR Resources: Access & Discoverability", and it will cover a range of topics including semantic navigation, Jupyter environments for visualisation and data discovery, resource access tools and cloud computing. The Winter School is organised over a two-week period, on average dedicating around 40 hours in total…
Find out more »SIOS Polar Night Week 2021 – Registration open!
Registration for Polar Night Week 2021 is now open! As the event is virtual this year SIOS have made each day shorter than normal to suit the time zones of all SIOS members. Despite the lighter programme we can promise many interesting and productive sessions, including the release of the new SESS report, workshops on SIOS services, core data, and adapting to Covid-19 and the new normal, as well as a strategy session for the next phase of SIOS-KC funding…
Find out more »ERIC Forum meeting
The upcoming ERIC Forum meeting will be held online on 26-27 January 2021. It will bring together the ERIC community and its stakeholders to discuss, among other topics, ERIC’s role in the new ERA (European Research Area), ERICs and the new ESFRI Stakeholder Forum, the ERIC guidelines, opportunities for ERICs at the EIC (European Innovation Council) and more. The meeting will also incorporate updates from the ERIC Forum Implementation Project, where project partners will present the current status of each…
Find out more »February 2021
Register to first virtual ENVRI Week
What is ENVRI week? ENVRI week is a week dedicated to Environmental Research Infrastructures. During the runtime of the ENVRI-FAIR project, it is organized once a year. ENVRI week hosts ENVRI-FAIR project related sessions as well as several other sessions targeting different groups of stakeholders. Agenda An outline of the preliminary agenda can be downloaded from here. Registration Thank you for your interest in ENVRI week. You can register for the event by filling in the online form. The registration form…
Find out more »Africa-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures
Register now for the Africa-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures and join future collaborators on 1-2 Feb 2021 to explore synergies and opportunities for Research Infrastructures in Africa and Europe to work together. Research Infrastructures are organizations providing state-of-the-art resources, services and expertise to scientists. The RI-VIS project unites research infrastructures across scientific domains and world regions in order to work together more efficiently and effectively and increase their visibility in society at large.Our Africa-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures will gather staff from the European infrastructures and African research infrastructures and institutions who might…
Find out more »Projects in the frame of the SIOS Research Infrastructure Access programme
Register for the webinar here. Tentative Programme: 10:00 - 10:05 Shridhar Jawak (SIOS Remote Sensing Officer) - Welcome and updates from SIOS-KC 10:05 – 10:10 Inger Jennings (SIOS Access and Logistics officer) - Introduction to the webinar 10:10 - 11:25 Talks from participants in the access programme: Katharina Jentzsch (AWI) - Near real-time observations of snow water equivalent for SIOS on Svalbard Christoph Thomas (Uni of Bayreuth) - NYTEFOX: NY-Alesund TurbulencE Fiber-Optic eXperiment Andreas Alexander (UiO) - Innovate GLOF: Interdisciplinary observations of the Setevatnet glacier lake outburst flood…
Find out more »March 2021
WORKSHOP ON ACCESS TO RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE ARCTIC AT THE ASSW
Welcome to join the ‘Workshop on International Access to Research Infrastructure in the Arctic’ taking place March 23, 2021, 9-15 GMT (please sign up via #ASSW2021), and participate in the land- or marine based breakout sessions. Purpose of the workshop Initiating dialogue and developing networks that facilitate access for international scientists to national research facilities and infrastructure in the Arctic (also referred to as “transnational” or “cross-border” access): Identifying challenges, best practices, and next steps. Physical access to research infrastructure in…
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