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February 2021
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 »‘Bring your own provenance cases’ workshop
Introduction From an inventory among the various subdomain work packages in ENVRI-FAIR, WP6 concluded that Provenance Tracing was high on the priority list of training requirements for RI’s. Using the very relevant outcomes of the ENVRIplus project as written down in Deliverable D8.5 (Data provenance and tracing for environmental sciences: system design), we have put together a series of events. The first event is focusing on A workshop-type session in collaboration with WP7 to discuss cases, issues, problems and questions collected…
Find out more »April 2021
International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems – IMDIS 2021
Date: 12 Apr 2021 to 14 Apr 2021 Location: Online The International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems (IMDIS) has the aim of providing an overview of the existing information systems to serve different users in ocean science. It also shows the progress in the development of efficient: infrastructures for managing large and diverse data sets, standards, interoperable information systems, services and tools for education. Due to the sanitary situation linked to COVID-19 pandemic, IMDIS Steering Committee decided to postpone IMDIS…
Find out more »“ENVRI meets Stakeholders” virtual event
High-level meeting on the alignment of ENVRI-FAIR data policies with International stakeholders Environmental research infrastructures (RIs) are committing significant resources to ensure greater harmonization of FAIR policies among them. However, the ENVRI strategy must be known and shared with its main stakeholders at the international level. This session aims to engage initial exchanges between Environmental RIs and international organizations on access to data and data resources and to ensure alignment of policies at all levels. All the Research infrastructure managers…
Find out more »EGU 2021
General Assembly 2021, traditionally held each spring in Vienna, Austria, will take place entirely online due to the continuing risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting restrictions on international travel. We at ICOS Head Office very much regret yet another missed opportunity to meet our friends and colleagues from ICOS community. We nevertheless hope we can meet our community members and other EGU members at least virtually during the ICOS organized sessions. EGU and its conference partner, Copernicus…
Find out more »The ESFRI Clusters at RDA House of Commons
Debating commonalities and collaboration for thematic services, training and governance towards the European Open Science Cloud 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. We want to beat your Zoom fatigue and engage you in a spiked house-of-commons styled debate.…
Find out more »ENVRI-FAIR side event at the RDA 17th Plenary – The ENVRI-Hub for EOSC and Planet Earth
The ENVRI-Hub for EOSC and Planet Earth: FAIR and open Earth System science, data and data services for Environmental Challenges The European Environmental Research Infrastructures organized in the ENVRI community hold a wealth of data regarding the planet Earth and its natural environment. This (in situ) data is a critical component in tackling Global Challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, natural hazards, ocean acidification, etc. Making sure this data is openly available, easy to find, and interoperable to allow its…
Find out more »ENVRI-FAIR presentation at virtual EGU 2021
Are you attending the virtual EGU 2021? Then do not miss the presentation about Advancing the FAIRness and Openness of Earth system science in Europe by the ENVRI-FAIR coordinator Andreas Petzold. The talk will take place on Tuesday, April 27th as part of the ESSI3.3 session focusing on "The evolving Open and FAIR ecosystem for Solid Earth and Environmental sciences: challenges, opportunities, and other adventures". More information about the talk can be found here. Abstract Advancing the FAIRness and Openness…
Find out more »June 2021
The International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI) 2020
The International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI) brings together policy experts, facility managers, leading researchers and a variety of other stakeholders to discuss challenges and emerging trends for research infrastructures around the world. ICRI 2020 is supported with funding from the European Union and is hosted by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and with additional…
Find out more »ENVRI-FAIR at the EOSC Symposium 2021
EOSC Symposium 2021 “Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud” An integral part of the EOSC Stakeholder Forum The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its highly-anticipated implementation phase. The EOSC Symposium will provide a key engagement opportunity for the EOSC community. The foundation of the EOSC Association in 2020 is a key element of the implementation phase (2021-2027). Building on the EOSC SRIA, the Association will establish a number of Advisory Groups and Task Forces by June. These…
Find out more »September 2021
1st ENVRI-FAIR policy workshop for the ENVRI community Research Infrastructures
Theme "How to define infrastructure policies and practices for interoperability" The workshop focuses on presenting and discussing general concepts on writing and developing policies in the ENVRI RIs, their aspects and relationship to the RI operations. The workshop will be strongly dependent on the interactivity of the participants, their experiences on policy development, decision making and documentation, particularly on policies related to RI operational data services (such as data security, privacy and user, authorisation, data curation; data and metadata provenance…
Find out more »There is still time to register to ENVRI Community International School “Services for FAIRness”
The 2021 edition of the ENVRI Community International School has been launched! Organised by ENVRI-FAIR and LifeWatch ERIC, the school is at its fourth edition, having established itself as an unmissable opportunity to learn about FAIRness in the framework of Research Infrastructures. Having gone into depth on data FAIRness and data management during previous editions, this year the school will focus on Services for FAIRness, from their design to their development and publication. The School is organised over a two-week…
Find out more »October 2021
Practical implementation of FAIR-related content in university curricula and teaching
The European University Association and the University of Göttingen as part of the FAIRsFAIR project are organising a workshop on “Practical implementation of FAIR-related content in university curricula and teaching”. The event will take place on 12 October 2021 starting at 10:00 CEST. The workshop will focus on presenting and gathering feedback on the draft “FAIR Competence Adoption Handbook for Universities” (working title). The handbook will be a practical tool for universities to implement FAIR research data management content and…
Find out more »CESSDA™ Roadshow on Climate Change
This CESSDA™ Roadshow on 14 October 2021 from 14:00-15:30 CEST is a deep dive on climate change research in the social sciences, which are key to ensuring impartial, reliable and trusted datasets contribute to tackling this global challenge. Bringing together CESSDA™ experts and users, the Roadshow zooms in on datasets available in the Finnish Social Science Data Archive as just one example of the wealth of resources available to researchers in the CESSDA™ Data Catalogue. Experts also give practical guides…
Find out more »Virtual SciDataCon
Following the postponement of International Data Week to June 2022 (hybrid and onsite in Seoul, Republic of Korea), it was decided to retain some of the most significant and time-sensitive session proposals and to run them in a Virtual SciDataCon. Virtual SciDataCon 2021 comprises sessions covering the following themes: FAIR: interoperability and reusability Implementing and Assessing FAIR Policy Implementation (Open Science and FAIR) Data Skills Data Stewardship Data Centres and Repositories Research Infrastructures Global Open Science Clouds, Platforms and Commons Data…
Find out more »EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future
The date and Call for Abstracts for EGI Conference 2021 have been announced! #EGI2021 will take place from October 19th until 21st. The conference theme is: “Beyond the Horizon: Shaping the Digital Future” This year, we’re looking at how EGI Federation is contributing to shaping the digital future: with EOSC growing more mature, the new EU research funding programme Horizon Europe on its way, and an exciting range of advanced services and innovative computing models supporting research, a new landscape…
Find out more »EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future
#EGI2021 will take place from October 19th until the 21st. The conference theme is: “Beyond the Horizon: Shaping the Digital Future” This year, we’re looking at how EGI Federation is contributing to shaping the digital future: with EOSC growing more mature, the new EU research funding programme Horizon Europe on its way, and an exciting range of advanced services and innovative computing models supporting research, a new landscape for research is being shaped. At the same time, the challenges we face…
Find out more »Webinar – Integrating national and thematic catalogues into the EOSC Portal: the NI4OS-Europe pilot
The EOSC Portal is part of the European Open Science Cloud implementation roadmap as one of the expected “federating core” services contributing to the implementation of the “Access and interface” action line. It provides a European delivery channel connecting the demand and supply sides of EOSC and its different stakeholders. One of the most requested features in the requirements gathering process carried out by the Horizon 2020 project EOSC Enhance was the possibility to integrate entire existing catalogues with the EOSC Portal,…
Find out more »November 2021
RDA 18th Plenary Meeting – Virtual
As communicated in late May, International Data Week 2021 (IDW), planned to take place this November, was postponed to 20-23 June 2022 due to the continuing global COVID-19 crisis and aftermath. RDA has decided, however, to still hold Plenary 18 in a virtual format from 3-11 November 2021. Recent Updates: Early bird registration ends 25 October Programme now Available Registration Fees Category Standard LMIC Student Early Bird (Until 25/10 £100 £25 £30 Full Fee (From 26/10 to 18/11) £160 £30…
Find out more »EOSC Future Open Days
EOSC Future is hosting the EOSC Future Open Days on 23-25 November 2021. During this online event, stakeholders active in the EOSC community will discuss topics that are high on the agenda for EOSC Future, not to mention EOSC in general. Session topics include, among others: the EOSC Portal how EOSC Future supports scientific communities EOSC Future engagement opportunities the Digital Innovation Hub Business Pilots the EOSC Observatory the EOSC Future Working Groups the EOSC Future Knowledge Hub. You can…
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