EOSC Symposium 2024

from Monday 21 October 2024 (10:00) to Wednesday 23 October 2024 (17:00)
H4 Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 Oct 2024
22 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024
AM
10:00
Registration (until 13:00)
11:30 --- Light sandwich lunch till 12:45 ---
09:00
Scientific keynote (until 09:30) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
09:00 Welcome from the chair - Sara Garavelli (EOSC Symposium Programme Committee Chair, CSC - IT Center for Science and EOSC Association Board of Directors)  
09:05 Scientific keynote: FAIR, what else? - Claudia Draxl (Professor for solid-state theory at the Physics Department of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Director of FAIRMAT)  
09:25 Q&As  
09:30
EOSC Federation (until 11:00) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
09:30 Opening by the chair - Ingrid Dillo (Senior advisor at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS))  
09:35 EOSC Federation and the EOSC EU Node - Michael Arentoft (Head of Open Science and Research Infrastructures Unit, Directorate for Research and Innovation, European Commission)  
09:40 Launch of the EOSC EU Node - Gustav Kalbe (Acting Director of the Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect C) “Digital Excellence and Science Infrastructure”)  
09:45 The EOSC EU Node - Peter Szegedi (Policy Officer in the High Performance Computing and Applications Unit, Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT.C), European Commission)  
10:00 Q&As with EOSC EU Node contractors - Norbert Meyer (PSNC) Spiros Athanasiou (ATHENA RC)  
10:20 Status of the EOSC Federation - Bob Jones (CERN and EOSC Association Board of Directors)  
10:30 Panel discussion with perspectives on the EOSC Federation by the EOSC Tripartite representatives  
11:00 --- Networking coffee break ---
11:30
Getting ready for the EOSC Federation: perspectives of different stakeholders (Part 1) (until 12:30) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
11:30 Opening of the session - Sumithra Velupillai (Swedish Research Council)  
11:35 Panel discussion  
12:25 Wrap-up  
11:30
Unconference | EOSC collaborative frontiers to achieve interoperability and enhance scholarly data (until 12:30) (Grenander I)
11:30 Opening by the chair - Stefania Amodeo (OpenAIRE)  
11:35 Pitch presentations  
12:00 Next steps in EOSC  
11:30
Unconference | Open Science Competence Center in the EOSC and beyond (until 12:30) (Friedrich Wilhelm)
11:30 Opening of the session - Natalia Galica (EOSC Focus)  
11:33 Introduction to CCs' roles and missions, taking stock of results from Skills4EOSC and OSCARS - Romain David (European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents)) Sara di Giorgio (GARR)  
11:40 Panel discussion  
12:25 Wrap-up - Natalia Galica (EOSC Focus)  
09:00
FAIR data for AI and AI for FAIR data (until 10:30) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
09:00 Welcome by the chair - Klaus Tochtermann (ZBW and EOSC Association)  
09:05 Keynote speech - Prof. Julia Lane (New York University)  
09:35 Panel discussion  
10:30 --- Networking coffee break ---
11:00
Thematic contributions to EOSC (until 12:30) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
11:00 Opening of the session - Marialuisa Lavitrano (University of Milano-Bicocca, EOSC Association)  
11:05 Presentation - York Sure-Vetter (NFDI)  
11:15 Impulse statements from the thematic communities  
11:45 Panel discussion including Q&As with the audience  
12:25 Wrap-up  
11:00
Deep dive into the EOSC EU Node (until 12:30) (Grenander I)
11:00 Opening of the session - Spiros Athanasiou (Athena Research Center)  
11:10 Panel discussion with representatives of contributors and research communities in EOSC  
12:00 Q&A  
11:00
ZBW Open Science session | Bringing Open Science into action: The role of educating young researchers (until 12:30) (Friedrich Wilhelm)
11:00 Opening of the session - Guido Scherp (ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics)  
11:05 Impulse statements from experts in the field of Open Science Education  
11:35 Q&A on the impulse statements  
11:45 Open Science Education “World café”  
PM
13:00
Opening session (until 15:00) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
13:00 Welcome from the chair - Sara Garavelli (EOSC Symposium Programme Committee Chair, CSC - IT Center for Science and EOSC Association Board of Directors)  
13:10 Video message from the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Germany - Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger (Federal Minister of Education and Research, Germany)  
13:20 Video message by the European Commissioner - Iliana Ivanova (Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, European Commission)  
13:30 Opening speech by the Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General "Research and Innovation", European Commission - Signe Ratso (Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General "Research and Innovation", European Commission)  
13:40 Video message from the former Prime Minister of Italy - Enrico Letta (former Prime Minister of Italy and author of the recent “Much more than a market” report)  
13:50 Changing gears to accelerate EOSC  
14:50 Wrap-up by the chair  
15:00 --- Group photo and networking coffee break ---
15:30
Examples of EOSC scientific, societal and economic impact (Part 1) (until 16:30) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
15:30 Opening of the chair - Karel Luyben (President of the EOSC Association)  
15:35 Examples of EOSC scientific and societal impact from WorldFAIR - Simon Hodson (CODATA)  
15:50 Examples of EOSC scientific and societal impact from GO FAIR - Erik Schultes (GO FAIR Foundation)  
16:05 Examples of EOSC societal and economic impact from CERN / ESCAPE - Giovanni Guerrieri (CERN)  
16:20 Wrap up and final remarks  
15:30
EOSC and the European Health Data Space (until 16:30) (Grenander I)
15:30 EOSC-A activities on health data - Ignacio Blanquer (Universitat Politècnica de València)  
15:35 The new Health Data Task Force: objectives and workplan  
15:45 Roundtable on the alignment of the EHDS and EOSC  
15:30
INFRAEOSC projects: Early results and future plans for the common collaboration areas (until 16:30) (Friedrich Wilhelm)
15:30 Opening Statement - Javier López Albacete, (European Commission, DG RTD)  
15:35 Introduction to Opportunity Area collaboration framework - Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi (Graz University of Technology)  
15:45 Panel discussion: Opportunity Area Expert Groups - Early results and future plans for the common collaboration areas  
16:25 Looking ahead – Sustaining the collaboration (EOSC Winter School 2025)  
16:30 --- Networking coffee break ---
17:00
Examples of EOSC scientific, societal and economic impact (Part 2) (until 18:00) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
17:00 Opening of the chair - Javier López Albacete (European Commission, DG RTD)  
17:05 Presentation by PATHOS project - Natalia Manola (CEO of OpenAIRE)  
17:20 Industry value from infectious disease data - Despoina Sousoni (ELIXIR Hub)  
17:35 Panel discussion on lessons learnt and challenges to showcase and document impact  
17:55 Wrap up  
17:00
Unconference | As open as possible, as restricted as necessary: EOSC sensitive data exchange (until 18:00) (Grenander I)
17:00 Sensitive data re-use in European Research: presentations by TITAN, SIESTA and EOSC-ENTRUST, chaired by Peter Maccallum, ELIXIR  
17:20 Panel discussion and audience Q&A  
17:00
Unconference | No data without software! (until 18:00) (Friedrich Wilhelm)
17:00 Welcome - Jan Bernoth (University of Potsdam)  
17:05 Introductory talks  
17:20 Moderated structured interactive discussion - Jan Bernoth (University of Potsdam)  
17:55 Wrap-up  
19:00 --- Networking dinner ---
12:30 --- Networking lunch ---
14:00
Getting ready for the EOSC Federation: perspectives of different stakeholders (Part 2) (until 15:00) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
14:00 Opening of the session & setting the scene - Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch (CESSDA ERIC)  
14:10 Panel discussion with representatives of European federations  
14:55 Wrap-up  
14:00
Legal issues along the research data cycle (until 15:00) (Grenander I)
14:00 Opening of the session - Stefan Skupien (Berlin University Alliance)  
14:05 Panel discussion  
14:35 Q&A  
14:50 Priorities for the round table participants & wrap-up  
14:00
Unconference | Data competencies: Training, education, qualification for researchers and data stewards (until 15:00) (Friedrich Wilhelm)
14:00 Opening by the chair - Jens Dierkes (University of Cologne)  
14:05 Brief introduction to Training and education - NFDI perspective/ Initiatives - Jochen Ortmeyer (RWTH Aachen University) Jens Dierkes (University of Cologne)  
14:10 Panel discussion with representatives of relevant stakeholder groups  
14:35 Plenary discussion  
14:55 Wrap-up  
15:00 --- Networking coffee break ---
15:30
EOSC Federation Handbook (until 16:30) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
15:30 Opening by the chair - Bob Jones (CERN, EOSC Association Board of Directors)  
15:35 Introductory presentation - Andy Götz (EOSC Association)  
15:50 Panel discussion with representatives of the EOSC Handbook Writers' Group and e-Infrastructures  
16:25 Wrap-up  
15:30
Data retention (until 16:30) (Grenander I)
15:30 Opening and introduction to the session by the chair - Jenny O'Neill (HEAnet)  
15:35 Short presentation by the panelists  
15:55 Discussion seeking panel and audience feedback on key issues, connection points and approaches  
16:25 Wrap-up  
15:30
FAIR metrics & data quality (until 16:30) (Friedrich Wilhelm)
15:30 Opening and introduction  
15:35 Short presentations by panelists  
15:50 Interactive panel discussion  
16:25 Wrap-up - Chris Schubert (TU Wien)  
16:30 --- Networking coffee break ---
17:00
EOSC Federation - Interoperability (until 18:00) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
17:00 Opening of the session - Carole Goble (University of Manchester)  
17:05 Presentations  
17:25 Panel discussion  
17:55 Wrap-up  
17:00
EOSC and the Digital Twins (until 18:00) (Grenander I)
17:00 Opening of the session - Xavier Salazar (EGI Foundation, interTwin)  
17:05 Short presentations from the projects  
17:30 Panel discussion - Digital Twins and EOSC Nodes: Opportunities and Challenges  
17:55 Wrap-up  
17:00
Unconference | Findability in FAIR: Touchpoints between EOSC and Open Web Search (until 18:00) (Friedrich Wilhelm)
17:00 Opening of the session and pitch talks from the projects  
17:20 Panel discussion and Q&A: Crucial directions through collaboration aiming at developing findability benefiting the potential users among the European research community  
17:55 Wrap-up  
12:30 --- Networking lunch ---
14:00
EOSC impact and opportunities on the infrastructure landscape (until 15:30) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
14:00 Welcome by the chair - York Sure-Vetter (Director of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI))  
14:05 Lightning talks: the infrastructure landscape in Germany  
14:30 Panel discussion with invited panelists  
15:25 Wrap-up and final remarks  
15:30
Closing of EOSC Symposium 2024 (until 16:00) (Plenary room (Alexander II + III))
Get to know the speakers
15:30 Welcome from the chair - Ute Gunsenheimer (Secretary General of the EOSC Association)  
15:35 Closing messages from Germany - Dr. Jochen Zachgo (Director-General for Higher Education, Research Systems, and Education Funding, Federal Ministry of Education and Research)  
15:45 Final remarks by the EOSC Tripartite Governance  
16:30 --- NFDI closed co-located event starts ---