Name: EOSC Symposium 2025
Start: 2025-11-03T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-05T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Hotel Le Plaza Brussels

EOSC Symposium 2025

from Monday, November 3, 2025 (10:00 AM) to Wednesday, November 5, 2025 (6:30 PM)

Monday, November 3, 2025

10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM

12:00 PM Light Welcome Lunch
Light Welcome Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Welcome by the Chair - Maryline Fiaschi (CEO, Science Business)

1:10 PM Welcome from the Hosting Country - Vanessa Matz (Belgian Federal Minister)

1:15 PM Opening Speech - Marc Lemaître (Director-General, Directorate General for Research and innovation (DG RTD), European Commission)

1:30 PM Keynote - Robbert Dijkgraaf (President-elect, International Science Council)

2:00 PM Panel Discussion
2:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM EOSC Tripartite
EOSC Tripartite
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM Welcome and Introduction - Maryline Fiaschi (CEO, Science Business)

3:20 PM European Commission - Jean-David Malo (Acting Director, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), ERA & Innovation (RTD.A), European Commission)

3:32 PM EOSC Steering Board - Volker Beckmann (Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space in France (MESRE) & Co-chair of EOSC Steering Board)

3:44 PM EOSC Association - Klaus Tochtermann (President, EOSC Association)

3:56 PM Panel Discussion
4:15 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Contributions

4:45 PM Welcome by the Chair - Maryline Fiaschi (CEO, Science Business)

4:50 PM Introducing the EOSC Federation

5:10 PM Welcome to the EOSC Federation: Scientific Use cases from the First Wave of EOSC Candidate Nodes

5:40 PM Q&A

5:55 PM The Next Steps for the EOSC Federation - Michael Arentoft (Head of Unit Open Science and Research Infrastructures, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), ERA & Innovation (RTD.A.4), European Commission)

6:00 PM EOSC Federation Ceremony - Ute Gunsenheimer (Secretary General, EOSC Association)
8:00 PM Social Event
Social Event
8:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Contributions

8:00 PM Social Event
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

8:15 AM

8:15 AM - 6:30 PM
9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Theatre Room
Contributions

9:15 AM Welcome by the Chair - Maryline Fiaschi (CEO, Science Business)

9:20 AM Opening Keynote - Enrica Porcari (Incoming Chief Information Officer, CERN)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Theatre Room
Contributions

10:00 AM EOSC Federation 2nd Wave of Enrolment and EOSC Gravity Calls - Ute Gunsenheimer (Secretary General, EOSC Association)
10:15 AM
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

10:15 AM Welcome by the Chair - Maryline Fiaschi (CEO, Science Business)

10:20 AM Lightning Talks

10:55 AM Demos
11:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Contributions

12:00 PM Welcome by the Chair - Aneta Pazik-Aybar (Head of Open Science Team, National Science Centre Poland) Suzanne Dumouchel (Director, EOSC Association)

12:05 PM Lightning Talks: Node Perspectives

12:25 PM Audience Poll

12:35 PM Panel Discussion: Enabling the Federation

1:05 PM Key Takeaways and Conclusions
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Contributions

12:00 PM Introduction - Erik Schultes (Scientific Director at partners in FAIR, Senior Researcher at the Metabolomics and Analytics Center, Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research, and consultant at the GO FAIR Foundation)

12:05 PM Impulse Statements

12:15 PM Panel Discussion

12:45 PM Interaction with the Audience

1:10 PM Wrap-up - Erik Schultes (Scientific Director at partners in FAIR, Senior Researcher at the Metabolomics and Analytics Center, Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research, and consultant at the GO FAIR Foundation)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Contributions

12:00 PM Setting the Scene - Licia Florio (Director, EOSC Association)

12:05 PM How the EOSC EU Node Approached Cybersecurity - Lesson Learned - Mikolaj Dobski (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, EOSC EU Node)

12:15 PM eduGAIN Approach to Cybersecurity - Lesson Learned - Maarten Kremers (Project Manager and Technical Product Manager for Trust and Identity (T&I) services, SURF)

12:25 PM Steps under way to Define a Cybersecurity Framework Fit for the EOSC Federation - Urpo Kaila (Head of Cybersecurity Policies, CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.)

12:35 PM Cybersecurity from Research Infrastructure Perspective - Jean-François Perrin (Head of IT, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF); PaNOSC)

12:45 PM Q&A with the Speakers
1:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Welcome by the Chair - Peter Szegedi (Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), C2, European Commission) Spiros Athanasiou (Project Manager and Scientific Associate, Athena Research Center)

2:35 PM EOSC EU Node – Support for the EOSC Federation Build-up Phase - Thanassis Karmas (Chief Architect & Operations Lead of the EOSC EU Node, Athena RC)

2:45 PM Building Bridges: The EOSC EU Node meets CERN’s Open Science Services - Jose Benito Gonzalez Lopez (Head of Institutional Repositories,CERN)

3:00 PM Galaxy Onboarding Cases to the EOSC EU Node - Björn Grüning (Galaxy Europe/University of Freiburg, Germany)

3:10 PM Connecting Life Science Data and Services to the EOSC - Aastha Mathur (Head of Image Data Services, Euro-BioImaging ERIC)

3:25 PM Open Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Opening - Sean Hilll (Co-founder and CEO of Senscience. Professor at the University of Toronto and at EPFL in Switzerland)

2:35 PM Impulse Statements

2:56 PM Panel Discussion on Transparency, Bias, and Responsible AI Practices

3:22 PM Interaction with the Audience

3:40 PM Wrap-up - Karel Luyben (President Emeritus of the EOSC Association, Rector Magnificus Emeritus of the Delft University of Technology) Klaus Tochtermann (President, EOSC Association)
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Welcome by the Chair - Roxanne Wyns (Director, EOSC Association)

2:35 PM Towards Understanding Identification, Selection and Appraisal in Contemporary Digital Preservation Practice - Maria Benauer (Preservation Process Analyst, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology)

2:45 PM #1 Presentation on Domain-specific Approaches to Identification, Selection, Appraisal and Preservation - Tuomas J. Alaterä (Head of User Services and Data Processing, Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD))

2:55 PM #2 Presentation on Domain-specific Approaches to Identification, Selection, Appraisal and Preservation - Frédérique Gros (Data Documentation and Distribution Specialist at IR* Progedo, French Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS))

3:05 PM Panel Discussion

3:40 PM Wrap-up by the Chair - Roxanne Wyns (Director, EOSC Association)
3:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM Welcome by the Chair - Peter Maccallum (Chief Technical Officer, ELIXIR)

4:20 PM Introduction to the Memorandum of Understanding of the EOSC Federation - Peter Maccallum (Chief Technical Officer, ELIXIR)

4:30 PM Governance of the EOSC Interoperability Framework - Ludek Matyska (Professor, Masaryk University; Director of CERIT-SC)

4:40 PM Open Governance example Federated-EGA - Abdulrahman Azab (Senior Advisor, Sigma2 AS; Executive Board Member, EUDAT)

4:50 PM Role and Scope of the Memorandum of Understanding of the EOSC Federation - Jos van Wezel (KIT, EUDAT) on behalf of Amaranta Amador Bernal (Head of Legal Services and International Relations, Euro-BioImaging ERIC)

5:00 PM EOSC AAI, Cybersecurity, RoP policies and the Handbook - Andy Götz (Science Officer, EOSC Association)

5:10 PM Discussion Session
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM Welcome by the Chairs - Peter Szegedi (Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), C2, European Commission) Sara Garavelli (Director, EOSC Association)

4:20 PM Data Spaces, EuroHPC and DestinE: the Policy Perspective - Charalampos Tsitlakidis (Head of Sector, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), C1, European Commission)

4:30 PM EOSC & Simpl – State of the Art and Future Interaction - Ana Juan Ferrer (Programme Officer - EU policies, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), E.2, European Commission)

4:40 PM EOSC & DestinE – State of the Art and Future Interaction - Daniel Draghicescu (Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), C.1, European Commission)

4:50 PM EOSC and EuroHPC / AI factories – the Synergies on the Ground - Kimmo Koski (Managing Director, CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.)

5:00 PM Panel Discussion: Synergies, Complementarities and Future Scenarios for Better Integration of Efforts
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM Welcome by the Chair - Ingrid Dillo (Member, EOSC-A Long-Term Data Retention Task Force; Senior Adviser, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS))

4:20 PM Trustworthy Repositories as a Pillar of Data Sovereignty - Jan Meijer (Senior Advisor, Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (SiKT), FIDELIS)

4:30 PM Approaches to Strengthening Data Sovereignty of Repositories - Hervé L'Hours (Associate Director, UK Data Archive, UK Data Service, University of Essex; FIDELIS)

4:40 PM Best Practices from the Field: PANGAEA - Robert Huber (Geologist, Paleontologist, and Information Specialist, University of Bremen, PANGAEA)

4:50 PM Best Practices from the Field: Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center - Mark Allen (Research Scientist, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory (CDS))

5:00 PM Panel Discussion
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 3:00 PM
9:15 AM Opening Keynote
Opening Keynote
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM Welcome by the Chair - Sara Garavelli (Director, EOSC Association)

9:20 AM Opening Keynote: Collaborating Across Borders: Resilience for U.S. Research Data and Beyond - Shelley Stall (Vice President, American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Open Science Leadership Program)

9:50 AM Q&A
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Contributions

10:00 AM Welcome by the Chair - Jan Hrušák (Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), ESFRI)

10:05 AM Impulse Talks

10:30 AM Panel Discussion

10:55 AM Q&A and Polling

11:10 AM Closing Remarks and Take-aways - Jan Hrušák (Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), ESFRI)
11:15 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
11:45 AM
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:45 AM Welcome by the Chair - Volker Beckmann (French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space (MESRE); Co-chair of EOSC Steering Board)

11:50 AM The Case of Poland: Moving Ahead Together in Building the National EOSC Node - Aneta Pazik-Aybar (Head of Open Science Team, National Science Centre Poland)

12:00 PM Creating Research Opportunities with the Help of a National e-Infrastructure Ecosystem - Laurents Sesink (Program Manager Innovation Zone Open Science, SURF)

12:10 PM How the Commission Can Help Leverage National Capacities - Pantelis Tziveloglou (Team Leader for the European Open Science Cloud at the Open Science and Research Infrastructures Unit, Directorate General for Research and innovation (DG RTD), RTD A4, European Commission)

12:22 PM Polling

12:30 PM Panel Discussion
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:45 AM Knowledge Valorisation and Links with Industry: Setting the Scene - Bertil Egger-Beck (Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), A.4. European Commission)

12:00 PM Panel Discussion

12:40 PM Interaction with the audience

12:55 PM Wrap-up by the Chair - Bertil Egger-Beck (Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), A.4. European Commission)
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:45 AM Introduction - Marialuisa Lavitrano (Vice-President, EOSC Association)

11:50 AM Intro Talks

12:15 PM Panel Discussion

12:40 PM Interaction with the Audience

12:55 PM Wrap-up by the Chair - Marialuisa Lavitrano (Vice-President, EOSC Association)
1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

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