EOSC Symposium 2025

from Monday 3 November 2025 (10:00) to Wednesday 5 November 2025 (18:30)
Hotel Le Plaza Brussels

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
3 Nov 2025
4 Nov 2025
5 Nov 2025
AM
10:00
Registration Desk Open (until 20:00)
08:15
Registration Desk Open (until 18:30)
09:15
Opening Keynote (until 10:00) (Theatre Room)
Get to know the chairs, speakers and panellists
09:15 Welcome by the Chair - Maryline Fiaschi (CEO, Science Business)  
09:20 Opening Keynote - Enrica Porcari (Incoming Chief Information Officer, CERN)  
10:00
EOSC Federation 2nd Wave of Enrolment and EOSC Gravity Calls (until 10:15) (Theatre Room)
Get to know the chairs, speakers and panellists
10:00 EOSC Federation 2nd Wave of Enrolment and EOSC Gravity Calls - Ute Gunsenheimer (Secretary General, EOSC Association)  
10:15
Lightning Talks and Demos (until 11:30)
10:15 Welcome by the Chair - Maryline Fiaschi (CEO, Science Business)  
10:20 Lightning Talks  
10:55 Demos  
11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
08:30
Registration Desk Open (until 15:00)
09:15
Opening Keynote (until 10:00)
Get to know the chairs, speakers and panellists
09:15 Welcome by the Chair - Sara Garavelli (Director, EOSC Association)  
09:20 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)  
09:50 Q&A  
10:00
Digitalisation of Research Ecosystem in Europe (until 11:15)
10:00 Welcome by the Chair - Jan Hrušák (Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), ESFRI)  
10:05 Impulse Talks  
10:30 Panel Discussion  
10:55 Q&A and Polling  
11:10 Closing Remarks and Take-aways - Jan Hrušák (Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), ESFRI)  
11:15 --- Coffee Break ---
11:45
Breakout 1:Leveraging National Capacities for Digital Services for Research (until 13:00)
11:45 Welcome by the Chair - Volker Beckmann (French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space (MESRE); Co-chair of EOSC Steering Board)  
11:50 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 Creating Research Opportunities with the Help of a National e-Infrastructure Ecosystem - Laurents Sesink (Program Manager Innovation Zone Open Science, SURF)  
12:10 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 Polling  
12:30 Panel Discussion  
11:45
Breakout 2: Knowledge Valorisation and Links with Industry (until 13:00)
11:45 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 Panel Discussion  
12:40 Interaction with the audience  
12:55 Wrap-up by the Chair - Bertil Egger-Beck (Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), A.4. European Commission)  
11:45
Breakout 3: Integrating Training and Skills in EOSC (until 13:00)
11:45 Introduction - Marialuisa Lavitrano (Vice-President, EOSC Association)  
11:50 Intro Talks  
12:15 Panel Discussion  
12:40 Interaction with the Audience  
12:55 Wrap-up by the Chair - Marialuisa Lavitrano (Vice-President, EOSC Association)  
PM
12:00 --- Light Welcome Lunch ---
13:00
Opening Plenary (until 14:45)
13:00 Welcome by the Chair - Maryline Fiaschi (CEO, Science Business)  
13:10 Welcome from the Hosting Country - Vanessa Matz (Belgian Federal Minister)  
13:15 Opening Speech - Marc Lemaître (Director-General, Directorate General for Research and innovation (DG RTD), European Commission)  
13:30 Keynote - Robbert Dijkgraaf (President-elect, International Science Council)  
14:00 Panel Discussion  
14:45 --- Coffee Break ---
15:15
EOSC Tripartite (until 16:15)
15:15 Welcome and Introduction - Maryline Fiaschi (CEO, Science Business)  
15:20 European Commission - Jean-David Malo (Acting Director, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), ERA & Innovation (RTD.A), European Commission)  
15:32 EOSC Steering Board - Volker Beckmann (Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space in France (MESRE) & Co-chair of EOSC Steering Board)  
15:44 EOSC Association - Klaus Tochtermann (President, EOSC Association)  
15:56 Panel Discussion  
16:15 --- Coffee Break ---
16:45
Welcoming the EOSC Federation (until 18:15)
16:45 Welcome by the Chair - Maryline Fiaschi (CEO, Science Business)  
16:50 Introducing the EOSC Federation  
17:10 Welcome to the EOSC Federation: Scientific Use cases from the First Wave of EOSC Candidate Nodes  
17:40 Q&A  
17:55 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)  
18:00 EOSC Federation Ceremony - Ute Gunsenheimer (Secretary General, EOSC Association)  
20:00
Social Event (until 23:30)
20:00 Social Event  
12:00
Breakout 1: EOSC Federation: Opportunities and Challenges in Building a Node (until 13:15)
12:00 Welcome by the Chair - Aneta Pazik-Aybar (Head of Open Science Team, National Science Centre Poland) Suzanne Dumouchel (Director, EOSC Association)  
12:05 Lightning Talks: Node Perspectives  
12:25 Audience Poll  
12:35 Panel Discussion: Enabling the Federation  
13:05 Key Takeaways and Conclusions  
12:00
Breakout 2: AI for FAIR (until 13:15)
12:00 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 Impulse Statements  
12:15 Panel Discussion  
12:45 Interaction with the Audience  
13:10 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
Breakout 3: Cybersecurity in Research and Data Management (until 13:15)
12:00 Setting the Scene - Licia Florio (Director, EOSC Association)  
12:05 How the EOSC EU Node Approached Cybersecurity - Lesson Learned - Mikolaj Dobski (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, EOSC EU Node)  
12:15 eduGAIN Approach to Cybersecurity - Lesson Learned - Maarten Kremers (Project Manager and Technical Product Manager for Trust and Identity (T&I) services, SURF)  
12:25 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 Cybersecurity from Research Infrastructure Perspective - Jean-François Perrin (Head of IT, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF); PaNOSC)  
12:45 Q&A with the Speakers  
13:15 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Breakout 1: EOSC Federation: Opportunities and Challenges in Enrolling into the EOSC Federation and Onboarding into the EOSC EU Node (until 15:45)
14:30 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)  
14:35 EOSC EU Node – Support for the EOSC Federation Build-up Phase - Thanassis Karmas (Chief Architect & Operations Lead of the EOSC EU Node, Athena RC)  
14:45 Building Bridges: The EOSC EU Node meets CERN’s Open Science Services - Jose Benito Gonzalez Lopez (Head of Institutional Repositories,CERN)  
15:00 Galaxy Onboarding Cases to the EOSC EU Node - Björn Grüning (Galaxy Europe/University of Freiburg, Germany)  
15:10 Connecting Life Science Data and Services to the EOSC - Aastha Mathur (Head of Image Data Services, Euro-BioImaging ERIC)  
15:25 Open Discussion  
14:30
Breakout 2: FAIR for AI (until 15:45)
14:30 Opening - Sean Hilll (Co-founder and CEO of Senscience. Professor at the University of Toronto and at EPFL in Switzerland)  
14:35 Impulse Statements  
14:56 Panel Discussion on Transparency, Bias, and Responsible AI Practices  
15:22 Interaction with the Audience  
15:40 Wrap-up - Karel Luyben (President Emeritus of the EOSC Association, Rector Magnificus Emeritus of the Delft University of Technology) Klaus Tochtermann (President, EOSC Association)  
14:30
Breakout 3: Long-term Data Retention (until 15:45)
14:30 Welcome by the Chair - Roxanne Wyns (Director, EOSC Association)  
14:35 Towards Understanding Identification, Selection and Appraisal in Contemporary Digital Preservation Practice - Maria Benauer (Preservation Process Analyst, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology)  
14:45 #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))  
14:55 #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))  
15:05 Panel Discussion  
15:40 Wrap-up by the Chair - Roxanne Wyns (Director, EOSC Association)  
15:45 --- Coffee Break ---
16:15
Breakout 1: EOSC Federation Policies (until 17:30)
16:15 Welcome by the Chair - Peter Maccallum (Chief Technical Officer, ELIXIR)  
16:20 Introduction to the Memorandum of Understanding of the EOSC Federation - Peter Maccallum (Chief Technical Officer, ELIXIR)  
16:30 Governance of the EOSC Interoperability Framework - Ludek Matyska (Professor, Masaryk University; Director of CERIT-SC)  
16:40 Open Governance example Federated-EGA - Abdulrahman Azab (Senior Advisor, Sigma2 AS; Executive Board Member, EUDAT)  
16:50 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)  
17:00 EOSC AAI, Cybersecurity, RoP policies and the Handbook - Andy Götz (Science Officer, EOSC Association)  
17:10 Discussion Session  
16:15
Breakout 2: Synergies with Data Spaces, EuroHPC, AI factories and DestinE (until 17:30)
16:15 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)  
16:20 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)  
16:30 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)  
16:40 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)  
16:50 EOSC and EuroHPC / AI factories – the Synergies on the Ground - Kimmo Koski (Managing Director, CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.)  
17:00 Panel Discussion: Synergies, Complementarities and Future Scenarios for Better Integration of Efforts  
16:15
Breakout 3: Trustworthy Repositories for Data Sovereignty (until 17:30)
16:15 Welcome by the Chair - Ingrid Dillo (Member, EOSC-A Long-Term Data Retention Task Force; Senior Adviser, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS))  
16:20 Trustworthy Repositories as a Pillar of Data Sovereignty - Jan Meijer (Senior Advisor, Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (SiKT), FIDELIS)  
16:30 Approaches to Strengthening Data Sovereignty of Repositories - Hervé L'Hours (Associate Director, UK Data Archive, UK Data Service, University of Essex; FIDELIS)  
16:40 Best Practices from the Field: PANGAEA - Robert Huber (Geologist, Paleontologist, and Information Specialist, University of Bremen, PANGAEA)  
16:50 Best Practices from the Field: Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center - Mark Allen (Research Scientist, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory (CDS))  
17:00 Panel Discussion  
13:00
Final Plenary – Looking ahead (until 13:30)
13:30 --- Lunch ---