 assembly. So this kickoff meeting will have a topic open air on the European stage. But before we start, some housekeeping, some rules. So the first one is that if you want to tweet or use other social media for this session, for this entire week, actually just make sure to use the hashtag open air week 2020. You will have noticed that you are muted and cannot show video participants. That's simply because there are too many of you to allow video or audio sharing. So if you have a question during the during the presentations, feel free to add your question to the Q&A box. You will see this if you hover with your point of the mouse on the bottom of your screen. You see a Q&A. It's like two chat balloons. And you can add your question there. And then you can also upvote and comment on the questions of others. And this is this will allow us and the moderators to actually deal with your question during Q&A time so that it doesn't get lost in the general chat function. So please, if you have a question about the content of the presentations, if you want to address a presenter with a question, specific question for them, please use this Q&A box. If you have technical issues, if you want to say hello, or if you want to make general comments, then please use the chat box. If you do this, this will allow us to actually have to actually make sure that the moderation runs smoothly. The meeting is recorded and the video will be distributed via the YouTube channel and social media. The slides will be made available on Zenodo and also via social media. So just keep an eye on that. You can also just check the webinar page on the OpenAir website. Once we have the recordings and slides ready, we will just add them there. So you can revisit them. So now I will give the floor to Yanis who will do the introduction and present the program. Hello, everyone. Welcome to this open session of this OpenAir week. Let's call it's a great pleasure to welcome again not only the nods and other participants of OpenAir, but also all of you who are not directly involved with the project and the effort, but are interested in OpenAir. This is an OpenAir project meeting open to the public and the needs of people to participate and attend has been much more than what we expect and we are really thrilled to have you all with us as we go through what we're doing in OpenAir. In these open sessions today and the following days, you'll get a glimpse and then go into some more depth on what we are after. So I'll just give a few highlights of where we stand as OpenAir. As some of you may already know, OpenAir has been an organization now. It's a legal entity and 36 organizations across Europe have joined as members of the organization and many more are applying and coming. So this is a true grassroots organization serving OpenScience, serving OpenAir in the context of Europe but also way beyond. And this organization now is coming to the front and leading some of the efforts, leading projects that the OpenAir community and the OpenAir initiative will be working on. The European context now is changing. It's changing significantly with the maturing of the European OpenScience Cloud and OpenAir is working in the European front in the context of yours, finding its role and the part where OpenAir is leading the developments in the European OpenScience Cloud and strengthening our presence but also bringing what we call bringing the all in OpenScience. And the long tail of scientists serving the long tail of scientists as we've always been doing will be very strong and will be helping with that in years but also the bigger science, the major initiatives at the European level. OpenAir is leading the efforts within us to achieve that and become an integral part of EOS. Of course, all this is not done by individuals or organizations. The network in all European countries is becoming stronger and the role of the nods, the national open access desks is instrumental in doing this and you'll hear some experiences and some flavors further down today actually but also in other contexts in the rest of the week. Beyond what we are doing at the European level, the international interest and the international connections of OpenAir are growing, are increasing in numbers and are increasing in strength. Quite a few of the participants are not from the European, are not from Europe. They're coming outside of Europe and this is great and shows how OpenAir has captured the essence of what OpenScience is and what OpenAxis is and trying to serve it in Europe and also very strong collaborations with various parts of the world like in America, Canada, Korea, Japan and others. I won't go through all of them where interactions of mutual benefit are already in place or are being matured with discussions. So, strong alliances based on mutual understanding and reciprocity is part of the strategic elements of OpenAir and we're moving strongly in that direction. Let me also say that doesn't forget OpenAir is an infrastructure and infrastructures are there to offer services to all those that need the services and in our case we are delivering a suite of very critical and robust services, technological and but also at the networking level, training level and at the data level, information level, four researchers, four communities, four funding agencies, four policymakers, different services for different constituents of this entire community that is around OpenScience and OpenAxis and service delivery, reliable service delivery, let me emphasize this, is what sets OpenAir apart compared to some other efforts that are around in the infrastructure arena and OpenScience infrastructure arena and that generates some trust that we really feel it in OpenAir and we are very appreciative and use it as a stepping stone to become even better and serve more and serve better. Last but not least the one point I want to emphasize is I mentioned is one of the services training. No matter what we do in other contexts or in other dimensions the human element is the most important and as we move from older ways of science to OpenScience and having OpenAxis is a key element of OpenScience training the people, training the researchers to operate in an OpenScience mindset, training policymakers to see and establish the correct policies, training repository administrators to see how they can make the repositories serve OpenScience is a key element and OpenAir is spearheading this effort at the European level. Training is a big element of the portfolio that OpenAir tries to bring to you and you'll hear about it during the week as well. That's the gist of where we are, where we go and we could be having this meeting close up and personal in a much more beautiful place than cyberspace and we hope that as soon as possible we will be having including the OpenScience, hopefully where we're going to be in Cyprus but we'll have a rain check for that. Today is the first day of the OpenSensions and it's bringing a great set of speakers just to get started on this and the first speaker is an example of international connections that OpenAir has and tries to establish and tries to serve with its interactions and services and we'll hear about from Anna Persic who comes from UNESCO and we'll talk about the UNESCO OpenScience recommendations. UNESCO is one of the greatest organizations, global organizations that helps humanity move forward and OpenScience and adopting and accepting and practicing OpenScience, it affects all of us so we're looking forward for Anna's presentation on what UNESCO has to recommend and then on the European context Natalia Manola from OpenAir, the OpenAir Managing Director will be telling us what is the place, what is the role of OpenAir in EOS, the European OpenScience Cloud and which with all the difficulties in getting going it starts shaping up and OpenAir has a very important role to play there and we'll see that and then we'll hear from five representatives, five representatives of NOADs from different parts of Europe who will give us the glimpse of what it means to be a NOAD, how different member states operate and address issues around OpenScience and OpenAxis, what they are doing and how we can move forward. So have the international context, we have the European context and we have the European member state context so the plate is full for today's measures and I look forward to a great day, a great set of presentations and I hope you'll enjoy them with me as well that's it from me, welcome again. Thanks a lot Yanis and I'm very happy to welcome Anna. Anna is head of section that embarked on this journey to develop UNESCO OpenScience recommendations and many of you participated in global OpenScience consultations from UNESCO which Anna and her team coordinated, you also attended regional consultations that Anna coordinated and one of the most remarkable examples of collaborations are draft UNESCO recommendations on OpenScience which were sent to 193 member states on the sodas of September for reading and providing feedback and over to Anna to tell us how her team did all this great work and what to expect in the coming year. Thank you, thank you very much Irina and thanks to Yanis also to everybody for organizing this OpenSession and also for inviting UNESCO. It's really great to be here because as Irina was saying we got extremely good inputs from your networks from the nodes from the different parts of your community while we were having this global reflection on what OpenScience is, what are the key elements of it, what are the key action points for member states around the world to take into account to ensure that this transition to OpenScience is as fair as possible as just as possible and that it really contributes to sustainable development around the world as we speak now. So I'm going to share my screen to tell you a little bit more about the process that we have in UNESCO which hopefully in November 2021 will result in the adoption by the UNESCO member states of what we call a UNESCO recommendation on OpenScience. A recommendation is basically a legal instrument that an international legal instrument in this case that UNESCO can do which is not as legally binding as a convention but it is a responsibility of member states to take into account the provisions in the recommendation, monitor, report back to UNESCO and make sure that they really implement the recommendations which are in the recommendation. So this recommendation on OpenScience, the idea of having the recommendation on OpenScience kind of started around April last year where our member states started the conversation amongst them about what OpenScience is and how they see OpenScience as a movement happening not just in Europe but also in other parts of the world Latin America, Africa, etc. And they just wanted to make sure that this very positive transition to OpenScience really is positive and really is a game changer for all the member states in an equal way. So as I said in November last year after discussing a little bit throughout the last year they have tasked the organization to develop this process leading to a UNESCO recommendation on OpenScience. As I said yes the recommendations are legal instruments that kind of formulate principles and norms for the international regulation of a certain matter and then invite member states to take legislative or other steps to ensure that these norms and principles are implemented in their countries. It really is an instrument that helps influence the development of national laws and practices so we are hoping that once the member states adopt the recommendation that really will translate into very concrete steps to move forward OpenScience in different countries and in different contexts. But of course to get to the recommendation that hopefully our member states will be able to adopt in November next year we have this two-year process which was intended to be a process where we are trying to gather as much inputs as possible from the international community, from the different regions of the world, from the different countries, from different actors and stakeholders of OpenScience because we saw very early on that there are certain places and spaces where OpenScience is equal to OpenAccess or OpenScience is equal to OpenData but our feeling from the beginning was that OpenScience actually is composed of many different elements, OpenAccess is one of them, OpenData is another one, there might be other elements also in there including this very very strong engagement with civil society and also with different types of knowledge systems that can be citizen science, it can be also this link with indigenous knowledge systems etc. So our role in this first year of the process towards the recommendation was really as Irina was saying to hold these large consultations with the different member states with different actors in different regions. Also we were lucky to set up an advisory committee and we are happy to have Irina Kuchma also as a member of our advisory committee, it's 30 representatives representing all the different regions, disciplines and hopefully all the actors as well who are guiding us in the process of the development of the recommendation and we've also set up an OpenScience partnership, a global partnership and OpenAir is one of our partners, we are very happy about that, to provide inputs to guide us in our work, to provide comments as we move along and hopefully once the recommendation is adopted to also help us in the implementation of the recommendation. So here you have a little bit of a timeline with this first part, it was the establishment of the partnership advisory committee etc. And then this whole part of consultations which kind of finished in September this year, we've managed to produce the first draft recommendation, text of the recommendation based on the different inputs that we had received and also thanks to the advisory committee who guided us in the process of developing the draft recommendation, the recommendation, the draft text has now been sent to member states and we will share the link, I'll share the link later in the chat so you can also have a look at it and provide further comments if you would like to do that. Now the let's say the part of the process is more into looking into the text itself, the first part was really trying to understand globally what people think of OpenScience, what are the different elements of it, what are the principles, the values, actions to be taken etc. The second part is really to comment on the draft text and then member states will actually start negotiating from April on May on, they will start negotiating the text with the view of adopting it at the next general conference in UNESCO in November 2021. So it's a pretty intense process, as I said they had a lot of different types of consultations, there was this global online consultation which was lodged in March and went on until July, different regional consultations, national consultation in certain countries and then also consultations which were thematic with certain actors let's say or on certain themes. We also received written inputs including from OpenAir on the contents of the recommendations and all of that was kind of adjusted by the advisory committee and the secretariat in producing this first recommendation. And I have to say it was an extremely interesting process because as we said from the beginning OpenScience is really for everybody and by everybody it's not just open scientists to scientists, it's also opening up more society, science science society and I think with the COVID crisis it became very evident how important it is to have access to scientific information, to have access to data publications, networks, collaborations, to be able to engage with the public, to be able to engage also with science journalists, to be able to communicate with the public in a way that is you know scientifically sound so that we can also have this feedback from society as well. So in a way the COVID pandemic really has shown the importance and the relevance of OpenScience broadly and I think to many people it opened their eyes as to you know OpenScience basically being the science of the future, we call it open for the moment but it should be the way science is conducted as by default let's say. I said yeah in terms of the drafting process we had the advisory committee that met for the first time in July and approved the outline of the draft text of the recommendation which was really based on what we've received from the different inputs. I think also one of the interesting points in this process was that there was no pre-structure of the recommendation that was given to us by member states or by within us in the secretariat. We were very open to see how from different inputs we can build the recommendation so that's why at their first meeting the advisory committee already approved an outline and then we were working throughout the summer and September building on the the feedbacks from the different consultations into actually having the draft text as it was finalized at the end of September sending it to the member states on the 30th of September. So what do we have in the current text there's a preamble of course then aim and objectives definition of open science I think for our member states what was really important from the beginning is to come up with some kind of definition that everybody would agree on and that everybody would feel comfortable with because what we saw is also as I said open science meant very different things for very different people so I think one of the key objectives of the recommendation really was to set up this global framework global definition of open science core values and guiding principles and then the most important part I think is these areas of action with the action with a lot of different actions proposed and recommendations proposed under each area of action and the last part is on monitoring because we all thought that it was extremely important to have a chapter on monitoring to ensure that the member states once this is adopted also have a framework for reporting and monitoring what is being done in this in this regard. So just to go maybe a little bit more in detail on the aim of the recommendations so it really is to provide an international framework for open science policy and practice but what is really important and what was important in the work both of the consultations and the advisory committee is that this framework recognizes regional differences in open science perspectives and it takes cognizance of the specific challenges of scientists and all the other open science actors particularly in developing countries and that it contributes to reducing the digital technological and knowledge divides existing between and within countries. So I think the the key message from the beginning was that we know where we want to get to in terms of what open science is or should be but the paths of getting there can be very different and of course will depend on where the countries or institutions are starting with so the idea really was not to come up with why the one fits all instruction on how open science should work or how we should get there but really to build on what is strong and what are some challenges to address those challenges in different countries and within different communities. In terms of the definition again these are all drafts and this can change depending on the comments that we will receive. The open science then refers to an umbrella concept that combines various movements and practices to make scientific knowledge methods data evidence available and accessible to increase scientific collaboration and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society and then to open the process of scientific knowledge creation and circulation to societal actors beyond the institutionalized scientific community. I think this and it really builds also on the definitions that we already had from the European Union or from like African open science platform etc so we're trying to combine them into one common definition of open science. With this idea of having the scientific outputs as open as possible and as close as necessary of course mindful of security issues, privacy, respect for subjects of study we're not saying open is open everything is open but as much as possible and as secure and safe as possible should be open of course. We looked into all the different also elements let's say of open science open access open data but also open source and software hardware evaluation open science infrastructures and you were talking of course open air about infrastructures and services open educational resources but also open engagement of societal actors and openness to diversity of knowledge so these are also the additional elements that we have identified from the different inputs and kind of defined within the current text of the recommendation. In terms of core values and guiding principles these are many of these principles and values have been mentioned and have been used already in the practices of different organizations including open air. As I said I think the key of the values really was about and is about inclusiveness equity and fairness diversity collective benefit and then of course quality and integrity and I think the whole point was to say that you know science is a global public good should be treated as such and its outputs should also be treated as such and then in terms of principles we have the principles such as collaboration respect responsibility sustainability flexibility transparency equal opportunities and and access. In terms of the areas of actions as I said a lot of work has gone into coming to these final seven areas and we are still open to suggestions and improvements. It's promoting a common understanding of open science because even once we have a definition that shared definition and that shared a vision of what open open sciences should constantly be promoted between the with the different actors of open science and between the different regions around the around the world and enabling policy developing and enabling policy environment for open science equally extremely important investing in open science infrastructures and services and investing in capacity building for open science. Many of these issues have already been mentioned briefly by Yanis in the opening as well and then a very interesting area of action which has really been pointed to us particularly by young scientists is this need for transformation of the scientific culture as a whole and aligning incentives for open science so we cannot at the same time evaluate scientists only on the basis of you know the the the journals in which they are publishing and ask them to publish in open access journals or engage with the broader public etc so there needs to be a conversation and action in terms of re-evaluating a little bit evaluation systems, rewardings, aligning the incentives for open science more broadly so that there are not mixed messages being sent to scientists who want to engage in open science practices. Promoting innovative approaches for open science at different stages of the scientific process one of the things that we you will see is is quite well I think captured in the recommendation is that open science practices are not only meant for let's say the end outputs of science such as you know journals or publications etc but it really is at each and every step of the scientific process so whether it is you know defining of questions, defining of methodology, evaluation, sharing of data etc so at every stage of the scientific process we can apply open science principles and we can open science in that way as well. And then of course promoting international cooperation on open science with particular emphasis on regional initiatives and when we say region in the UNESCO context we actually mean like continents more or less so Europe, North America, Asia and Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, those are Africa, those are the regions and there is really need for institutional strengthening of institutions at the regional level who can also deliver on open science. So this is this is a little bit what we have so so far I think what is interesting now in the next steps is that as Irina was saying and I said we've sent it to the member states, our director general sent it to the member states. They are supposed to send their comments by the end of the year and then we will produce together with the advisory committee again the second version. This second version will be then shared with member states again sometimes in March and then there will be a series of meetings where member states will actually negotiate the text. In terms of partners including open air we are also we will also now be sending the recommendation to all the partners asking for their comments as well. They will be invited as observers of course there is a representation issue not everybody can be in this negotiation meetings but there is provision for inviting observers so all of our partners are actually also will be invited to the meetings of member states in their interaction as observers but in the meantime we will also be asking them comments also by the end of the year so that we can have an idea of the feedbacks from the partners and the open science international community and those of the member states. So if everything goes well by as I said August maybe September next year we will have a final text which will then go to the general conference of UNESCO where all the 193 member states meet they will adopt it and then once the recommendation is adopted we will actually the work will start then because then it will be about implementing those different recommendations and actions in different countries and this is also definitely where we will come back to you our partners open air and others to help us in the implementation on the national level and also on the regional level. So I think this is enough on my side I probably went over my a lot of time and I'll be happy to respond to any questions that you may have. Thanks a lot Anna and you did great you you kept your time so no worries about that so please colleagues if if you have any questions types I'm in a Q&A or raise your hand and we'll let you speak if speaking is faster than writing and I don't see any any questions yet sir so I guess you were crystal clear and no questions so far so thanks a lot Anna then we'll continue up there is sorry there is one Janis yes please Anna thanks a lot for for giving us the perspective of where you're going in ESCO. I was wondering is there any collaboration or coordination with other UN organizations on open science and and where do you see this going would there be one unique from everyone at UN or separate or how do you see this working? So this is a great question yes thank you. So for the moment what is happening of course we have reached out to all of our you know sister agencies and the UN system particularly we are working through this technology facilitation mechanism of the UN which has been set up for basically implementation of the agenda 2030 and there is an interagency task team which brings together all the agencies from the UN who work on STI for SDG science technology innovation for sustainable development goals so we have sent them of course the the the consultations and they have been part of our consultations and we will have actually another meeting with them precisely to discuss this issue of you know how do we present it at the level of the United Nations because the recommendation is for member states not but it also has implication of course for the agencies as such. For the moment what we see in different agencies and those are the agencies we've been working with is that internally we have our and even UNESCO has it already a policy on open access or a policy on sharing of information policy on open data etc but these are internal policies of the organization now the question is how do we communicate with the member states and what are they going to take on from from that and this is where a little bit more of consultation has to happen in between UNESCO and the other UN UN agencies but I think in general there is a feeling in the UN system that open science really is one of the accelerators for SDGs and therefore there is a push for open science across the system and even the UN Library you may you may have been part of that conversation they have also studied the conversation a few months ago maybe a year ago on how do we promote open science across the UN UN system and across all the different agencies so we are just picking up on that working together with them and we have to see how we're going to evolve all together in that in that sense but there is a common understanding that there is a transition to open science and that the agencies have to follow and a company member states to ensure that that transition is as fair as possible and that we don't repeat the mistakes from the past. Irina if I may come with a follow-up question sure yeah as Irina I think wrote also to the chat open air is working with the UN SDSN global with but also primarily the Greek one but also with other national US SDSNs in collaboration with Global and Jeff Sacks and so this is great what you are saying do you see because these coordinations in major agencies usually take time and you never know what is there a timeline in this coordination and how is there anything that open air can do to help through I don't know it's interactions with SDSN or anything else that could help you or yeah I think that's a great idea actually you know SDSN is it's not a UN agency right so it's so we have been in touch with them but not really we did not how to say target them so far so indeed what you are saying is great we could definitely make the connection with with SDSN because that's really like a practical arm that basically helps the UN implement some practical projects to advance the agenda in different countries and on different subjects so yes the conversation with the SDSN also on open science and to see from their different nodes or from their different networks how open science recommendation maybe also could be promoted that's great but as I said and we can do that relatively quickly as the progress of the development of the recommendation is happening but I think what will be really really important is that once the recommendation is adopted how do we accompany member states to actually implement it and this is where we will need all of your help including that of your other contacts such as SDSN to really make sure that you know the right partners in different countries are included and that and that it's happening as it should be happening including through the collaborations among those who are a little bit more advanced in certain areas those who are not those who still need some you know additional assistance etc so I think that part once the recommendation is adopted is going to be extremely important once we get there but if everybody is already you know they know what the process is they understand why it's happening how it happened how did we get to this recommendation that's already that's also very very helpful in the implementation process later on thanks thank you and I see one more question from our colleague Alessia from Cianari in Italy which is the impact of digital divide in in the draft recommendation how has it been addressed yeah it has been very clearly mentioned and put up as one of the challenges let's say the the way it's addressed is to really request member states to progress also in their implementation of in ensuring that there is connectivity around the world as it as it should be because of course I mean one of the prerequisites for the moment for open science is connectivity and ensuring that the digital divide is not what it is so this is where you know the different efforts coming also from the UN different parts of the UN come together because we have several agencies that work really on the digital divide including from the UNESCO site but not necessarily from sciences but from its communication sector so this is where we really have to put the package on and if there would be funding for open science in in certain countries that funding also has to take into account the fact their connectivity for example is an issue and it has to be investment in solving that issue as much as there can be into some other components of any given open science project so I think these are the types of you know recommendations we are giving in the in the draft recommendation but of course then it's going to be up to the to the countries and the international collaboration to make sure that that happens indeed. Thank you so much and I don't see any other questions so thanks again Anna and I'm handing over tonight's long. Okay hi everybody so I'm very lucky to be able to introduce Natalia Manila as you know she's the director of open air she's based at Athens at the University of Athens and she's been responsible largely for a lot of the development in open air over the last 10 years and longer she's also on the executive board for EOSC so she's the perfectly right person to give this overview of how open air contributes to EOSC what we're trying to achieve there but also to give those in the audience an introduction to EOSC for those who may who may not know what EOSC is so the floor is yours Natalia thank you. Okay thank you let me start my watch and I'm based now on my balcony in Athens so greetings to everyone who has taken time to join our open I wouldn't say webinar workshop so what I want to present so I have the two hats I'm as Natalia said I'm the open air director but I'm also in the executive board of EOSC so what I will do is I will guide you through EOSC and some of the specific and the technicalities so feel free to ask any questions and then I will go through the exercise of placing open air in EOSC the services and everything that we do so on the EOSC is the why the what and the how is now we're starting with the why is there are many different whys is for researchers why do we need an initiative like the European Open Science Cloud why for the policymakers for the researchers I think it's obvious because now it's a data-driven research and data is everywhere and we need to have tools to find access very fine combined data from our own our own domain but also from other domains how what do we need to do in order to increase this data finability and accessibility and again is the sharing what Anna presented very nicely what is happening around the world I think Europe is in a very good position but now we need to somehow structure it in with clear incentives and rewards for sharing is this is this is how we need to and to engage researchers for policymakers why you know for policymakers of course there's the societal and global challenges cross-disciplinary research all the funding programs or many of the funding programs now are done through SDGs and the sustainable development goals so we are trying to solve you know missions and and very high level goals and what we have found on these data-driven research is that we have a lack of available fair data which cost be Europe a lot of money the Pricewaterhouse report a couple of years ago talked about 10 billion per year and then what is important is is we need to bring any and everyone together around these data commons to maintain for Europe to maintain the position as a global legal innovation so this is most of the why the the executive board has come up with this European open science cloud objective tree and if you will see on on the on the horizontal lines we have the problems the barriers the objectives and the benefits and if you think and if you see I'm not going to go over it but if you think about it we're talking about people we're talking about data we're both we're talking about infrastructures and how these how these traverse down to you know the science the industry the society and this is very important so the objective if you look in the middle if you focus in the middle I'm not sure if I if I show my my my mouse are you able to see the mouse the mouse over yes yes oh okay good thank you so so you can see the open fair and federation are the key the key ways on how to do that starting from you know linking to what Anna and the UNESCO and the global initiatives are are are discussing about and what is our goal for science for the next generation science or science 2.0 or however we want to call it is that we see that for EOS to be successful openness is is is is key what we're talking about EOS we're talking about free at the point of use it doesn't mean that somebody you know nobody pays for them we're talking about on complicated we're talking about intelligence access to data and by data we mean mostly you know data as research data publications they are they are a piece of the data software protocols tool services so what we're so it's very important that when we talk about open by default as open as as closed as necessary open but as close as necessary the goal here is to to to have open access as much as we can and open science with what Anna presented as part of the collaborations about as parts of linking as parts of discovering resources as as as concerns on utilizing resources and if I may so but what is important is that EOS will only be successful is that if there is enough research and engagement and uptake and this is this is one of the key key objectives and this is one of the one of the goals that we I don't have the reference here but we talked to the research infrastructures the infrastructures and the research infrastructures came last of Europe came last month together and wrote a very short position paper where this was one of the one of our key requirements researchers in the center so EOS can the nutshell I took one of the latest diagrams that has been floating around so there is all these communities discussing about EOS core EOS exchange EOS Federation our community what is the the minimum viable EOSC so what the community for the past two years with the EOSC executive board and the working groups has been trying to do is we're trying to somehow break down this complex landscape that we have in in Europe and we're trying to to to put in place all the elements we're trying to prioritize these elements you know what is what is the utmost priority in order to implement how we go about it the key things here is that that the sharing of research outcomes and research resources whatever these are are important so you can see publications data software and services is this is this is how we share the key one of the one of the important things is that we need to get together as Europe as European organizations to build on each other's knowledge we need to learn learn from each other the unique selling point of EOSC is that how can we add have this layer have this initiative that will add value to existing investments so we're talking about collaboration it's not a matter of creating something new it's not yeah this this is not what we want many millions hundreds of millions of investments have already taken place and are taking and are they happen as we speak so the idea here is how do we make sure that we bring them together and and we are all on the same page and this is driven by the rules of participation so what are the rules that we want to put to our organizations to regulate not to regulate science but to regulate whatever this EOSC is through a consensus process and and and in the next five to ten years bring piece by piece forward if we want to deconstruct the EOSC and this is now the open air view from our position paper is that we see you know it's a different view it's not just the EOSC core or the EOSC exchange is what are the key points that we see around if you start from from here we have data so data that is being generated published you know stored computed transferred over with a bunch of services and what our goal is is to share this data is to make this data fair and open so how can we link in how can we make it you know as as best as curated as we want what kind of services do we need and what kind of services can we share through this years and then of course what we need to do is we need to have this this common layer on top where everyone agrees on so some of the key layers here is the the AI authentication and authorization framework we're talking about service management so how can we expose our services how can we share our services in a meaningful for the scientist way and of course what are the what are the keys in order what are the key elements in order to access the data so how can we access if possibly seamlessly the data or the metadata of what is being produced so this is so these are the three elements that we see is that the key elements so data is data in its in its broader form you know software publications protocols anything that is being used by by researchers services in the middle in order to handle and manage this data and then this is the this is the access layer and on top what you will see is the monitoring layer which is very important because in order if you're making we you know i see that many policy makers are in this workshop so what we see even at the national EU or even on the international layer is what we need to do is when we have our policies we need to somehow monitor its uptake it's implementation in supplication so this is this is the supporting layer is the monitor so this is this is how open air sees us this constructed now the executive board and the sustainability group has come up with a bunch of key elements core elements for for this center core is what is the absolute minimum that we need in order to glue everything together i'm not going to go over this but you can see the the open science policy framework you can see the implementation which is aai so we need you know researchers they need to go from one place to the other very nicely very easily and seamlessly we see the data access framework we see the service management we see metadata minimum interoperable metadata framework is how can we share this data open metrics framework so what you know the monitoring part and of course we need to have the the PADs which is like aai one of the very minimal services that we need to have security policies and procedures which is more on which is more on the data policy side and then we need operational support services and web portal so i'm not going to go over it but the red the red things are what are the what we need as as part of the gluing mechanism okay and i'm just going over them uh because then later i will just come to open air and see how we fit into this now ios we are after two plus years we are in implementation phase so this is europe we're talking about complex and somewhat bureaucratic environment but this is us so what we have chosen is a partnership model a partnership is in is is a mechanism in horizon europe that we that is used to deliver global challenges through concerted rmi efforts but the key here the the key thing that we need to note here is that it's not the european commission it's the european commission but also the member states or private sector foundations in other stakeholders so what these partnerships are going to do is to develop is provide mechanisms to link um research and innovation closely to policy needs whatever mechanism that we need to think of to develop close synergies with national regional programs i think this is one of the most important and also to bring together all the stakeholders under one umbrella initiative in a more structured way okay now we have in in europe we have 49 EU partnerships that are being formed for horizon 2020 and eos for the european open science cloud uh is a partnership which is cross thematic so this partnership no we we're repeating ourselves here is now what will we do it's going to be build eos trusted visual for the radio environment institutional national european initiatives together co-design and deploy european research data commons and of course you know the possibilities for researchers to find and use um all researcher outcomes what is its key objectives this is what the executive board has come up as as four very high-level key objectives is open science open science practices and skills are rewarded top becoming the new normal so open science is in the center second part which is again you know technical implementation of open science is standards tools and services to find access and reuse results and then of course is the business model is okay we're building something for we are coming together what does it mean in order to sustain and federate what is actually existing and of course uh at the end is boosting the impact of eos to collaboration and alliances that means that we are no eos european open science cloud is a european um is in the european agenda but it has to be it has to have close links with international uh actors but also with business and public uh which is very important so this is this is an objective throughout um i think this is my last uh slide on eos i will talk just what i'm presenting here is you know this partnership is not very easy to digest to people who have not been in discussions for these past years so this partnership is going to be operated through a new association so we're going to have a new legal entity called the eos association we already have it it's been developed since um since july uh end of july 2020 so this new association uh will uh try to do what one of the first things that they will do is to coordinate and align the strategic research and innovation agenda i will go over in my next slide we'll do monitoring reporting eos technical guidance fair training and communication so this association which will have open air will be um a member of it in the next round is um is going to be an association to like an umbrella organization overseeing things i would say uh what is very important in in in the in the to see here in the in the in this um in the very small letters is that in the text is that the activity is resulting from from from this uh from this work of the of the association or from this guidance of the association report forward to the sria will be resource to commitments by the european commission and at national level by the members of the association and this is why eos i think is very important is that because it's bringing together uh member states at a very i would say official and structured manner in order to tackle the problems you know the data driven the open science all these problems that we have been uh encountering in the past uh years so this is this is this is uh this is um this is how it's gonna go then oh no okay we have four founding members now interest from about 90 the process is the onboarding process of new members is is is ongoing and then the membership fees just by putting them down for for organizations that may be interested is 10 000 for full membership and 2004 observers i think now what is the strategic research and innovation agenda this is something that every one of the 49 partnerships together with the community and the members of the eos will shape and uh and uh and uh try to implement through european commission money and through member um through member state money at the national level uh if you see they uh the executive board has identified 14 action uh areas from uh from something very technical like identifiers uh to something uh you know more abstract like user environments or resource provided environments and of course if you see on the right it's about you know the landscape monitoring which is something that is very important rules of participation now the existing rules of participation is high level so how can we go to the next uh you know more concrete level and as Yanis said is no uh nothing can can can can really proceed without having a skilled not only personnel at the at the organizations but also skilled researchers of the open science so these are just to give you an idea of what we will be working we as a community and also mobilizing the member states at the uh in the next few years now open air so let's let's come and see how open air fits into this picture okay uh we have uh we are a legal entity with 36 regular and 11 associate members in 24 countries and two international organizations so how can we see how we fit in in the open science cloud context so what we have been doing since day one in the past 10 years is that um uh we we are working on we have three pillars of action services policies and training okay and I will go um to each one I have five minutes left I will go to each one and say okay you know how do we fit coming back to this to this image is that what we see is that open air is has good positioning and good services and good network in order to do um completely parts of the data access framework the kpis publishing um uh and also uh the the research web and of course through not just through um through uh the services but also through the network this long slide uh if you see the your score which is the bluing what we have trying to identify is how we can how we uh open air contributes to that and I think I would say that we substantially contribute so shared open science policy framework this is what we have been working for years this is what the national open access desks are doing and I think the UNESCO also um the accommodations will boost this effort we are working on a data access framework so open interfaces for consumers to discover and use and use um uh data uh we're talking about the minimal interoperable metadata framework I will just come in in my next slide an open metrics framework we have services like the usage data and the open science observatory the monitoring so where we make sure that all this graph and identification goes into there so as you can see and then of course you know through uh we are helping the commission and with other players to uh to support the services and uh ESC portal but our main things are about policy this is about the data access framework which I think you know also includes skills and training the metadata framework and an open metrics framework if I come to the guidelines for content providers that we have been working not by ourselves but with the community for many years so you will see here that we have the open air guidelines and what are these essentially they are metadata uh frameworks uh for making sure that we can share at a minimal level touching on a minimal level uh that we can share objects and resources around the US so you can see the open air guidelines for literature the open air guidelines for data which is an adoption of data sites we have the software heritage we have the other research project products quiz systems and the usage statistics which are counter compliant so what I think one of the main contributions of open air in this in this field not going down into the detail level of the of each community scientific community is that these guidelines can very nicely help for you know be part of the research of the rules of participation for content providers and also be one of the the seed for the metadata uh framework uh the services now so so this is this is about the metadata framework and the data access so uh I explained that in the morning in the closed meeting but I will just go briefly over it again so the open air services in EOS this is a big picture EOS is in the middle EOS keys everywhere now in Europe on on on the left side you have many data sources based on um on organization investments already so through the guidelines and through our provide service so we offer a kind of a compliance framework to to to what we call you know uh we call the open air guidelines and they could be again the seed for the open air for the EOS metadata framework then what we're doing is to them we are building the EOS scientific for the catalog not just by them but also interesting other sources but these these are these are you know these would suffice and then once we have those we provide services for discovery which is explore which we we provide services for monitoring and open up uh open science observatory which could be for KPIs but also on the bottom here we provide services uh you know this should be a closed circle our EOS which is a data management tool a measure which is an organization and of course you know everyone the thing knows you know than here which uh will help researchers or organization use these tools in order for them to publish and in order for them to be you know if if you want to use others to be compliant to the to the rules so this is this is the nutshell where you know where we have been working all these years and where things are converging to EOS but if you think also on training of EOS we have which is a very important part we have the community of practice of trainers so the idea here is how can we facilitate the mechanisms in order to bring trainers together and you know learn from each other and build on each other's efforts when we are producing open science training material so you can see you know anywhere from literature repository data from us from preservation so i'm not going to go over this but this is the these have been very important and not only important because we're producing but also because through our network we are disseminating them and we you know you can see the numbers and these numbers are only for two and a half years so we have about 70 000 people who have been trained we have attended our training events and this is uh this is a multiplication in fact and this is why uh what i would say that open there is a small EOS within EOS and my last slide is on policies because you know we can we can talk about implementation but then you know as as Anna said is that one of the the key things here is how to address the policymakers and the and the men and the men and the states whatever they are in the world in order to do these policies at the high level then at the organization level and so on is what we are doing is we're providing a policy toolkit of templates we share national strategies as best practices and of course we have this monitoring of uh of policies and and i would say now for the implementation and later for policies so if you look at our open science observatory now we're trying to get these numbers you know what each country in europe has produced uh what is you know the situation in europe uh what is the situation in every country and not just by the numbers but also by utilizing our national open access desk knowledge in order to put key things like overview open science policy infrastructure training support and statistic so this is this is this is this is i think this is one of the key services the monitoring in the observatory and the policy observatory also this is a key thing in order to just give the small boost to eos to to make it go forward and i think i concluded with you know what eos is and where open air sits in now in this place thank you very much natalia that was excellent so now we have a bit of time for questions you can raise your hand attendees we have one question natalia i don't know if you can see it in the q and a it's from someone someone called katerina pinto and she asks is there any connection between open air and the new horizon results platform is this new horizon katerina is this new horizon results platform is this the open research europe platform can katerina speak i'm looking for you because if it's open research europe platform the platform that are the european yes okay no no not or more mocha if it's or the open research europe yes open air is connected by design so we are in contact with at thousand that has a that has a that is the implementer of this platform uh and uh yes it's going to be linked with open air and to the nod also okay katerina hope that answers your question great are there any other questions to natalia put your questions in the q and a okay horizon so mocha put the horizon results platform the central pillar of the e c funding okay uh not sure what i know this is but open air is also connected to the back end of the participant portal so when project coordinators report their research results they can use open air uh whatever we have found we just click the button they get it and then if we haven't found it the commission we have a direct channel with the commission and we exchange the data with them so open air and the commission portal which i gather then they are um uh okay uh daniel is putting some some information so we will see but again so open air is linked to the open research europe and then open air is linked to the back end of the commission services i'm not sure if that um um the response to the question because i'm not i need to look at this platform the tender okay anybody else have any questions to natalia on open air on eosk somebody called lara has a problem with the audio so yes type your question in the q and a if you can see that functionality i also see yannis raising her raising his hand oh okay yes she's yeah looking at the training the the link to the training community of practice maybe yannis can ask a question before uh was lara types so can you show me how to start i think i think about training so maybe i can comment about that so if uh uh this community of practice of training coordinators is an informal group we meet every month usually in the beginning of the months and that link to a page which i put include a contact email if you want to join us um and it also includes link to minutes and dates of our first coming meetings so if you meant how to join uh this community i'll also put my email in in a chart and you can email me and we'll be happy to have you and also everyone else who is involved in training coordination thank you okay thanks arena so i think we have says a question unless he has raised his hands from his hand is raised from previous session no no i i do have a question so let me go ahead and ask uh you open air started with open access to publications eosk started as open science uh and dealing with data and uh we all we in open air let's say understand that open science requires openness in in in all research outputs and in many more dimensions actually as ana presented is wonderful star star shape that is eosk listening into the much broader concept of of open science and and including not just the traditional raw data but also publications and software and protocols and and a whole bunch of other things that involve in eosk or is it just yes for data no no i think it's i think uh it does so in in all the latest documents it's about all these research uh results so and it's explicitly written now i think in the partnership industry and and everywhere it's just now a matter of you know trying the community trying to identify and it's just as the research results but all research related resources like services but yes it does thank you okay so thank you very much natalia the slides will be on our portal in due course publicly um so we'll move on to the next part of this session um which is to have presentations from our national representatives we wanted to take this chance to show these different activities each member state is very different um in terms of infrastructure and in terms of how they're starting with eosk i mean eosk may be a new concept of course the infrastructures as natalia has said have been building up nationally for many years and these connections are being made on the ground so um we're going to have five different countries and we're going to go through each of the presentations one by one and then have questions at the end to hear about what their priorities are where they're starting and how they're moving towards eosk so i will introduce our colleague pauli asinan i hope i've said that right asinan first yeah pauli um if you can share your screen he works at the university of helsinki they're in the library and he has been a no ad for a number of years a national open access desk for open air and it's very knowledgeable and all things finish and Nordic so over to you pauli thank you thank you thank you nasla uh i will show my screen and have it in presentation mode now can you see the presentation mode now yes fine yeah yeah so as introduced i'm a national open access desk in finland uh with my colleague kimokoskinen we work at the helsinki university library at the university of helsinki i was asked to tell about how to realize eosk in national context i have two slides the first one tells why it's not uh why it's very difficult to talk about national context only and the other one summarizes my experiences on how to market eosk but the to start as we heard natalia telling how open air is inside the eosk in very deep in eosk so what the information i get from eosk is mostly coming from the human network of open air so no ads and technical persons and so on and also about eosk but as i suppose most of my colleagues we have different roles and contexts uh hulu hulip is a health university library and then we have the context of university of helsinki as you know i contact repositories service providers also the uh policy makers and funders so these and of course the other higher education institutes and research institutes and probably the most important researchers is possibly coordinators of horizon 2020 projects my other roles are national working group chair where we are doing study of marketing of research data management services and that's part of national open science coordination and i'm also involved in eosk Nordic project in the work package for which is dealing with fair verification of data repositories and what this means so as you can see here is overlap as no ad there is in eosk Nordic there are Nordic and Baltic countries where we also have the for example the Estonian no ad lisi lembinen is working for the same work packets there so as you can see from the connections uh in different roles i work with the same persons actually in the in the eosk Nordic uh work packets for there there are also some service providers and repository representatives from Finland which are also cooperating in the national working group or national coordination so this is my message here that enhancing open science i i suppose most of us are doing in in several contexts a minor detail here is and i wanted to pick up with rda interest group for data discovery so when we talk about national context it's not so easy to say what's happening and i'm not sure if it's even important because the summary i want to give you how to market eosk goes like this thank you for listening to me that was that thank you very much pauli we'll take questions on your presentation at the end but that's leaving us with a clear message um okay uh and here is greetings from autumn in finland colors of autumn in finland so thank you thank you okay so we move on now to our colleague from Serbia Beliana Kosanovic who works at the University of Belgrade she does many things but she's also a coordinator of the Serbian National Library Consortium and um it's a great engaging presence in our community so Beliana you you share your screen and we hear your message yeah i will try to do this fine we can see you and hear you so yeah yeah are you see uh my screen or not yes i just see your screen yes fine with the presentation i hope on it not yes yes yes good good so um first of all i would like uh to share one of my first thoughts the only good thing to move from this face to face very nice usually very nice open air general assembly to these zoom meetings is that i see so many familiar names attending this webinar or this event that it is very nice to see all of them and to share with them and also to include them to our activities and to other good things we are doing in the open air so i would just say a few things about how we are working in Serbia and maybe maybe this will be the good recipe for the small countries like we are because small countries means you could not engage a lot of people who will be working on different things so i will go through the different things we are working on and when you see some numbers here this is our results my background is mathematics so i am completely depending on the numbers um on the policy level um we have our national platform but the initiative for the platform it will not it didn't come from the top down it come from the bottom up so we are the team of few of us initiate to the ministry explain them what the open science or open access and open data are and if you tell them that they could understand you have some chances to have in a document exactly you will have to write the first draft but after that they would like to talk with you and we succeeded and we have the national platform and if you have it at the top level so it is just expand to the institutions and now we have almost 16 institutional policy all of them are registered in the roadmap and even more we now also had the policy of the open infrastructures infrastructure and i think this will be the way how the other the other initiatives in in our country will start working also if in the country we did quite a lot to support in promoting the local content uh that mean that not a lot of journals from small countries are a part of this big national index databases so i think that the people could do quite a lot to make locally produced content to meet the requested of the national infrastructures so through another initiatives we support journals to become a DOI members which means we now have 190 journals but also the PhD thesis and the main of our product is of course doing this repositories which we insist to become an open door and open air and we just few weeks before we were moving toward the certifications we one of our almost the best repository from the syrian academy of science and farce and science they are starting to receive the core trust the core trust seal um moving toward the eosk we also support our researcher of doing science not just for promote their results but also for doing science we are not part of the research data alliance it was just happened and we are sorry about that but we will try to become but we received some help from the secretary at so and they are just one project which will work on this research data management also there are some work on open source software because researchers needs also software to do it to work on science and we think that the researchers are suffering from very high apcs so and with the some publishers big publishers we negotiated the discount of the national level for the apcs and we offer that as a service what does it mean service we through the service we offer the information so that because we do not expect that the researchers were going through all this big list of discount and find this very secret information if they have they if they are eligible for discount of the apcs and of course if we are working at the beginning of 21st century some visualization you must have today because the people do not have enough time to read all the data but if you show them visualize they they like it and we will continue this program we call the repositoryization of Serbia we have let's say almost 20 repositories including and we also follow those all open initiatives we are part of initiative for open citations and also the new one initiative for open abstracts we try to to support and be part of everything which started with opens but our main goals and our key goal is make our researchers happy or make them their work cycle easier they must recognize that we are not doing all this because of ourselves but because we will work this because of them because they are our key key goal and for me the best achievement is that in the last two years the team become bigger and bigger and as you see there are all the people must smiling smiling because if they could not believe in this they could not become a part of the team so this is the first condition they have to satisfied so the beginning of this unhappy year we can be formed on the government formed the team for open sciences Serbia I put this very small picture on them because they do not smiling but so and they are not so active but we will try to boost them and to make them more active exactly all these people are part of this tunnels of this open science in Serbia so and this is my life side and as I mentioned visualize is always easier to understand and to see the progress and thanks to the open air to their knowledge and on top of that with all the services they offer to us this is the picture of how the open science progressive in Serbia so there is a very small steps in 2017 and 18 but look at the 2019 and 2020 a lot of this is happening in Serbia even on policy or even on the services or the education we offer to our researchers so this is all for my part thank you thank you Billy Anna thank you very much so save your questions for later we move on to our next speaker really should be our keynote because we should be with you Sylvia Kukunidu in Cyprus at the university we should be with you in person today and I'm sorry we're not but we have you here with us and we can see you so yes you offer us your insight into what Cyprus is doing and at the building in terms of EOSC and infrastructures or policies the floor is yours can you see my slide yes yes it's not in presenter mode if you go down yeah click it again speaker mode again so perfect yeah okay thank you very much for introducing me and I'm really sorry that you are not in Cyprus but maybe our next meeting we can meet in Cyprus and so as you already know Cyprus is a small island so for sure we need collaborations and of course OpenAir was one crucial introduction to the local ecosystem we are working for OpenAir we are representing OpenAir since 2009 and I will try to give you an overview of our work regarding transferring open science and the EOSC vision to the national level so just to make a brief overview of the landscape of research innovation in Cyprus in 2019 and 2020 there were critical years for the reformation of the national structure of the research innovation governance system so as of March 2020 research innovation related issues were approached in an integrated and comprehensive manner under the competencies of the brand new deputy ministry for research innovation and digital policy and the operation of the research innovation foundation as executive arm of the system we also have the establishment of new institutions and bodies such as national board for research and innovation the chief scientist and the committee of ministry research and innovation coordinators we as not we're already in close collaboration with the previous appointed national bodies responsible for these issues so we were continuously trying to be informed for the transformation procedure in order to be able to know who would now be responsible for open science and the EOSC issues meanwhile we were glad to be involved at one of the infrared EOSC 5B projects together with the Cyprus institute one of the biggest research centers in Cyprus and together we were closely for creating national initiatives for open science so among other tasks we are now working together for EOSC and fair uptake in communities the establishment of national EOSC promoters in order to ensure demonstration of services integrated into EOSC as well as the understanding of the EOSC policies fair data promotion to set up a comprehensive training material organized events webinars training material for various stakeholders including researchers librarians repository managers funders and translate informative material about the EOSC and fairs since we believe that people are easier approached when they see material and events in their mother tongue we contact calls and any necessary actions for bringing researchers bringing the knowledge to researchers and other relevant stakeholders we are also curating the open science CY web page and we are in close contact with the repository managers in order to be fully compliant with the open air and in terms of policy as I already as you may already know we have a policy which was adopted in 2016 it was an open access policy mainly for publications and now this task is again among the management of the deputy ministry that I already mentioned so by following up with them we were able to transfer all the discussions regarding the revision of our 2016 adopted policy and those and all EOSC related issues to the people appointed for these issues and among the last discussions were the future creation of the national infrastructure and funds in order to support open science and EOSC aspects and the instrument that the new law for the adoption of the PSI directive the national policies relevant aspects will be included and referred so we believe in a top-bottom approach and just to conclude we also believe that our role as open air and what it is crucial in order to transfer knowledge and practices for open science at the national level so that's all from me thank you for your time and if you have any question we'll be happy to answer thank you very much Silvia thank you we have maybe some time at the end for questions but that was a good overview thanks a lot so we move to our colleague Pedro principal principal who's all smart and I'm sure you'd know who he is but I will introduce him he is the regional coordinator for region south in open air but he works at the University of Mignon within the library um and has wears many hats and is very active in building open air and in Portugal on the national scene so Pedro over to you thank you Nazla so I'm going to highlight some of the the activities that from the open air no add activity or action we did towards the EOSC in the in the present so I will try to highlight two initiatives per per topic let's say the way that we have contributed to align policies to synchronize services and to reuse training materials is is is just a contribution from open air no add for the development of YOSC in in in in Portugal because we really believe that this kind of services or this this policy alignment and these resources are really a component building block of the YOSC and we are sure that the the Portuguese YOSC representatives the bodies represent the responsibles to represent Portugal in YOSC are relying in fact in some of these open air services to place some of the Portuguese relevant infrastructures to that are being developed in the recent years to place them also in YOSC basically when we talk about the Portuguese repositories infrastructure or the the PT crease system or the the infrastructure for open access journals that we have so in fact we believe that are relying on this so based on the on the slide that the Natalie Amano have presented where we have highlighted the main pillars of the the open air activities services policies and training I will try to highlight two two actions per per pillar let's say and just to give some examples it's it's not an exhaustive presentation of all the activities that we we have developed from the services perspective and trying to have here the the the representative of activities in terms of policy infrastructures but also giving the point of view of those that are putting into practice the practitioners I will try to highlight some so guidelines alignment is something that we have since the beginning so repositories in Portugal in Portugal are compliant with the with the open air guidelines since the beginning since 2009 of course also since some of them since the driver guidelines that it was before the open air project starts and and the the provide the services that are available to support the repository managers are also some of them embedded in the in the in the daily workflows that the repository managers have from the policy side of course the the alignment that we have from our major funder and the recent developments that we are doing not only for open access but recently regarding rdm policies and then I will also try to highlight two main activities recent interesting actions regarding training a MOOC that we have developed targeting young researchers and the doctoral students and the trainer boot camps so let's start quickly with the first highlight regarding the services interoperability is the key to build open and robust infrastructures we all need those open and robust infrastructure is why Portugal want to be quite well represented in this in the development of those open and reliable infrastructures so guidelines are implemented in all portuguese repositories the open air guidelines in fact is a mandatory policy for the integration in the national in the national policies to benefit from the services that we have in our repositories infrastructure repositories need to comply with the the open air guidelines itself and there is a strong also alignment with the with the fct that is our major funder to to have the projects of fct part of the information space of open air and because of that we have them also available in our ecosystem in our infrastructure so from the point of view of our network of repositories open air is quite well representative via the the the compatibility of the guidelines but also some of the services that we offered are part of the of the workflows via different webinars that we have run targeting only the portuguese repository managers the active participation of these portuguese repository managers also in the european community calls placed the the provide services as a real added value to their workflows and the broker the enrichment events that we have from the broker services available in the provide dashboard the validator that is important to to test the compliance against the different version of the guidelines are being quite well used by our repository managers and in fact it's part of i will not say daily job but monthly activity in fact they they are doing that an additional component of our activity is the the policies so a pillar of the the open air activity and here i would like to highlight that since may 2014 our funder our major funder have an open access policy that is fully in line with the ac recommendations and in fact the the open air know what have have a kind of influence this this development as we we are quite well positioned to support this and and and recently we have also contributed my my my colleague a lawyer redriggs have also contributed directly to the the development of to a proposal to to of the the rdm policy proposal that is in fact under approval by by the the funder board and we hope to have soon important developments on these regards and but but but there are important recent developments regarding for example data management plans in in recent calls from the funder that we think that are very good development for the upcoming approval of this of this policy and and within this work we are also aligning with one an additional service that is argos that was recently chosen by fct for a trial using support for this policy that has been under discussing and that is will be approved soon to finish two highlights from the on the side of the training services the support in training activities in portugal are in fact had benefit a lot from what we did in open air of course from other important projects like foster open science but but a lot from what we do what we did in open air in the last one of the last activities we did was this research data management essential mooc that was developed by by by uminu as as open air know what targeting young researchers and phd students this mooc is part of a national infrastructure of moocs that we that our computation unit from the the science and technology foundation have have to portugal to offer different moocs in different areas to portugal and we had one mooc there sponsored by the secretary the secretariat of science and education in portugal and this mooc was we are quite proud of this of this mooc it was quite well-suceed training activity that we did we have a big number of registered participants we were quite surprised with the number of young researchers and doctoral students that we have target with this mooc and and almost 500 have in fact a completion certificate have get completion certificate which we are quite proud of this activity and several of them the con several parts of the content that we have in this mooc are have benefit from the some of the training resources that we we have developed in in in open air to finish the practitioners so those that are also supporting training activities in different institutions in portugal so we have run several training boot camps train the trainer boot camps over the last three years not only from open air but also from foster and from fit for our projects and we have already trained it over 50 trainers and in fact in the last boot camp that we run last September we have decided to start a community of practice a trainers community of practice in portugal that in fact have benefit a lot from the experience of the trainer the european trainers coordinator community of practice that is a responsibility from open air and building on relying on this community of practice we are now starting our own our national community of practice that we think that will support a lot all the open science developments in in in portugal okay it's it's all thank you it's just some highlights from the contribution from open air no ads to build the the yoske in portugal thank you very much pedro that was a good run through over the many activities so i'm conscious of the time we have one more speaker who doesn't have slides but she has very interesting things to say so inga van nuiverberg i'm sorry inga i'm sure i've got that wrong but she is based at the university of gend she is the coordinator for european well for for open air for region west and she's been involved in open air for many years and is very knowledgeable on all things open science so inga i think you'll share your face um and because of the time we are going to have after that a very limited time for some q and a on all of these issues and then we will close this session but i just hope that all of you are not going to disappear and we'll carry on in this session for a few minutes longer than the time allocated thank you inga okay hi everyone let me share some uh experience that we have here in belgium uh i'll just focus on a few highlights because of lack of time uh we are i am based uh in gend university so the no ad for belgium is in gend university so we have both sides namely the practical and more the policy wise uh that we address here in gend through gend university we know practically how it works with the repository how a chris system works with uh with different interactions and we see how researchers are working on the other hand as open air no ad we are involved in in quite some working groups on the national basis um where we can highlight open air services where we try to connect several stakeholders and uh get things moving now things are moving quite a lot lately in belgium and especially in in the region of flounders uh a flammage open science board has been established and uh good open science policies are being set out and uh through gend university we are part as you know as well in several working groups of the flammage open science board and through this flammage open sign board we want to collaborate because if you see for example for eosk how many working groups uh there are it's impossible as national open access desk to address all these uh subjects all by ourselves and through uh the several working groups that we are part of um we are in contact with all the experts from belgium in these working groups uh we are in contact with several uh projects with belgium partners to talk about eosk issues and to exchange information and that is very very interesting and and helps a lot in in getting the information around in belgium and to collaborate on opinions on statements and and stuff like that because there has been an explosion of working groups but also of consultations of things where we have to dedicate some thoughts to and to to answer questions and as a group and i mean as a group of people supporting research in in belgium it has proven very important to have these these working groups um we are also involved as university in several projects like eosk pillar is another project where we connect to eosk but we also try to involve eosk connection and eosk information in for example belgium project so we have proposals going on proposals now we hope that we will get funding for where we in very specific very specific projects with very specific themes try to incorporate eosk um uh eosk integration eosk linking and these kind of things and it shows us on the other hand practically what problems projects and themes disciplines can have to address uh fair principles or to address uh linking to open air eosk uh these kind of things so that's an interesting path i won't say anymore anything more just uh wanted to to address some highlights but um my key message is always as you know what we here are very much involved in several several projects several initiatives going on in the country and if we look at the beginning 10 years ago of being a know at in belgium and now it the landscape has changed dramatically there's lots more collaboration and it's very good to to be part of such a network for example so uh if you have any questions let them come i would say thank you very much inga that was excellent thank you for being on time um we have a few minutes i see there's one question already in the q and a to pedro i think we have time to answer this pedro uh can you see the question it's about the now mook that you mentioned um would it be available soon yes we are just preparing the second edition so by the end of the month i think we will start the second edition of this mook thank you thank you so that's bringing the end i think to the national perspectives and to the whole session are there any other q and a or hand raising anything else from anybody we've had some it's been a really full it's been a great session many many presentations we'll put them all on our portal many different themes from the different countries and a great expose of eosk and overview of eosk and open air from natalia so um please join us again for these public sessions we have four more during the week we have a panel an interesting panel tomorrow from an international and european perspective we have the provide session on the provide communities we have more sessions on the research graph and a session about our research materials and materials for researchers at open air producers so do register keep um keep track of what we're we're doing follow us on our social media and do register for our newsletter i'm going to hand the floor over to janice who will close the session but take the opportunity to thank the speakers very much um for an excellent session and we hope to follow up with with different webinars on these topics janice over to you thank you thank you very much nasla let me also thank all the speakers all the presenters for making really important contributions and showing the continuum that we have from the worlds that that unesco represents to europe and natalia talked about eosk and open air and then to member states the nods it is a continuum and we see so many common themes that arise in different scales but also special issues that we have to deal the member state level or and or at the european level or or at the global level and it's all has to be organic and and well coordinated uh one one one thing if i may say this is a parting comment uh in one of her slides uh uh ana went when she was she gave a definition of open science you had a whole bunch of things in a star formation and some of them were things that we were used to be talking about open data open access open open software and so on and so forth but one of the things that really impressed me and i really appreciate it was openness to diversity of knowledge uh or something like this i can't quite remember ana i hope i'm not butchering it so openness to that um as humans as scientists as researchers or as society to be open to all knowledge to the diversity of knowledge that has been produced and and and she was talking about indigenous knowledge something that scientifically is not uh completely accepted plus all scholarly knowledge and and and the the knowledge and the science and the research results that we know usually as as we think about it how can open science is not about to deal openly with the results of the let's call it traditional science but also to have our minds open to accept any knowledge wherever it comes from and combine it and and this will then will be truly serving the concept of open science nothing as a society will move move forward i really appreciated that and thank you ana and thanks to all that we're all working together in making this a reality thank you yes thank you ana and thank you all our speakers so see you in the next sessions thank you yannis goodbye bye all see you tomorrow thank you bye bye