 Good morning, I am Sara Garavelli and I would like to welcome you all to the first day of the EOSCAB week on the Alp of the EOSCAB consortium. Thank you very much to all the people who registered for these online events, so we have more than 600 participants registered to this event, so we are really happy about these numbers, especially considering the situation that we are currently living. And in this COVID situation we have all seen a big acceleration of the digital transformation and I think that today we are also experiencing in the EOSCAB community this digital transformation as well. So it's the first time that we run such a large meeting online, so please bear with us in case of any technical glitches during the day. So we have a full team supporting so we would try to fix everything on time. Before leaving the floor to the first speaker of today, I would like to remind you some housekeeping. The event is fully recorded and the recordings will be available on the EOSCAB website together with all the presentations right after the meeting. And on the slides you can see the link to the agenda page, that's the link where we will be publishing all the slides. By the way, all the participants will also receive an email after today's event with all the links. I clearly remind you to please do not activate your microphone or videos unless the EOSCAB gives you the permission. If you don't see the buttons at the bottom of the zoom window, move the mouse on that window and the buttons will appear. And if you have any issues with the audio, try to switch off your video, this might help with the connection. After the first plenary, we are going to split the audience in different breakout sessions according to the agenda. If you want to change the session in which you are in, you just need to use the leave breakout room buttons at the bottom of the zoom window. You will go back to the main room and in the main room among the participants, you will find the zoom post. You just need to send a private message to the host asking to be moved to the session that you wish to attend. Finally, so especially this first day is a very interactive day. So what are the options to interact with the speakers and the chairs of the sessions? If you want to speak during the meeting, you just need to use the raise your hand button of zoom. You can find the button in the participants panel. Please remember to lower your hand once your intervention is over. This will facilitate the life of the chairs. Another way is to use the zoom chat as you are all you are doing. And another way, almost all the sessions have a slider, are using slider as an interactive tool. You just need to go to Slido and enter the code EOSCUB week. Please select the correct slide room based on the session that you want to attend. You will see the full list of the rooms corresponding to the sessions in Slido. For the plenaries, you need to select the first room on the top of the Slido panel, which is called 18 May EOS Consultation Q&A. In particular, we will be using this room for the closing plenary that will be fully dedicated to gather your questions for the chairs. I've seen that there is a question in the chat asking if you will be automatically transferred to the breakout. The answer is yes. So once the plenary is over, you will go automatically in the breakout rooms that you have selected. So these close my housekeeping. And so I'm pleased now to introduce our first speaker of the day, Catherine Stover. Catherine is from Geant, the Pan-European data network for research and education community, and she is co-chair of the EOSC Executive Board. Say that, I'll switch off my video and I leave the room to Catherine. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Sarah. Good morning into the world. Normally we would be sitting in Karlsruhe this morning, a lovely city, I'm sure with very nice weather as well this morning. But thinking yesterday evening that I should be on my way to Karlsruhe, I'm actually quite happy that at least we have the opportunity today instead to be coming into your homes. So I'm very happy that you've decided this morning to allow the EOSC Consultation Day into your homes and houses. So again, welcome to you all. Next slide please. So this Consultation Day is organized for you by the EOSC governance structure as it's been existing since the 1st of January, 2019. So the Consultation Day is organized between the EOSC Executive Board, the EOS Secretariat, and all components are also of course already discussed in the context of being discussed by the EOSC Governing Board. So we will be showing you today the outputs really that we have produced in the EOSC working groups over the last 12 months. And I have to say it's really just 12 months, even though it feels a lot longer, because most of the working groups only really started last year around this time. So we are hoping today to have very interactive conversations and dialogues with you today as stakeholders. Next slide please. So as we're not sitting on the stage this morning in the plenary, I thought I'd just remind you who the Executive Board actually is. So here's a few pictures of us. And so you can see the composition of the Executive Board. We have a few new members. But also I would like to point out to you that originally when we started working last year in the EOSC Executive Board, we had two documents that we thought we were going to be following. The EOSC Strategic Implementation Plan, not to be confused with the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, which we will be discussing today, and the EOSC Work Plan. So those the EOSC Work Plan is at the moment being updated. But let's talk a little bit about what we will be talking about today. Next slide please. So the working groups are behind all of the consultation sessions that we will be having today. You can see here the main working groups. We have five main working groups, the landscape working groups, sustainability, the rules of participation, the architecture working group, the fair working group and the skills and training working group. You will be hearing from these working groups and in some of the cases you will hear from the task forces within these working groups. Next slide. And we are, as I said, 17 months into the two year of the EOSC governance. And we are now focusing on the activities that actually 12 months ago we didn't really know we would be focusing on. A large amount of our time has completely been dedicated to the EOSC partnership proposal, which brings the EOSC governance towards a co-programmed partnership under Horizon Europe. We also are very much focused on establishing the EOSC legal entity, and we need to be doing that before the end of this year, when the mandate of the current executive and governing board comes to an end. We will be speaking a lot today about the strategic research and innovation agenda for this EOSC partnership. The EOSC also has the work plan for 2020, which encompasses all of our work in the working groups, which is a document which we are updating today and we will be making available to you very soon. Next slide. The next two slides, this one and the next, really are giving you an overview of the basic underlying assumptions that we have in the partnership proposal. In this current document, we are summarizing the vision of the EOSC, in the sense that we're looking at the EOSC as a multi-stakeholder European partnership, and we have been defining together with the European Commission and the Governments Board the vision that we have, which is that the EOSC will enable interdisciplinary research to address societal challenges. It will be a vehicle for open science and the digital single market. It will offer researchers anywhere in the European Union the resources that they need to do their work. It will stimulate the emergence of a competitive European cloud sector. It will give Europe a global lead in research data management. It will develop an internet of fair digital objects, including publications and software. And it will reduce the fragmentation by federating existing research infrastructures. This is the vision that we have for the EOSC and which is laid down in the partnership proposal. And if you look at the next slide, again, one of the summary slides coming directly out of the EOSC partnership proposal, we've been working on an objective tree for the EOSC. And for those of you in the audience that are familiar with this particular slide, this is the version 10, which I believe is maybe not quite the final version, but almost. But here you can see that in order to really structure our thinking in the partnership proposal and towards a sustainable EOSC governance for the future in this partnership under Horizon Europe. We've been defining the current problems and barriers. And then we've been looking at objectives and benefits. I won't go into the detail of this because a lot of this will come out, particularly in the session that we have on the strategic research and innovation agenda. Next slide, please. So we have today the nine sessions that are going to give you a full update on the work of the EOSC Executive Board, the Governance Board, and the six working groups and their task forces over the last 12 months. As I said, an emphasis will be given on the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, which is the agenda underlying the partnership and will be the focus of the work in the partnership over the next seven years. We will look at the governance, the maintenance and sustainability of Metrixes and Pits. We will look at the EOSC rules of participation. We will look at sustainability and governments of EOSC post the current governance scheme. There will be a session on the EOSC authentication and authorization infrastructure. We'll look at EOSC at practical level in the sense of skills. There will be a landscaping report from the landscape working group. We will look at the pit policy and implementation. And also we will be addressing the content of the minimal valuable EOSC as defined in the partnership proposal. We get a lot of questions. Next slide, please. We will look at how we interact and how you can interact more with us. And this slide is really here to ensure that you catch up with all of the ongoing consultations that are out there at this point in time, particularly on the interoperability framework, the pit policy in the version two, and the fair metrics and certification papers. All the links are here, but I would also like to stress that the best way of communicating with us is via the EOSC liaison platform and I'm giving you the link here from the EOS Secretariat website as well. And the next slide. As Sarah has been saying, any questions that will not be answered during the day, we will be ready to take in the closing plenary. And with that, I wish you a very interactive and communicative day today and look forward to hearing your comments on all the work that we've been carrying out. Thank you.