 I'm just going to give it two more minutes, body. Thank you very much for participating and joining us in our first introductory webinar between EOSCUB and Open Air Advance. Thanks to our speakers as well. I'm going to hand over to my counterpart, Gagli, in a minute at EOSCUB. But just some housekeeping. Please, can you all mute if you're not presenting? I'm sure you know that already, but just please press the mute button. If there are any problems, just write in the chat. We'll be monitoring that. Gagli will make the speakers presenters and they'll share their screens. As we have a tight schedule, I think there'll be time for about one question in between each of the presentations and then there'll be time for discussion at the end, either via chat, but you can also speak. It's quite easy. You can just unmute and speak. And also, as Gagli mentioned, this webinar will be recorded and you'll be able to revisit it. And the slides will also be made available online in our respective portals. Okay, so I'll waste no more time. I'll hand it over to Gagli now, who will introduce the purpose of the webinar and also EOSCUB and the NGI network. Thank you. Thank you very much. My name is Gagli and I work in the EOSCUB project and working for the EGI Foundation, which is the coordinating institute of this project. And in the next few minutes, I would like to give an introduction of the purpose of this webinar and what motivated us to call for this meeting. The whole started with the European Open Science Cloud, which I'm sure all of you heard about, that's a recently started European Commission initiated initiative that spans across multiple projects. There are a number of projects that already started and already active. And there are open course or recently closed course for future projects that will also work on building this European Open Science Cloud. And the idea here is to integrate existing capabilities from generic as well as from discipline or scientific discipline specific areas into a single system that could facilitate open science in Europe and across the globe. There are different aspects of this, which you can see on the slide. I'm not going into the detail. Rather talk a bit about the EOSCUB and Open Air Advanced Project, which are two initiatives that are partner initiatives in the recently started E-INFRA 12 projects area. They have to work together very closely because they provide complementary services and work on complementary topics. Roughly speaking, the EOSCUB project is about integrating and federating storage, compute and application services. And moving these into the future, EOSC opens European Open Science Cloud and Open Air does the same around research data management, publication services and the related support and consultancy. So the two things very much complement each other. So the idea which came from the project and as well as backed up by the European Commission, is that these two projects must work very closely together, which is not only in words, but also described in a joint formal work plan which stands across three topics, dissemination and community building. This is what me and Naila are responsible for from the two projects. There is technical integration activities and there are governance related discussions and strategy development activities. What, how the two projects are fitting together and their vision fits together is represented on this slide, which we jointly prepared through the preparation of this joint collaboration work plan. This slide basically goes through the research life cycle, probably some of you have seen this originally, the original version of this slide came from the colleague from Open Air. Basically now we are just stepping through the different stages of the research life cycle. We start with developing a research idea, formalizing data management plan, finding reusable data sets or producing new data, preparing the data for analysis, then creating workflow, performing some analytics on the data, massaging the results, selecting the best one and publishing the end result, which can or hopefully will in the very short future in different communities be encapsulated into research objects which encapsulate the whole input data, the result data, the workflow that was used to transform the input to output, some provenance information of what happened during the analysis and the scientific publication. And the idea here is that the two projects, the services and the consultancy services that the two projects offer nicely cover the whole research life cycle with joint activities focusing on the first part. So Open Air Advanced is very strong in the data management planning and research data management aspect. EOSCUB also provides services around that so we definitely need to work very strongly together. Then for the big data analytics and the big data handling annotations, cleaning, curation, workflows, this is the area where EOSCUB is really focusing on. And then the publication of research objects and the reporting on the research impact is again an area for Open Air Advanced. So this is the big vision that motivates us. And that vision is broken or represented by different activities in the joint project work plan. And again, you can see these three activities, streams, dissemination and community building, technical integration and governance. And today we are focusing on the dissemination and community building area and especially on the area of bringing together the NGOs, which are the national members of the EOSCUB project and the NOAADs for the national members of the Open Air Advanced project. And hopefully based on this bringing together the communities we can then strengthen the collaboration inside the member states and then jointly support scientific communities in order to facilitate the implementation of this research life cycle that was on the previous slide. What we want to do today, first of all, get to know each other, both the projects, but also the national entities through a few examples. And I'm glad to inform you that the RDA colleagues also joined this webinar, which is another initiative that is building a national map of activities they will present themselves. So hopefully by the end of today, have an idea of who are active in the different member states from the NGI from the NOAAD and from RDA and we can trigger local actions in order to strengthen the national networks. I will continue now with an introduction of the EOSCUB project. Then NILA will go on with the Open Air Advanced. Then we will have flash talks from NOAADs and the NGI to give you a flavor of what it means practically to be an NGI or to be a NOAAD. Then we will get an introduction of the RDA national nodes concept and hopefully we will have some further questions and discussion at the end in order to reach some agreement on next steps and practicalities. So let me switch to the introduction of EOSCUB and the NGI's, which in a few minutes will give you an overview of this project of this project and its national members. I will start with introducing the project through the usual fact sheet and through the objectives. Then I will go on into the national focus points, the EGI, NGI, and NGI international liaison. So I will explain what those concepts mean. Those are key enablers and partners in the project. We will describe what we together do in order to make EOSCUB happen. And I will close this presentation with information on how we see the situation with respect to the NOAADs and how we can work together on what we can do for them and with them. So the EOSCUB project, similar to open-air advance is a Horizon 2020 project that started on the 1st of January. It lasts for three years. It's a very massive initiative with more than 100 partners, 33 million euro budget. Already so far, more than 200 people are working in the project. We expect this number to grow even. And the initiative lasts for three years. The mission of EOSCUB is to integrate providers from 20 different existing digital infrastructures and to federate those into a jointly offering which we call the hub, which will offer computing, storage, application, consultancy and training services for researchers and innovations in Europe and worldwide. EGI, which is the federation I am working for, is one of the initiators of this project. And to gather EGI with the UDET infrastructure and with the Indigo Data Cloud project initiated this large initiative, but involved 17 other big networks. I would like to focus on EGI aspect which you can consider as a subset of the providers or partners in these big initiatives. But this subset is organized around a national arrangement. EGI itself was established in 2010 as a follow-up of the large Hadron Collider grid computing infrastructure that was built from CERN and then became a more general system. Once it became more general system, the members decided to establish a coordination of its in Amsterdam, which is called EGI Foundation. I'm working for them. And to integrate the computing infrastructure around national infrastructures, so-called NGI. So the NGI, as you can see here on the map, cover a large part of Europe. Each NGI has its own national legal structure, a representation in EGI, and offering of services through the EGI Federation to international and to national user communities. EGI has a financial aspect to it. The NGI's pay membership fee on an annual basis to the EGI Foundation, which is used to keep the Federation together by offering central services, such as information catalog, accounting, monitoring systems, but also be run innovation projects through Horizon 2020 or from other initiatives that help this Federation develop new services, add new services and capabilities or work with very specific researchers. The NGI's are the key stakeholders of EGI. And each NGI is different because it emerged from the national landscape. It considers the legal entities that exist in that national landscape to support researchers and research communities. It considers the legal aspects and the integration of national services into the European landscape. But every NGI is similar to a large extent, namely they operate online services, which were traditionally grid computing services. Recently, most NGI's also operate cloud computing services, operate storage services, operate high level applications, portal interfaces, virtual research environments. So basically those things that researchers in the digital era require in order to produce, store, manage, process and share data. NGI's offer user consultancy and training to facilitate the uptake of these services. They organize events, workshops, conferences, national events or deep into international conferences. They support scientists with integrating scientific applications with the distributed computing and storage systems. And sometimes they also have a support for the software development itself. The NGI's are linked into EGI and then into EOSC through three different ways. There are the council representatives, which is the political board. There are the NGI international liaisons, which are in the focus of today's webinar, who connect the so-called consultancy services, such as training, the events, the user engagement and support. And there are the operation managers who operate the IT systems and they link these operational aspects into the European landscape. The slides are shared and you can study them. I included the three most important links. One is about the links of NGI's. I had a snapshot on the previous slide. The second is the list of the NGI international liaisons with email contacts. So you can see whether an NGI has a contact in your country and if it is a country has an NGI, then who is or who are those people, you can contact them. And some example use cases to give you a bit of details about what kind of applications actually and scientific use cases we actually support with these online services. And here the message is that these NGI services are integrated into EGI and through EGI into the EOSC hub initiative, where you can see that one aspect of EOSC hub are the operation of online data sets or data as a service, online applications, online tools, baseline computing capacity, training and consultancy. EOSC hub has other aspects as well, such as marketplace authentication systems, security regulations, IT service certification and so on and so forth. But I take home messages that NGI contribute to the EOSC hub through EGI. And let me finish this overview with one slide that are the ideas of how we can help the knower. So how the NGI's can help the knower. Basically we are experts or network of experts of big data and big compute topics. Where you can ask questions from these people about where can I analyze scientific data? If my experiment produces big data, where should I get computing power, computing capacity for the duration of the analysis? How should I transfer big data from my institute to just computing and storage facilities? What kind of application portals or gateways already exist that I may be able to reuse to run an analysis? How can I create new environments for my discipline or for my project? What's the difference between cloud computing or containers or grid computing or supercomputers? And what tools can I use for managing data or implementing a research data management plan? And this last question is very important to jointly work together with the knowers who are also experts on this area and where the two groups should jointly support research communities. What we expect is that after this webinar and later this year and in the next years, the knowers and NIAs start organizing workshops together in the national context and use the expertise of both groups to best support the research communities and to jointly offer such services, such as training or the national consultancy service. And of course, the NIAs can be the kind of gateway for you or the supporters for you to join additional services into EOSC or to federate them into EGI. So thank you, those were the introductory slides. It's time for question, Naila. Does anyone have, we have time for one question, I said, after each presentation. So does anyone have any questions on Gagli's presentation? Again, you can write in the chat and we urge you to introduce yourselves if you like in the chat to your national counterpart. There's a takeaway from this webinar. Okay, have you shared, would you like to take over now, Gagli? If you share. Yes, I made you present. Okay. Okay, thanks a lot, Gagli. Hope you can see my screen, everyone. So just, yeah, so just to carry on from Gagli to introduce open-air advance, we started as well at the same time as EOSCUB in 2018 in January. We're a smaller project in terms of partners and budget and our focus is different as I will explain. Open-air is a continuation project. Since 2009, we've been continuing and we're now in our fourth phase. In a nutshell, what we do, we're an infrastructure, social and the technical, much of our focus is implementing and aligning open science policies across Europe and also across the world. So we started as an open access infrastructure and we're moving now to an open science infrastructure. So these are aligning the policies of the European Commission to those of the member states. Technically, we're also harvesting a lot of open access publications and other research output and linking them to contextual information. So that could be funding information, research project information and researcher information. We then build a set of services, a suite of services on these in order for researchers and research groups to embed them into their day-to-day activities. And at the same time, we're promoting a set of interoperable standards to link research all across the world. And we carry out a set of training and support efforts for open science and for a fairer, better science environment. So in short, we're opening and sharing research and linking it, linking its outputs so everyone can reuse scientific endeavors. This is an overview of our soon-to-be launched services which are already in the pipeline for different stakeholders, so for researchers, for repositories, for community groups, for national funders, for innovators, for research managers. So we're building on top of our information base of these services on top of OpenAir. And in terms of what we do, we're in terms of how we sit in EOSC, we're putting the open into it. So we're working, as I said, to harmonize national open science policies at member state level, harmonizing them with the European Commission to open access and open science policies, and that we do through training and support materials and all the outreach at the national levels. We also work to establish infrastructures that are interoperable. We've set up an open access infrastructure and this is interoperable with other infrastructures at national levels, such as repositories. And our main focus has been open access to publications. So here, the NOAAD's work, as I will explain, is to support this at international level and provide tools and information on licenses and compliance with repositories in order to be compliant with the mandates of the EC and at national level. And last but not least, we also work in the open research data field. So that's supporting fair data and open data and supporting with tools and training where needed. So those are the open elements that we put into EOSC. And today, I'm very happy to have a lot of NOAADs participating in this webinar, the NOAADs of Open Air National Open Access Desks, and we have every European country plus others represented. So if you see your country, if you're from, if you're an NGI, you see your country here, you might want to get in touch with your counterpart in Open Air. And we're managed in a regional approach and though we have regional coordinators who manage each of the different regions. So these are all experts on open science, so to speak, and open access, mainly based in institutions across Europe. And they do the work on the ground to support Open Air and to support open access mandates of the European Commission. And as we've said, I mean, it's research is a global endeavor, but every country may approach this differently. That's why we have this national approach within each country, and the landscape is very heterogeneous. It's not a homogenous one. There are many different kinds of infrastructures implemented across the landscape. So that's why we work at this local level and we're making this interoperable with how Europe puts its mandate across in the terms of open access across Europe. So we have 34 countries within our network and managed through the four regional coordinators. We're moving gradually towards open science and many of the NOADs in this webinar already involved in open science working groups and task forces. And we're also happy to say that we're linking across around the world towards other global infrastructures. And what they do on the ground, the NOADs, they work in many different areas. They're reaching out to project coordinators, those who receive funding from the European Commission to make sure they're aware of the mandate, to researchers to help them implement open access policies, to national funders to gather their information into open air and to administrators to provide information about the tools we open air provides to administrators to support them. They also work to promote open science and open access and to promote the open air services in their daily outreach. And they're working to align infrastructures and repositories at a technical level and also policies as well as I've said with the EC. And they do this through a number of different national workshops and training opportunities. And they're really acting as facilitators for open science and open access at a national level. So if you need information about open access, the NOAD is the person to go to at a national level. And we facilitate many different national workshops which are still continuing. And this is what we want to flag up today is that open air, NOADs are funded to hold at least one national workshop in the next three years. And we encourage you to get involved and work together to present or to be aware of these national workshops and at least to attend them from EOSCUB. So the themes are fairly common but they may change in the next few years but they mainly deal with open science and implementing mandates and the different challenges and also the European Commission's policies. And they're also engaging researchers in these national workshops and supporting open science where possible among research communities. So that's really what I want to say in terms of introducing open air. I don't know if anyone has any questions at the moment or would like to write something in the chat. The NOADs are here at national level if anyone wants to write in the chat to introduce each other, you're more than welcome and we can provide you information about how to get in touch with your national counterpart after or during this webinar. Does anyone have any questions now for myself or Gagli on the EOSCUB or open air advance? I have a question. Yes. Naturally, yes, Paolo speaking. My question is you're talking about fair science and I would like to know how are you cooperating or do you want to cooperate with the GoFair initiative, the international one? Well, that's, yeah, I mean, we have, GoFair as far as I'm aware is growing in a number of different countries, four different countries or three different countries in Europe and we're very happy to cooperate on a training level and reach out to them. I mean, we have NOADs as well who are also part of both open air and GoFair. So these are early days and I think the national workshops might be a good moment to bring together the two different players and work. There's also GoTrain and I think we also could work together on training practices and support. Does that answer, Paolo? Is that something? Are you involved in GoFair activities yourself in Austria? Yes, but it's a satisfying answer. Yeah, we are very well involved and deeply involved because of the presidency activities. So we are going to support the launch of the EOSC during the next November and of course, the GoFair initiatives. We are thinking on how to establish some services here in Austria through the NOADS using GoFair principles. Just to make an example, at our library, there is an office which will be dedicated to the GoFair initiatives. Okay, good to know. Let's be in touch about it. Okay, thanks. Okay. So I think in the interest of time, we have to move on and actually this is a good chance to introduce our Austrian colleague, Olivia. He's going to talk to you quickly. Hi. So I'm just waiting for sharing my screen. We can see it now, Olivia. Okay, perfect. That's perfect. So good afternoon to everybody. I'd like to give you a short overview of our insight on the NOAD activities in Austria. My colleague and me, my colleague Gerda McNeal and me are working at the Vienna University Library and I don't know at Austria. Whoops. And what we call daily business, I want to mention that we work as a National Open Science Help Desk for project coordinators, for the researchers, for funders, and research administrators. And that we disseminate materials, information, and get involved in training, like we're preparing a workshop for the open access days in Austria, in September, yes, with the NOADs of Germany and Switzerland and also what is daily business, you're building capacity in open science, in RDM and networking. Regarding RDM, we are in the lucky position that we have several experts at Vienna University Library, like Paolo, who was speaking before, Paolo Putroni and also Barbara Sanchez Solis, she's also in the webinar, and that there have been built a lot of expertise in policies, in consulting worldwide, preparing toolkits. They're also founding members of RDA Austria, did prepare a data management plan and offer training, both for staff and researchers, but also for PhD students. Two projects I want to mention, which have been like paving the common ground for RDM, like learn and infrastructure, Austria Plus, I guess you're aware of these two projects. They're quite important for paving the way to RDM policies implementing on the national level. And as a result, we have already the RDM policy in place at two universities in Vienna and nine are about to come. And also University of Vienna is in development. Like at the Vienna University Library, you can see already that we have a broad be a top of open initiatives. And as know what, we also engage in the open access forum in the task group on licensing working together with the Chris team at the Vienna University. And also, of course, with the repository feed and you scholar the open access institutional repository. On a national level, we work together with the open access network, Austria, which includes research institutions, universities, funders, and also the governmental persons. And we're working together with the rep man that the repository manager network, which is really helpful to get insights on the daily business of repository manager regarding the compliancy for the open air portal. And we're also part of a working group in the Austrian tradition to open access three year project in Austria regarding monitoring and et cetera. Yeah, that was it. Small overview and happy to answer your questions. Thank you very much, Olivia. That was excellent overview. Does anyone have any questions for Olivia? The answer, do we have anyone else from Austria? Any from the ESC Hub side listening? Yes, we would like to add something. Just in addition that at the library, we also founded research data lines Austria, which is based at our library and then at the technical university covering the whole country. And then we are working in a group which is called Austrian open science support group in order to try to implement and help implement the ESC at the university level. Thanks. Thank you. So there's a question about the Austrian NIL is from Gianna Wiew. I don't know if the Austrian, Gagli, if you've seen a nil from Austria here, but in the audience, the webinar. No, we don't have official in Austria. We don't even have the NGI officially. We used to have one, but not anymore. I can give you an answer. So the AGI had two institutions that were participating to the AGI that were based at the Academy of Science in Vienna and then in Innsbruck. In both cases, people went retired and there was a shift in the personnel. Afterwards, there was also some shifts in budget. At the moment, there is no institution participating, but I know that from the technical university, there is a new group which is trying to form a consortium in order to participate to EGI. I think this will happen maybe in two or three months that they will propose for a, they will apply for a participation. Thank you. Perhaps this is Titsanen speaking. So thanks for this remark. We are aware of this initiative and we're looking forward to see an infrastructure group developing. What are the synergies in Austria that you foresee with what has been presented by the NOAD and other infrastructure activities? Is there a radio collaboration, some form of national coordination? Paulo, are you able to answer that or Olivia? I can give you some... Through the Austrian Open Science Support Group, we are working very closely with the ministries in order to understand how to cooperate in this situation. Okay, so it's work in progress, I guess. I think we have to move on now to our next speaker, is Yadranka and Alan from Croatia, who are NOAD there. Making them present. Italy will make them present. So I think Yadranka will be the speaker. Yes, hello to everyone. Hope you can see. I would just inform you very shortly about recent initiatives in Croatia. Yadranka, we can't see your slides. Well, I can't see them, but... Sorry? It's okay now. That was actually the flyer, which is unfortunately in Croatian language. For our first seminar, somehow a very important seminar because we bring four teams, four projects together to discuss with researchers and about future services. So we started our cooperation at Richard Boskovic Institute with EOS Hub team approximately two months ago. Actually, we came to the conclusion that different teams in Croatia are working on different projects and we are not so well connected. So we started to think how we can bring different teams together and primarily to raise awareness related to the importance of the research data and fair principles. And we did research data at the very beginning in Croatia. So actually, we wanted to see how we can use technologies and infrastructures develop as part of different projects to offer some common services for researchers. And therefore, we decided to start this seminar for researchers, which was held on 29th of March. And actually, four projects were presented at the seminar EOS Hub and the team from Richard Boskovic Institute presented their activities and also team from Institute of Ethnography and Folklore in Zagreb presented DIA HR project and a colleague, Mariana Glavica from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities presented activities in CESDA and Alan will shortly inform you about those activities and at the end we presented open air advanced and what we plan in the next three years period. And actually, after that we had quite fruitful discussion with audience and all details and presentations at the blog post and now Alan will shortly tell you about CESDA. Hi. Well, there was one presentation about CESDA-ERIC and CESDA-ERIC is a consortium or network of European Social Sciences research data archives. Croatia was participating two large capacity building projects. One was FP7 and one was Horizon project and now we are in phase of testing the pilot infrastructure for research data depositing. In the sense of the European Open Science Cloud we are in the collaboration with our IT experts at Richard Boskovic Institute and we are brainstorming and preparing test cases for possibility of integrating current data repositories with the cloud infrastructure for online analysis and calculations. So, well, there are many challenges like the security of data and organization procedures, harmonization of data, et cetera, but we are on it. Also, CESDA research data repository network is also a great potential source for open-air. In the last two years we have some activities but we didn't have much success in connecting CESDA with the open-air because of some organizational problems in CESDA, but now they became an ERIC. CESDA is reorganized and I think that we can raise this issue again of connecting CESDA with the open-air and I hope that CESDA could soon become a great research data provider for the open-air. So, that's all about CESDA. Thank you. Thank you very much, Alan and Dya Dranka. Does anyone have any questions here for them? You are welcome. Thank you. Hi. I can jump in as a little representative from Croatia. I actually only first met Alan Katowice on another conference. Unfortunately, I was not invited on the Dair one because Croatia in Nioskap has two institutions. One is the RPI from where the Alan comes and the other one is CESDA. So, our task is mainly on providing the infrastructure support for people getting to the infrastructure. So, I don't know, after finally meeting the NOS, I kind of hope we're going to continue collaborating more closely in the future. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Amir. Okay. So, we have to move on now to the EGI representative from France, Genevieve. Gagli will make you presenter. Hello. Hello. May I begin? Can you hear me? Yes, please begin. I'm Genevieve O'Neill. I'm from France, Greece. This is the French NGI, the French research infrastructure and also the scientific interest group. Here, you can see the map of our... I can't see any slides, I'm sorry, unless it's just me, myself. I'm sorry. I can't see. Can anyone else see Genevieve slides? No. Okay. I don't know why. Your voice is very nice, so I'm sure we can... It's a pity, I'm sorry. To see the slides there is a map. What can I do for that? Let me share the slides so you can just give the presentation and I'll use my screen. Okay. I hope you can see this view. Okay, this is the first slide. In the second one... Yes, thank you. Here, you can see the map is our site. You can see that there are distributed on the landscape in France. We have grid sites. We have a federation of EIS clouds. We have a catalogue of service of this infrastructure with Dirac, cloud, iROTS, this management service. Our users come from all disciplines. We have several Android national users. People that work in our laboratories. We welcome about Android virtual organizations whose 25 are national or local. We have one that is special because it welcomes all disciplines and it is long tail oriented and it is very used. We have also virtual organization for training. Something that I did not in the slide is that we gather publications from our users in a collection that is hosted by HALP in France. HALP is a repository for the French academics. You can change the slide please. Next slide please. Thank you. The activities related to the NIL are the relationship with user communities so users support at large training. We are training users for our services and cloud services. We are also offering training for students in their academic courses. These are things that we provide for a teacher for students. We also support our users towards international level. We help them to know EGI for example in the next month probably. But we help them in the fact that we pay for the information to go to international conferences for example EGI Conferences behind 4-Hair or related to our services conferences such as IWARDS our DRG We also support them for project proposals. Next slide please. We also organise a big scientific event in France almost each year that is our success days that are scientific days by users for users that means that the users can meet other users they can present their success stories including the EGI success stories they have and the objective is to foster expertise and experience sharing. We also collaborate in this event with sisters national e-infrastructure and their users. HTC or cloud storage We work with everything in the scientific days about talks, panels, demonstrations and we publish this. This is a French speaking event so it is more adapted to the French attendees. This year we will organise this event with other infrastructures in front so that is why we change the name it's no more success days but G-CAD and we are preparing it for the autumn. So if the French no one wants to come is welcome if we have questions and we'll be happy to answer. Thank you very much Genevieve Does anybody have questions? Anyone? Franca who hasn't yet? Okay We move on to Stefan the Belgian NGI Go ahead Yes Hello I'm Stefan from Belgium and today I would like to introduce you Belgian NIL activities First of all I need to give you a short overview of the Belgian landscape we have two regional infrastructures in Belgium the Vlamse Supercomputer Centre for Fenders and the consortium of the Calculative Intensive for Wallonia and both these infrastructures are similarities they are organised as Federational Sites Managed by universities they have high broadband fibre networks to link the sites they have a strong focus on high performance computing and a high level of integration through some common facilities like shared file systems to distribute users files and data of software and a centralized management of users account and so on and then you have Begrid Begrid is promoted by Bespo Bespo is the Belgian Office of Scientific Policy it's a federal agency Begrid has its own infrastructure delivering grid and cloud resources as well as support so the Belgian NGI liaisons, goals and activities my colleague Olivier de Vaudre is not attending today but is the second for Belgium our goals is to build bridges between Belgium projects, infrastructures and EGI to promote grid and cloud computing and to increase the visibility of Begrid promote grid and cloud computing is still necessary for researchers outside of physics and our current activities are now working on a new Begrid website and we are also constantly updating the Begrid weekly that contains mainly technical documentation for end users we are now writing new training material about grid computing and with this new training material we will soon organize a hands-on end of this year it will be an introduction to grid computing and also we plan some meetings with people from University of Ghent who is a member of the VSC because they are building a new tier 1 level cloud system and there are some opportunities to join the FET cloud in a lightweight way our collaboration with the Belgian NOADs well actually we are constantly seeking to reach out new users especially from over disciplines and physics and in this context is very important for us to increase the collaboration with NOADs that will help us to find new users and we would like also to understand how we can start collaborating with the NOAD colleagues and soon we will contact them to see how we can start collaborating and that's all from our side thanks for your attention thank you very much Stefan, thank you I think we have a Belgian colleague in the meeting here today so maybe you can after this be in touch, Emily is here I think from OpenAir who is also the NOAD so anybody have any questions so that gave you a flavour I hope of what both OpenAir does and what the NGIs do at national level I hope that was a useful overview sorry we couldn't have all of you but thank you very much for those who did present so we have a few minutes left for a very quick overview of RDA Europe which also fits into this context quite nicely so I'll hand over to my colleague Daniel and Sarah Jones from the DCC thanks Nadja my name is Daniel Bangert from the University of Göttingen, we're joining this meetup just to give you an idea of what's happening in RDA at the moment so in brief the research data reliance is a community driven organisation whose mission is to build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data RDA Europe has recently entered a new phase with the RDA Europe 4 project launching last month in March 2018 and a key objective of this project is to facilitate the work of RDA through a network of nodes across Europe on the map you can see the nine current nodes in Finland, Germany, Italy Greece, Iberia, France and the Netherlands the UK and Ireland so what does an RDA node do? They support data related activities at the national local and regional level they act as a central contact point between data practitioners and RDA in general they promote the RDA vision and results through events, collaborative workshops and so on they develop concrete actions to facilitate the uptake and adoption of standards and outputs they interact with national research funding bodies and other stakeholders and they participate in RDA processes including RDA Europe governance and just as an example here are some activities that the RDA node in the Netherlands has planned a node there is done and you can see there's almost 300 RDA members in the country already and some involvement in working an interest group co-chairs so they're planning to engage with government, national funding bodies organizations and other networks they're holding collaborative workshops on specific issues that are important to their national agendas like certification and persistent identifiers and due to their background they're liaising with specific communities around social sciences and humanities they're also disseminating RDA activities and outputs in Dutch via journal publications and other channels and I'll pass over to my colleague Sarah Jones who will talk about our plans for growing the network Thank you very much Daniel so we already have a series of nodes but we're also growing that network and we have a Cascading Grant available over the next three years of the project we're going to have three waves of grants where we bring on new nodes in different countries so we have three that we're hoping to bring on and this year we'll be releasing a call shortly in the next month or so seven in 2019 and an additional three in 2020 and they will be fulfilling the same remit as the nodes that Daniel's already described and what we'll be doing is working with our existing nodes to develop some guidelines on how to establish and run your node and really the reason why we asked to join the webinar today is because we see a big overlap between the OpenAir No Ads and the RDA nodes and I'm just trying to advance this slide I realise I can't advance it if you can advance please Daniel there we go so we see a lot of opportunities for collaboration between OpenAir and RDA and the NGI International Liaisons and what we hope to do maybe you have reflections in this final minute about what those intersections are and what the opportunities are to collaborate because we'd like to work with you more OK, thank you very much Thanks a lot Sarah and Daniel that was great, speedy but comprehensible, thank you OK, we're entering the last minute of our meet up maybe Gagli you could just make me present to have one last slide and does anybody have any questions at this stage have you found it useful write any reflections in the chat maybe we hold another one in terms of next steps I think now we've got these three different national activities happening and maybe more in the field go fair as well so I know from the No Ads perspective you have for your work and national workshops if you could reach out to whoever your level audio perhaps getting to participate in the workshop or dialogue when you're planning it at least identify who they are and start dialogues we could have another one of these forums to communicate and swap ideas maybe elaborate more today was really just a chance to introduce each other let Gagli and I know if you have any more ideas we also have the forum of DI4R in October in Lisbon which has just been announced we could have a session to develop these ideas further as some of you are attending those were really a few reflections on what we could do next but we will keep working on it we have this collaboration agreement and we'll be doing more together in terms of training and support and Tiziana wrote it would be good to have a national infrastructure focus DI4R and just lastly I'd like to promote the next joint webinar how to manage your data and make them open and fair run by Dan's on the 15th of May you can register via our portal and via the EOSCUB portal as well that's at one o'clock on the 15th of May that's been quite a hands-on webinar so that's another second of the webinars in this collaboration we will come up with more webinars and support and training as time goes on I know we're out of time I'm happy to stay on and take a couple more questions and ideas if anyone wants to raise anything now for those who have to go thank you very much indeed for attending and for our presenters and for making them very slick short presentations excellent and I think Tiziana's writing things and Emma is introducing herself helpful if you could share a list of contacts for each initiative in one file yeah, I think one of us has already started something like that and mapping Marianne is promoting her webinar okay anything while I was still here anybody like to say anything from your end? I suggest that's it Mila will compile a single document or email that we will circulate to the news and the know-hows with the pointers to the contact points in each country and also suggesting next act to get in touch send us sort of information about your national events so we can support you in organizing and do keep us informed if you have meetings with your national peers and if something concrete comes up from those meetings we definitely are interested to hear about this so we can pull these types of stories together maybe into this DI for our session that was raised by Mila thank you Gedley, okay very much everybody have a good afternoon and until the next time we meet goodbye thank you, goodbye