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Realising the European Open Science Cloud – first report from the High Level Expert Group

11 October saw the publication of the Commission’s High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which can be found here. The Recommendations provide a solid starting point for further reflection and engagement of scientific user communities, research funders and Member States in the making of this global initiative. The EOSC aims to accelerate and support the current transition to more effective […]

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LEARN Toolkit begins to take shape

A key publication of the LEARN Project will be a Toolkit of case studies illustrating best practices in relation to Research Data Management. The process of commissioning the case studies began in July, and so far 16 prospective authors from across Europe and Latin America have agreed to contribute a total of 22 individual papers. First drafts of these contributions are due to be edited by early […]

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Evaluation of RDM Policies

Between July 2015 and June 2016, the LEARN Project partner team at the University of Vienna (UNIVIE) collected and analysed over 40 RDM policies from across Europe. As previously announced (in our first blog post), UNIVIE more closely examined 20 of these policies from selected universities and research organisations, based on format and content criteria. Using an analysis grid, eleven RDM policies from the United […]

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Final Conference – 05/05/2017 London

Managing the Data Deluge: roles and responsibilities for your institution The Final LEARN Conference in London, entitled ‘Managing the Data Deluge: Roles and Responsibilities for your Institution ’, took place on 5th May 2017. The conference’s main purpose was to share and discuss with stakeholders – researchers, research funders, research organisations and senior decision makers […]

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Training seminar for research data stewardship and e-infrastructures

 From 6th until 9th of July 2016, the LEARN project partner UNIVIE organised a  four-day “Training seminar for research data stewardship and e-infrastructures” within the project e-Infrastructures Austria. This seminar was targeted at representatives from libraries, research services and IT services that build repositories and research support services at their institutes. The aim of the event was to provide knowledge sharing in research data management […]

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ECLAC: Update on Mini Workshops and upcoming activities from the LEARN Project

(This post is also available in Spanish / Este post también está disponible en castellano: Mini Talleres y próximas actividades de la CEPAL en el proyecto LEARN  ) As we shared in one of our previous blog posts, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), has been working on a series of Mini Workshops during 2016 that will help us to create […]

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3rd LEARN Workshop: Helsinki (June 28th 2016)

The LEARN project’s third workshop entitled “Make research data management policies work” was held on 28 June 2016 at the Helsinki Congress Paasitorni . It was organised by LIBER together with the other LEARN partners (University College London, University of Vienna, University of Barcelona, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean). A total of 65 registered delegates attended the day, […]

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European Open Science Cloud draft report: “A Cloud on the 2020 Horizon”

On 20 June 2016 the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud, of which I am a member, published its draft Report. This is the product of months of deliberation and discussion amongst the Group’s international membership. The aim of the Report is to look at the emerging concept of Open Research (known rather confusingly in English as Open Science) […]

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The Italian OpenAIRE National Workshop: The LEARN Project in Rome

Over the last two days of May, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) hosted the Italian OpenAIRE National Workshop organised by Cineca in Rome. Cineca is the National Open Access Desk (NOAD) in Italy. The two-day workshop focused primarily on the present situation and the future prospects for Open Science. In the first day we reviewed three relevant EU funded projects that have finished, or […]

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