OpenAIRE Newsletter November 2021

26 June 2022

Open Science in support of digitising economic and social impacts in rural areas

Will digital technologies contribute to building desirable futures in rural areas, or will they get us further away from the desired ambitions?

DESIRA, a H2020 project, aims to improve the capacity of society to respond to the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation in rural areas. Through a network of 20 Living Labs in the European rural areas, the project will assess the past, current and future socio-economic impacts of ICT-related innovation.

Collaboration with OpenAIRE brings in the forefront research related to the assessment of socio-economic benefits of digitalisation in agriculture, forestry or rural areas: the DESIRA Dashboard aggregates more than 500 software artefacts and 11.000 datasets, is linked to 16 Zenodo communities, while it makes available publications, data, software and research outcomes from 82 projects.

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OPEN INFRASTRUCTURES

Time to work together toward open infrastructures for scholarly metadata

Discussing the impending loss of Microsoft Academic, the need for more sustainable infrastructures and the contributions these can make to research equity, this article outlines how stakeholders across the scholarly communications ecosystem can contribute to making open metadata a reality now.

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ERC

Stepping forward to realistic implementation of Open Science

Read the ERC Magazine editorial by Prof. Paola Bovolenta, member of the ERC Scientific Council and Chair of the ERC Working Group on Open Science and find out how the ERC aims to raise awareness, and inform the scientific community about the importance of OS and its potential benefits for all, starting with scientists themselves.

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NATIONAL OPEN SCIENCE

Addressing Open Science challenges in Romania

"Open Science can only become a reality through cultural change and this requires efforts towards achieving a common vision, through a common dialogue."

OpenAIRE team has the pleasure of speaking to Alina Irimia, Open Science projects coordinator at UEFISCDI in Romania. Mrs Irimia, talked about the priority to connect and engage the Romanian community to the open science dynamics through a national dedicated platform that is now under development.

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EOSC

Have a say in EOSC’s portfolio of commercial digital services

The EOSC Future project has launched a commercial services survey to gather feedback on commercial digital services and datasets to offer valuable insight into prioritisation of procurement within the European Open Science Cloud.

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ENERGY POLICY

EnerMaps Gateway: all research around energy

EnerMaps developed the first version of a Scientific Gateway on Energy related research content. Learn how this tool accelerates and supports decision-making among energy professionals and save the date for the next training session.

Open Science for AI-driven Science, Technology & Innovation policy

Our interview with IntelComp project manager provides insights on how public administrators and policy makers seek AI services for data- and evidence-driven policy design and implementation in the domain of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI).