OpenAIRE Week! Building Open Science Gateways to open and linked research outcomes

Friday, 16 October 2020

OpenAIRE Week! OpenAIRE for researchers and beyond

Thursday, 15 October 2020

OpenAIRE Week! OpenAIRE on the European and global stage

Tuesday, 13 October 2020

OpenAIRE on the European and global stage

During this session, we will provide the setting for OpenAIRE on the European and global stage. We will host a panel session where synergies with international, regional and national activities will be discussed.

Panel: European – National – International alignment. The panel will examine the shared building blocks for OS, around policy and infrastructure and identify key takeaways:

• Bianca Amaro (IBICT/LA Referencia, Brazil)
• Judit Fazekas-Paragh (University of Debrecen and National Library, OpenAIRE NOAD, Hungary)
• Pierre Lasou (CARL, Canada)
• Omo Oaiya (WACREN, Nigeria)
• Kathleen Shearer (COAR, Canada)
• Dr. Sa-Kwang Song (KISTI, South Korea)

Q&A

OpenAIRE Week: Kick off

Monday, 12 October 2020

Kick off

During this session we will provide an overview of OpenAIRE, its role in EOSC and vital services it will provide in the EOSC landscape. OpenAIRE works on three levels, providing policy, services and training for Open Science, a critical element of making EOSC work.The OpenAIRE Legal Entity, AMKE will also be introduced.

• Welcome
• OpenAIRE overview
• OpenAIRE services in EOSC
• Introduction of OpenAIRE AMKE (OpenAIRE Legal Entity)

OpenAIRE virtual coffee break

Monday, 29 June 2020

A virtual coffee break on Zoom - no presentations, just an informal experience sharing discussion, like you would have at your coffee break. Notes. 

RGPD y aspectos legales relacionados con la gestión de datos de investigación

Tuesday, 23 June 2020

La Fundación Española para la Ciencia y Tecnología (FECYT), como NOAD para España del proyecto OpenAIRE, organiza este seminario web sobre RGPD y aspectos legales en la gestión de datos de investigación. 

En este webinar se proporcionará una perspectiva legal sobre la gestión de datos de investigación, tanto teórica como práctica: ¿Cómo se manejan los datos personales sensibles en investigación? ¿Cuáles son los posibles problemas de privacidad cuando se utilizan datos personales en una investigación? ¿Qué se necesita saber sobre la RGPD y la nueva directiva PSI?

El contenido del seminario será relevante para investigadores, bibliotecarios y administradores de investigación de todos los campos (incluidas las ciencias sociales y las humanidades). Habrá también tiempo para preguntas y respuestas durante la sesión, además de poder enviar preguntas a través de este formulario.

Una vez realizada la inscripción, recibirá el enlace del seminario web en el correo electrónico recordatorio enviado.

Open Science, Open Access FAIR data, EOSC: three webinars in Italian

Friday, 19 June 2020
Monday, 22 June 2020
Thursday, 25 June 2020

OpenAIRE in collaborazione con l’Unità di progetto Formazione dell’Università di Torino organizza un corso online sui tempi della Open Science, Open Access, dati FAIR e European Open Science Cloud.
In un ciclo di tre incontri della durata di 2 ore ciascuno vedremo insieme

• la crisi della attuale comunicazione scientifica e l’alternativa Open (con strumenti per aprire ogni passo del ciclo della ricerca)
• Open Access in pratica, con una panoramica sulle politiche europee per testi e dati e sulla European Open Science Cloud- come gestire i dati della ricerca, come renderli FAIR – ai fini della European Open Science Cloud – e come aprirli, se e quando possibile.

Open Science Open Access – 1° incontro
LA CRISI DELLA COMUNICAZIONE SCIENTIFICA E L’ALTERNATIVA OPEN
venerdì, giugno 19, 2020
10:00 | (UTC+02:00) | 2 ore

Open Science Open Access – 2° incontro
lunedì, giugno 22, 2020
14.00 | (UTC+02:00) | 2 ore

Open Science Open Access – 3° incontro

Amnesia

Wednesday, 10 June 2020

Speaker: Manolis Terrovitis (Athena Research Centre)
Date: June 10th 2020
Time: 2 PM CEST


Amnesia is a flexible data anonymization tool that transforms relational and transactional databases to dataset where formal privacy guaranties hold. Amnesia transforms original data to provide k-anonymity and km-anonymity: the original data are transformed by generalizing (i.e., replacing one value with a more abstract one) or suppressing values to achieve the statistical properties required by the anonymization guaranties. Amnesia employs visualization tools and supportive mechanisms to allow non expert users to anonymize relational and object-relational data. 

Amnesia is implemented in java and javascript and it can be used as a standalone application or as a service. Moreover, it provides a ReST service API to allow the incorporation of its anonymization engine to other information systems. The tool is available through OpenAIRE and it has been used in several research projects including MEDA and MyHealthMyData.

Dr. Manolis Terrovitis  is a Researcher at the Information Management Systems Institute (IMSI) of Research Center Athena. His research work includes big data analytics, data privacy and anonymization methods. He received his PhD from the National Technical University of Athens (2007) and has been with the Department of Computer Science of The University of Hong Kong as a post-doctoral researcher (2007-2008). In 2009 he joined IMSI, first as a post-doctoral researcher and then as a Researcher. Google Scholar reports over 1900 citations to his work, which includes publications to some of the most prestigious venues in data management (VLDB, VLDBJ, TKDE etc). He has served as president of the Hellenic Accreditation System and a member of the Board of Directors of Information Society S.A. He head of Amnesia development in Athena RC and he has been involved in several national and EU funded R&D projects.  He has worked as a consultant at the private and public sector on the design and performance optimization of information systems and he is working as a Data Protection Officer in the National Network for Precision Medicine in Cardiology and in Oncology. Moreover, he has extensive experience on the application of privacy-by-design principles in the information ecosystems.

Plan S: Taking stock of the current situation and new developments

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

This OpenAIRE Policy and Legal Task Force webinar focuses on recent developments around Plan S. Johan Rooryck, cOAlition S Open Access Champion, talks about cOAlition S and what Research funding organizations in cOAlition S want; research visibility; Plan S: strong principles; implementation guidance: key challenges, routes to compliance, transformative arrangements; implementation: developing a Journal Checker Tool; working with key stakeholders: researchers, early career researchers, publishers, universities; and other activities: transparent pricing and Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA), non-APC funding models and cOAlition S office. Niamh Brennan, Trinity College Dublin and OpenAIRE NOAD in Ireland, talks about Ireland’s experience with its National Open Science Strategy and Plan S: the scholarly publishing landscape in Ireland, Ireland’s Open Access Repository Network and National Open Access Research Portal http://rian.ie, HRB Open Research, National Open Research Forum, mapping national OA Policy to Plan S (1st iteration), National Framework on the Transition to an Open Research Environment – ‘Plan S-friendly’ – but its primary concern is to be more ‘Irish research-friendly, ‘AmeliCA-friendly’ – in terms of its emphasis on academy-based infrastructures and on  alternatives to fee-based publishing and supportive of scholarly communication initiatives in the Global South, stressing equity, bibliodiversity and revisiting the issues of copyright and licences, immediate Open Access & Choice of Open Access Route calling to end publisher embargoes on researchers self-archiving their AAMs, and diamond publishing. The webinar recording also includes questions and discussion.

Cooperative Non-APC Publishing Models

Monday, 11 May 2020

Discussion about non-APC strategies, challenges and recommendations and a global collective action. Arianna Becerril-García (Executive Director, Redalyc, Professor, UAEM, Chair, AmeliCA) talks about AmeliCA - a multi-institutional community-driven initiative supported by UNESCO and led by Redalyc and CLACSO aimed to provide a cooperative, sustainable, protected and non-comercial infrastructure for Open Knowledge. Tanja Niemann (Executive Director, Érudit) and Jason Friedman (Manager, Member and Metadata Services, Canadian Research Knowledge Network) talk about Coalition Publica and the Partnership for Open Access: Canada's Cooperative Non APC Publishing Model. Jean-Claude Guédon discusses the current landscape, challenges, collaborations, "inside-out" libraries (Lorcan Dempsey's vocabulary), and provides recommendations about fostering a richer bibliodiversity and ensuring publication and access equality for all. And Iryna Kuchma (EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, OpenAIRE) presents the OpenAIRE report Towards Sustainable Cooperative and Non-APC Publishing Model. 

GDPR and Research: Where We Stand

Monday, 04 May 2020

The National Open Access Desks in Greece and Cyprus, continue their webinar series to inform about key Open Science issues in support of their scientific and academic communities’ needs. This month, the focus is on the General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR and its application to the research process.

OpenAIRE Webinar: “GDPR and Research: Where We Stand”

When: May 4, 2020

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EEST

Language of Presentation: Greek

Target Audience: Librarians, Academics, Researchers, Students

We are pleased to announce that the guest speaker of this webinar is legal expert Prodromos Tsiavos, Legal Adviser of "Athena" Research & Innovation Center and OpenAIRE.

The GDPR complexity resulted in the need to better understand the regulation’s provisions and how it is applied in the research conduct, also in line with Open Science. The purpose of the webinar is to analyze important issues surrounding the application of the Regulation at all stages of the research lifecycle. More specifically, the webinar will examine the following:

• The basic concepts of GDPR
• The exception for scientific research
• Special categories of personal data
• Management of personal data within the research cycle
• Digital services for Open Science and GDPR

OpenAIRE Legal Policy Webinars

Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Monday, 04 May 2020

OpenAIRE is happy to announce two public webinars in our Legal Policy Webinar series: one on Wednesday April 29th, and the other on Monday May 4th, at 2 PM CEST. 

How do you deal with sensitive personal data in biomedical research? What are potential privacy issues when using personal data for your research? What do you need to know about the GDPR and the new PSI directive?  

In these webinars, our experts Prodromos Tsiavos (Senior Legal Advisor - ARC/ Head of Digital and Innovation - Onassis Group), Thomas Margoni (CREATE Glasgow) and Jacques Flores Dourojeanni (Research Data Management Consultant Utrecht University Library) will provide a legal perspective on research data management - both theoretical and practical. Given the current health crisis, the practical examples will focus on biomedical sciences and medical data - but the webinars will be relevant for researchers and research admin from all fields (including social sciences and humanities). 

We invite researchers and research support staff to join these webinars. The webinar on April 29th will have a researcher-centered approach, while the webinar on May 4th will focus on research support and advice services. Of course , you are welcome to attend both webinars, but take into account that there might be some overlap. 

Both webinars will allow for generous Q&A time, and you have the possibility to submit your questions at registration. 

You will receive the webinar link upon registration and in the reminder email sent in the morning of the webinar. 

29th April 2 PM CEST: Webinar aimed at PhD students/ researchers : recommendations for researchers on reusing data -  legal aspects: what you need to know about GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and PSI (Public Sector Information) Directive - common misperceptions and troubleshooting -  practical examples. 

4th May 2 PM CEST: Webinar aimed at research support staff: what are relevant things to know when it comes to GDPR, new PSI directive and IPR - how to advise researchers - common misperceptions and troubleshooting - practical examples.

• When: April 29th and May 4th at 2 PM CEST

Open Science and Open Data in promoting research outputs

Thursday, 12 March 2020

The National Open Access Desks for Greece and Cyprus are back with a new series of monthly webinars in the greek language!

We invite you to take part in our first webinar for 2020 that will be about open research data:

OpenAIRE Webinar: “Open Science and Open Data in promoting research outputs”

When? Thursday, March 12 2020

Time? 12.00 - 13.00 EET

Target Audience: Librarians, Academics, Researchers, Students

The OpenAIRE Team is happy to welcome as guest speaker Nancy Pontika, Open Science Aggregation Officer at Core, to talk about open science and open research data. During the webinar, Nancy will analyse the Open Science and Open Data principles as well as highlight the importance and benefits of communicating our research, also known as Scholarly Communication. The fact that Open Science is a priority for the EU, expressed in the recent years as precondition for funding, has resulted in integration of good practices for Open Science in national research ecosystems mostly by redefining workflows and enhancing current research support services. 

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• comprehend the concepts of Open Science and Open Data
• know of new resources and education material on both concepts
• know the latest developments and updates in the fields
• practice on applying or help others apply these concepts
• contribute to promoting Open Science and Open Data.

Webinar on the OpenAIRE Research Graph

Thursday, 30 January 2020

OpenAIRE is pleased to announce the beta release of its Research Graph, a massive collection of metadata and links between scientific products such as articles, datasets, software, and other research products, entities like organisations, funders, funding streams, projects, communities, and data sources. Due to its coverage and cross-discipline nature, the Research Graph will empower the EOSC catalogue of scientific products.

On January 30th, 2020, OpenAIRE is organizing its final webinar in the first consultation series.

UPDATE: there will be a follow-up consultation in Spring 2020, stay tuned!

Open Science and Research Results Exploitation: friends or foes?

Friday, 29 November 2019

This OpenAIRE and EOSC-hub webinar covers Horizon 2020 rules and good practices approaches to addressing Open Data, Open Science and research results exploitation in Consortium Agreements and in Data Management Plans. It also specifically covers the issues of concern between Open Science and exploitation (patents, spin offs/ outs, confidentiality), business planning and licensing strategies.

Date: Friday, 29 November at 2:00pm CET

This webinar is organised in collaboration with EOSC-Hub