EOSC in Austria
EOSC national representatives
EOSC Austrian Governance Board Country Delegate is Stefan Hanslik from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.
Stefan Hanslik gives answers to these questions and explains his role in the Governance Board in the following three video interviews:
The videos were produced within the Austrian role as a partner in the H2020 project EOSCSecretariat. They are licensed with an open CC-license, so we encourage further reuse and dissemination.
Austrian Preparation for EOSC Contribution:
In the call for proposals "Digital and social transformation in higher education", some submissions also revolved around the topic of Open Science and Open Access. One notable example is "Austrian Transition to Open Access 2" (AT2OA²) the continuation of AT2OA, which aims to further promote the free accessibility of scientific publications. This also applies to the projects "RIS Synergy", "Austrian DataLab Austria" and "FAIR Data", which are combined in the Research Data cluster and are being implemented (under the lead of Vienna University of Technology and Graz University of Technology).
They are among those projects that will further advance the European Open Science Cloud. EOSC is a data infrastructure referred to as the "Internet of scientific data and data services" or European Open Science Cloud, i.e. a Europe-wide user-friendly environment of digital research data consisting of existing e-infrastructures across national and disciplinary borders. It aims to provide European researchers with access to first-class computing, storage and analysis capacities located in Europe. This will also facilitate the open exchange of data, e.g. as part of the "Open Research Data Pilot". To achieve this goal uniform international standards are needed.
In 2018, during the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and through the Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science Cloud, the EOSC Governance was launched at the University of Vienna.
EU Funded Projects
EOSC Pillar in Austria - AUSSDA / Vienna University Library
EOSC-Pillar is one of several Horizon 2020 projects aimed at building the Open Science and FAIR data-based European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): the focus is on data management, data services and data policy in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Italy.
EOSC will support the infrastructures and services to increase the FAIRness of data across national and disciplinary boundaries. It involves communities, stakeholders, infrastructures and researchers to actively shape these processes. Joint developments on an organizational, technical or legal level make EOSC-Pillar a catalyst for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
EOSC Secretariat - TU Wien
Austrian EOSC Secretariat team: Andreas Rauber, Paolo Budroni (Austrian National E-IRG Delegate), Barbara Sanchez, Juliana Giroletti, Katharina Flicker, Bernd Saurugger