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OpenAIRE coffee break on the role of MOOCs in open science training
Reflections on the trends, strengths and weaknesses of MOOCs and the case study of NAU platform in Portugal
The OpenAIRE AMKE Training & Support Standing committee is organizing a new session of the OpenAIRE coffee break series. Please join us on November 21 at 10h30 CET to discuss on the following topic: "The role of MOOCs in Open Science training: reflections on the trends, strengths and weaknesses of MOOCs and the case study of NAU platform in Portugal.
Pedro Barbosa Cabral, the NAU platform at FCT-FCCN and e-Learning Consultant & Educational Designer and MOOC Specialist, will share his reflections on the trends, strengths and weaknesses of MOOCs in open science training and will talk about the case study of NAU platform in Portugal.
OpenAIRE Explore & Open Science Lens: discovery tools for research results and data (In Greek)
OpenAIRE representatives in Greece and Cyprus invite you to participate in the webinar that focuses on OpenAIRE tools for searching interconnected scientific information organised on Thursday 5th October 2023 at 11:00 am EEST. The presentations will be made by Konstantina Galouni, manager of the EXPLORE discovery portal, and George Papanikos, CTO of CITE SA.
The webinar will describe the OpenAIRE Explore service and the Open Science Lens (OSL) plugin application. It will explain their functions and highlight the ways in which they can be used by the research community. The main subject of the presentations is the exploitation of the OpenAIRE Graph, the pan-European knowledge graph for scholarly communication, which is enriched with 169 million publications, 59 million research data, 366 thousand research software components, 129 thousand data sources, which are linked to 3 million grants and 194 thousand organizations. In addition, presenters will perform demos of the services focusing on the easy search and access to scientific results which are interconnected: activity-article-data-software.
At the end of the webinar, the participants will be able to:
- search for scientific articles, data, software and other results which are available in the OpenAIRE Graph
- have a more comprehensive picture about the research production of the scientific results
- link their own scientific articles to ORCID
- install the Open Science Lens app in their browser
Open Research Europe: Presentation of the open access platform of the European Commission (In Greek)
OpenAIRE representatives in Greece and Cyprus are pleased to welcome Dr Victoria Tsoukala, Policy Officer-Seconded National Expert- Open Access-Science Cloud - European Commission, DG RESEARCH, on Thursday 29th June 2023 at 11:00 am EEST.
The focus of the webinar is the Open Research Europe platform for peer-reviewed open access publications. The platform allows publishing of original research articles resulting from Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 funding, without charging any fees to the authors, e.g. article processing charges. The platform is supported by the European Commission to help the researchers in meeting their requirements for immediate open access to publications.
The webinar will present in detail the publication model of the platform and the submission and evaluation process, according to which open assessment follows the publication of articles (post-publication open peer-review). It will also present the EC's policies under which the platform was created in 2021 and the future plans to transform it to a publication platform that will be funded by the countries.
OpenAIRE EXPLORE: Improvements and new information available
Short description & Agenda
This webinar will focus on the latest improvements of the Explore portal to better facilitate user needs in terms of easy search and best exposure of the metadata of the desired research results.
It will also be presented where the users can find the impact factors, usage counts, and citation scores of the research results in the search pages as well as in the detailed pages.
Progressing Open Science in Greece and Cyprus: local initiatives and next steps (In Greek)
OpenAIRE representatives in Greece and Cyprus continue to organise webinars on Open Science and the European Open Science Cloud - EOSC.
Athena Research Center and the Library of the University of Cyprus invite you to participate in the webinar that takes place on Thursday 4th May 2023 at 11:00 am EEST. The purpose of the webinar is to inform about the ways in which Open Science has been applied in the Greek and Cypriot research ecosystems, emphasizing on the latest developments and upcoming actions. In these efforts, the contribution of National Initiatives has been significant, namely the Hellenic Open Science Initiative (HOSI) and Informal Consultative Group for Open Science in Cyprus.
OpenAPC - Open minds towards transparent publication fees
In 2014 the OpenAPC project was launched at Bielefeld University Library and has received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) (2015 - 2018), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (2018 - 2020) and the European Commission through the OpenAIRE Nexus project (2021 - 2023).
In this online event, the presentation focused on the benefits of transparent publication fees and on how institutions can become part of the global acting OpenAPC project.
We briefly discussed the data format and processing, how transparency is applied to all steps of the data lifecycle in OpenAPC, and the benefits of participating.
The presentation closed with a brief outlook.
Finally, time for discussions and further explanations after the presentations.
OpenAIRE coffee break on the University of Vienna certificate course “Data Steward”
Thinking about designing a course for data stewards? Join us for a morning coffee with Monika Bargmann and Tereza Kalová from the University of Vienna who will share their experiences with developing and running the certificate course “Data Steward”
Thinking about designing a course for data stewards? Join us for a morning coffee with Monika Bargmann and Tereza Kalová from the University of Vienna who will share their experiences with developing and running the certificate course “Data Steward” - an overview of modules and contents, peer-to-peer learning approaches, initial curriculum review at data stewardship workshops and other tips.
When: Apr 4, 2023 09:00-10:00 CEST
Register in advance for this meeting here
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Certificate Course “Data Steward”: The Basics
- Academic degree: Certificate of the University of Vienna.
- Language: English.
- Course objectives: Competence acquisition; peer-to-peer learning and community building.
- Duration and scope: 2 semesters part-time, 15 ECTS credits; blended learning - the modules are split into 2 to 8-hour sessions taught by experts from Austria and other European countries.
- Target groups: People with research experience and research support staff that want to work as data stewards at research institutions.
- Part of the continuing education program of the Postgraduate Center of the University of Vienna
- The course consists of five obligatory modules:
Module 1 (2 ECTS): Basics of Research Data Management (RDM) and Open Science
Module 2 (3 ECTS): Basics of IT and Data Science
Module 3 (6 ECTS): FAIR Research Data in the Research Data Lifecycle
Module 4 (2 ECTS): RDM Support
Module 5 (2 ECTS): Data Stewardship in Practice: Project Work
European Reform on Research Assessment (In Greek)
OpenAIRE in Greece and Cyprus is organizing a series of webinars for the first half of 2023. We invite you to learn about the latest developments, tools and best practices that support the implementation of Open Science in the European and National Research Web and EOSC.
The first webinar takes place on Thursday 30th March 2023 at 11:00 am EEST, and focuses on research assessment processes. The goal is to clarify the concept of assessment in the field of research and to capture the current situation, highlighting the need for reform through the European Commission’s European Research Area policy and initiatives, such as COARA.
We welcome as an honorary lecturer to transfer their knowledge, experience and actions on the research assessment, Dr Konstantinos Glinos, former Head of Department for Open Science, General Directorate for Research and Innovation, European Commission.
Date: 30 March 2023
Time: 11:00 am, in Greece
Language: Greek
At the end of the webinar, the participants will:
- have a better picture of Research Assessment and how it develops in the European Research Area.
- know the actions that Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) accomplishes and how they can contribute.
European Reform on Research Assessment (In Greek)
OpenAIRE in Greece and Cyprus is organizing a series of webinars for the first half of 2023. We invite you to learn about the latest developments, tools and best practices that support the implementation of Open Science in the European and National Research Web and EOSC.
The first webinar takes place on Thursday 30th March 2023 at 11:00 am EEST, and focuses on research assessment processes. The goal is to clarify the concept of assessment in the field of research and to capture the current situation, highlighting the need for reform through the European Commission’s European Research Area policy and initiatives, such as COARA.
At the end of the webinar, the participants will:
- have a better picture of Research Assessment and how it develops in the European Research Area.
- know the actions that Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) accomplishes and how they can contribute.
OpenAIRE EXPLORE: Discovering research with focus on Sustainable Development Goals and Fields of Science classifications
Session held during the International Open Access Week 2022. View the OpenAIRE programme.
OpenAIRE EXPLORE is a discovery portal of Open Science scholarly works that is built on top of the OpenAIRE Research Graph. OpenAIRE embraces the need of open scholarly works mapping with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) classification and the Fields of Science taxonomy. These classifications assist to view contributions of research towards complex challenges for humanity such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and poverty reduction.
In this workshop you will find out how SciNoBo - the Science No Borders team from our partner, Athena Research Center and its Artificial Intelligence stack - applies advanced Natural Language Processing and Graph Machine Learning technologies to provide FoS and SDG annotations to enhance the research products of the OpenAIRE Research Graph and how this new knowledge discovery pathway is now available through OpenAIRE EXPLORE.
OpenAIRE x NI4OS-Europe series: Rules of Participation Legal & Ethics Compliance Tool (RoLECT)
OpenAIRE in Greece and Cyprus continue to inform the research and academic community on important aspects related to Open Science, this time through a series of webinars run in collaboration with the NI4OS-Europe project.
March is dedicated to the presentation of the tools developed in the framework of NI4OS-Europe for various groups and individuals interested in Open Science policy implementation and optimal Research Data Management. The purpose is for Universities, Research Infrastructures and Research Services to prepare for the application of Open Science and for its implementation through the European Cloud of Open Science - EOSC. Similarly, researchers will be supported in Optimal Research Data Management, with an emphasis on legal issues pertaining to various types of copyright in data, multimedia, software and derivative content.
OpenAIRE x NI4OS-Europe series: License Clearance Tool
OpenAIRE in Greece and Cyprus continue to inform the research and academic community on important aspects related to Open Science, this time through a series of webinars run in collaboration with the NI4OS-Europe project.
March is dedicated to the presentation of the tools developed in the framework of NI4OS-Europe for various groups and individuals interested in Open Science policy implementation and optimal Research Data Management. The purpose is for Universities, Research Infrastructures and Research Services to prepare for the application of Open Science and for its implementation through the European Cloud of Open Science - EOSC. Similarly, researchers will be supported in Optimal Research Data Management, with an emphasis on legal issues pertaining to various types of copyright in data, multimedia, software and derivative content.
The lack of legal background on re-use and the high cost of license clearance are two common issues that researchers are concerned about regarding the content they produce and especially the creation of derivative results (eg data and multimedia). The "License Clearance Tool" (LCT) developed by ATHENA Research Center in the framework of the NI4OS-Europe project (National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe) supports researchers to meet these needs. LCT aims to facilitate and automate copyright clearing processes involving data, media, software and derivative content.
Open Research Europe: The EC’s platform for open access publications
The National Open Access Desks for Greece and Cyprus continue their joint efforts to inform and update the research and academic communities in their countries about important Open Science aspects. This time they partner with the Scholarly Communication Unit of HEAL-Link.
The webinar presents the Open Research Europe platform which has been developed by the European Commission (EC) to support open access publishing for scientific publications of framework programme’s projects. The webinar aims to communicate the model and the ways in which the platform can be used by researchers.
When: Thursday 8 April 2021
Time: 11.00 a.m - 12.00 p.m
Language: Greek
Target audience: Researchers, Academic Staff, Librarians
We are pleased to announce that the webinar will be delivered by Victoria Tsoukala, Policy Officer-Seconded National Expert- Open Access-Science Cloud - European Commission, DG RESEARCH.
Victoria’s presentation is about the new platform for open access peer-reviewed publications that is promoted by the EC as a service for project coordinators of ‘Horizon 2020’ and ‘Europe Horizon’ programmes. In addition, the new Open Science policy framework of ‘Europe Horizon’ that the platform supports compliance with, will be analysed.
For any questions you may have, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
- Greece: openaire [at] athenarc [dot] gr
- Cyprus: openaire-cy [at] ucy [dot] ac [dot] cy
OpenAIRE and EOSC: interactions and contribution to Open Science
For the third consecutive year, the National Open Access Desks for Greece and Cyprus continue their joint efforts to inform and update the research and academic communities in their countries about important Open Science aspects.
This webinar presented the pan-European electronic infrastructure for Open Science - OpenAIRE and the European Open Science Cloud - EOSC. The webinar was supported also by the NI4OS-Europe project.
Lately, there is a rapid change in the field of Research and Innovation (R&I) in Europe. The adoption of the Open Science model by the European Commission has channelled open standards into national research settings. Complementary to new policies that are created, EOSC is being developed aiming to become the European research web which incorporates good practices and interconnects with national R&I ecosystems by design. Research infrastructures are called to support data-driven research and adapt to the new reality that adds value to their services.
The presentation informed about OpenAIRE, its continuous activity in the European Research Area for more than 10 years now and its evolution into a legal entity based in Greece. It also helped to provide a better understanding of EOSC and its operation, and communicated how OpenAIRE and NI4OS-Europe assist its implementation. In addition, it highlighted the changes brought by EOSC in various R&I areas and explained how everyday activities of researchers will be performed as well as what measures are underway to fully support the research process in all its dimensions.
Galaxy: an open infrastructure for biological data analysis
Athena Research Center (ARC), in the context of the new series of informative and educational workshops on COVID-19 research organised as part of the OpenAIRE National Open Access Desk and ELIXIR-Greece activities, invites you to an educational webinar on Galaxy - an infrastructure for biological data analysis.
“Galaxy: an open infrastructure for biological data analysis”
When: Thursday 3 December 2020
Time: 12.30 - 14.30 p.m EET
Language of presentations: Greek
Target audience: Researchers, Health Professionals, Academic Staff, Librarians, Students
The webinar is held in collaboration with the Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming” and the Institute of Applied Biosciences of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas. The purpose of the webinar is twofold: on the one hand to inform about best practices and tools developed for the scientific field of Biomedicine and Open Science, on the other hand to focus on implementation of best practices on data analysis through the Galaxy service while familiarising researchers with its functionalities and use. During the webinar, scientists and researchers will be able to understand the service’s basic functions as well as how they can use it in their research, focusing on COVID-19 activities. Furthermore, interactions with speakers are encouraged in the discussion session through posing questions and communicating use case scenarios that will strengthen compliance with global practices and will enhance the service’s utilization / exploitation by the Greek research community.
Programme:
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12.30 - 12.40 |
Welcoming Elli Papadopoulou, Athena Research Center & OpenAIRE NOAD |
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12.40 - 13.00 |
Introduction to ELIXIR-GR and Galaxy Alexandros Dimopoulos, Research Associate, Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming” |
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13.00 - 13.20 |
Presentation and demonstration of EG-CI Thanasis Vergoulis, Research Associate, Athena Research Center |
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13.20 - 13.40 |
Demo of the Galaxy service Fotis Psomopoulos, Researcher C’, Institute of Applied Biosciences / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas |
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13.40 - 14.00 |
Discussion and Wrap-Up |
If you would like to attend the webinar “Galaxy: an open infrastructure for biological data analysis”, please subscribe here.
The link to connect to the online platform will be sent to registered participants one day before the webinar.
The webinar will be recorded and all related material (slides, recordings, Q&As) will be shared with everyone afterwards.
For any questions you may have, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
- OpenAIRE in Greece:
- ELIXIR-GR : link to contact