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Open Science in Europe: two specific examples

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At the beginning, I was supposed to present only the EOSC Association, but then I've been invited to add a few words on OPROS, a research infrastructure that I'm coordinating. So I will try to do in a very short time to give these two kinds of examples of these two organizations.
So let's start with the EOSC Association, which is the bigger one. As the EOSC Association, as Michael just mentioned, is there to support the building of the EOSC with the Steering Board in a tripartite partnership.
And the EOSC Association is really gathering the voice of the community, so all the members, the scientific community involved in the building of the European Open Science Cloud. And as one of the directors of the EOSC Association, I really hope that we will have more and more Ukrainian organizations becoming members of the Association.
Here you can see a picture of the voice of the community. So it was a picture taken at the last General Assembly, where you can imagine that each of these persons represents the whole organization. So actually, on this picture, there are more thousands of people rather than hundreds.
We are quite a stronger community. And the purpose of the association is to provide a single voice for the advocacy and representation of the groups, to promote the alignment of the European Union research policy and the priorities with the activity of the association,
and to enable seamless access to data through interoperable services that address the entire research data lifecycle. And this is where, of course, the EOSC Association can also serve and be useful to the Ukrainian University.
So this is the governance model of the EOSC at large. So you can see on the right, the EOSC Association was led by the President and supported by the Secretary General. And the EOSC Association, as representing the community, is working in a three -parted collaboration with the member state and the associated country and the European Commission.
Currently, we have more than 200 members at large, members and observers everywhere in Europe. And so it's a quite strong member base that we engage in different activities.
The association is led by nine independent individuals, so we are eight directors and one president. And all of them, we represent the diversity, or we try to at least to represent the scientific community in terms of location, scientific domain, type of organization, type of stakeholders.
And all this community is gathered into different task force that you can see here. So there are certain task force, 400 volunteers that contribute to work on the different challenge and activities related to the building of this European Open Science Cloud.
And what we try to do is to, not to try, but what we do within the association is to update every year a strategic research and innovation agenda of the European Open Science Cloud,
where we highlight the most important points that have to be done and on which we should work for the next couple of years. So this is a way to really coordinate the whole community and to identify the main priorities for the building of the EOS.
And all the organizations that are members of the EOS Association can contribute and are invited to contribute to the 3R. And this is, for instance, what we try to do, what we do within OCROSS. So let me move now to the second example, which is OCROSS, much smaller than the EOS Association because we don't have the same goal.
We are a European research infrastructure dealing with open scholarly communication services. That means that our mission is to coordinate and federate resources in Europe to address the scholarly communication needs of European researchers in the field of social science and humanities.
So we provide different types of services that are useful for the whole community, both the researcher, but also the publishers, in order to reduce the cost of the publication. So within OCROSS, we are working with different community and we try to go over together different types of community.
As I already said, there is the publisher, there we can have also the researcher, but also research infrastructure providers, librarians and some others, but I would like to be quite quick here.
We are supported by an open governance. That means that all our members are part and invited to contribute to the governance and to the strategic decision of the research infrastructure. So it's a way to make sure that all the different stakeholders that we work with can contribute to the development of OCROSS.
And I would like to highlight two last things before finishing this very quick presentation. The first thing is the Diamond Plan for Open Access that OCROSS
coordinates with three other organizations, the Coalition S, Science Europe and the INR, which is about how to support the Diamond Open Access journals in their daily activity by providing different types of tools, working with them on their business model.
So this is directly related to the section that will be later on the program of this conference on Open Access Publishing. So this is why I wanted to mention it. And you can find all the results of this Open Access Diamond Journal study on Zenodo.
So I just put here the link and the main aspect of the report. So I would like to invite you all to have a look and to see how we can also onboard Ukrainian journals, especially because we worked on a very specific initiative, which is the support to Ukrainian editors.
That will be presented later by my Polish colleague Maciek Maril, which is a member of the Executive Assembly of OCROSS. And the last point about one of the main services provided by OCROSS, which is a discovery platform, GoTriple.
And what is interesting in this platform is that we harvest different data from all the social science and humanities resources. And at the beginning, we had in mind to deal with nine European languages. And I have the great pleasure to tell you that we also added Ukrainian
data, some of the Ukrainian data that we found dealing with social science and humanities. We aligned the vocabularies in social science and humanities in Ukrainian as well to make sure that people can already find Ukrainian data in GoTriple. And that means that these data are already part of the European Open Science Cloud.
Yeah, so I think that's it. Thank you very much.