The EOSC Association for regional and national communities: interviews with the Board

Over the past few months, the Communications Task Force of the INFRAEOSC-05 Collaboration carried out a series of interviews with the EOSC Association Board of Directors.

EOSCsecretariat.eu supported and coordinated this effort, involving all the four regional projects (EOSC-Nordic, EOSC-Pillar, EOSC-Synergy and NI4OS-Europe), which reached out to the President and Directors of the Association in order to collect precious insights relevant to regional and local Open Science communities across Europe.

Topics ranged from the establishment and development of national Open Science initiatives such as ICDI in Italy and NFDI in Germany, to the impact of the pandemic on the evolution and uptake of OS principles in specific regions, with a particular focus on the pivotal role played by the EOSC Association in partnership with the European Commission in the Horizon Europe framework for the next years.

These chats are a great chance for the wider research community to get a clearer understanding of the EOSC vision and roadmap for the next few years.