Name: EOSC Symposium 2026
Start: 2026-10-14T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-16T16:15:00+02:00
Location: Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence

EOSC Symposium 2026

from Wednesday, 14 October 2026 (11:00) to Friday, 16 October 2026 (16:15)

Monday, 12 October 2026
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Wednesday, 14 October 2026

11:00 Registration desk opens

11:00 - 18:30

12:30 Light Welcome Lunch

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Exhibition Area
13:30 Opening Welcome
13:30 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Speaker: Klaus Tochtermann, President, EOSC Association and Director, ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

13:40 Speaker: Anna Maria Bernini, Italian Minister of University and Research

13:45 Speaker: Gianluigi Consoli, Director General for Internationalisation, Italian Ministry of University and Research

13:55 Speaker: Ekaterina Zaharieva, European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation
14:00 Opening Session
14:00 - 15:15
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Welcome and Introduction

14:05 Keynote

14:35 Panel Discussion on Digital Sovereignty and Research Resilience
15:15 EOSC Tripartite Governance: Results to Date and Future Directions
15:15 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

15:15 Welcome and Introduction

15:20 European Commission

15:30 EOSC Steering Board

15:40 EOSC Association

15:50 Q&A
16:00 Networking Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:45
Room: Exhibition Area
16:45 EOSC Federation: State of play
16:45 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:45 Welcome and Introduction

16:50 One Year of the EOSC Federation: What we’ve built together

17:05 EOSC EU Node: Recent releases and Updates

17:15 Q&A
17:30 Lightning talks
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

17:30 Welcome and Introduction

17:32 Paediatric Health Data in EOSC: From Federation to AI

17:39 From Hospital Data to the EOSC Federation with Simpl

17:46 Federation in Practice: From FAIR Data to Distributed AI

17:53 OpenREL: machine-actionable policies and licences for EOSC

18:00 From Genomes to Hate Archives: Sovereign Compute-to-Data

18:07 Astrophysics Astroparticle Space Sciences Thematic EOSC Node

18:14 CORAL-Collaborative Research Application Layer for FAIR data

18:21 TeSSHub4EOSC: FAIR training catalogue infrastructure

18:28 Closing Remarks
Thursday, 15 October 2026

09:00 Sustainability, Community and Security: Research Data Infrastructure in the Age of AI

09:00 - 09:45
Room: Auditorium
09:45 EOSC EU Node: Advancing the federation through interoperability and integration with other EU flagships
09:45 - 11:00
Room: Limonaia
Contributions

09:45 Welcome and Introduction

09:50 EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP)

10:10 Simpl-Open for Interoperable EU Data Spaces

10:25 EOSC EU Node support for Federated EU Platforms

10:40 The first two years of the EOSC EU Node
Data federation, trustworthiness and sovereignty
09:45 - 11:00
Room: Sala Verde
Contributions

09:45 Welcome and Introduction

09:48 Impulse Statement – The Federation of Nodes and the requirements for repositories to become a Node themselves or onboard their services onto a Node

09:58 Impulse Statement – Outcomes of a survey among repositories on their “EOSC readiness”

10:08 Panel Discussion

10:58 Closing Remarks
EOSC Federation Nodes in production: Lessons learnt and next steps
09:45 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:45 Welcome and Introduction

09:50 Talks from EOSC nodes part of the build-up phase

10:40 Interactive discussion
11:00 Networking Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:45
Room: Exhibition Area
11:45 Capacity building on using AI tools for data science
11:45 - 13:00
Room: Limonaia
Contributions

11:45 Welcome and Introduction

11:55 Lightning perspectives

12:10 Panel discussion

12:40 Audience discussion

12:55 Closing Remarks
Usage of EOSC Nodes and related benefits
11:45 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:45 Welcome and Introduction

11:50 FORGE: Federated Open Research Data for Genomics

12:00 METROFOOD: Cross-node Catalogue Federation

12:10 Leveraging Scarce EU Node Resources & Digital Sovereignty

12:20 Federated Workflows Using Galaxy

12:30 Moderated Discussion and Q&A

12:55 Closing Remarks
EOSC Federation IF, architecture and data-related policies
11:45 - 13:00
Room: Sala Verde
Contributions

11:45 Welcome and Introduction

11:55 Semantic interoperability in the EOSC Federation

12:03 A DCAT 3 Catalog Model for Semantic Interoperability in EOSC. The example of the Data Terra Node Catalogue -

12:11 Practical aspects of the EOSC Interoperability Framework - EOSC PL journey

12:19 What it takes to build an EOSC Node - The experience of the Italian Node

12:27 Panel and interactive discussion

12:55 Closing Remarks
13:00 Networking Lunch

13:00 - 14:30
14:30 EOSC and ERICs/ESFRIs
14:30 - 15:45
Room: Limonaia
Contributions

14:30 Welcome and Introduction

14:35 Flash inputs from 1st wave Nodes, RIs and emerging communities

15:00 Panel discussion and audience interaction

15:40 Closing Remarks
Automating data FAIRification
14:30 - 15:45
Room: Sala Verde
Contributions

14:30 Welcome and Introduction

14:35 FAIR by design at the bench: what it takes to produce FAIR (Bioimaging) data from the instrument-up

14:50 FAIR from Creation to Curation: Technologies, Lab Upgrades and HPC Needs

15:05 Use case: ENVRI EOSC Node

15:10 Use case: FAIR at scale: From submission to reuse at Zenodo

15:15 Use case: Automation of FAIRification and the SSH cluster: how diversity can underline the power of service federation (CLARIN ERIC/SSHOC)

15:20 Panel discussion

15:40 Closing Remarks
EOSC Federation federating capabilities
14:30 - 15:45
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:30 Introduction

14:40 Presentations

15:30 Q&A
15:45 Networking Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:30
Room: Exhibition Area
16:30 EOSC and Data Spaces
16:30 - 17:45
Room: Sala Verde
Contributions

16:30 Welcome and Introduction

16:40 Presentations

17:15 Panel discussion and audience interaction

17:40 Closing Remarks
EOSC Federation User Forum: The voice of the research community
16:30 - 17:45
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:30 Welcome and Introduction

16:35 Introducing the EOSC Federation User Forum

16:45 Experience and lessons learned building up the Virtual Imaging Platform

17:00 Voice of the Research Community

17:30 Interactive session with audience
Business models for the EOSC Federation
16:30 - 17:45
Room: Limonaia
Contributions

16:30 Welcome and Introduction

16:35 Examples of business models in distributed environments

17:05 Panel Discussion

17:40 Closing Remarks
19:30 Networking Dinner

19:30 - 00:00
Friday, 16 October 2026

09:30 AI Readiness: Towards Rigorous and Trustworthy AI in Science

09:30 - 10:15
Room: Auditorium

10:15 Panel discussion on Powering AI for Science: How EOSC Can Strengthen Europe's AI Leadership

10:15 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium

11:00 Networking Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:45
Room: Exhibition Area
11:45 Closing Plenary: EOSC Federation: What´s next
11:45 - 13:10
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:45 Welcome and Introduction

11:50 EOSC Federation next steps

12:00 Panel discussion on the EOSC Federation priorities for the next phase

12:40 Introducing the second wave of EOSC Nodes
13:10 EOSC Symposium 2026: Key Takeaways and Closing Remarks

13:10 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium

13:30 Networking Lunch

13:30 - 14:45
Room: Exhibition Area