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EOSC Symposium 2026

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Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence

Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence
EOSC Symposium 2026
  • Wednesday 14 October
  • Thursday 15 October
    • 09:00 → 09:45
      Opening Keynote

      – Rosie Hicks, Chief Executive of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

    • 09:45 → 11:00
      Track 1: TBC
    • 09:45 → 11:00
      Data federation, trustworthiness and sovereignty

      Chairs: Klaus Tochtermann, ZBW and EOSC Association President; Mari Kleemola, Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD), Tampere University

      Objectives:
      – Showcase practical approaches to data federation and data sovereignty through real-world use cases, identifying remaining barriers
      – Identify common challenges, barriers, and requirements for integrating trustworthy repositories into the EOSC Federation

      Agenda:

      5’ Opening by the Chairs

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

      10' Impulse Statement – Outcomes of a survey among repositories on their “EOSC readiness”

      50' Panel Discussion

      5’ Closing by the Chairs

    • 09:45 → 11:00
      EOSC Federation nodes in production: lessons learnt and next steps

      Chairs: Annika Glauner, ETH Zürich and EOSC Node Switzerland; Roberto Sabatino, Asiera and EOSC Steering Board

      Objectives: The session answers the following questions: how to build an EOSC node (technical / governance/ legal aspects)? How to engage resource providers and users? How to sustain a node?

      Agenda:

      5' Welcome from the Chairs

      50' Five talks from EOSC nodes part of the build-up phase

      20' Interactive discussion

    • 11:00 → 11:45
      Networking Coffee Break
    • 11:45 → 13:00
      Capacity building on using AI tools for data science

      Chairs: Álvaro López García, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); Kamran Naim, CERN and EOSC Association Board; Oliver Knodel, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR); Roxanne Wyns, KU Leuven and EOSC Association Board

    • 11:45 → 13:00
      Usage of EOSC Nodes and related benefits

      Chairs: Aneta Pazik-Aybar, National Science Centre Poland (NCN) and EOSC Steering Board; Giovanni Guerrieri, CERN; Jonathan Tedds, ELIXIR

      Objectives:
      – Showcase concrete, multi-node use cases where researchers and providers solved, accelerated, or scaled a real scientific or operational problem using EOSC Nodes (including the EU Node) — making visible what already works across the Federation.
      – Distill the benefits, recurring blockers, and requirements from real Node usage into actionable feedback for Node operators and the EOSC Federation.

      Agenda:

      5' Welcome by the Chairs

      10' Lightning Talk FORGE: Federated Open Research Data for Genomics

      10' Lightning Talk METROFOOD: Cross-node Catalogue Federation

      10' Lightning Talk Leveraging Scarce EU Node Resources & Digital sovereignty

      10' Lightning Talk Federated Workflows Using Galaxy

      25’ Moderated Discussion and Q&A

      5' Closing by the Chairs

    • 11:45 → 13:00
      EOSC Federation IF, architecture and data-related policies

      Chairs: Matteo Zanaroli, Italian National Research Centre on High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing (ICSC) and EOSC Node Italy; Peter Maccallum, ELIXIR and Life Science Node

      Objectives: This session will present the current state of the art of the EOSC Interoperability Framework (IF) and its overall architecture, offering a clear and practical overview of how EOSC nodes are designed and operated today. It will examine the key technical, governance, and legal components required to build robust and compliant nodes in practice, while also reflecting on the gaps and needs that should be addressed in the future development of the EOSC Federation. A specific focus will be on enabling the sharing of high-quality research data and metadata, including the adoption of FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), provenance information, and other practices that support trust, discoverability, interoperability, and reuse across the EOSC ecosystem. The session will also explore strategies to effectively engage both service/resource providers and user communities, while highlighting the differences that may arise across various types of nodes and levels of implementation. In addition, the session will discuss sustainability and “business model” approaches to support the long-term impact, continuous evolution, and deeper integration of EOSC nodes within the EOSC Federation ecosystem.

      Agenda:

      10' Welcome and introduction

      40' Panel discussion

      20' Interactive discussion

      5’ Closing by the Chairs

    • 13:00 → 14:30
      Networking Lunch
    • 14:30 → 15:45
      EOSC and ERICs/ESFRIs

      Chairs: Antje Keppler, Euro-BioImaging ERIC and EOSC Association Board; Jan Hrusak, J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences and EOSC Steering Board

    • 14:30 → 15:45
      Automating data FAIRification

      Chairs: Erik Schultes, GO FAIR Foundation; Giorgio Rossi, Università degli Studi di Milano and EOSC Steering Board

      Objectives: Provide an overview of the state of the art in the production of FAIR datasets (e.g. by research infrastructures) by either FAIR-by-design technologies or by ex-post FAIRification by algorithms and compute. Provide the outlook on how the necessary level of productivity (in the limit of all new data 100% FAIR) can be reached by the two methods, and/or their combination, from the perspectives of technology, economy, transferability of solutions.

      Agenda:
      Agenda:
      5' Introduction

      30' Presentations
      - FAIR-by-design approach, technology and production. Implications in laboratory setup upgrades.
      - FAIRification ex-post acquisition, reliable algorithms and curation. Implications in HPC needs

      15' Three use cases

      20' Panel discussion

      5' Wrap-up and final remarks

    • 14:30 → 15:45
      EOSC Federation federating capabilities

      Chairs: Aastha Mathur, Euro-BioImaging ERIC and EOSC Node Operations Committee; Bob Jones, EOSC Association; Mario Reale, EOSC Association; Massimiliano Assante, National Research Council (CNR) and EOSC Node Operations Committee; Roksana Wilk, Cyfronet AGH and EOSC Node Operations Committee

      Objectives: Explain to the audience the current status of the mandatory federating capabilities and how they are expected to evolve during 2026-2027. The audience is expected to be contributors (nodes & resources) to the EOSC Federation.

      Agenda:

      10' Introduction

      50' Presentations of the mandatory federating capabilities

      Federated Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI)
      Federated Catalogs
      Helpdesk
      Monitoring
      Service Management System (FitSM)

      15' Q&A

    • 15:45 → 16:30
      Networking Coffee Break
    • 16:30 → 17:45
      EOSC and Data Spaces

      Chairs: Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Aragonese Institute of Health Sciences (IACS) and EOSC Association Board; Marialuisa Lavitrano, Milano-Bicocca University and EOSC Association Board

      Objectives: Explore synergies between EOSC and European Data Spaces initiatives. Examine legal and regulatory considerations, with a focus on the European Health Data Space. Highlight practical experiences from sectoral data spaces, including health and cultural heritage. Assess the role of infrastructures such as SIMPL in supporting data space implementation. Identify opportunities for collaboration between research communities, policymakers, and data space stakeholders.

      Agenda:

      10' Welcome from the Chairs

      30' Three presentations

      30' Panel discussion and audience interaction

      5' Wrap-up and closing remarks

    • 16:30 → 17:45
      EOSC Federation User Forum the Voice of the Research Community

      Chairs: Andy Götz, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF); Sally Chambers, Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH EU)

    • 16:30 → 17:45
      Business models for EOSC Federation

      Chairs: Dale Robertson, EGI Foundation; Jan Meijer, Sikt; Javier Lopez Albacete, DG RTD, European Commission

      Objectives:
      – Explore mechanisms for the fair and efficient sharing of resources, services, and capabilities across independent organisations within distributed environments.
      – Discuss the minimal operational, legal, technical, and organisational conditions required to enable scalable and sustainable resource sharing within the EOSC Federation

      Agenda:

      5’ Introduction by the Chairs

      30' Examples of business models in distributed environments

      Thematic Research Infrastructure
      Pan-European e-infrastructure & national perspective
      Credit model for the provision of digital services

      35’ Panel Discussion

      5’ Closing by the Chairs

  • Friday 16 October
    • 09:30 → 10:00
      Opening Keynote
    • 10:00 → 10:45
      Plenary Session
    • 10:45 → 11:30
      Networking Coffee Break
    • 11:30 → 13:15
      Closing Plenary
    • 13:15 → 14:45
      Networking Lunch