News

DANS can now call itself an official member of the EOSC Association. On December 17 last, the first General Assembly of the members and observers of the new EOSC Association took place. This association succeeds the temporary EOSC governance.

On 8 January 2021, the article “Connected Research: The Potential of the PID Graph” was published in the open access journal Patterns (Cell Press). DANS staff members Ricarda Braukmann and René van Horik were co-authors of the article.

As part of OpenAIRE’s Good Practice Exchange Programme, DANS will give an online workshop on 18 January 2021. The workshop is offered to twelve National Open Access Desks (NOADs), each representing their own country in the field of Open Science.

A news article has been published in OpenAIRE by Ellen Leenarts (DANS) as part of the Taskforce Research Management (RDM). The Taskforce RDM is led by DANS.

The Taskforce Research Data Management (RDM) has launched a separate webpage on the reuse of research data in OpenAIRE. The Taskforce RDM is led by DANS.

February 11, NPOS organizes the National Open Science Festival. During this online event researchers have the opportunity to learn about the benefits of various Open Science practices. DANS is also involved.

On 15 December EOSC-hub organizes the webinar EOSC-hub data sharing policy recommendations & ELIXIR authentication-authorisation infrastructure. DANS is also involved and invites (future) EOSC data providers and other interested parties in authentication-authorisation services to attend the session.

George Bray (Robert Gordon University) and Valerie McCutcheon (University of Glasgow) have announced the second iteration of their informal “Research Support Games Day”. It will be happening online on Tuesday 8th December 2020, 11:00 – 18.10 CET (10:00-17:10 GMT