| Skills4EOSC brings together leading experiences of national, regional, institutional, and thematic Open Science (OS) and Data Competence Centres from 18 European countries with the goal of unifying the current training landscape into a common and trusted pan-European ecosystem, in order to accelerate the upskilling of European researchers and data professionals in the field of FAIR and Open Data, intensive-data science and Scientific Data Management. Competence Centres (CC) are seen as centres of gravity of OS and EOSC activities in their countries. These entities can either be established national initiatives (as is the case of ICDI in Italy) or initiatives under establishment (e.g., Austria, Greece, and the Nordic countries) or organizations which have the leading or mandated contribution to the OS activities nationally. CCs pool the expertise available within research institutions, universities, and thematic and cross-discipline research infrastructures. They offer training and support, empowerment, lifelong learning, professionalization, and resources to a variety of stakeholders, including not only researchers and data stewards, but also funders, decision makers, civil servants, and industry.
Thanks to their position at the heart of the above-described multi-stakeholder landscape, the CCs represented by the Skills4EOSC partners play a pivotal role in national plans for Open Science and in the interaction with scientific communities. They also have close access to policy makers and the related funding streams. The Skills4EOSC project will leverage this reference role to establish a pan-European network of CCs on OS and data, coordinating the work done at the national level to upskill professionals in this field. |
36 months from 01/09/2022 to 31/08/2025
General aims
General objectives
The widespread availability of highly skilled OS and data professionals is a pre-condition for the paradigm shift towards Open Science and for an impact on researchers output exploitation, not only by researchers but by the public sector, industry, and society at large.
Skills4EOSC core objective is to advance Open Science (OS) skills by unifying the current training landscape into a common and trusted pan-European ecosystem, closing the three gaps identified in the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) in relation to OS competences: lack of Open Science and data expertise, lack of a clear definition of data professional profiles and corresponding career paths, and fragmentation in training resources.
CMCC role
In Skills4EOSC, CMCC is an Affiliated Entity of the GARR Consortium (Project Coordinator), and it is involved in Work package WP5 – OS skills for RIs and thematic communities. WP5 sets the following objectives:
- Designing harmonized learning paths in Open Science and Research Data Management for RI professionals
- Designing and delivering advanced Open Science and Research Data Management courses, tailored on the specific training needs of the scientific communities addressed by the four use cases, to draft recommendations for other discipline-oriented courses.
- Modelling the collaboration between national/regional competence centres and thematic communities/infrastructures, highlighting challenges and opportunities.
The task aims to design specific learning paths on OS and FAIR RDM, together with the related learning material, for researchers working in the climate change domain. Community experts from academia and research centres will work closely with Open Science experts based in the Skills4EOSC Competence Centre network to design the course. This task will also build on partners experience on data science training in the context of large-scale European projects like IS-ENES3 and the Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe (ESiWACE2), thus ensuring a close link with the European Network for Earth System modelling (ENES) community. Training-of-Trainers (ToT) sessions will enable the practice of Open Science in the climate change domain with adequate knowledge of standards, applications and tools and relevant best practices for delivering, managing, re-using, sharing, and analyzing FAIR data, as well as other digital research objects. Pilots will be organized to test the course. Besides the partners involved in this task, open science experts from ENES will be invited to contribute to the proposed training activities as invited lecturers.
Activities
The work plan of the project is arranged in 9 work packages:
WP1 – Project management
WP2 – OS career profiles, skillsets, and material: landscaping, certification & QA
WP3 – OS training for evidence-based policy and public administration
WP4 – Curricula and learning paths for Open Science ready Institutions
WP5 – OS skills for RIs and thematic communities
WP6 – Professional Networks for lifelong learning
WP7 – European Competence Centres and user support networks
WP8 – Synergies, stakeholder engagement, advocacy, and communications
WP9 – Ethics requirements
Expected results
Skill4EOSC will directly contribute to the achievement of GO1 of the EOSC Partnership: Open science practices and skills are rewarded and taught, becoming the “new normal”.
Skills4EOSC sound methodology and expected outcomes perfectly align with all the Key Impact Pathways (Regulation EU2021/695 Establishing Horizon Europe, Annex V) aiming to provide skills to enable Open Science. It is directly linked to the third Key Pathway under Scientific Impact, “Fostering diffusion of knowledge and open science” as it paves the way to create Open Science skilled professionals at any level, thus being linked also to the second Scientific Pathway, “Strengthening human capital in R&I” in the development of new career paths.
The project has a potential direct economic impact in “Creating more and better jobs”, as data stewards are recognized as a critical success factor in the EOSC SRIA (7.4).
Skills4EOSC has an indirect societal impact by fostering Open Science, which is functional to the missions – by nature interdisciplinary. Open Science was identified by the United Nations and the UNESCO as an accelerator of the SGD, providing a second indirect link to the Societal Key Impact Pathways.
Through a multi-stakeholder co-creation and consensus building process, the project will impact on the availability of appropriately skilled professionals across Member States, as well as their free circulation and cross-fertilisation into a common and trusted pan-European ecosystem.
Partners
Beneficiaries
- TU Delft – TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
- CNRS – CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
- CSC – TIETEEN TIETOTEKNIIKAN KESKUS OY
- DTU – DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
- EPOS ERIC – EUROPEAN PLATE OBSERVING SYSTEM – EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE CONSORTIUM
- GRNET – NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
- KIT – KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE
- KUL – KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
- NHMW – NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM
- OPERAS – OPEN ACCESS IN THE EUROPEAN AREA THROUGH SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
- PSNC – INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK
- TAU – TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR
- TU-Wien – TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN
- UGOT – GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET
- UT – TARTU ULIKOOL
- AMU – UNIVERSITE D’AIX MARSEILLE
- UC3M – UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID
- HK-Dir – DIREKTORATET FOR HOYERE UTDANNING OG KOMPETANSE
- SIGMA 2 – UNINETT SIGMA2 AS
Affiliated Entities
- CNR – CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
- INFN – ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE
- UNITO – UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO
- POLITO – POLITECNICO DI TORINO
- IIT – FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
- UNIMIB – UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO- BICOCCA
- UNITN – UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO
- CMCC – FONDAZIONE CENTRO EURO- MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI
- CTS – COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL
- AAU – AALBORG UNIVERSITET
- DKB – DET KONGELIGE BIBLIOTEK, NATIONALBIBLIOTEK OG KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITETSBIBLIOTEK
- SDU – SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET
- AU – AARHUS UNIVERSITET
- INGV – ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA
- UiB – UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN
- IICT – INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
- IPB – INSTITUT ZA FIZIKU
- UKIM – Ss. CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY IN SKOPJE
- GFOSS – ETAIREIA ELEYTHEROY LOGISMIKOY LOGISMIKOY ANOIKTOY KODIKA
- CHALMERS – CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB
- KI – KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
- UMEA – UMEA UNIVERSITET
- TALTECH – TALLINNA TEHNIKAÜLIKOOL
Associated Partners
UEDIN – THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
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