Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2023

Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2023

Bolzano, Italy, 4–8 September 2023.

Organised by OpenGeoHub foundation in collaboration with Eurac Research, the Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2023: Connecting open EO solutions to boost European and global goals, will bring together European and global actors in the field of open-source Earth Observation applications in policy, business, research and for society.

This international event will connect project partners, including data and environmental researchers, public and private sector developers, EU decision- and policymakers, representatives from global institutions, the business sector and civil society to discuss and test solutions to the greatest challenges in geospatial applications.

Through five days featuring international keynote speakers, scientific presentations, discussions, and demonstrative workshops, the participants of the OEMC Global Workshop 2023 will explore valuable opportunities and establish tangible collaborations to improve geospatial research and application products in open-source.

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Open Earth Observation and Machine Learning technology to support the European Green Deal

Earth Observations and geospatial data —and their derived information— play crucial roles in monitoring regional, national and global environmental and climate targets proposed by the ambitious European Green Deal. Practitioners and decision-makers are therefore in need of accessible, science-based tools for timely and informed decisions as well as for long-term planning, progress tracking and transparent evaluation processes. 

Open-Earth-Monitor project’s main aim is to directly support the implementation of the European Green Deal, and the European Digital Transition, the EuroGEO (Europe’s part of the Group on Earth Observations) and overall the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How? By producing and integrating a range of open-source, data-based and user-friendly tools to monitor European and global environmental trends, and for ecosystem services accounting in constant collaboration with user communities.

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RESTORE4Cs Kick-off Meeting

RESTORE4Cs

Aveiro, Portugal, 16–19 January 2023.

The kick-off meeting of the RESTORE4Cs project (modelling RESTORation of wEtlands for Carbon pathways, Climate Change mitigation and adaptation, ecosystem services, and biodiversity, Co-benefits) will take place in the third week of January at the University of Aveiro.

The main objective of RESTORE4Cs is to provide tools and methodologies, applicable beyond the lifespan of the
project, to assess pressures and impacts on the status of wetland ecosystems at various scales and relate these to the climate mitigation and adaptation potential, to biodiversity, and other ecosystem service provision, and associated co-benefits, combining social, ecologic, and economic perspectives. The project aims as well to predict restoration and management effects on GHG emission/removal, biodiversity, and other ecosystem services, while maintaining functional biodiversity through conservation and/or restoration.

PV 2023 Conference

PV 2023

Geneva, Switzerland, 2 – 4 May 2023.

The PV Conference welcomes you to its 10th edition, to be held at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva (Switzerland). PV 2023 will continue to address prospects in the domain of data preservation, stewardship and value-adding to scientific data and research related information.

Exponential growth is being experienced in terms of produced and archived data from a range of areas: space, ground-based equipment, and scientific research activities. An end-to-end management approach for long term data preservation is key to ensuring that there is no loss of information and data, that data are independently understandable and meet standards-based data formats and metadata content, and that data are usable by humans and machines. Robust data management also entails discovery and open access to the archived data, as well as the curation processes aimed at improving the information content and the usability of the archived data throughout its lifecycle. 

For this conference anniversary year, a special invite is extended to large-scale scientific archives, for discussion of emergent issues across scientific domains. As we move to a new and exciting technology age, we are seeing large-scale collaborations occurring on state-of-the-art virtual research environments and novel collaborative infrastructures. The coupling of archives with high-performance exploitation platforms gives enormous possibilities for mass data analytics and interdisciplinary investigations.

Participation is invited from projects, organizations or individuals developing novel data services within or as a result of these environments. This includes smaller bespoke archives wishing to integrate with larger data holdings to generate targeted knowledge and data services. With respect to previous conferences in this series, and whilst maintaining the overall thematic focus, additional goals for PV 2023 include:

  • Attracting more scientific communities
  • Broadening information exchange, sharing of experiences, tools and even services
  • Keeping in step with (or ahead of) funding agencies / policy makers in their push for long term data preservation and Open Data

The conference aims to address three thematic areas:

  • Theme 1: Ensuring long-term data and knowledge preservation (the “P” in PV)
  • Theme 2: Adding value to data and facilitation of data use (the “V” in PV)
  • Theme 3: Challenges of incorporating complex policy, technology, standards and principles in Open Data Environments

Registration will open in March 2023 at this link.

EU, Latin American, Caribbean & Ibero-American meeting on Sustainable Ecosystem Management

EU-CELAC Meeting

Seville, Spain, 14 – 17 November 2022.

This meeting for collaboration with key Latin American and Caribbean agents (including Ibero-America) in the integration and use of information on Biodiversity and Research, Innovation and Sustainable Management of Ecosystems is organised by LifeWatch ERIC within the framework of “Andalusia ERDF POPE Project 2014-2020 SUMHAL/LifeWatch ERIC*. It will be held in the Leonardo da Vinci Room of the Cartuja Science and Technology Park, home of the LifeWatch ERIC ICT-Core and is planned as a series of work sessions on specific topics to achieve the following results:

1) An exploration of common issues regarding the development and consolidation of (e-) Infrastructures and services that, from the perspective of e-Science, contribute to:

–the best sustainable management of the territory;

–the conservation of biodiversity and the natural environment;

–the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, in synergy with the EU Green Deal, EU Blue Growth, EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy and EU Farm to Fork programmes, among others.

2) Exchange of experiences and capacities in handling issues and challenges common to national and international infrastructures, data, information and knowledge in (e-) Biodiversity. A consensus document of conclusions including an EU-LAC Roadmap to co-develop, build and deploy through the financial support of the relevant calls (CYTED, GBIF, Cooperation Agencies, Horizon Europe, Neighborhood Development International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), etc.

3) The development of the above-mentioned points, based on the paradigm of biogeographical regions in the CELAC area, through national cross-border collaboration between the states involved, in collaboration with the European Union and the United Nations (for example, through IKRI: the Indigenous Knowledge Research Initiative), based on the aforementioned financial instruments.

*The SUMHAL project is co-financed by the ERDF for actions in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.

FAIR Data Day – Reusing data to advance science

FAIR Data Day

Utrecht, The Netherlands, 29 November 2022.

The FAIR Data Day 2022 is an event organised by the National Programme Open Science (NPOS) and Research Data Netherlands (RDNL), which aims to bring together the research & data steward communities in The Netherlands. The RDNL Dutch Data Prize will be awarded during the day.  

Join your peers, researchers, data stewards and research software engineers to exchange and learn more about the advantages of reusing data in daily research practice! 

Scientific programme

The FAIR Data event promises to be an exciting and thought-provoking day with motivational keynote speakers and interactive parallel workshop sessions showcasing good practices of FAIR implementation, that are selected from abstracts submitted by the research & data steward communities! During the day we will also award the RDNL Dutch Data Prize to an individual or team that has made great contributions to making research data FAIR. 

RDA 20th Plenary Meeting

RDA Meeting

Gothenburg, Sweden, 21–23 March 2023.

The Research Data Alliance will celebrate its 10th Anniversary Plenary Meeting on 21–23 March 2023 in Sweden, going back to where RDA was launched in March 2013. Following on from the success of the 19th Plenary meeting held in a hybrid format for the first time, P20 will take place in Sweden’s second-largest city – Gothenburg.

Hosted by Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish National Data Service (SND), a three-day hybrid conference will once again bring together researchers, data scientists, policymakers, and data stewards from disciplines from all over the world to share new ideas and explore best practices in using data. 

RDA P20 will take place at the Lindholmen Conference Centre. The centre is located on the north side waterfront of the Göta Canal in Gothenburg. The venue offers a highly technological environment and opens its doors to many local and international events throughout the year. The waterfront offers breathtaking architecture with many cosy Swedish restaurants and cafes offering traditional food. The conference centre’s location in Gothenburg means that it is only a 4 minutes Älvsnabben ferry ride into the city centre.

ENVRI Week 2023

ENVRI Week 2023

Leipzig, Germany, 30 January – 3 February 2023.

ENVRI week is the annual consortium meeting of the ENVRI-FAIR project, a week dedicated to Environmental Research Infrastructures such as LifeWatch ERIC. ENVRI week 2023 will host ENVRI-FAIR project-related sessions as well as several other sessions of the Board of European Environmental Research Infrastructures (BEERi) and the ENVRI Community.

After two years of online meetings, the last ENVRI week of the ENVRI-FAIR project will be held as a face-to-face meeting in Leipzig, Germany, from 30 January to 3 February 2023. Some plenary sessions might also be streamed or recorded, butl participants are strongly encouraged to join on-site. This page is your one-stop shop for anything related to the ENVRI Week 2023 from the programme to booking your accommodation.

Agenda
You can find an outline of the preliminary agenda here (pdf).
A detailed agenda for both the sessions and the workshops will be available soon.

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Registration is now closed.

Remote operations of RI services and Data and access security

eRImote

Online, 24–25 October 2022.

In this second workshop of the eRImote project, we will focus on Remote Operations of RI services (including quality management) and questions of Data and Access Security. The workshop will be taking place virtually on 24th October 1-5pm CEST and 25th October 2022 from 10am – 2pm CEST. We will explore the topics from the perspectives of different scientific domains and types of RI services. The workshop is open to everyone and we strongly encourage anyone interested in these topics, particularly RI and core facility staff, to join us for active discussion and sharing of experience.

The workshop will consist of short presentations from experts from different scientific domains and RIs, breakout rooms for joint discussion of solutions and challenges in the topic areas, as well as a panel discussion. This event will also be a great opportunity to learn more about the eRImote project as a whole and get connected with the community.

LifeWatch ERIC CTO, Juan Miguel-González-Aranda, will take part in the panel at 16:00 on 24 October. Agenda here.

Please register here.

2022 High-Level Conference on Women for the Mediterranean

Women for the Mediterranean

The 2022 High-Level Conference on Women for the Mediterranean organised by the Union for the Mediterranean will take place in the afternoon of the 26th October and throughout the 27th, in a physical format in Madrid. During the High-Level Conference, Ministers from the Union for the Mediterranean(UfM) Members States and the UfM-Co-presidencies (EU and Jordan) will be invited as well as representatives of national, regional and international stakeholders from public and private sectors including financial institutions and international donors. The recommendations gathered from the Civil Society organizations will certainly be taken on board during the discussions. LifeWatch ERIC International Gender Officer, Africa Zanella, will participate as a moderator and a panellist on 27 October from 12:15–14:00 CEST.

The Conference will be preceded, on the 26th  of October 2022 by the 5th (UfM) Ministerial Conference on Strengthening the Role of Women in Society, which will gather Ministers of the 42 Member States of the UfM responsible for women affairs and gender equality.

The Conference will provide an opportunity for a further exchange of experiences, good practices and lessons learned on women empowerment and women’s rights in a regional-crisis (health, water, food and energy security) context. These discussions will also contribute to shape the Road Map for the Ministerial implementation and the regional agenda for the years to come, particularly towards an effective and inclusive gender equality policy, based on a gender transformative approach and the mobilisation of public and private actors in the region. The high-level speaker’s contribution to the discussions, taking place across the two days would be important in stepping up cooperation, focusing on implementation, concrete delivery, and monitoring of impact,while enhancing the visibility of past, on-going and future initiatives.

More information on the Union for Mediterranean website.

Sign up to watch the conference using the online form.