ALL-Ready Regional Workshop

ALL-Ready

Seville, Spain, 2 November 2022.

The ALL-Ready project is organising an interactive regional workshop on “Accelerating Agroecology Transition: Your potential role and benefits of contributing to a European network of Living Labs and Research Infrastructures”

Time: 2 November 2022, from 13.30 pm to 18 pm CET (including small lunch)
Organisers: José Manuel Ávila (LifeWatch ERIC) and Bastian Goldel (INRAE)
Venue: : LifeWatch ERIC ICT-Core Office, Cartuja Science and Technology Park, Seville, Spain

Description of the All-Ready Regional Workshop:

The European Partnership under Horizon Europe for Accelerating Farming Systems Transition by Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures is currently being prepared by the SCAR Agroecology Strategic Working Group. The two European projects ALL-Ready and AE4EU support the European Commission in preparing this partnership and work closely together with the SCAR Strategic Working group.

The partnership aims to support a European network of living labs and research infrastructures that will accelerate the transition towards agroecology throughout Europe. It will provide spaces for long-term, site-specific, multi-stakeholder and real-life experimentation, and direction for research activities on agroecology at the European and national levels.

One of our main goals is to map the work of agroecology initiatives (including living labs and research infrastructures) that support the transition towards agroecology across Europe. In our workshop it is foreseen to:

  1. explain to the participants the aims and outcomes of the ALL-Ready project including the pilot network, as well as the future network and partnership in which LLs and RIs are planned to play a central role. This helps to make people aware or even get on board of what is happening in the upcoming years, but also to illustrate how ALL-Ready is involved in accelerating the transition.
  2. we will test our developed questionnaire with the participants and initiatives to reflect on the extent to which their organisations are involved in the agroecology transition (maturity), and discuss possible activities that could be accelerated in a network of living labs and research infrastructures.

This will give us interesting insights on common understandings, focuses, problems and difficulties that initiatives are facing in the transition process. Hence, we want to debate possible solutions to overcome these obstacles, and also how a future European network could contribute to that.

The session is addressed to:

  • Researchers & academics
  • Living Lab representatives and practitioners
  • Innovators
  • Others, namely: Every participant of an initiative related to the agroecology transition

Participants of the workhop include: Consolación Vera Sánchez, Secretary General of Agriculture, Livestock and Food of the Junta de Andalucía; José Carlos Álvarez Martín, Managing Director of the Agricultural and Fisheries Management Agency of Andalusia (AGAPA); Juan Miguel González Aranda, Technological Director of LifeWatch ERIC and of the Spanish Technical Headquarters; Heather McKhann, Coordinator of ALL-Ready from the National Institute for Research in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), a French institution with headquarters in Paris; Muriel Mambrini-Doudet, INRAE ​​researcher, and José Manuel Ávila, Coordinator of the Agroecology Area at LifeWatch ERIC.

PTE Disruptive B2B Meeting

Online, 19 October 2022.

On 19 October at 9:30 CEST, the PTE Disruptive Online B2B Meeting will take place, featuring LifeWatch ERIC CTO Juan Miguel González Aranda. The meeting will focus on the application of disruptive technologies in the biotech sector and biodiversity.

The agenda can be found here and sign-up form can be found here (in Spanish).

Speakers include:

Maria Ángeles Ferre – AIE
Gabriel Anzaldi Varas – Eurecat – Technology Centre of Catalonia
Raquel Álvarez Fernández – Spanish Association of Biocompanies
Juan Miguel González-Aranda – LifeWatch ERIC

Use cases of Exheus, Zymvol Biomodeling SL and Honey.AI will also be discussed

PTE Disruptive is the Spanish Technological Platform for Disruptive Technologies, Association of Science and Technology Parks of Spain (APTE), with funding from the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain through the AIE.

Ibergrid 2022

Ibergrid 2022

Faro, 10 – 13 October 2022.

The 11th Iberian Grid Conference will take place in Faro, Portgual. LifeWatch ERIC will hold two workshops called “IBERLifeWatch: a scientific, technology and innovation communities of good practices approach“, on the Tuesday and the Thursday.

The conference will be hosted by the University of Algarve (UALG) at Campus da Penha.

IBERGRID 2022 will focus in topics related with  the development, integration quality and adoption of services, applications and digital twins to support cutting-edge research.

The call for papers is built around the following topics:

  • Cooperation between Iberian Research Communities
  • Research Applications in advanced Digital Infrastructures
  • Development of Innovative Software Services
  • R&D for computing services, networking, and data-driven science
  • Quality of software, services and data
  • Design of Digital twins
  • Enabling and fostering Open Science adoption in EOSC

Detailed Information is available at the IBERGRID 2022  Indico site.

Open Science Conference 2023

Open Science Conference 2023

Kigali, Rwanda, 23–27 October 2023.

The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Open Science Conference 2023 will bring together diverse research communities, programmes and partners to discuss the latest developments in climate science, with an emphasis on science-based information for decision making. Through hybrid workshops, public exhibits, forums, and other associated events, the conference will explore innovative ways to bridge science and society and to foster future climate science leadership.

For more information, go to the Open Science Conference website.

AGU Fall Meeting 2022

AGU Fall Meeting 2022

Chicago, Illinois/online, 12–16 December 2022.

AGU Fall Meeting is the most influential event in the world dedicated to the advancement of Earth and space sciences. Every year, AGU Fall Meeting unites the Earth and space science community to share findings, connect like-minded scientists from around the world, and advance our profession and shared passion for the impact of science.

AGU Fall Meeting 2022 will be held in Chicago and online everywhere 12–16 December 2022. More than 25,000 attendees from more than 100 countries will convene to explore how Science Leads the Future. We will welcome a diverse community of scientists, students, journalists, policymakers, educators and organizations who are working toward a world where scientific discovery leads to scientific solutions, and where our global collaborations and partnerships can carry us into a sustainable future.

More information on important dates on the AGU website.

EU-LAC ResInfra Conference at ICRI 2022

Hybrid, 18 October 2022.

The event will take place on Thursday, 18 October 2022 from 14:00-18:00 in a hybrid format, with in-person attendance capacity and online participation spots.

The EU-LAC RESINFRA event will be the Final Conference of the project, aiming to present a summary of the most relevant conclusions and outcomes of the EU-LAC RESINFRA project as well as provide an open debate for the future EU-LAC cooperation on RI.

A proposal for a 5-year EU-LAC RIs cooperation Sustainability Plan will be presented. The plan will include recommended specific actions and instruments for co-funding RIs of common interest in order to maximise the impact of the RI collaboration in the construction of the EU-CELAC Common Research Area.

The results of this open discussion will be considered as relevant inputs for the final version of the Sustainability Plan.

Science Summit at UNGA77

SSUNGA77

Hybrid, New York/Online, 13–30 September 2022.

ISC is organising the 8th edition of the UNGA77 Science Summit around the 77th United Nations General Assembly (SSUNGA77) in September 2022. This is a hybrid event with some sessions being held in New York and others online.

LifeWatch ERIC will be convening a Biodiversity Plenary with GBIF on Friday 16 September from 15:00–23:30 CEST; see our news item for more details.

The role and contribution of science to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be the central theme of this conference. The objective is to develop and launch science collaboration to demonstrate global science mechanisms and activities to support the attainment of the UN SDGs, Agenda 2030 and Local203o.

A central theme of the UNGA77 Science Summit will be inclusiveness: a range of discussions will explore how scientific excellence can be pursued based on inclusiveness at the global level. Another theme will be exploring at the science system works: policies, regulation and funding for science stem from deep in the last century. The pandemic provides a chance to rethink and co-design a new system for science for a new set of urgent challenges. A redesign of the global science system is urgent.

A call for session proposals has been published here.

Science infrastructures and digital research capacity building are crucial to enable scientists to collaborate at an international level to create opportunities for wide-ranging initiatives that can produce innovations to respond to challenges in health, climate, environment, energy, agriculture and food, amongst other things.

EUDAT Conference 2022

EUDAT Conference 2022

This 2022, the EUDAT Conference series returns! Learn about the latest trends and developments in the field of research data management services and network with some of the most active players in the domain.

On 13–15 September, EUDAT CDI will organise its EUDAT Conference 2022 in Athens, Greece with 14–15 September as the public conference days while 13 September will be a closed side-event. As part of the conference programme, a dedicated exhibition and networking session will be introduced to encourage the establishment of new connections and promote the most innovative services and players in the field.

Who should attend and why

The event is open to all, but the following are highly encouraged to participate, such as:

  • Researchers and citizen scientists, repository and community managers to discover services for research data management, storage, preservation and sharing.
  • Actors in the EOSC community, ESFRI, science clusters, and research infrastructures to get the latest on the state of the art and use cases of some of the core services for supporting European research
  • Projects, research institutions and national and European initiatives to gain visibility and network with stakeholders to further their activities
  • Service providers to learn what EUDAT can offer from them
  • Current and prospective EUDAT users and user communities to learn about new major functionalities

Programme Preview

The full agenda will be published in the next few weeks, but here’s a sneak peek at the programme in the meantime:

September 13 (Closed Co-located Events)

September 14 (EUDAT Conference Day 1)

  • Research Data Management Challenges and Available Solutions
  • EUDAT Service Showcase & Overview
  • Research Data Exhibition & Networking Open Session

September 15 (EUDAT Conference Day 2)

  • EUDAT & DICE Use Case Session
  • Cross-Infrastructure Use Case Session
  • Collaborations, Joint Initiatives and Synergy Opportunities Workshop – eInfras, RIs, ESFRIs, EOSC
  • Co-located Event: DICE Progress Highlights

Registration

Registration is required, and full and early-bird fees will be charged. The early-bird fee is €50, which will be available while tickets last or until 15 July. The full cost fee is 90€. 

Click here to register.

DataCite Member Meeting 2022

DataCite Member Meeting 2022

Online, 22 September 2022.

As in the last two years, the DataCite Member Meeting 2022 will be virtual. We will host several virtual sessions in different time zones and languages to give you a general update on DataCite and our product roadmap. In addition, there will be training sessions and we will continue with the PID and service provider sessions.

The member meeting will be held on 22 September, 2022 from 06:00–19:00 UTC.

In this year’s meeting, for the first time, we invite participation from the wider community in all of sessions except the trainings!

  • The training sessions are only for DataCite Direct Members, Consortium Leads, Consortium Organizations and Member Only organisations.
  • All of the other sessions listed are open to the public, feel free to register.

For more information, please visit the event webpage.

1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects

FAIR Digital Objects

Leiden, Belgium, 26–28 October 2022.

Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space

Successful management, exchange and interpretation of knowledge in an ever-growing information tsunami will depend on highly automated methods dealing with combined data. This will require artificial intelligence but also robust and informative ways to store and disseminate data and metadata. Here is where one crucial concept shows up: FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs).

FAIR is about making data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable both for humans and machines. FAIR digital objects have shown key capabilities to simplify and scale the use of data across domains, increase trust in data and ease the handling of high volumes of information.

The developments are there. Now we need widespread consensus.

The 1st International Conference of FAIR Digital Objects will bring together for the first time at this scale key technical, scientific, industry, and science-policy stakeholders with the aim to boost the development and implementation of FDOs worldwide and transform the Internet into more than just a data space: into a meaningful data space.

For more information, visit the conference website.