ICES ANNUAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2023

ICES Annual Science Conference 2023


Bilbao, Spain, 1–14 September 2023.

Join ICES for the marine science event of the year at Palacio Euskalduna​ in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain!

ICES Annual Science Conference 2023 will be a hybrid conference with options for both on site and online participation.

​​​​​​​​​They will be using Whova, a conference app, to facilitate the hybrid format. Many conference elements will be available online via the app. However, there are some events that will only be available for participants that join in person in Bilbao.

Keynote speeches

All keynotes will take place live at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao as well as being livestreamed via the conference app.

Theme sessions

All theme sessions taking place in Bilbao will be livestreamed via the conference app. Remote participants are able to ask questions to session convenors and presenters via the app.

​Presentation formats

Oral presentations

Accepted authors will be invited to prepare an 8-minute presentation of their work. Oral presentations can be presented in person at a theme session at the venue in Bilbao, or, if the presenter is participating remotely, via a pre-recorded talk. These talks are played as part of the presentations in each theme session.

Remote participants are asked to submit their pre-recorded presentations to ICES Secretariat one month prior to the conference. The remote presenter is asked to be available online for the theme session to answer questions during the Q&A.

​Poster presentations

Accepted authors are invited to prepare a poster of their work and present it in person at the venue in Bilbao. Online presentation of posters is not possible, however, a digital copy of the poster can be made available in the conference app.

See you all at #ICESASC23, either in person or online!

Call for abstracts 

Call for abstracts for ICES Annual Science Conference 2023 is now open. Deadline for submissions is 21 March 2023.

Go to call for abstracts​​​​.

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.

Night of Science

Finnish Night of Science

Helsinki, 12 January 2023.

The Night of Science is an annual event dedicated to scientists and researchers which is celebrated in Helsinki.

The next event takes place on 12 January 2023. The programme is made up from many different organisations and actors and the multiple events offer science and research in many different forms. All free of charge!

BioDT at the Night of Science

LifeWatch ERIC is partner in the Horizon Europe project BioDT, which will feature at the event. Jesse Harrison, BioDT Project Manager and Aleksi Kallio, BioDT Leader for Digital Twin Advanced Technical Platform, are joining a panel discussion during the Finnish “Night of Science”, which is streamed nationwide. Their presentations revolve around BioDT and ClimateDT with a focus on how supercomputing can help address major environmental problems.

More information on the event website.

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.

18th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2023

OR 2023

South Africa, 12–15 June 2023.

The 18th International Conference on Open Repositories 2023 (OR 2023) will take place close to Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 12-15 June. The conference will be hosted by Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service. The venue of the conference will be the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West.

For more information about previous Open Repositories conferences and their governance please visit OpenRepositories.org.

More details on the programme upcoming.

Webinar: Pan-European digital assets supporting research communities – Benefits & opportunities

Online, 5–6 December 2022.

Recently, a range of new functionalities and resources have become available on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) to support data intensive research, data discovery and more. There has been much discussion on the EOSC vision, but what is the actual added value for researchers and end users?

On 5-6 December 2022, EOSC Future and the INFRAEOSC-07 projects (C-SCALE, DICE, EGI-ACE, OpenAIRE Nexus, Reliance) are hosting an online showcase event for researchers: “Pan-European digital assets supporting research communities – Benefits & opportunities”. The thematic focus of this event will be 3 UN Sustainable Development Goals: Climate action (SDG 13), Industry, Innovation & infrastructure (SDG 9) and Good health & wellbeing (SDG 3).

Over 2 half-day webinars, a series of use cases, presented by real users, will show how EOSC digital assets, developed and provided by EOSC Future & the INFRAEOSC-07 projects, can help research communities throughout and beyond Europe do their work more effectively. The interactive and first-hand format of the event will show how research communities working to address global challenges can be leveraged by EOSC services.

You can find the agenda as pdf here.

Sign up now!

How to write Privacy & Terms of Use documentation for EOSC Portal

Documentation for EOSC Portal

Online, 7 December 2022.

The EOSC Future project, in which LifeWatch ERIC is partner, is running a training session on 7 December. This module is intended for EOSC providers who will onboard services to the EOSC Portal on how to write the mandatory privacy policy (PP) and terms of use (TOU) documents. The module is disciplinary agnostic and applicable to providers working with a range of stakeholder groups.

Learning objective: to up-skill EOSC users how to write PP & TOU documents when onboarding services.

It is advised that providers taking this course will have first completed the introduction to EOSC course developed for the stakeholder communities in which they train.

Please note that the workshop will be limited to 40 participants and we will enforce the following criteria if there are excess numbers:

  • Evaluation criteria – Participants who are actively seeking to onboard services to EOSC
  • Additional criteria – Geographical location (to establish a balanced representation of European regions) and Gender (to ensure gender equity)

INSTRUCTORS AND SUPPORT

  • Prodromos Tsiavos, OpenAIRE
  • Luciano Gaido, INFN
  • Catalin Condurache, EGI Foundation
  • Giuseppe La Rocca, EGI Foundation

REGISTRATION

Registration is open until Friday, 2 December – 17.00 CET. Sign up here!

ICSOC20

ICSOC20

Seville, Spain, 29 November – 2 December 2022.

ICSOC20, the 20th edition of the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, is the premier international forum for academics, industry researchers, developers, and practitioners to report and share groundbreaking work in service-oriented computing. ICSOC fosters cross-community scientific excellence by gathering experts from various disciplines, such as services science, data science, management science, business-process management, distributed systems, wireless and mobile computing, cloud and edge computing, cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things (IoT), scientific workflows, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and services and software engineering.

This congress provides a high-quality forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further knowledge and understanding of the various aspects (e.g. application and system aspects) related to Service Computing with particular focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, IoT, and emerging technologies including quantum computing.

LifeWatch ERIC is one of the main sponsors and will give two presentations at the 20th edition of this event: ICSOC20.

30 November

Antonio José Sáenz-Albanés, ICT-Core Operations Coordinator at LifeWatch ERIC, will do a presentation on ‘LifeWatch ERIC distributed e-infrastructure, challenges and goals’.

2 December

Juan Miguel González-Aranda, LifeWatch ERIC CTO and head of LifeWatch Spain, will participate in a session in collaboration with the Digital Agency of Andalusia and will talk about ‘LifeWatch ERIC, an Open e-Science & Data Service Oriented distributed panEuropean Research Core Infrastructure: AstarteWatch, from Andalusia to the rest of the World’.

Al-Andalus Innovation Venture

Al-Andalus Innovation Venture

Seville, Spain, 29–30 November 2022.

LifeWatch ERIC is a sponsor of the event Al-Andalus Innovation Venture, the first edition of what will be an annual event. It will be held from 29–30 November in the Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Sevilla. Its aims are to:

  • Facilitate the transfer of innovation to the Andalusian business fabric through the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
  • Reinforce the competitive position of Andalusia as a center for startups in Spain.
  • General deal Flow for investors, selecting the best projects.
  • Opportunity for startups to work together with corporates.

On 30 November at 10:00 CET in Fibes Edificio I, LifeWatch ERIC CTO and Head of LifeWatch Spain, Juan Miguel González-Aranda, will hold a presentation on “The bioeconomy as a horizon of opportunities for all sectors” (in Spanish).

See more information here.

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.