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Launch of EOSC-ENTRUST - driving European interoperability for sensitive data access and analysis
The EU-funded EOSC-ENTRUST project was launched on 1 March 2024, with the aim of enhancing European interoperability for sensitive data access and analysis. Led by ELIXIR and the EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI), the project brings together partners from 15 European countries and will run for three years, with an EU contribution of €4.2M. CESSDA is proud to be a part of this endeavour!
The ERIC Forum
On the 27th and 28th of February 2024, representatives of 28 ERICs and projects on the ESFRI preparatory list met for the annual General Assembly in Brussels.
COORDINATE - 5th Transnational Access Visit call launched
COORDINATE is a Horizon 2020 project aimed at supporting longitudinal and cross-sectional research on child wellbeing across Europe! On 1 March 2024, we launched the fifth call for the COORDINATE Transnational Access Visits (TAVs).
Science Clusters Position statement on operational commitment to EOSC and Open Research
The ESFRI Science Clusters, operating as a cluster of clusters in projects like OSCARS and EVERSE, have released the Science Clusters Position Statement on operational commitment to EOSC and Open Research, which articulates the Science Clusters’ vision for the future towards the successful implementation of the EOSC, as the result of five years of collaborative efforts, including interactions with the European Commission, EOSC Association, ESFRI-EOSC task force, and e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG).
FAIR-IMPACT open call for financial support: Recommendations for trustworthy and FAIR-enabling data repositories
FAIR-IMPACT project has developed guidelines to improve the transparency of, and trust in, repositories. In this support action successful applicants will have the opportunity to test the guidelines and receive guidance on exposing relevant metadata at the organisational and object level to facilitate discovery, provide context, and support interoperability.
ECRIN – CESSDA strategies for cross metadata mappings in selected areas between life sciences and social sciences and humanities
We are happy to share the research paper from the BY-COVID project which showcases the importance of cross-domain collaboration. The focus is on metadata schemas and vocabularies used for discovering scientific studies and resources in the social sciences and in clinical research which are similar enough to allow information from different source disciplines to be easily retrieved and presented together.