On March 28, ePLAN organizes a workshop on Computational Science, hosted by ePLAN members eScience Center and SURFsara. It brings together experts from a wide variety of academic disciplines as well as from the national digital infrastructure and the High Performance Computing scene. Modelling and computational data science is addressed in the fields of chemistry and sociology. The tentative program is available online and registration has opened.

Below you can find the presentations that were given during the ePLAN workshop “EOSC in progress” on September 20, 2018.

• Wilco Hazeleger (eScience Center), An introduction to ePLAN and the workshop
• Ilona von Stein (DANS), EOSC-hub
• Jos van Wezel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), EOSCpilot
• Erik van de Linde (KNAW), EOSC and the National Platform Open Science
• Melanie Imming (SURF), FAIR, the EOSC vehicle to efficiently use the data infrastructure
• Marta Teperek (TU Delft), On a (cultural) journey towards FAIR data

On November 22, ScienceWorks organizes a 1-day conference in The Hague on the responsible application of data and data science by academia, government and business. The program kicks off with keynotes from Prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke (director Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence), Nal Kalchbrenner (Google Brain Amsterdam) Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt (co-founder Open Data Institute). After that, various panel sessions and dicussions follow with various experts from universities, business and the government.

The full program, speakers list and registration information can be found here. There is involvement from various organizations from the ePLAN community (e.g., Leiden Centre of Data Science, Utrecht Applied Data Science, Amsterdam Data Science, eScience Center). There is a 50 euro discount for the registration if you are affiliated with one of the organizations of the ePLAN community.

Communities of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) around the globe are conducting a survey among people who develop software that is used in research. The Netherlands Research Software Engineer community (NL-RSE) is asking all RSEs in the Netherlands to fill in the online survey: http://bit.ly/RSESurvey2018. The survey takes ~15 minutes to complete and is open until December 3rd.

On September 20, 2018, ePLAN organizes a workshop at the Amsterdam Science Park to discuss the status of the European Open Science Cloud, as well as related developments, such as FAIR and open science.The workshop kicks off with short presentations about the European projects EOSC-hub, EOSCpilot, the National Platform Open Science and FAIR. More information about the (tentative) program, location and registration can be found below.

Continue reading “Workshop: EOSC in Progress”

On 14 September 2017 ePLAN organizes a workshop for researchers and policy makers on FAIR data. FAIR data refers to data being Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable, with the goal to make science more transparent, efficient and accessible. For more info and registration, please click here.

On June 23 1017, ePLAN organizes a workshop on the issues surrounding choosing the right licences for research software. The workshop (in Dutch) is targeted at all people that are actively involved in or responsible for choosing licences. A keynote will be delivered by Arnoud Engelfriet, a renowned legal expert in the areas of software licensing, intellectual property law and open source software. More information on the program and registration can be found here.

This blog post originally appeared on the eScience Center blog and was reprinted with permission.

‘The cloud’ is one of the hottest tech topics of our time. It’s therefore no surprise that European Commission has also jumped on the bandwagon. Big time! Last year, the European Commission launched the outline of a multi-year and multi-billion Euro plan for the development and implementation of a European Open Science Cloud.

Continue reading “ePLAN report on the European Open Science Cloud”

The eScience Center and CLARIAH have launched a new call: Accelerating Scientific Discovery in the Arts and Humanities.

The purpose of this Call for Proposals is to enable researchers working in the Arts and Humanities to address compute-intensive and/or data-driven problems within their research and to contribute to a generic and sustainable eScience infrastructure.

The deadline for the mandatory proposal abstract is 15 November 2016, 14:00 CET and the deadline for full proposals is 16 December 2016, 14:00 CET. More information can be found here.

The final report on the ePLAN survey on the national ICT-infrastructure is now available! Download here (PDF) or visit the survey results page.