e-IRG Workshop under Belgian EU Presidency

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The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) organises two open workshops every year, each under the auspices of the corresponding presidency of the EU Council. The Belgian EU Presidency e-IRG Workshop will be organised as a hybrid event and will bring together e-IRG stakeholders in Brussels, Belgium, as well as online and worldwide. The e-IRG events are official EU presidency events which will take place in the framework of the “Conference on Research Infrastructures” and the "ESFRI Forum meeting”, similar to the Lund events under the Swedish EU presidency.

The overarching theme of the event will be "Sustainable e-Infrastructures for research results valorisation", in line with the priorities of the Belgian EU Presidency. There will be two sessions under the Belgian e-IRG workshop: 

Wednesday 5 June 2024, 13:30-15:30

Session 1: The e-Infrastructure contribution to data and research outputs valorisation

One of the Belgian EU Presidency topics on Research and Innovation is improving the valorisation of research results. Valorisation is the process of creating value from data and research results, eventually transforming them into sustainable products and solutions that can benefit society. This is key for reducing the innovation gap, and tailoring academic research with the needs of society, policy-makers and industries, while stimulating the EU’s industrial recovery and revitalisation. 

The aim of the session is to highlight the crucial role of e-Infrastructures in this area, spanning several layers and components, with a cross-cuting one being the EOSC and thematic (domain-specific) or generic (domain-agnostic) data infrastructures.  

Wednesday 5 June 2024, 16:00-18:00

Session 2: Sustaining the role of e-Infrastructures in EOSC and beyond

This session aims to continue the discussions from the Valencia e-IRG Workshop and reflect on the future orientation paper of the Research Infrastructures and its next Work Programme, which includes the topic of sustainability of RIs, and refers to the federation and uptake of e-Infrastructures. The sustainability topic of RIs and e-Infrastructures is also relevant to the new ERA policy agenda 2025-2027.

The landscape becomes more complex with multiple other funding streams besides the Framework Programmes for Research (currently Horizon Europe), such as the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital), the Digital Europe Programme (DEP), and other national/regional funding instruments, such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) fund and the traditional European Structural and Investment Funds. 

The session will also touch upon the contribution of Research Infrastructures and in particular of e-Infrastructures to the EOSC Federation. As illustrated in the RDA Global Open Research Commons activities presented in Session 1, compute, storage, networking and related services, along with added-value services for open science are integral and necessary components of Open Science. The realisation of Open Science in Europe will require coordinated actions of e-Infrastructures and Research Infrastructures at national and European level. During the panel challenges and opportunities will be discussed.

Looking forward to a fruitful workshop

Stefan Hanslik, e-IRG Chair

Chris De Loof, e-IRG co-Chair

Fotis Karayannis, Jan Wiebelitz, e-IRG Support Project

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Venue: Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)

Address: Bd de l'Empereur 2, Brussels.
Instructions on how to reach the campus of the venue: How to get here • KBR