Speaker
Description
Common European Data Spaces will make more data across different thematic fields available for access and reuse in a trustworthy, interoperable, and secure environment, building the single market for data, for the benefit not only of researchers but mainly of EU businesses and citizens. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which is the Data Space for Research and Science, is progressing, enrolling a set of nodes, starting from the EU node, to build up the EOSC federation. The session will discuss the developments of the EU Data Spaces, and in particular, the work towards an interoperable data ecosystem. News from the recent EU Data Spaces Symposium will also be reported.
Under this topic, developments at the EU level across several EU Data Spaces will be reported, focusing on interoperability and the link with EOSC and Open Science, which is another structural policy of the next ERA Policy Agenda (2025-2027) besides Research Infrastructures.
Chris de Loof, who is the Session Chair, is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO). He focuses on digital strategies for Scientific Research and Cultural Heritage. He has been a long-time advocate for open and FAIR data.