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The Special Collection of articles on the Science Projects of the EOSC Future project, funded by the European Commission, refers to one of the essential components of the project. This editorial article explains how the Science Projects fit to the EOSC Future, the way their concept has been developed and evolved during the preparation and the implementation of the project and it also makes an introduction to the templates developed by the Science Projects as a plan to carry out their activities.

In a world beset by challenges, from the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change, the social sciences have never been more important for impartial, evidence-based research and analysis. The CESSDA® Roadshow series explored global research challenges from COVID-19, migration to climate change, cancer and chronic diseases and the circular economy., The CESSDA® Roadshow Programme Committee was made up of representatives from the CESSDA® Main Office, Service Providers and the Training Community. They were supported by Trust-IT Services.

Moderator:IvanaIlijasic Versic (CESSDA, SSHOC) Reporting back on Policy Discussions.Collaboration opportunities after SSHOC and Agreements - Franciska de Jong (CLARIN) ESFRICluster projects - Giovanni Lamanna (ESCAPE) EOSC Association - Ute Gunsenheimer (EOSC Association) EOSC Future - Ron Dekker (Technopolis Group, EOSC Future) Data Communities -Laura Morales (SciencesPo, SSHOC, Member of EOSC Researcher Engagement & Adoption Task Force, EOSC Future User Group) Panel discussion with:Franciska de Jong (CLARIN),Giovanni Lamanna (ESCAPE), Rudolf Dimper (PANOSC), Ute Gunsenheimer (EOSC Association),Ron Dekker (Technopolis Group, EOSC Future) and(Laura Morales, SciencesPo, SSHOC, Member of EOSC Researcher Engagement & Adoption Task Force, EOSC Future User Group)

Dit rapport is een vertaling van het oorspronkelijk in het Engels opgestelde rapport: Report on the Open Consultation of the NPOS2030 Ambition Document (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6106850) Voor de onderliggende dataset, zie:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6343120 Het Nederlands Nationaal Programma Open Science (NPOS) heeft als doel de transitie naar Open Science in Nederland te coördineren en nationale stakeholders in Nederland bij elkaar te brengen. Met een online Open Consultatie, die van 22 november t/m 22 december 2021 open stond, gaf het NPOS stakeholders de kans input te geven op het NPOS2030 Ambitiedocument. Dit Ambitiedocument zal de eerste hoofdstukken vormen van de nieuwe NPOS2030 Programmabeschrijving. Het nu gepubliceerde rapport van Robert Consultancy is een analyse van de reactie op de Open Consultatie op het Concept Ambitiedocument NPOS 2030. Het beantwoordt drie belangrijke vragen: 1. Wat is het draagvlak voor het Ambitiedocument NPOS 2030? 2. Wat suggereerden respondenten om te verbeteren met betrekking tot de vier elementen in de NPOS 2030? 3. Wat adviseren respondenten om op te nemen in de concept Rolling Agenda van NPOS 2030? De feedback die in deze consultatie is ontvangen, helpt het NPOS-bestuur en de programmalijnleiders om acties voor elk van hun actielijnen voor de komende jaren in te vullen, en zo te komen tot een ‘Rolling Agenda’ voor het NPOS-programma voor het komende decennium. Deze acties zullen in de komende maanden worden besproken met relevante stakeholders, die hiermee een bijdrage zullen leveren aan het realiseren van de gestelde ambities.

For a version translated in Dutch please see:Rapport Open Consultatie NPOS2030 Ambitiedocument DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6280685 For the underlying dataset please see:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6343120 An online Open Consultation, that was open between November 22nd and December 22nd,2021,aimed to give all Netherlands stakeholders the opportunity to reflect on the NPOS2030 Ambition Document of the Netherlands National Programme Open Science (NPOS). NPOS aims to coordinate the transition to Open Science in the Netherlands, bringing together national stakeholdersin the Netherlands. The NPOS Ambition Document will form the first chapters of the new NPOS2030 Programme Description. This report aims to analyse the response to the Open Consultation onthe Draft NPOS 2030 Ambition Document. It responds to three key questions: 1. What is the support for the NPOS 2030 Ambition Document? 2. What did respondents suggest to improve regarding the four elements in the NPOS 2030? 3. What do respondents advise to onboard in the draft Rolling Agenda of NPOS 2030? The feedback received in this consultation helps the NPOS Steering Board and the Programme Line Leads to start filling in actions for each of their Key Lines of Action for the coming years, thus creating a rolling agenda for the NPOS Programme for the next decade.&nbsp

The CESSDA Annual Report 2020 covers strategic, operational, strategic, and technical activities and results, as well as communications, projects, governance and management. It presents the financial information of the past year and a future perspective. &nbsp

SSHOC Thematic cluster project [2019-2022] has built a strong and recognisable brand around a consortium of 6 well-established ESFRIs, 7 onboarded Social Science and Humanities (SSH) data communities, an SSH Open Marketplace testers’ community and an SSH Training Community actively breaking down the silos through the sharing of knowledge, tools and services with significant potential for further capacity-building as an important building block for EOSC. Through a solid and continued outreach programme it has engaged over 5000 stakeholders in 65+ events organised, with a social media community of 2200+ members, and 470 newsletter subscribers. Niche scientific communities have been supported by providing 6 additional targeted training events offering a valuable platform to support the onboarding of new communities to present themselves as well as to connect their members from all over the world. The SSHOC website acts as a main communication channel and is the gateway to its array of services including the SSH catalogue of services, connecting its 60+ official reports to each single Key Exploitable Result (KERs) actively consulted by the SSH community (i.e. the System Specification of the SSH Open Marketplace has been downloaded over 4300 times). With the release in December 2021 of the EU Data Governance Act, SSHOC pursues the regulations around the guiding principles of the act to support a Data Science ecosystem in the area of SSH.

THE SCIENCE CLUSTERS are EU collaborative projects that were launched in 2019 to link ESFRI and other world-class Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The main impacts of the Science Clusters’ work programme concern: the improved access of researchers to data, tools and resources, leading to new insights and innovation for data-driven science both within and beyond the context of the domains in which the clusters are rooted; the creation of a cross-border open innovation environment for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data management for economies of scale, to develop synergies and rise the efficiency and productivity of researchers through open-science standards and thematic services; the enhanced co-developments to foster the cross-domain interoperability central to the EOSC goal. The Science Clusters are an integral part of EOSC. Their services and outcomes are now forming the core of the emerging EOSC fabric. As important partners of EOSC, Science Clusters contribute to its development and its implementation process. Importantly, the Science Clusters form a natural collaboration between the ESFRI RIs’ management boards partners in the clusters. As EOSC matures and begins delivering data and services for European research, a discussion is needed to stimulate the Open Science practices, cross-domain interoperability and long-term coordination of the scientific communities covered by the five Science Clusters. This position paper contributes formally to explain the urgent need of EC to support a longer-term role of the five Science Clusters to provide content to the EOSC, to enhance researchers’ involvement in Open Science and to suggest potential cooperative pathways in the Horizon-Europe framework and along with the EOSC Association roadmap. This paper is aimed at highlighting: Expectations of the clusters and the concerned research communities, pointing out a common structured vision and a series of suggestions for the future. A more detailed analysis from each cluster, that is provided for completeness.

The CESSDA Annual Report 2019 covers activities and results of all of our working groups (training, trust, tools and services, technical) as well as our widening activities, communications, projects, governance and management, and presents the financial information of the past year.

Agile development of the SSH Open Marketplace: User Workshop - International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020 (ICTeSSH 2020) The SSH Open Marketplace has been in development for over a year now. A preference for the agile approach and UX best practicemeans we’ve involved end users as much as possible up to this point via workshops, interviews, brainstorming sessions and prioritisation meetings. When we release the alpha version in June 2020, we’ll want yet more user feedback and engagement. And that's what this workshop is about. We've arranged a two hour slot during the proceedings of theICTeSSH 2020 Conference(now to be held online). In that time we'll be looking to: Raise awareness of how the SSH Open Marketplace can help researchers in their daily activities and supplement the existing EOSC services Collect feedback from theSSH research community on the functionality and content of the SSH Open Marketplace

For the release of the Alpha version of the SSH Marketplace, we arranged a two-hour slot on 30 June 2020 during the ICTeSSH 2020 Conference. This report provides the context for the development of the Marketplace and presents the feedback received from testers who had been given prior access to the site, and from workshop attendees who were polled via Mentimeter during the event.

The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) is a distributed research infrastructure in the social sciences domain. CESSDA has been on the ESFRI Roadmap since 2006 and as an ESFRI Landmark since 2016. As of June 2017, CESSDA is an ERIC – a European Research Infrastructure Consortium – a European legal entity. This strategy covers the period 2018-2022 and should complete the transition from starting up the ERIC in 2017, towards a mature high-quality social science infrastructure, well embedded in the European Open Science Cloud, with CESSDA’s Service Providers performing as trusted repositories, and heavily used by researchers and professionals in their roles of data producers and data users.