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BY-COVID learnings and policy recommendations after 18 months of cross-disciplinary collaboration As seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, and other infectious disease outbreaks, researchers, health care professionals and "citizens (in terms of consent to share)" need to store, document, share, access, analyse, link and process research and clinical data across disciplines and national borders in a coordinated response. Like other infectious disease outbreaks, such as haemorrhagic fevers (e.g. cholera), COVID-19 will remain a societal challenge beyond the immediate outbreak, considering its destructive and disruptive impact on healthcare systems and the global economy. In addition to SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen at the source of COVID-19, the risk from other emerging pathogens also persists, which will require similar concerted action to identify and characterise infections with pandemic potential, and enable rapid public health action to mitigate health and societal impacts. Provision of comprehensive open data on infectious agents and related diseases during outbreaks supports evidence-based decision-making across scientific, medical, public health and policy domains and promotes reproducibility of research outcomes. European readiness for future pandemics is of utmost importance, and whilst preparedness for such eventualities requires provisions for e.g. rapid vaccine production and public procurement for personal protective equipment - far outside the scope of BY-COVID - the ‘open data’ aspects is a key component that should be addressed to ensure the preparedness of infrastructure as part of existing frameworks such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Contributing to enhance data sharing and utility for streamlined local to global public health decision-making and action, as defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a key objective in the Global genomic surveillance strategy. In pandemic times, the mobilisation of raw viral sequences and the identification and monitoring the spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants is particularly important. The BeYond-COVID (BY-COVID) project was funded by the European Union under the call “FAIR and open data sharing in support to European preparedness for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases” (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EMERGENCY-01) and will run until 2024, to make COVID-19 data accessible to research scientists and others such as medical staff in hospitals or government officials. The world has generated vast amounts of data in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and is still generating more. This data comes from many different sources, and identifying, connecting and integrating it for effective analysis is challenging on many fronts. This Policy Brief presents preliminary results from the BY-COVID project as part of its comprehensive, sustainable and evidence-informed plan to effectively promote and improve FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) and open data sharing in support for European preparedness for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. The Brief also places the project and its results in the context of the upcoming EOSC Partnership, the development of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and the European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA). &nbsp

The Project Handbook provides a complete overview of the management and administrative procedures and principles to ensure an efficient execution of the BY-COVID project, thus contributing to the production of high quality project results. It contains all relevant planning information that the consortium partners will use as a framework for delivery during the course of the project, therefore, it is the point of reference for all consortium partners and stakeholders. The Project Handbook documents the selected approach for implementing the project goals, including the milestones, deliverables and relevant KPIs. It also highlights the key controlling processes to be used, the project policies and rules, and the overall management approach, including, but not limited to management structure, tasks, decision-making procedures, responsibilities and roles. Language adopted throughout the documents aims to be clear and concise. The Project Handbook is kept up to date throughout the life of the project through annual revisions. This is a guidance document. It should not be relied upon for making any legal assessments, for which Beneficiaries should always refer to the Grant Agreement (including its annexes) and the Consortium Agreement.

In order to focus on standard-setting resources and communities, as proposed by the European Commission, Policy Cloud has paved the way to an analytics approach for standardisation of data interoperability in data driven policymaking, developing the “Cloud for Data Driven Policy Management” White Paper, with a collaborative effort aided by StandICT.eu 2023 project. The white paper has been a central output of standardisation work carried out by Policy Cloud and provides a Landscape analysis of Data Driven Policymaking standardisation in the Context of EU policymaking in the ICT fields and recommendations for further activities. The white paper has also been a central focal point for collaboration with both standardisation bodies and other EC-funded projects, and a key source for dialogue on standardisation to help define requirements and validate recommendations. To ensure the white paper leaves a lasting legacy, Policy Cloud partners will be the recipient of consultancy services provided by the new EU Standardisation Booster service in 2023. This will match partners to standardisation experts who can guide them in understanding which Technical Committees and working groups from European and international standardisation bodies and National Standardisation Bodies could benefit from its landscape analysis and recommendations.

This deliverable is the fourth version of the Data Management Plan (DMP) for the PolicyCLOUD project, released in month 36 (December 2022). Previous versions on which this document is also based and from where the base contents have been updated are D1.2 Data Management Plan [1], D1.3 Data Management Plan M12 [2], and D1.4 Data Management M24 [3]. It provides a final description of the project’s datasets according to FAIR principles. The overall purpose of this document is to support the data management lifecycle for all data that will be collected, stored, processed or generated by the project in order to maximise its access, according to the H2020 Pilot on Open Research Data (ORDP) in which the project participates. A Data Management strategy is defined to provide the general rules and mechanisms for the access management of project data. Each dataset in the project is identified and described and information is provided on to which extent it is standard compliant, and how the FAIR principles are applied. A total of 10 datasets have been identified in this version of the deliverable, being most of them data that will be collected and processed by the three remaining pilot use cases. Other datasets are mostly stakeholders’ information and public deliverables produced within the project scope., This deliverable is submitted to the EC and not yet approved.

We live in a digital world where shopping, working and even meeting our friends and partners are online but, despite the wealth of digital tools at our fingertips, participation in democratic processes is falling across Europe. The “Stakeholder Engagement Track” of the Evidence Based Policymaking in Europe Summit 2021 explored how new technologies and tools can be used for engagement and innovative collaboration between policy makers and citizens creating ecosystems for a positive change. It demonstrated that in the case of Stakeholder Engagement and the Co-Creation process, the biggest challenge is cultural and not technical. To overcome this challenge it is important to be open, trying to adapt the process to what is needed from the citizens’ point of view, to be ready to listen and to keep the process fluid, not forcing it into a specific direction. Finally, capacity building is a pillar of the process. Traditional training is not working so it is time to start testing role play training or serious gaming to target this objective.

Evidence-based policymaking (EBP) is not new, but its face is changing rapidly in the data- driven public sector, mainly due to the following factors: Evolving meaning of evidence: from scientific opinions and policy evaluations to data- driven insights drawn from modelling and simulations coming from a multitude of data types and sources: from open data to citizen-generated data;. New actors coming into play: EBP is no longer reserved to social scientists, statistical offices and policy evaluators, but now open to data scientists and data savvy public servants; More attention for agenda setting and policy design, while EBP traditionally focuses on policy implementation and evaluation; Different relation between policy and evidence: from reactive and ex-post to proactive and ex-ante; From “What worked?” To “What will work?” The added value of a more data-driven approach to evidence-based policymaking seems clear, but can it fulfil its promises in practice? And what is needed to scale up the use of policy prediction? This paper presents evidence from the Data-Driven Policy Clusterto shed light on the questions above. It discusses the critical roles of interoperability and data sharing for the advancement of policy prediction in EBP. Then, concrete applications in different policy domains show what policy prediction looks like in practice and what challenges policy stakeholders encounter. The paper concludes with policy recommendations on how data can be leveraged for policy prediction at a larger scale than what is currently the case: Start small, experiment, then scale fast through co-creation Foster a culture of innovation building on successful experiments and pilots Leverage European data sharing infrastructures to increase data availability and accessibility across policy areas and government levels Create trusted data spaces to facilitate data sharing by citizens and businesses Secure the necessary multidisciplinary resources Ensure European building blocks for data-driven policy prediction

Policymaking has always revolved around the initiative to solve problems and since the start of more focused research on it, it contained many stages from problem identification and agenda setting to policy formulation, legitimization, implementation and evaluation. As policymaking evolved and societal challenges became more complex, policymakers tried to include more factors into the decision-making process and thus data driven policymaking became an important tool in this field. Data driven policymaking aims to make optimal use of data and extensive analysis in order to create and evaluate policies. The handling of data that is required has raised various legal and ethical issues that are hard to tackle on a case to case basis, without solid guidelines and standards. This need for standardization in data driven policymaking is more crucial due to the heterogeneity of the modern data sources and the interoperability of data. Several standards have been developed around this notion and were examined in the scope of the H2020 Policy Cloud project. In order to cover the project’s needs, a 3-dimensional end-to-end analysis is proposed, which uses a novel Interim Repository to facilitate the ethical and legal analysis on the interoperable data. This approach tries to find the balance between legal/ethical compliance and registrability of analytics, a fine line that most policymaking services need to optimize.

Disruptive technologies accelerating data-driven policymaking in the public sector. On 20 September 2022, Policy Cloud, Decido, AI4PublicPolicy, DUET and Intelcomp pan-European projects and initiatives dedicated to using cloud for data-driven policy, have joined forces in the Data Driven Policy Cluster. Together they explore major challenges, trends and opportunities to improve public sector decision making that will deliver healthier, happier places to live and work. During the EGI 2022 workshop the cluster demonstrated technologies developed to advance decision making in the public sector. This report is the result of that online conference. &nbsp

FAIRCORE4EOSC is envisioned to work in close collaboration with other actors in the EOSC ecosystem, including the EOSC Association itself, the H2020 project EOSC-Future, as well as the Horizon Europe project FAIR-IMPACT, with which we have also established a Technical Bridging Team. FAIRCORE4EOSC Briefings are designed to provide periodic updates to the EOSC Partnership on a quarterly basis. They provide a quick overview on project progress, fostering uptake in EOSC of main technical results. Extra! Extra! Read all about it! FAIRCORE4EOSC First Briefing!

Significant volumes of data are meaningless without efficient data governance. Mobispaces, co-funded by the EU with 9 million euro and the joint effort of 25 partners, will leverage data sharing and interoperability to enable a compliant, secure and trustworthy solution that optimises the complete Data Path, minimising its environmental footprint. The MobiSpaces projects will aim to minimise its environmental footprint not only in the design of its technologies, but also in the management, communication and stakeholder engagement. The consortium will aim to organise and attend events to disseminate the project results and create synergies in the Green Mobility and Data Spaces communities online where possible. With the aim of minimising our environmental footprint we’ve designed the very first comprehensive digital and green downloadable flyer for the MobiSpaces project. Download it here!

This story derives from a market need identified by the service provider. There are thousands of applications in the natural sciences field who were asking for an automated plant identification system within their own applications. The proposed solution is called Pl@ntNET, a citizen observatory and AI-based Platform designed to monitor plants biodiversity and help identify plants via pictures. It is organised in different thematic and geographical floras operational via a search engine.The solution is provided by a consortium of French research organisms piloted by Inria, the French national research institute for digital science and technology. The user community of Pl@ntNet consists of (1) the citizen and citizen scientists who are interested in identifying and knowing more about plants, and (2) developers of applications and software for plant identification, gardening, biodiversity management, agroecology or other related fields. The service is available on theEOSC Portal Catalogue and Marketplaceand was developed within theCos4Cloud Project. The full list of EOSC in practice stories is available here

This deliverable (entitled “D7.11 - Data Marketplace: Design and Open Specification M32”) is a follow up on the design and the specifications of the PolicyCLOUD Data Marketplace as defined in the previous version of the deliverable (i.e. the “D7.4 - Data Marketplace: Design and Open Specification”). Several updates have been introduced in the deliverable, including, among others, the final types of assets to be offered by the Data Marketplace, additional user journeys and state of the art marketplaces, whereas there are additional updates on the specifications of the Data Marketplace’s layers (especially for the Assets Storage Layer and the Assets Management Layer). Finally, some use cases of the Data Marketplace are introduced under the Overall Conceptual View Section. In essence, the Data Marketplace is a unified web-based platform consisting of two (2) core services, the front-end and the back-end services, offering its users various ready-to-use solutions. More specifically, it provides to the wider research and innovation community various assets (i.e. objects/solutions) in different domains. As a Marketplace, the final design provides information on how several users (and contributors) can interact with the PolicyCLOUD Data Marketplace in order to ingest and retrieve the respective assets, through potential user journeys that are analyzed. Moreover, the deliverable describes the different types of offered assets, since the Data Marketplace went beyond policies and tools and it stores and offers additional elements, including rich descriptions of the offered assets, algorithms, validation datasets, and in general, various outcomes of the project. To support the aforementioned functionalities, the PolicyCLOUD Data Marketplace specifications exemplify the respective layers of the Data Marketplace, the functionalities supported by each layer, the interaction points with different stakeholders, as well as the technical details that have been used for the implementation of the Data Marketplace. Finally, the document reviews the current state of the art marketplaces to identify the baseline technologies and approaches for the realization of similar marketplaces, which are compared to the corresponding specifications of the Data Marketplace.

This EOSC in practice story targets three main types of users: (1) researchers using the uploaded data models for their own research, (2) national and international meteorological agencies, disseminating forecasts to their users, (3) policymakers, providing official data to governments and international organisations to support the decision made by the governments. The dust observations and forecasts services described in this story areoffered within the context of EOSC-synergy andprovided by the WMO Barcelona Dust Regional Centre. The centre was created in 2007 by the formal agreement of two Spanish institutions: the Meteorological State Agency of Spain (AEMET) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The new services EOSC-based are still in their early stages, but the number of users, generic, in research, and public policy fieldsis already increasing. In particular, the WMO Barcelona Dust Regional Centre, through its services, allows to simulate, thanks to numerical models, the forecast of dust and sand storms in Europe, North Africa and Middle East. The Barcelona Dust Regional Centre services are already available on EOSC Marketplace! Access them here The full list of EOSC in practice stories is availablehere

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® user stories place centre stage two CESSDA® services that are essential support for research in the social sciences: CESSDA DC®: data catalogue that contains the metadata of all data in the holdings of CESSDA’s service providers. It is a one-stop-shop for search and discovery, enabling effective access to European Social Science research data. CESSDA DMEG®: Data Management Expert Guide, designed by European experts, to help European social science researchers make their research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. The stories explore global research challenges from COVID-19, migration to climate change, cancer and chronic diseases and recycling. Designed with practicality in mind, they share advice and insights from both national service providers and researchers to help the community and newcomers navigate their way through datasets and manage their data plans in the best possible way, showing how data is being reused and shared.

The event, free of charge and open to all interested stakeholders, took place virtually on the 9th and 10th of December, 2021, and the main points were: Use Cases: The speakers brought real-life examples of how they are transforming the traditionally slow deliberative policy making process in the fields of health, climate change and mobility, to one that is more agile and responsive. We heard directly from cities themselves on how they are developing better evidence-based policies which adapt as new data comes to light, and which are trusted and contributed to by relevant stakeholders who feel engaged in the process. Tools: We saw how city managers and policy makers are co-creating data-driven decision-making ecosystems with cutting edge tools which enable them to visualise, analyse and even predict the complex impact of decisions across multiple domains, time and space. The event was hands-on with AI, big data and digital twin demos and was inspired by what stakeholders could potentially achieve for their administration. Strategies: Learned how to manage legal, ethical and standards challenges and constraints in our increasingly digital world. From best practices to principles and legislation our speakers helped the audience understand and navigate the complex environment in pragmatic ways that helped them start their own journey.

This EOSC in practice storywas developed within theCos4cloud projectandtargets a very wide user base as it is addressed to any researchers, teachers, students, companies, institutions and, more generally, anyone interested in knowing, studying or analysing biodiversity information. The story presents Cos4Bio,a co-designed, interoperable and open-source service that integrates biodiversity observations from multiple citizen observatories in one place, allowing experts to save time in the speciesidentification process and get access to an enormous number of biodiversity observations. This resource is available on theEOSC Portal Catalogue and Marketplace The full list of EOSC in practice stories is available here

This EOSC in Practice story targets both researchers involved in large science projects (via the ESCAPE project) and citizen scientists or users interested in accessing (a part of) big science experiment data for everyday research purposes (via the CS3MESH4EOSC project). In its research efforts, ESCAPE is slowly being adopted beyond particle physics and transitioning towards the individual researchers or citizen scientists, the kind of audience targeted by CS3MESH4EOSC. The two projects are trying to extend their boundaries and capabilities in order to eventually meet halfway. The key point is the common technology. Both projects are offering their own Data Lakes or sync & share services via notebooks and analysis platforms. Exploiting this common element, the aim is to enable everyone to access complex data science in a way that hides all the complexity for the benefit of the user. The pilot test for this EOSC in practice story is under development andexpected to be completed in June. The full list of EOSC in practice stories is availablehere &nbsp

ThisEOSC in practice storytargets three main types of users: (1) the citizen and citizen scientists who collect valuable data, (2) the researchers who use and benefit from the data collected by citizens via smartphones and sensors, and (3) software developers. The service presented is calledMOBIS,developed byDDQ: Pocket Science, a small Dutch company specialised in the development of mobile-based (citizen-) science applications with research partners worldwide. Such solution aims at solving the problem ofhigh fragmentationin the citizen science apps ecosystem offering anintegration service. The service is available on theEOSC Portal Catalogue and Marketplaceand was developed within theCos4Cloud Project. The full list of EOSC in practice stories is available here

As defined in the SSHOC workplan, task 2.3 SSHOC web presence covers all activities related to the design, development, roll-out and continuous update of the SSHOC web platform. Evolving the SSHOC web platform ensures a service-oriented approach to the SSHOC marketplace developed in WP7, acting as the main project entry point with a multi-view of the SSH landscape, according to the main research lines of the ERICs involved, namely Art and Humanities, Social Science, Linguistics. The SSHOC web platform is conceived and structured to ensure visibility and easy access to the technologies and services resulting from WP3, as well as innovations mechanisms in data production (WP4), use cases (WP5) and training materials (WP6), targeting data producers and data re-users in the SSH disciplines, as well as industry players. The web platform will also serve as the main repository for all published content and allow access to project deliverables and external resources. In terms of features, its design allows specific sections dedicated to events and workshops; sections to collect user feedbacks and online surveys, and optionally host any software repository developed within SSHOC, with direct access points to the ERICs websites and other relevant websites, existing catalogues and virtual labs. This task also provides branding for the Marketplace (WP7) and support to improve its Graphical User Interface (GUI) and end-user friendliness. Specific branding of the new services can also be provided, making their look & feel homogeneous under the SSHOC umbrella. In M28, April 2021, the fourth iteration of the SSHOC web platform was achieved (Milestone 6), this document outlines the milestone, its role and the means of verification to its achievement.

This entry contains all the slides from the presentations given during theEvidence Based Policymaking in Europe Summit 2021 which was organised by the Data Driven Policy Clustertook place 9-10 December 2021.

Via four strategically designed pilot use cases to be coordinated in Bulgaria, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, Policy Cloud will deliver a unique, integrated environment of curated datasets and data manipulation and analysis tools of fundamental importance to stakeholders across Europe. The aim of Policy Cloud is to harness the potential of digitisation, big data and cloud technologies to improve the modelling, creation and implementation of policies. From a communications perspective, this goal requires reaching and engaging a broad range of critical stakeholders including policy makers and the big data community through carefully planned communication and dissemination activities and rich, consistent and relevant content. In October 2020, the EC approved its new Open-Source Software Strategy 2020-20231, a part of the overarching Digital Strategy of the Commission2 and contributing to the Digital Europe programme. Policy Cloud will contribute to this strategy through its use and upstream contributions to open source. Moreover, with the Data Governance Act of November 20203 the European Commission proposed new rules on data governance. Their aim is to exploit the high amounts of data created every day, but within a trustworthy European framework. These new rules will allow European data to be harnessed and allow specific European data spaces to benefit society, citizens and companies. The Commission has proposed nine data spaces in February 2020’s data strategy4, ranging from industry to energy, and from health to the European Green Deal. Policy Cloud is exactly the type of instrument which will be able to exploit these large quantities of data in order to benefit society, citizens, and companies, while protecting the data and ensuring GDPR standards are maintained. This Communication and Dissemination Strategy is the second in a series of three deliverables. It details the specific communication and dissemination activities to be implemented, the innovation and policy landscape it is set in, the stakeholder groups to be targeted, and the tools to be used over the life of the project to support the achievement of project goals. Section 1 enlarges on the project objectives and provides an overview of the communication activities that will support them. The stakeholder groups are also defined along with the benefits each will derive from the project. And includes a summary of changes for year 2. Section 2 presents the key pillars of the communication strategy, namely the Policy Cloud Services, the pilot use cases, and the key exploitable results. Section 3 explores the relevance of the project within the broader European landscape particularly as regards prevailing digital policy, the creation of the EOSC, and EU funding priorities as evidenced by Horizon Europe. Section 4 describes the communications tools and channels which will be used, both on and offline. Section 5 describes the workshops, webinars, podcasts and other events planned for stakeholder engagement and end user onboarding. The reality of COVID-19 affecting these events is addressed in this section. Section 6 presents the online dashboard and associated impact monitoring and measurement tools which will be used throughout the duration of the project. Section 7 provides concluding remarks.

As defined in the SSHOC workplan, task 2.3 SSHOC web presence will cover all activities related to the design, development, roll-out and continuous update of the SSHOC web presence. An evolved SSHOC web platform will ensure a service-oriented approach to the SSHOC marketplace developed in WP7 and will act as the main project entry point providing a multi-view of the SSH landscape, according to the main research lines of the ERICs involved, namely Art and Humanities, Social Science, Linguistics. The SSHOC web platform will be conceived and structured to ensure visibility and easy access to the technologies and services resulting from WP3, as well as innovation mechanisms in data production (WP4), use cases (WP5) and training materials (WP6), targeting data producers and data re-users in the SSH disciplines, as well as industry players. The web platform will also serve as main repository for all published content and allow access to project deliverables and external resources. It will have specific sections dedicated to events and workshops; it may feature sections to collect user feedback and online surveys. It will be able to optionally host any software repository developed within SSHOC and will provide direct access points to the ERICs websites and other relevant websites, existing catalogues and virtual labs. This task will also provide branding for the Marketplace (WP7) and offer support to improve its Graphical User Interface (GUI) and end-user friendliness. Specific branding of the new services will also be provided, making their look & feel homogeneous under the SSHOC umbrella. In M36, December 2021, the fifth iteration of the SSHOC web platform was achieved (Milestone 7), this document will outline the milestone, its role and the means of verification to its achievement. This document was written in M40, upon the finalisation of the SSHOC project.

Via four strategically designed pilot use cases coordinated in Bulgaria, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, PolicyCLOUD is delivering a unique, integrated environment of curated datasets and data manipulation and analysis tools of fundamental importance to stakeholders across Europe. The aim of Policy Cloud is to harness the potential of digitisation, big data, and cloud technologies to improve the modelling, creation, and implementation of policy. The digitisation of the global economy and society affects all sectors, is at the heart of the EU’s political agenda and is necessary if we are to maintain our competitiveness. Having common ICT standards is one of the measures needed to ensure that European industries are at the forefront of developing and exploiting ICT technologies: they ensure interoperability and guarantee that such technologies work smoothly and reliably together. This will become increasingly important as in the future many more devices will be connected to each other, as defined in the EC Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation. The European Commission proposes to focus standard-setting resources and communities on five priority areas: 5G, Internet of Things, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and data technologies, all essential for wider EU competitiveness, as defined in its 2021 Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation1 PolicyCLOUD has defined a dedicated task on standardisation, contributing to European ICT standardisation. After a State-of-the-Art Landscape analysis of standardisation in the Context of EU policymaking in the ICT fields related to the PolicyCLOUD project. The document proceeds with the mapping of partners’ use of standards related to their work in PolicyCLOUD, their engagement in relevant Standards Developments Organisations or related initiatives. This Standardisation Plan and Activities document details the specific activities to be implemented and the stakeholder groups to be targeted to foster the PolicyCLOUD alignment with global standards. Standards and Open-Source development are both processes widely adopted in the ICT industry to develop innovative technologies and facilitate their adoption in the market. Open Standards can play a critical role in ICT technologies by enabling the achievement of paramount objectives in view of a more digitized and competitive European industry sector. This document investigates the use of and OS technologies in PolicyCLOUD and the contributions of partners to OS communities and OS standards. Overall the full width of all Policy Cloud stardardisation plan and activities are the collaborations between PolicyCLOUD and other players who are relevant for ICT standardisation activities in the fields related to PolicyCLOUD.

This CESSDA® Roadshow on the Circular Economy brings together experts from service providers and top-level researchers to explore the key role of the social sciences with impartial, reliable data on attitudes and practices to recycling and eco-design. It will guide participants through valuable resources in the CESSDA Data Catalogue®, give examples of data use and reuse as best practices and explain how researchers can organise and process data using the ESSDA Data Management Expert Guide®. The videois available on theCESSDA TrainingYouTube channel.

This CESSDA® Roadshow focuses on how CESSDA Data Catalogue® and Data Management Expert Guide® support researchers in work on cancer and major chronic diseases based on impartial and trusted datasets and metadata. It features a practical demo of the DC and highlights the importance of secure access to data, storage and protection, with real-world examples of best practices for use and re-use by the social sciences research community. Participants can also enjoy an engaging interactive discussion between the service providers and researchers on the roadshow topic. The videois available on theCESSDA TrainingYouTube channel.

As the leading Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives, CESSDA® offers a wealth of resources for researchers, enabling them to use and re-use datasets and define their data management plan. The focus of the CESSDA® Roadshow on 8 October is to talk participants through the wonderful world of data, giving practical tips and sharing first-hand experiences with researcher and service provider viewpoints. The overall goal is to show how data and human resources combine to help the societies we live in become more inclusive so they can thrive on diversity. Researchers and Service providers will share insights into the treasure trove of datasets in the CESSDA Data Catalogue® for social science research on migration. Service providers and researchers give practical tips on using the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide®, especially when dealing with such highly sensitive data. Interactive discussions with panelists and opportunities for participants to share their viewpoints are key features of the Roadshow. The video is available on theCESSDA TrainingYouTube channel.&nbsp

This CESSDA® Roadshow on 14 October 2021 is a deep dive on climate change research in the social sciences, which are key to ensuring impartial, reliable and trusted datasets contribute to tackling this global challenge. Bringing together CESSDA® experts and users, the Roadshow zooms in on datasets available in the Finnish Social Science Data Archive as just one example of the wealth of resources available to researchers in the CESSDA Data Catalogue®. Experts also give practical guides on the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide®. Researchers then share their first-hand experiences in using the CESSDA Data Catalogue® and re-using data from related studies, highlighting benefits also for cross-disciplinary research. These flash talks serve as a springboard for the interactive discussions with invited panelists and participants, sharing diverse viewpoints as data service providers and members of the social sciences community in the context of CESSDA®. The video is available on theCESSDA TrainingYouTube channel.

This poster was presented in the poster session at EGI2021 on 20/10/2021. It provides an overview of the H2020 project Policy Cloud whichaims to harness the potential of digitisation, big data and cloud technologies to improve the modelling, creation and implementation of policy.

The CESSDA® Roadshow series kicks off with a deep dive on COVID-19 on 30 September 2021, highlighting cross-national datasets and surveys in the Data Catalogue (CESSDA DC®) with a practical guide and demo on how to discover them. Designed as a practical deep dive, the CESSDA® Roadshow on COVID-19 brings together researchers and service providers on how to use and re-use the reservoir of CESSDA® COVID-19 resources for the social sciences, such as national data archives, surveys and gender-related studies. Participants will learn about real-world examples of fast-track publication and collaboration. Sessions on the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide® give a practical guide on data discovery, archiving and publishing routes, as well as European diversity. Interactive discussions bring insights into societal impacts from a CESSDA COVID-19 Ambassador and Eurodoc, the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers. The event wraps-up with more interactive discussions on how CESSDA and its service providers are supporting researchers on global challenges. The video is available on theCESSDA TrainingYouTube channel.

This deliverable (entitled “Data Marketplace: Design and Open Specification”) describes the initial design and specifications of the PolicyCLOUD Data Marketplace. The Data Marketplace will be a unified web- based platform consisting of two (2) core services, its front-end and back-end, offering its users various ready-to-use solutions. More specifically, it will provide to the wider research and innovation community various assets (i.e. objects/solutions) in different domains. As a Marketplace, the current design provides information on how several users (and contributors) can interact with the Marketplace in order to ingest and retrieve the respective assets, through potential user journeys that are analyzed. Moreover, the deliverable introduces the different types of offered assets, since the Data Marketplace will go beyond policies and tools and will store and offer additional elements, including rich descriptions of the offered assets, algorithms, validation datasets, and in general different outcomes of the project. To support the aforementioned functionalities, the PolicyCLOUD Data Marketplace specifications exemplify the respective layers of the Marketplace, the functionalities supported by each layer, the interaction points with different stakeholders as well as the technical details that will drive the implementation of the Marketplace. Finally, it reviews the current state of the art in order to identify the baseline technologies and approaches for the realization of the implemented Marketplace.

SSHOC will build the Social Sciences and Humanities part of the European Open Science Cloud. One of the SSHOC project’s core objectives is to foster the transition from the current Social Sciences and Humanities landscape to a cloud-based infrastructure that will operate according to the FAIR principles, offering access to research data and related services adapted to the needs of the Social Science and Humanities (SSH) community. Furthermore, the tools, services, repositories and other resources brought in by the project partners or generated during the project will be featured in the SSH Open Marketplace. The SSH European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs) partnering in SSHOC are exploring and enabling collaboration and deeper integration of each other’s infrastructures. One topic that is of relevance for all SSHOC SSH stakeholders is that of managing and using vocabularies. Here we use vocabularies as a general term covering a range of semantic artefacts such as wordlists, taxonomies and thesauri. The SSH vocabularies are essential for a proper description of resources and phenomena and in SSHOC many tasks are concerned with them. In SSHOC, a specific “Vocabulary Initiative” was launched last year to coordinate related vocabulary activities and investigate, inform and exchange expertise on vocabularies and the platforms that are hosting and managing them. Therefore, the proposed workshop will have the following main objectives: To engage the SSH end-user communities present at ICTeSSH in the SSHOC Vocabulary Initiative, to collect their input and feedback on managing vocabularies, and vocabularies as FAIR semantic artefacts. To raise awareness in the SSH research community present at ICTeSSH on finding, understanding and reusing vocabularies via the SSH Open Marketplace. This workshop will consist of several presentations that will the following topics: Vocabularies and their use in the SSH community: Given the breadth of the Social Sciences and Humanities sector, it is of no surprise that researchers are faced not only with a multitude of theoretical and empirical approaches to research but also with an enormous pool of various tools, systems, and resources that are intended to help researchers in their endeavours. Managing Vocabularies: Recently, SSHOC and CLARIN organised a series of info sessions and a workshop to discuss the respective merits of different available vocabulary management platforms. This presentation will give an overview of the platforms, highlighting the differences and their impact on data aggregation, discovery and access. Vocabularies as FAIR semantic artefacts: In the data management landscape, vocabularies and their interrelations have not always been considered as primary data themselves. Nowadays, they are considered an essential part of data processing that should be made FAIR as other research data. There are currently numerous initiatives that register vocabularies to make them ‘findable’ and ‘accessible’ while interoperability can be provided by existing standards. Using Vocabularies in different SSH tools, such as: SSHOC Dataverse, CLARIN metadata component registry and the ADS Vocabulary Matchingtool Finding vocabularies via the SSH Open Marketplace: The more established and well-known vocabularies are, the more useful they are because the users are better acquainted with them and thus better understand their structure and the meaning of individual concepts. Moreover, reuse of vocabularies is crucial for achieving semantic interoperability between systems and datasets. One could even argue that controlled vocabularies are only used to their full potential if they are being reused. This is why researchers can find vocabularies as individual semantic artefacts, as items of the Marketplace.&nbsp

These are the slides from the LIBER 2021 Workshop: Onboarding Citizen Science and the role of research libraries barriers and accelerators This workshop derives from the SSHOC - Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud work in collaboration with the LIBER Citizen Science working group. It will be building on the outcomes of the session“ Citizen Science: What it means for SSH and how can multidisciplinarity be achieved?” that took place during the conference “Realising the European Open Science Cloud: Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond.” in November 2020. Objective The overarching aim of this workshop is to raise the awareness of the challenges and opportunities in libraries’ involvement with Citizen Science in SSH. It aims to explore the extent to which research libraries can serve as a bridge between researchers and citizens. An approach based on the sharing of best practices and current research, the involvement of participants in the reflection of the respective roles and training needed, complemented by an open discussion, will shape the overall experience. One of the outputs of this workshop will be the production of actionable recommendations for research libraries and the SSHOC/SSH communities in the form of a report. This will be complemented by a proposed outline of potential awareness raising and training sessions (for librarians, researchers, and citizen scientists) that would help participants in implementing those recommendations. This workshop will be an opportunity to create further synergies between LIBER, SSHOC and initiatives represented by the speakers and the participants.

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined how important it is for researchers tohave access to the labs and facilities they need to tackle emerging issues. From June 1-3, 2021, ICRI 2021 will address the special role researchinfrastructure plays in strengthening our capacity to respond to global challenges. SSHOC will participate to the event showing how SSHOC communities are fighting COVID-19.

This report explains the added value of Policy Cloud for data-driven policymaking by focusing on the four highly distinct Policy Cloud pilot cases, each dealing with different challenges, all addressed by the project’s innovative cloud solution tailored to each pilot’s requirements. The report provides policymakers with examples and recommendations to address policymaking challenges in their own organisations through The European Cloud for data-driven policy management will provide integrated reusable models and analytical tools, turning raw data into valuable and actionable knowledge towards efficient policymaking.&nbsp

SSHOC is the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) component of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This SSH contribution will provide access to flexible and scalable data as well as relevant and community-driven services via coordinated adaptation of Open Science and FAIR principles across SSH domains. At the core of SSHOC’s contribution is the SSH Open Marketplace: a discovery portal for a rich variety of resources presented in a contextualized way. The SSH Open Marketplace aspires to achieve tight-knit integration into existing communities of practice in SSH. LIBER, as a community of experts in information practices of the research environment, is an important partner to leverage synergies for the benefit of SSH researchers and Open Knowledge. We see libraries as strategic partners, because information practices and resources in the SSH research environment belong to the core of the SSH Open Marketplace’s mission, just as they do for many libraries and information infrastructures. Building on the dynamic started at the LIBER Conference 2019 (SSHOC: What’s in it for research libraries?), we hope to use this poster to continue the discussion with you on the concepts, ideas or best practices implemented by LIBER communities. Connecting to the extensive network of LIBER, we want to suggest two angles of mutual exchange, the first one focusing on the social and communicative aspect, the second one aiming at the technological/ information-science aspect of the SSH Open Marketplace: 1. Community-driven curation approach: The SSH Open Marketplace can partly be conceived of as a social infrastructure. This aspect is best expressed by its community-based curation. Three pillars underlie the data population and enrichment of the marketplace’s content: automatic ingestion and updating of data sources; continuous curation of the information by the editorial team and - most importantly - contributions from its users, the SSH community. At release of the final version, we want to say that the marketplace’s content and particularly its contextualisation is the result of collaborative work, characterised by a user-centric view. At the heart of SSH Open Marketplace are features that foster contributions, feedback and comments because they ensure that the portal mirrors real research practices. What are best practices based on your experience? Would you like to join the editorial team? 2. Technology and information-science inspiration: Success for an information discovery portal like the SSH Open Marketplace boils down to its uptake by the targeted audience. But what can technology and information-science provide as inspiration, best-practices, do’s and don’ts? The SSH Open Marketplace relies in large part on harvesting and harmonising records from third-parties like TaPoR, CLARIN, or DARIAH. Looking at the rich experience of libraries in collecting, structuring, enriching and exposing information, we want to hear your feedback regarding our current approach, ideas we may have overlooked or best-practices, and we also want to show you how the Marketplace could support research libraries work. How can we refine our approach to better meet yours and researchers’ needs? And what can you gain using the SSH Open Marketplace to support SSH researchers in your libraries?

Data Driven Policymaking Weekwants to unitepolicymakers, public administrators, decision makers, and social science researchersaround the four pilot use cases at the heart of thePolicy Cloud project. Spread across Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom, these pilot use cases serve as demonstrators for data-driven policy management and model and showcase best-practice methodologies for engaging communities. Policies against radicalisation Urban policy making through analysis of crowdsourced data Pilot Intelligent policies for the food value chain Open Data Policies for Citizens During the week 26-29 April 2021, four webinars werehosted by Policy Cloud consortium technology partners and experts from the Policy Cloud Impact Creation Board. Each webinar focuses on one of pilot use cases. The purpose of the webinars is to introduce the pilot use cases and present the technology solutions being developed to address each one's policymaking challenges. &nbsp

Debating commonalities and collaboration for thematic services, training and governance towards the European Open Science Cloud One and a half years after the RDA session in Helsinki, the five ESFRI cluster projects, the RDA community, and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) representatives come together again, to discuss the past, present and future of their collaboration during the journey of integrating thematic services into EOSC.

On 16 February 2021, Policy Cloud, Cyberwatching, DUET , and URBANITE invited big data and cloud solutions providers and policymakers from industrial, commercial and public realities to an expert briefing on the perceived scope of the Data Governance Act, the implications for cybersecurity and data protection, and GDPR, and the practical ramifications for public and business administrations. This report is the result of that webinar.

This deliverable is the second annual report for the SSHOC project. It states the progress and status of work in the second year of the SSHOC project (M12-M24). The report starts with a general plan for the SSHOC project in Year 2 (2020), and lists the main objectives set up to be achieved. The next section is the main part of this deliverable and focuses on the activities implemented in each Work Package, and describes the progress done in 2020. The section also contains a reference to the deviations from the DoA that happened in this period, and risk assessment status. The final chapter contains the summary on the delivery of project outputs (namely deliverables), achievement of project milestones, and the use of resources. An overview of all the SSHOC 2020 relevant events is added to the document as an appendix., Waiting EC approval, {"references":["Barbot, Laure, and Fischer, Frank, Larrousse, Nicolas, Petitfils, Clara, Illmayer, Klaus, & Buddenbohm, Stefan. (2020, July). 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The proposedregulation on European data governancewill foster the availability of data for use by increasing trust in data intermediaries and strengthening data-sharing mechanisms across the EU, Policy Cloud,Cyberwatching,DUET,andURBANITEinvite big data and cloudsolutions providers and policymakers from industrial, commercial and public realities to an expert briefing onthe perceived scope of the Data Governance Act, theimplications for cybersecurity and GDPR, andthe practical ramifications for public and business administrations “We are defining today a truly European approach to data sharing. Our new regulation will enable trust and facilitate the flow of data across sectors and Member States while putting all those who generate data in the driving seat. With the ever-growing role of industrial data in our economy, Europe needs an open yet sovereign Single Market for data. Flanked by the right investments and key infrastructures, our regulation will help Europe become the world's number one data continent.”Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton. 25 November 2020. Agenda: 1.The Data Governance Act and Data-Driven Policy Making: Impact and Practical Implementations Introduction – Marieke Willems (Trust-IT & Policy Cloud) 2.Introduction to the DGA and the Policy Cloud Legal and Ethical Framework for Data-Driven Policymaking - Alberto Bettiol& Martim Taborda (ICTLegal Consulting & Policy Cloud) 3.The DGA and the Cybersecurity/Privacy Implications for Policymakers,Public Administrations,R&I Projects, and SMEs - Paolo Balboni (ICT Legal Consulting &Cyberwatching) 4. Practical Implications of the DGA for Data-Sharing in Urban Policy Making Digital Urban Twins DUET- Pavel Kogut (21cConsultancy) URBANITE - Sergio Campos(Tecnalia) 5. Round Table discussion,lead by Marieke Willems This is the slidedeck used for the webinar, held on 16 February 2021.

Finding and reusing train-the-trainer materials in Social Sciences and Humanities: The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit The Training Discovery Toolkit is an inventory of various learning and training materials that trainers of different disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can use to find materials for re-use in their own training activities. The Toolkit links to a variety of materials available through various sources on topics including Open Science, Research Data Management, and didactics, but also specific topics that are relevant to multiple disciplines, like text encoding and spatial data. While it primarily targets trainers, the Toolkit also contains information on other learning and training materials available for the SSH communities. The Toolkit is designed in close collaboration with the SSH Training Community to make available training resources discoverable and encourage re-use and exchange. Thereby the Toolkit helps to make the process of training preparation and delivery more efficient and effective. The toolkit is continuously updated and improved in its content and functionality, based on the feedback from users and the Training Community to best serve the learning and training needs in the SSH domain. We organize dedicated bootcamps to test the Toolkit and collect feedback which will be incorporated in the next version. In this poster, we give an overview of the Training Discovery Toolkit through example use cases. We will demonstrate its current content and the future plans to further develop it as a tool for training discovery in the EOSC. The Toolkit currently contains more than 70 items from 41 different sources on a range of topics for better development and implementation of training activities. The lack of quick availability of relevant training materials is often what prevents SSH trainers from developing relevant training programmes. The Training Discovery Toolkit addresses this gap by providing access to effective and often ready-to-go training programmes. In the long run, we hope the tool will make training on Open Science easy enough for it to advance to all European SSH communities, thus shifting the current research culture towards Open Science. The Toolkit is continuously updated based on the feedback from the SSH Training Community, which is collected at dedicated bootcamps and other relevant events. In 2021 new materials for trainers in the SSH domain on the services offered through EOSC will be created. The tool is also being updated taking into consideration the work of other international initiatives including the EOSC working group on skills and training, as well as the RDA IG Education and training on handling of research data and the EOSC Enhance project. For the final version of the Toolkit we aim to align the collected metadata for the various training resources with metadata models developed within the EOSC and dedicated RDA groups to ensure that the information in the Toolkit is interoperable and can be integrated into other services. We envision the Toolkit to become part of the larger services available for scholars through the European Open Science Cloud.

This session will aim to discuss the EOSC in practice, from a Research Communities’ perspective.Thematic and interdisciplinary research communities will join in this discussion on addressing the opportunities and challenges that they encounter when contributing to EOSC by implementing principles, procedures, tools and services developed. CoronaWhy - Slava Tykhonov (DANS-KNAW) Ethnic and Migration studies - Ami Saji (ETHMIGSURVEYDATA, SciencesPo) Election studies - Cees van der Eijk (University ofNottingham) Heritage Science - Emiliano Degl'Innocenti (E-RIHS, CNR) Religious studies - Alberto Melloni (UNESCO chair in the field of Religious Studies, RESILIENCE coordinator) Digital Humanities shaping interdisciplinary practices in Europe - Jennifer Edmond (SHAPE-ID, DH@TCD) This session will aim to discuss the added value of EOSC for research practices. As well as practical obstacles that may hamper user communities to make optimal use of EOSC, both as end-users and as contributors of materials. The research communities involved in this session will aim to define recommendations from the user communities point of view. Recordings of the session can be seen here:https://youtu.be/qlZxWmgzaaM &nbsp

This session will aim to discuss engagement strategies to increase uptake of EOSC services in the Private Sector. EOSC-hub will kickstart this session with a presentation of the success stories and from the use cases of the EOSC Digital Innovation Hub. The audience will then be engaged in a discussion on roadblocks and best practices in fostering collaboration with and uptake by the private sector of EOSC services with EOSC-hub and SSHOC. SSHOC, now halfway the development of its services, brings the experience from private sector partner and service provider Semantic Web Company to the discussion. The session will pull out recommendations for the EOSC in engaging the private sector, based on the lessons learned from the EOSC-DIH and discussion with services providers and users. Speakers: EOSC-hub/ EOSC DIH - Sy Holsinger (EGI) EOSC-DIH Business Pilots - Marcin Płóciennik (PSNC) EUH4D - Daniel Alonso Roman (ITI, EUH4D) Semantic Web Company - Martin Kaltenböck Chair: Marieke Willems (Trust-IT) The recordings of this session can be seen here:https://youtu.be/3MEgawbhPXI &nbsp

This session aimedto showcase the ecosystem of thematic marketplaces for the EOSC and their role as aggregators.EOSChubkickstarted the session by painting the landscape of science discovery marketplaces.All 5 EOSC cluster projects highlighted how each of their value propositions relate to the EOSC portal based on key lines of activities that cluster projectsfor aggregation. Such as UX design & development, content & sources, curation & governance. We’ll discover the similarities and differences in these approaches, share best practices and identify possibilities for future collaborations. Agenda: The EOSC ecosystem of open science marketplaces - from EOSC-hub to EOSC Future - Owen Appleton (EGI, EOSC-hub) Discussion Thematic Discovery Marketplaces for the European Open Science Cloud SSHOC: SSH Open Marketplace - Frank Fischer (DARIAH) EOSC-Life: Registries for software and workflows - Carole Goble (University of Manchester) ESCAPE: software and service repository - Kay Graf (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, ECAP) PANOSC: Federated Catalog service - Tobias Richter (European Spallation Source) ENVRI-FAIR Data/service catalogue- Andreas Petzold (Forschungszentrum Jülich GMBH) Conclusions - Owen Appleton (EGI, EOSC Enhance)

This report describes take-up and adoption of work produced by RDA and, more specifically, the role of the RDA Europe 4.0 project in promoting such take-up and adoption. It is the second of two reports which will cover this topic; the first version, D2.1 RDA Results, Adoption and take-up report, was delivered in May 2019.

The session showcases examples of Smart Government initiatives across Europe that integrate AI, Digital Twins and Big Data solutions. A focus lies on co-creating services with the use of the 3 aforementioned technologies. Thethe three panel members are:Mr. Lieven Raes Smart City expert at Information Flanders, Belgium, Ms. Leire Orue-Echevarria Arrieta Coloud Technologies expert at TECNALIA R&I, Spain, andIskra Yovkova from the Municipality of Sofia wholeadsPolicy Cloud's use case of urban policy making through analysis of crowdsourced data.

The RDA Europe 4.0 project has contributed to further expand and consolidate the Europeancomponent of RDA ensuring strong links with and contribution to the European Open ScienceCloud (EOSC). At the start of RDA Europe 4.0 there was a clear need for better uptake ofthe RDA outputs and recommendations at European level. RDA Europe 4.0 contributed to this,showcasing the added value of RDA outputs for its wide variety of stakeholders through adoption stories, dedicated promotional and dissemination campaigns, the engagement ofsupport networks (such as ambassadors, national nodes) and international and Europeaninitiatives. The RDA Europe 4.0 Cascading Grants Programme has also been instrumental to boost the European engagement in the RDA global community. The programme establishedfruitful and lasting network connections on EOSC, regional, domain, WG and IG levels. This will be the basis for continuation in the future in the EOSC Future proposal. In particular, the RDA Europe 4.0 project aimed at achieving impact in six main areas defined at the time of the proposal preparation: Engaging research communities at early stages of standards development and addresscommon data requirements for new services bringing together users and technologyproviders; Helping the development and adoption of relevant international open standards basedon the best practices of a large spectrum of research communities; Enabling the use of the world´s store of research data in multi-disciplinary, data-intensiveglobal scientific collaborations; Enhancing the role of the Union in international organisations and multilateral fora; Developing cooperation with key international partners for research infrastructures; Promoting sustainable models for research data sharing and instil trust in the adopted solutions. Great results have been achieved in all six areas.&nbsp