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A major update has been made to the FAIRsFAIR Data Object Assessment Metrics, as a response to several community efforts of analysing and reviewing existing metrics and suggesting improvements and the experiences gained in FAIR-IMPACT over the past three years while exploring discipline-specific metrics development.

FAIR-IMPACT published a White Paper with the main recommendations from these workshops, linking them to the relevant Task Forces and Opportunity Area Expert Groups under the EOSC Association, to facilitate their uptake and impact. The White Paper provides actionable guidance aligned with EOSC's evolving strategy. 

The latest FAIR-IMPACT podcast episode is out! This time with Gabriela Mejias and Wim Hugo to discuss PID - Persistent Identifiers - and how their relevance in the open science framework can be further boosted via international collaboration efforts.

The 2024 edition of the Synchronisation Force workshop featured eight online sessions from 3 September 2024 to 7 November 2024. The six core sessions covered aspects related to Metrics and assessing FAIRness, Sustainability of project outputs, Persistent identifiers, Legal & organisational interoperability, Trustworthy and FAIR-enabling repositories, and Metadata, semantics and interoperability.

FAIR-IMPACT partners have been gathering discipline-specific metrics tailored to the social sciences to enable more precise and relevant FAIR evaluations through the F-UJI tool.

The FAIR-IMPACT Workshop at RDA Plenary 23 highlighted global challenges and solutions for interoperability in research commons, emphasizing the need for practical guidance, collaboration, and sustainability to advance the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

The EOSC Symposium 2024, held in Berlin at the H4 Hotel Alexanderplatz, was a great

FAIR-IMPACT is please to launch the third and final open call for financial support!

FAIR-IMPACT partners examined the application and potential repurposing of three existing automated assessment tools built to assess FAIR data principles to assess compliance with the FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) principles

The FAIR Implementation Catalogue collects tools and solutions to support users in the implementation of the FAIR Principles, with direct links to the original resources. The Catalogue welcomes new resources to suggest.

The FAIR-IMPACT podcast episode is out! With the participation of the FAIR-IMPACT Champion Javier de la Cueva, the FAIR DATA Podcast & the FAIR-IMPACT project joined forces to talk about FAIR interoperability & legal aspects.

FAIR-IMPACT partners released a series of guidelines for creating a user tailored EOSC Compliant PID Policy, 16 guidelines for helping PID Managers to formulate an EOSC compliant PID policy. The document is open for external community review until August 31st.

Do you want to know if your data, your software or your semantic artefacts are FAIR enough? Or do you want, as a repository, to be transparent? Find out how those pages can help you. 

The report of the second Synchronisation Force workshop is now available, to assist all interested stakeholders in comprehensively understanding the current landscape of FAIR development.

The second open call for FAIR support is now closed with 90 applications submitted on the four supporting actions. The one just closed is the second call for Route 2 support, which is offering tailored support to implement various tools, approaches, and methods, with financial assistance provided for participation in virtual, hands-on workshops.

In January 2024, the EOSC Association’s Task Force on Semantic Interoperability published a draft report called “Developing and implementing the semantic interoperability recommendations of the EOSC Interoperability Framework”. FAIR-IMPACT WP4 and WP6 members dealing with semantic artefacts and interoperability provided views and thoughts on this report.

Due to FAIR-IMPACT work on "Semantic Artefact Mappings and Crosswalks", the project is now actively seeking input from individuals engaged in using or creating mappings to unravel the nuances of their practices.

After a successful first round, FAIR-IMPACT launched the second Open Call for financial support on 31 January 2024, offering five support actions designed to create PID policies, improve the FAIRness of research software, and more.

We are heartbroken by the news of the passing of our dear colleague and member of our project Advisory Board Sarah Jones.

FAIR-IMPACT published 17 metrics that can be used to assess research software against the FAIR Principles for Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles), as well as providing examples of how these might be implemented in one exemplar disciplinary context of the social sciences in CESSDA.

Two practice papers were recently published by the Data Science Journal and co-authored by EOSC FAIR Champion Romain David around the importance of DMP in sharing research best practices.

FAIR-IMPACT has just launched the second Open Call for Support, offering three defined support actions for one-to-one support to help candidates to self-assess their current capabilities and to develop FAIR implementation action plans

Our first open call for FAIR support was launched on March 31st and provided two defined support actions that the community could apply to join. The first is a FAIRness assessment challenge and the second focuses on enabling FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate for content/metadata discovery and consumption. A total of 51 applications were received, and 31 were successfully evaluated.

F-UJI, the automated assessment tool developed in the framework of the FAIRsFAIR project, was recently featured in an article by a group of researchers in agriculture, published in the Ecological Informatics, Volume 76, by Elsevier.

The first open call for FAIR support closed on June 1st with 51 applications submitted. Applicants will be informed on the decision on applications by July 2023. The support actions will begin in early autumn 2023.

It's now time to start preparing the Second Synchronisation Force Workshop which will take place in Autumn 2023!

At the end of 2022, two groups of the EOSC Association Task Force on FAIR Metrics and Data Quality published two reports. The team working on metrics, certification and guidelines appreciated the opportunity to respond to both documents to detail the project views and intended contributions.

FAIR-IMPACT has just launched the first of three Open Calls for Support, offering two defined support actions designed to enhance the FAIRness of data, semantic artefacts and data-related services. Applications will be accepted until 1 June 2023.

We are glad to announce that 12 experts have been selected as EOSC FAIR Champions!

The FAIR-IMPACT Synchronisation Force 2022 workshop run between the 21st November and 12th December 2022. More than 120 people registered for the series of 6 online sessions. Based on the workshop input and discussions, this report provides supporting recommendations for each of the FAIR related topics discussed.

York Sure-Vetter, professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Director of NFDI, the German National Research Data Infrastructure, and Michelle Barker, Director of the Research Software Alliance (ReSA), were appointed chair and co-chair of the FAIR-IMPACT High Level Advisory Committee.

FAIR-IMPACT is glad to announce the opening of its call for FAIR Champions, a group of 12 experts who will be on board to act as ambassadors for FAIR, engage their community, and advocate for adoption of the project results.

The proceedings of the FAIR-IMPACT Synchronisation Force 2022 online sessions are now available. From the event page you can download the slides presented during the sessions and the data gathered via the preliminary survey run before the event, which constituted the starting point for the discussions during the Synchronisation Force Workshop

The European Research Data Landscape study looks at researchers’ practices in producing, reusing and depositing data, and in making it FAIR, as well as examining the research data repository landscape. It was commissioned by the European Commission and FAIR-IMPACT partners DANS and DCC contributed to it

FAIRCORE4EOSC and FAIR-IMPACT started to work together in supporting the realisation of a web of FAIR data and services by delivering new core infrastructure components as well as by supporting the implementation of FAIR-enabling practices, tools, and services. Their contribution is featured in the recent issue n. 41 of the CONNECT Magazine published by GÉANT.

A new group of Horizon Europe projects takes on the challenge of implementing - and communicating - the European Open Science Cloud, through coordinated branding and enhanced collaboration

The working paper “Towards a European network of FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs)” is the initiative of a broad author team consisting of stakeholders from the European repository community. It details a vision of how the Network could be created and what next steps need to be taken to make this a reality.

The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14th-17th November 2022. Call for ideas for sessions is now open!

Project and Technical coordinators showcase a FAIR Collaboration for Open Science in Europe

Launched on 11 July, a new call will support a network of experts in integrating their disciplinary know-how and community achievements within EOSC. Applicants can submit their proposal until 15 September 2022, 16.00 CET via the EOSC Future Grants Platform. Call closes: 15 September 2022, 16.00 CET

This call for proposals belongs to a series of ‘RDA open calls’ supporting a European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) that satisfies the FAIR data and resource management needs of Europe’s research communities.  Applications are open until 15 September 2022, 16.00 CEST, via the EOSC Future Grants Platform.

This June 2022, two European Horizon projects kicked off in Amsterdam, FAIRCORE4EOSC and FAIR-IMPACT. Both projects will contribute to the implementation of the FAIR principles across EOSC in close collaboration with other actors in the EOSC ecosystem.

On June 17th Ingrid Dillo, Deputy Director, DANS, co-chair of Council Research Data Alliance and Coordinator of the FAIR-IMPACT project joined the AGU / CHORUS Forum on making FAIR’s Interoperability and Reusability Data Goals Possible.

The recently awarded FAIR-IMPACT project will identify and design practical solutions, guidelines and frameworks to realise an EOSC of FAIR data and services. The project started on 1st of June and on 27 and 28 of June will gather 28 partners from 11 countries for the kick-off.