We are pleased to announce that Ireland’s National Open Research Coordinator Dr Daniel Bangert, who is based at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), has been appointed to the EOSC-A Task Force on Research Careers, Recognition, and Credit.
We are pleased to announce that Ireland’s National Open Research Coordinator Dr Daniel Bangert, who is based at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), has been appointed to the EOSC A Task Force on Research Careers, Recognition, and Credit.
The Task Force on Research Careers, Recognition, and Credit will address incentives and rewards for researchers to manage and share their data, code and other research outputs, activities, and processes. These incentives and rewards will be based on making criteria of Open Science and FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) principles an integral part of academic career progression and grant assessment processes. The Task Force will identify various research stakeholders groups and their specific roles and responsibilities in support of embedding incentives and rewards for researchers in assessment processes.
The Research Careers, Recognition, and Credit Task Force is one of 13 new Task Forces formed by the EOSC Association after a call for participation which closed at the end of July 2021. The new Task Forces are the next step in setting up the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Like the EOSC projects, the Task Forces will support the EOSC Association and the EOSC Partnership to overcome challenges and reach the strategic objectives in the implementation phase of EOSC.
DRI’s involvement in the newly formed EOSC Task Forces continues a tradition of collaboration and support for the implementation of EOSC. DRI Director Dr Natalie Harrower served on the European Open Science Cloud FAIR Working Group (2019–2020), which provided recommendations on the implementation of Open and FAIR practices within EOSC, and also served on the European Commission’s Expert Group on FAIR. In November 2020, the DRI, in collaboration with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), joined forces on a project aiming to support the internationalisation and implementation of EOSC. The RDA4EOSC project concluded in May 2021 with the production of several deliverables, including a report on awareness and readiness of domains and disciplines not currently engaged with EOSC and recommendations for engagement from 2021 onwards. The DRI also contributes to activities and groups within Europe that complement and contribute to supporting EOSC’s goals, including the ALLEA e-humanities Working Group, DARIAH, Europeana, and a range of professional bodies on digital archiving and preservation of data.
We look forward to supporting the implementation of EOSC in the next stage of its development.
