Last week, the EOSC Symposium 2024 and the satellite event EOSCxNFDI marked an important milestone in international networking. EOSC is the EU-funded European Open Science Cloud. The first EOSC Node, the “EU Node”, went online during the symposium which was hosted in Berlin from October 21 to 23. The program consisted of 26 sessions with over 130 speakers and offered a mixture of presentations, interactive sessions, panel discussions, a World Café and many networking opportunities.
On the second day of the symposium, the unconference session “Data competencies: Training, education, qualification for researchers and data stewards” organised by the NFDI section EduTrain, NFDI4Health and DALIA gave us the opportunity to present NFDI4Chem and share our perspective on training and teaching of data literacy in chemistry. In addition to the short presentation of NFDI4Chem (given by Jochen Ortmeyer), short contributions of NFDI4Health, the Section EduTrain and DALIA set the stage for the subsequent panel discussion. Overall, the panel agreed that it is essential to teach basic data management skills from the outset and across all levels of education – exactly matching the core of our efforts.
The basic theme of the EOSCxNFDI event was “NFDI goes EOSC” which took place as a satellite event of the EOSC Symposium from October 23 to 24. At the World Cafe event, two tables were moderated by Jochen Ortmeyer and Oliver Koepler, our EduTrain and Metadata section representatives. Our speakers Christoph Steinbeck and Steffen Neumann were also present and took part in the discussion.
Science is international. Their data must be too!
