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November 21, 2019
21 November 2019 - 13:00 to 16:15
Palace of the Academies, Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels

Description and scope

Last year, the Belgian Science Policy units of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the Flemish and Federal Authorities held the first conference on Open Access in Belgium. Since last winter, new developments in the field of Open Science, particularly pertaining to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), persuaded these entities to renew efforts to inform the Belgian research community.

How has Open Science Policy been unfolding in Belgium? Which Belgian partners have joined the EOSC initiative? What roles have been assigned to Belgian representatives and experts within its governance? This second Belgian Open Science seminar wishes to take up a tradition of informative and interactive commitment towards the Belgian research community.

It is the first Belgian initiative to bring together all Belgian partners in EOSC projects and the Executive Board Working Groups.

The event aims to inform and involve the Belgian research community into the new developments in the field of Open Science, particularly pertaining to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

EOSC-Pillar will be presented by one of its representatives, Inge Van Nieuwerburgh from Ghent University.

Learn more about the event here.

Agenda

Time

Topic

13:00

Registration 

13:30

Welcome by
• Bart Dumolyn
Policy Advisor, Flemish Authorities, Dept. of Economy, Science & Innovation, Research Div.

14:10

Open Science Policies in Belgium: an update
• Marc Vanholsbeeck
Head of the Directorate of Scientific Research of the Ministry of Wallonia-Brussels Federation
• Bart Dumolyn
Policy Advisor with the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation, Flemish Authorities.
• Eric Laureys
Advisor with the Federal, Interfederal an International Coordination Department of the Belgian Federal
Science Policy Office (BELSPO)

14:25

Belgian Participation in EOSC Projects
Session leader: Inge Van Nieuwerburgh
Open Access Belgium, OpenAIRE, Ghent University Library 

15:00

Coffee break

15:30

EOSC Executive Board Working Groups Presentation
• André Heughebaert
BELSPO, Belgian Biodiversity Platform - Expert with the 'FAIR' WG of the EOSC Executive Board
• Patricia Mergen
Meise Botanic Garden, Royal Museum for Central Africa - Expert with the 'Sustainability' WG of the EOSC
Executive Board
• Sadia Vancauwenberghe
UHasselt, EuroCRIS, ECOOM - Expert with the 'Landscape' WG of the EOSC Executive Board
• Frederik Coppens
VIB, ELIXIR - Expert with the 'Architecture' WG of the EOSC Executive Board
• Rachel Leproult
ULB - Expert with the 'Rules of Participation' WG of the EOSC Executive Board

Moderated byBart Dumolyn 

16:15

Cocktail reception



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