The EOSCpilot project will hold its 1st Stakeholder Engagement event in Brussels on 28-29 November 2017. The two day event will include plenary sessions with high-level policy and governance representatives, as well as interactive parallel sessions to analyze plans and actions for evolving the five pillars of the project: governance, policy, interoperability, skills and services.

The 13th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) has “Beyond FAIR - from principles to practice to global join up” as its main theme. IDCC 2018 will address topics such as digital curation, preservation and research data management initiatives. Special focus is on exchanging practical experiences in sharing and curating data, organized in three specific themes: data, skills and services, and value. Call for papers are out now at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2018/call-papers.

The Digital Infrastructures for Research 2017 (DI4R) conference will showcase policies, processes, best practices, data and services that can leverage existing initiatives to develop building blocks of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and European Data Infrastructure (EDI). Topics addressed include: (1) Interoperability, (2) Data science and skills, (3) Impact evaluation and metrics, (4) Security, trust and identity, (5) The EOSC & EDI building blocks, and (6) Business models, sustainability and policies.

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