The DECIDE Project: Designing and Implementing a Prototype Service for Supporting Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

This paper will present the design and implementation challenges of the innovative DECIDE service, to support research and early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. DECIDE service, which is based on a Grid eInfrastructure, offers a set of tools providing quantitative measurements, to help researchers and clinicians make more informed diagnosis. As the service specifically targets the clinical community, it differs significantly from other initiatives since it needs to comply with the requirements imposed by the clinical routine in terms of accuracy, robustness, ease of use, data handling policies, adherence to clinical praxis. Moreover, sustainability aspects will also be discussed, since DECIDE aims to propose such service as a reference at European level, possibly extending it to other pathologies. We will then summarize the main results obtained to date, and the possible future developments

Competence Centre ICDI per Open Science, FAIR, ed EOSC - Mission, Strategia e piano d'azione

This document presents the mission and strategy of the Italian Competence Centre on Open Science, FAIR, and EOSC. The Competence Centre is an initiative born within the Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure (ICDI), a forum created by representatives of major Italian Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, with the aim of promoting sinergies at the national level, and optimising the Italian participation to European and global challenges in this field, including the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), the European Data Infrastructure (EDI) and HPC. This working paper depicts the mission and objectives of the ICDI Competence Centre, a network of experts with various skills and competences that are supporting the national stakeholders on topics related to Open Science, FAIR principles application and participation to the EOSC. The different actors and roles are described in the document as well as the activities and services offered, and the added value each stakeholder can find the in Competence Centre. The tools and services provided, in particular the concept for the portal, though which the Centre will connect to the national landscape and users, are also presented

Je veux être un chercheur ouvert ! Évaluation de la recherche et incitants pour promouvoir la Science Ouverte et les carrières de recherche

Everybody is talking about Open Science and FAIR data but can you really make a living (and a good career) out of it? Will my career get better if I FAIRify my data? Or will it just make my head ache? When someone will evaluate my research, will the fact that my data complies with all the Open Science best practices matter? Or am I just losing time I should rather spend publishing on whatever journal I can lay hands on? And where am I supposed to learn how to be fair and open anyway? The right answer to these questions is crucial to the career choices and expectations of many students and young researchers, yes, but it is also the point which can make the difference between succeeding or failing in establishing Open Science (and ultimately Good Science). To be able to shift the research evaluation system in Europe in order to produce quality and reliable data, to set up a working incentive system for individual researchers and organisations is one of the keys to a widespread uptake of Open Science and FAIR practices. And being so crucial a point, we believe that researchers, Research Infrastructures, scientific organisations should have a say in this. That’s why we proposed an interactive session where good ideas, innovative pilots, proposed policies from all across Europe were presented and discussed.

EUMEDGRID : grid computing in Malta and the Mediterranean

In this paper we introduce EUMEDGRID, an EU-funded project with the objectives of building the first high performance computing grid extending across the Mediterranean, and fostering national grid initiatives in the Mediterranean region.peer-reviewe

EOSC Pillar "National Initiatives" Survey (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. The EOSC-Pillar ”National Initiatives” Survey is a cross-section study in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy. The survey aims at landscaping national initiatives of open research data and services with relevance to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Four target groups are part of the study: e-infrastructures, research infrastructures, universities and funding bodies. The survey contains questions on the perception of EOSC as well as detailed questions assessing e.g. the e-infrastructures’ business models, technical characteristics, access conditions, FAIRness of the data holdings and adopted policies related to open science

D3.1 Summary report of the EOSC-Pillar National Initiatives Survey

EOSC-Pillar invited 2,204 organisations (funding bodies, universities, research infrastructures, and e-infrastructures) in five countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy) to participate in the ‘National Initiatives’ Survey. 688 representatives (31%) responded to the survey and answered various questions on business models, sustainability, users, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), access to data and services, FAIRness of data, data management in repositories, regulations on open science and open data as well as on perceptions of EOSC. This document contains the main results in terms of frequency analysis

EOSC Pillar Researcher Survey (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. The survey aimed at understanding researchers' data reuse behavior and was carried out at selected universities in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy. The survey encompasses researchers' views on 1) the importance of different kinds of data reuse and reuse, 2) the importance of different tools for finding data, and the main aspects influencing whether a researcher reuses data or not, 3) whether reuse is encouraged, and 4) perspectives on different aspects of reusability. The survey also asks how important different services are, how available they are, the relevance of international collaboration and factors that influence data sharing along with potential services that might help with research