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Network Day 2025

Programme

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  • Logo FRDN Flanders

    9:20 - 10:20

    FRDN highlights

    The FRDN network and its task forces, project groups, working groups, and knowledge hub showcase the key achievements of the past policy period.

    • Uniform metadata model
    • Open Science Key Performance Indicators
    • Flemish DMP template
    • Matchmaking
    • Data infrastructure matrix
    • Knowledge Hub activities and initiatives
  • Afbeelding41

    10:20 - 10:50 & 11:10 - 11:40

    Institutions showcase

    Several institutions of the network showcase what they have achieved in their institution with FOSB funding.

    • VIB
      The Cornerstone of Open Science: Leading by Example through FAIR & Open Training
    • UHasselt
      Data Stewards in the Making: Insights from our Professional Development Journey
    • Department for the Environment and Spatial Planning
      FAIR Government Research
    • KU Leuven
      600 years of data? Let's focus on the last five
    • Flemish Scientific Institutions
      Open Science achievements across the Flemish Research Institutes: Advancing Collaboration, Training, and Infrastructure 
    • Meise Botanic Garden
      Challenges for Open Science in the recent context of knowledge security and strategic autonomy
    • UGent
      The Journey to Open Science at Ghent University
    • VLIZ
      Stories from Oceanography as Inspiration for Open Science Interoperability
  • Fedosc

    11:40 - 12:00

    Federal Open Science Cloud (FedOSC)

    Building Federal Open Science Infrastructure

    Belnet will outline the progress to date of the FedOSC project, share initial learnings from their comprehensive needs assessment, and discuss potential synergies with parallel initiatives in the Flemish research landscape.
  • WEWIS

    12:00 - 12:20

    Open Science and its role in the future Flemish science policy

    The Department of Work, Economy, Science, Innovation & Social economy explores the future of Open Science in Flanders and the development of a new policy plan.

  • During the day

    Posters

  • Lightbulb with half a gear and electronic connections

    13:15 - 15:00

    International inspiration

    International speakers showcase Open Science approaches in their countries focusing on different Open Science themes.
    • Anneke Zuiderwijk (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
      Topic: Stimulating FAIR data sharing 
    • Aoife Coffey (Sonrai, Ireland)
      Topic: Data stewardship 
    • Marita Kari (National Open Science Secretariat, Finland)
      Monitoring open science and research monitoring in Finland. Development and implementation.
    • Laurents Sesink (SURF, The Netherlands)
      Topic: Open Science Infrastructure 
    • Sven Bingert (NFDI, Germany)
      Topic: Persisent Identifiers (PIDs) 
  • three people icons, each with its own speech bubble.

    15:15 - 16:15

    Interactive discussion in smaller groups

    Inspired by the previous session, we explore how we will address future topics in practice:
    • Stimulating FAIR data sharing
    • Data stewardship
    • Open Science KPIs
    • Open Science Infrastructure

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