Open Science to underpin innovation in Europe | Digital Single Market

"The second EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) summit took place on 11 June in Brussels. Only two years after its launch, the EOSC is one step closer to becoming a reality: a pan-European virtual environment for all researchers to access, store, analyse and re-use data for research, innovation and educational purposes and make the EU a global open science leader! The summit was an opportunity to take stock of what has been achieved so far, but also to define and clarify the future EOSC strategy to ensure its effective implementation. Significant progress has been made this year, with the objective of creating a fully functioning EOSC by 2020. The event was organised by the European Commission together with the High Level Expert Group on the EOSC and the FAIR Data Expert Group, and reunited the signatories of the EOSC declaration of June 2017. Kurt Vandenberghe, Director for Policy Development and Coordination, Jean-David Malo, Director for Open Innovation and Open Science in the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), and Thomas Skordas, Director for Digital Excellence and Science Infrastructure (DG CONNECT) share their  impressions with us: What remains to be done between now and 2020? We are very proud to note that, as was shown at the Competitiveness Council in May 2018, the EOSC is fully supported by the EU's 28 Member States and key European research organisations. Nevertheless much more can be done, and now it seems crucial to go further and guarantee the structure's openness and inclusiveness. The EOSC should not only benefit Europe's scientific community but ultimately society as a whole.  On 23 November 2018, a first version of the EOSC portal will be launched in Europe and made available to all European scientists. In the future the portal will act as a virtual environment for hosting and processing research data for all disciplines and across Europe...."