Illustrating the benefits of EOSC for research communities in Germany | EOSC-Pillar

The latest virtual conference organised by EOSC-Pillar, "Germany and EOSC for Researchers", was attended by 140 people on 23 February 2022 and also featured a discussion with a panel of experts. This well-received event highlighted the relationship between EOSC and (National Research Data Infrastructure) NFDI. A brief introduction on the role and position of NFDI by Sophie Kraft of the NFDI directorate was followed by presentations representing two communities of the German research landscape. Christoph Eberl of the University of Freiburg pointed at the data integration and sharing efforts of the materials science community and the need for a cultural change. Kay Graf of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg explained how services of the ESCAPE cluster that are built on the EOSC core services (implemented by EOSC-Future) help to make scientific results accessible and enable interdisciplinary research.