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The implications of ethics and private/sensitive data are often underappreciated and misunderstood. At the same time, the European Open Science Cloud requires both researchers and service providers to have a a high degree of awareness and competence on these topics.

With a strong emphasis on community and stakeholder building, the second EOSC Stakeholders Forum 2018, organised by the EOSCpilot project, was held at the Austria Center Vienna in Austria on 21-22 November 2018.

Held immediately prior to the Official Launch of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) on Nov. 23 under the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, this year’s installment of the forum was timely and the importance of the European science cloud to the European policy agenda was evident.

21 November 2018 | 17:00 – 18:00

Austria Center, Vienna

“Rules of participation sounds like a military exercise”, started Matthew Dovey, Head of e-Infrastructure Strategy at JISC, chairing the Rules panel to discuss guidelines, expectations, codes of conduct and obligations on participation in EOSC.

22 November 2018 | 09:00 – 10:30

Austria Center, Vienna

This year at the EOSC Stakeholders Forum, a call topic was launched for connecting ESFRI infrastructures to the EOSC. “This led to five cluster projects for the life sciences, analytical sciences, environment and astronomy