EOSC Symposium 2025

3 November 2025 12:00 – 5 November 2025 22:00
Brussels, Belgium

The EOSC Symposium 2025 will mark the exciting transition of the EOSC Federation into its operational phase. As with previous editions, participants can expect insightful discussions, strategic updates, and unparalleled networking opportunities.
Organised by the EOSC Association, with the support of the EOSC Gravity and EOSC Focus projects, the EOSC Symposium 2025 will take place in-person on 03-05 November at the historic Le Plaza Hotel in Brussels.

The flagship event will bring together the larger EOSC community of policy makers, funders, researchers, representatives of research-performing organisations as well as national and pan-European data infrastructures, Research Infrastructures, and e-Infrastructures, all of whom are working together to build EOSC and the EOSC Federation.

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Meet the EDEN and FIDELIS teams at these selected breakout sessions.

DayTimeTopicChairsSpeakers
04 November14:45 - 16:00Long-term data retentionRoxanne Wyns (Director, EOSC Association)

Roxanne Wyns (Director, EOSC Association)

Maria Benauer (Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, TIB)

Tuomas J. Alaterä (Head of User Services and Data Processing, Finnish Social Science Data Archive, FSD)

Frédérique Gros (French national infrastructure for data and methods in quantitative Social Sciences, Progedo.fr)

04 November16:30-17:45Trustworthy repositories for data sovereignty

Roxanne Wyns (Director, EOSC Association)

Ingrid Dillo (Senior Advisor, Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data, DANS)

Ingrid Dillo (Senior Advisor, Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data, DANS)

Jan Meijer (International Strategy Advisor, Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research, SIKT)

Hervé L'Hours (Associate Director, UK Data Archive, UK Data Service, University of Essex)

Robert Huber (Geologist, Paleontologist, and Information Specialist, University of Bremen, PANGAEA)

Mark Allen (Research Scientist, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, CDS)

Anna-Maria Höfler (Science Policy Coordinator, ZWB - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Federation Build-up Subgroup on Integrating Scientific Data Repositories)