The EOSC General Assembly elected three new board members and confirmed Sara Garavelli for her second three-year term.
The newly elected members of the Board of Directors are:
Kamran Naim (CERN) - three-year term,
Roxanne Wyns (LIBIS - KU Leuven Libraries) - three-year term,
Licia Florio (NORDUnet) - one-year term.
All four directors will start their term of office on January 1, 2025.
The election occurred online during the 9th EOSC Association General Assembly on Friday, November 22. The General Assembly is held twice a year - in person in the spring and online in the fall. The EOSC Association's bylaws govern elections.
The terms of two current directors, Bob Jones and Wilhelm Widmark, will expire on December 31, 2024, as they have reached the maximum limit of two terms. Both have held their positions since 2021 - Bob Jones, a one-year term, and Wilhelm Widmark, a three-year term.
The position of Director, left vacant by the death of Sarah Jones in 2023, is now filled for the remaining one-year term.
The National EOSC CZ Conference, titled “From Storage to Repositories”, attracted over 200 participants – 113 onsite and nearly 100 online. The strong interest in the event confirmed the growing importance of research data management, open science, and the development of national and international data infrastructures.
On 10 December, a specialized workshop titled “Data management for artificial intelligence and machine learning from the perspective of the computing environment and user requirements” was held at IT4Innovations in Ostrava. This event attracted experts from academia focused on big data management, advanced computational technologies, and their applications in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
