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Description
The Astronomy Open Science Competence Centre Pilot project (Astro-CC Pilot) is an EU funded activity meant to enable the astronomy research communities to accelerate their use of Open Science by supporting the implementation of FAIR principles.
It will run community 'competence centre' events, to provide training on the implementation of interoperable services, the development of the underlying data sharing framework and its integration in EOSC.
The project will support the community development of the Virtual Observatory interoperability framework and its integration into EOSC, building on the progress made in the ESCAPE Science Cluster and the EOSC Future projects. It leverages the opportunities of the OSCARS program to advance the connection of disciplinary interoperability frameworks to EOSC, contributing to the vision of EOSC as a federation, and providing feedback on the practical implementation of OS to the EOSC governance.
Astro-CC activities are aimed at extending the participation beyond the ESCAPE Science Cluster astronomy/astro-particle fields to include the wider astronomy communities of planetary science, heliophysics and space weather.
The community events will engage the European experts in astronomical data/service interoperability to prepare and define the scope of a Competence Centre that will serve an extended range of astronomical communities. They will be targeted to different facets of the astronomy communities.
Data Provider Forum: Research Infrastructures and data-intensive projects will share best practices for the implementation of standards to provide services for FAIR data.
Technology Forum: developers of software/services discussing community open standards and approaches to FAIR in the astronomy research domain.
Scientific Training: PhD students and early career researchers learning interoperable tools and services and to gaining skills for OS publication and research in astronomy.
This contribution aims at describing the Astro-CC goals and activities while reporting on the first Tech Forum event happened in October 2025.
| Affiliation of the submitter | INAF |
|---|---|
| Attendance | in-person |
