ERC Workshop on Research Data Management and Sharing

FINAL PROGRAMME (PDF version)

Day 1: 18 September 2014

12:30 – 13:00

Arrival of participants, security check and registration

SESSION 1: Welcome and Introduction – Opening speech

Venue: Auditorium 'Nowotny' (25th floor)

13:00 – 13:25

• Professor Nicholas Canny, ERC Scientific Council, Chair of the Open Access working group
• Dr Theodore Papazoglou, Head of Unit ERCEA-A.1: Support to the Scientific Council

13:25 – 13:40

• Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President of the ERC

SESSION 2: Setting the scene

Venue: Auditorium 'Nowotny' (25th floor)

Chair: Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés, Vice President of the ERC, former member of the Open Access working group / Universitat Pompeu Fabra

13.40 – 15:00

• Professor Sabina Leonelli, Associate Professor (Philosophy and History of Science), ERC Starting Grant, University of Exeter
  • Data Sharing in Research: Four Key Concerns
• Dr Hans Pfeiffenberger, Speaker of the Helmholtz Open Science working group (and Chair of the Science Europe WG on Research Data)
  • The Open Science Imperative - Opportunities, Challenges and Limits
• Dr Bernd Pulverer, Head of Scientific Publishing, EMBO – European Molecular Biology Organization
  • Publishing Source Data: Finding and Accessing the Data Behind Figures
• Dr Roar Skålin, Special Adviser, Research Council of Norway
  • Norwegian Researchers Want to Share Data but Fear Jeopardising Their Career 

15.00 – 15:30

Coffee Break & moving to parallel sessions

SESSION 3a:

Domain specific perspectives: Life Sciences

Venue: Auditorium 'Nowotny' (25^th floor)

Moderator: Dr Barbara Ensoli, ERC Scientific Council/ National AIDS Center - Istituto Superiore di Sanità Rome

Co-moderator: Dr Anna Lönnroth Sjödén, Head of Unit ERCEA-B.3: Life Sciences

Rapporteur: Dr Ingrid Roxrud, ERCEA-B.2: Call and Project Follow-up Coordination

15.30 – 18:00

Presentations by invited ERC grantees from the Life Sciences domain

• Dr Iiris Hovatta, Group Leader, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki
  • Towards improved data management and sharing in behavioral neuroscience and genomics
• Dr Bouke de Jong,  Head of Unit Mycobacteriology at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
  • INTERRUPTB – Data management & -challenges
• Dr Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnemant (LSCE), Gif-sur-Yvette
  • User and provider perspectives on data sharing at the interface between Life and Earth sciences (please contact the speaker for a copy of the presentation)

Discussion followed by joint preparation of feedback to the plenary – key messages and recommendations

SESSION 3b:

Domain specific perspectives: Physical Sciences and Engineering

Venue: SDR 2&3 (25^th floor)

Moderator: Professor Pavel Exner, Vice President of the ERC / Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Co-moderator: Dr Martin Penny, Head of Unit ERCEA-B.4: Physical Sciences and Engineering

Rapporteur: Dr David Krasa, Team Leader, ERCEA-B.4: Physical Sciences and Engineering

15.30 – 18:00

Presentations by invited ERC grantees from the Physical Sciences and Engineering domain

• Professor Debra Laefer, Associate Professor, School of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University College Dublin
  • The euros and cents of open access data
• Professor Barbara Romanowicz, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris / Collège de France 
  • Data access and other related issues in seismic imaging of the Earth's deep interior
• Dr Cordelia Schmid,  INRIA Research Director, Grenoble 
  • Data access to images and videos in the context of visual recognition

Discussion followed by joint preparation of feedback to the plenary – key messages and recommendations 

SESSION 3c:

Domain specific perspectives: Social Sciences and Humanities

Venue: Ground floor Auditorium

Moderator: Professor Martin Stokhof, ERC Scientific Council / University of Amsterdam

Co-moderator: Professor Nicholas Canny, ERC Scientific Council, Chair of the Open Access working group

Rapporteur: Dr Pascal Dissard, Open Access Task force, Team Leader, ERCEA-B.2: Call and Project Follow-up Coordination

15.30 – 18:00

Presentations by invited ERC grantees from the Social Sciences and Humanities domain

• Dr Peter Stokes, Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
  • Data (Re)Use in the Humanities: The Example of DigiPal
• Dr Daniela Stockman,  Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Leiden University
  • Authoritarianism2.0:  Keeping Big Data Safe in China
• Professor Jo Van Biesebroeck, Department of Economics, University of Leuven  
  • Using confidential & proprietary administrative data in research

Discussion followed by joint preparation of feedback to the plenary – key messages and recommendations 

18:00

End of Day 1

Day 2: 19 September 2014

8.30 – 9:00

Arrival of participants and security check

SESSION 4: Reporting from the parallel sessions of Day 1 and debate

Venue: Auditorium 'Nowotny' (25^th floor)

Chair: Dr José Labastida, Head of Department, ERCEA-B: Scientific Management

9.00 – 10:00

• Dr Ingrid Roxrud, ERCEA-B.2
  • Report from the session on 'Domain specific perspectives: Life Sciences'
• Dr David Krasa, ERCEA-B.3
  • Report from the session on 'Domain specific perspectives: Physical Sciences and Engineering'
• Dr Pascal Dissard, ERCEA-B.2
  • Report from the session on 'Domain specific perspectives: Social Sciences and Humanities'

10:00 – 10:10

Moving to parallel sessions (coffee will be served during the parallel sessions)

SESSION 5a: Cross-cutting issues: Data management and data sharing

Venue: Auditorium 'Nowotny' (25^th floor)

Moderator: Dr Theodore Papazoglou, Head of Unit ERCEA-A.1: Support to the Scientific Council

Co-moderator: Dr Monique Smaihi, Team Leader, ERCEA-B.2: Call and Project Follow-up Coordination

Rapporteur: Dr Sebastian Winkler, ERCEA-B.5: Social Sciences and Humanities 

10:10 – 12:30

Presentations by invited speakers

• Sarah Jones, Senior Institutional Support Officer, DCC – Digital Curation Centre
  • Managing and sharing data
• Dr Jacob Kornbeck, Legal Officer, Policy & Consultation Unit, Secretariat of the European Data Protection Supervisor
  • The EU Data Protection Reform: what researchers should know

Short contribution:

• Mahsa Shabani, PhD Researcher, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven
  • Ethical and Legal Challenges of Data Sharing in Genomic Research

Discussion followed by joint preparation of feedback to the plenary – key messages and recommendations

SESSION 5b: Cross-cutting issues: Data storage and curation – quality, sustainability and interoperability

Venue: SDR 2&3 (25^th floor)

Moderator: Professor Martin Stokhof, ERC Scientific Council, Open Access working group / University of Amsterdam 

Co-moderator: Dr Ben Tubbing, Head of Unit ERCEA-B.1:  Process Management and Review 

Rapporteur: Dr Alice Rajewsky, Team Leader, ERCEA-B.5: Social Sciences and Humanities 

10:10 – 12:30

Presentations by invited speakers

• Dr Ingrid Dillo, Deputy Director, DANS – Data Archiving and Networked Services
  • European Digital Repository Certification: the way forward
• Dr Mark Hahnel, Founder, figshare
  • Future-proofing digital research

Short contribution:

• Dr Andreas-Alexander Maul, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany
  • Geodata Management at BGR and its Challenges

Discussion followed by joint preparation of feedback to the plenary – key messages and recommendations

SESSION 5c: Cross-cutting issues: Data discoverability, data access and data (re-)use

Venue: SDR 'Dingwell' (20^th floor)

Moderator: Professor Tomasz Dietl, ERC Scientific Council, Open Access working group / Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences

Co-moderator: Dr Barbara Ensoli, ERC Scientific Council / National AIDS Center, Rome  
Rapporteur: Dr Line Fredslund Volkers, Open Access Task force, ERCEA-B.2: Call and Project Follow-up Coordination 

10:10 – 12:30

Presentations by invited speakers

• Dr Jo McEntyre, Head of Literature Services,  European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
  • Enabling Open Science: Data Discoverability, Access and (Re)use
• Dr Stavroula Karapapa, Associate Professor at the School of Law, University of Reading  
  • Copyright and the Big Data: Regulating the power of knowledge 

Short contribution:

•  Dr Hylke Koers, Head of Content Innovation, Elsevier
  • Supporting research data sharing, discovery, and usage at Elsevier

Discussion followed by joint preparation of feedback to the plenary – key messages and recommendations

SESSION 5d: Cross-cutting issues: Rewards and incentives for good data management, data sharing and re-use

Venue: SDR 'Mas-Colell' (23^rd floor)

Moderator: Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés, Vice President of the ERC, former member of the Open Access working group / Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Co-moderator: Dr Tim Hunt, ERC Scientific Council, Open Access working group

Rapporteur: Dr Claudia Alves de Jesus Rydin, Open Access Task force, ERCEA-B.4: Physical Sciences and Engineering 

10:10 – 12:30

Presentations by invited speakers

• Dr Paul Ayris, Chair of the Chief Information Officers Community, LERU - League of European Research Universities:
  • Implementing the Future: the LERU Roadmap for Research Data
• Dr Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Open Science Research Fellow, CERN / ODIN - Orcid and DataCite Interoperability Network
  • Incentives for Open Science: Attribution, Recognition, Collaboration

Short contribution:

• Dr Veerle Van den Eynden, Manager Research Data Management Team, UK Data Archive, University of Essex
  • Incentives for sharing research data: evidence from five European case studies

Discussion followed by joint preparation of feedback to the plenary – key messages and recommendations

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch break

SESSION 6: Reporting from the breakout sessions of Day 2 and debate

Venue: Auditorium 'Nowotny' (25^th floor)

Chair: Dr Theodore Papazoglou, Head of Unit ERCEA-A.1: Support to the Scientific Council

13.30 – 14:45

• Dr Sebastian Winkler, ERCEA-B.5:
  • Report from the session on 'Cross-cutting issues – Data management and data sharing'
• Dr Alice Rajewsky, ERCEA-B.5:
  • Report from the session on 'Cross-cutting issues – Data storage and curation – quality, sustainability and interoperability'
• Dr Line Fredslund Volkers, ERCEA-B.2:
  • Report from the session on 'Cross-cutting issues – Data discoverability, data access and data (re-)use'
• Dr Claudia Alves de Jesus Rydin, ERCEA-B.4:
  • Report from the session on 'Cross-cutting issues – Rewards and incentives for good data management, data sharing and re-use'

SESSION 7: Round table discussion and closing

Venue: Auditorium 'Nowotny' (25^th floor)

Chair: Professor Nicholas Canny, ERC Scientific Council, Chair of the Open Access working group

14.45 – 15:50

Discussion with invited panel members and the audience

• Dr Jean-Claude Burgelman, European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, Head of Unit RTD-A.6: Science policy, foresight and data
• Dr Jennifer Lin, Senior Product Manager, Data Program Lead, PLOS – Public Library of Science
• Géraldine Clément-Stoneham, Knowledge and Information Manager, Medical Research Council
• Professor Torbjørn Digernes, Former Rector at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology / EUA - European University Association and Chair of the Open Access WG of CESAER – Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research
• Dr Lynn Kamerlin, Chair of the Young Academy of Europe, ERC Starting Grant, Uppsala University

15.50 – 16:00

Closing remarks – lessons learnt and next steps

• Professor Nicholas Canny, ERC Scientific Council, Chair of the Open Access working group

16:00

End of the workshop