2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects

On 15 January 2025, a large-scale online event took place (with approximately 500 participants) – the presentation of the 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects, announced as part of the activities of the OSCARS (Open-Science Clusters’ Action for Research and Society) collaboration.

The collaboration includes leading European research infrastructures, grouped into thematic clusters by fields: Humanities and Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Photon and Neutron Science, Astronomy, Nuclear and Particle Physics (https://science-clusters.eu/).

In total, 58 projects received funding in the first round of the call, selected from 264 proposals submitted by 607 organisations. The event featured six speakers, all leaders of winning projects, including Volodymyr Kotsiubynskyi, who presented the project “Advanced Materials Open Science Centre at the Precarpathian National University (PNU-OpenLab)”, implemented by a team from the Precarpathian National University (https://oscars-project.eu/projects/pnu-openlab-advanced-materials-open-science-centre-precarpathian-national-university).

The entry of the Ukrainian team into the Science Clusters, which are an integral part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), is an important step towards the integration of Ukrainian scientists into the European research area.