EOSC Executive Board: European Commission has decided on its set-up

The governance mechanisms for European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) are beginning to take shape. On August 27, 2018, the European Commission (EC) published a Commission Decision specifying the set-up of the EOSC’s future Executive Board.

by Ines Drefs

The Executive Board is envisaged to be an expert group of up to eleven members – three independent experts, eight representatives of pan-European organisations – assisting the Commission in the first phase of the development of the EOSC until 2020. The group is supposed to meet up to eight times a year on Commission premises and adopt its opinions, recommendations or reports by consensus.

The Commission Decision specifies two major tasks of the Executive Board:

Providing advice and support on the strategy, implementation, monitoring and reporting on the progress of the implementation of the EOSC in the form of a strategic implementation plan, annual work plans, rules for participation and an action plan for scientific data interoperability to operationalise the FAIR principles.
Providing recommendations on the appropriate mechanisms and possible forms for the EOSC governance after 2020

The members of the Executive Board are selected through a public call for applications.

For further details about the set-up of the EOSC’s future Executive Board see the document below.

Author: Ines Drefs | ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics | International Advisor at the GO FAIR International Support & Coordination Office