Skills for the European Open Science Commons: Creating a Training Ecosystem for Open and FAIR Science

The field of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, re-usable) data principles and open data is important for today’s researchers. Collecting, processing, and analysing data are important activities for every researcher. To assist them, Competence Centres (CCs) bring together open science (OS) and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) activities in order to provide the expertise available within research institutions, and universities. CCs deliver training and support. The EU-funded Skills4EOSC project aims to unify the existing training landscape into a common and trusted pan-European ecosystem of CCs on OS and data, to accelerate the upskilling of European researchers and data professionals in the field of FAIR and Open Data, intensive-data science, and scientific data management.