Skills4EOSC supports the first EPOS Summer School on geoscience data and Open Science

The first EPOS Summer School is taking place this week, from 23 to 27 June 2025, at Espai Cràter in Olot, Spain. Organised by the European Plate Observing System (EPOS), the school focuses on geoscience research data and their practical applications in an Open Science environment.

Skills4EOSC supports this initiative, which aligns perfectly with the project's goals of advancing skills in Research Data Management (RDM) and FAIR data practices across scientific domains.

The programme offers participants — including PhD students, postdocs and Early Career Scientists — a comprehensive and hands-on journey through RDM topics tailored to the geoscience community. From foundational concepts to more advanced issues such as legislation, licensing and persistent identifiers, the summer school is designed to provide both theoretical insights and practical tools.

A central element of the training is the use and processing of multidisciplinary data within the EPOS platform. Participants are learning to design and implement workflows for data discovery, sharing, and reuse, also using technologies such as Jupyter Notebooks.

The summer school features collaborative work on real-world use cases, some of which are proposed by the participants themselves, promoting peer learning and interdisciplinary exchange. Group discussions and reflection sessions complement the hands-on activities, offering a space to address challenges and debunk common myths around Open Science and FAIR data.

Skills4EOSC's contribution supports the training dimension of the event, fostering capacity-building and the development of practical competences for the next generation of researchers working with complex and distributed data.