<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><img src="https://www.fairsfair.eu/sites/all/themes/arcadia/logo.png" alt="" width="600" height="124" style="margin: 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; float: right;">Would you like to get dedicated support for your data repository to contribute to a culture change necessary to achieve wide adoption of FAIR practices within the EOSC and beyond? </p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The FAIRsFAIR project started to work on practical solutions for the use of the FAIR data principles throughout the research data life cycle. Emphasis is on fostering FAIR data culture and the uptake of good practices in making data FAIR. FAIRsFAIR will play a key role in the development of standards for FAIR Certification of repositories and their data holdings, contributing to policies and practices that will turn the EOSC programme into a functioning infrastructure.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Through this Open Call for Participation FAIRsFAIR seeks to support data repositories with two different initiatives:</p><ol style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68);list-style-position:initial;line-height:26px"><li style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Support for data repositories towards achieving CoreTrustSeal certification (</span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><a href="http://www.coretrustseal.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(45,53,142)">www.coretrustseal.org</a></strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">): a financial incentive as well as dedicated support for pre-submission to the CoreTrustSeal certification process;</span></li><li style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Support for the “FAIRification” of your repositories by discussing and designing implementation features that enable and increase repository interoperability. This will be achieved through building and testing prototypes of an interoperability layer for data repositories, and will ultimately improve the FAIRness of data in repositories that enable FAIR data.</span></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">We welcome repository managers and representatives to apply to one, or if applicable to both of the support initiatives below. Registration deadline is Friday, 30th of August 2019.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Any questions can be addressed to <a href="mailto:opencall@fairsfair.eu" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(45,53,142)">opencall@fairsfair.eu</a>.  </p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Thanks,</span></p><div>Asha</div>-- <div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://codata2019.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">REGISTRATION OPEN: CODATA 2019 Beijing, 19-20 Sept</a>: Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold">VizAfrica Botswana, 18-19 Nov: Call for Presentations and Posters</a> - deadline 19 August</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div><a href="https://conference.codata.org/Helsinki-CODATA-2019/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold">CODATA-Helsinki Workshop on FAIR RDM in Institutions, 20-21 Oct (pre-RDA Event: Call for Presentations and Posters</a> - deadline 6 Sept</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.codata.org/news/338/62/Call-for-Applications-to-Host-International-Data-Week-2021-or-2023" target="_blank"><b>Call for Applications to Host International Data Week 2021 or 2023</b></a> - deadline 30 September</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><a href="http://codata.org/blog/2019/07/01/june-2019-publications-in-the-data-science-journal/" target="_blank">June 2019 Publications</a> in the <a href="https://datascience.codata.org/" target="_blank">CODATA Data Science Journal</a> </b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">___________________________<br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>