A very interesting article by Tiberius Ignat and Paul Ayris, which examines the cultural change needed by universities.

2nd Open Call was launched this week by the EOSC Sustainability Working Group, which is looking for an expert to perform a study of EOSC Core Operational Costs. The deadline to apply for this call is on the 5th of March, assignment of the successful candidate by 13th of March, with the first results expected by mid-April.

The Open Call has been published with all information pertaining to it and may be found at the following link:

You can access RDA February Newsletter from here. It contains P15 Programme Highlights, reports, adoption stories and more.

On 24 of February 2020, in the premises of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University, the RDA-BG Node team met with the Bulgarian coordinators of the E-Infrastructure for Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage - CLaDA-BG  https://clada-bg.eu/, representatives of the pan-European infrastructures for language resources and technologies - CLARIN (

Below you can access the book:

"A New Approach to Research Ethics. Using Guided Dialogue to Strengthen Research Communities" by Henriikka Mustajoki and Arto Mustajoki

EOSC Sustainability and Landscape WGs new blog posts. Please find them here:

On 13 February 2020 in Sofia University Conference Hall took place the Kick-off Meeting of the Research Data Alliance – Bulgaria Node under the coordination of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI). It was attended by more than 30 representatives of the Bulgarian academic and research community among which were the Deputy Minister of Education and Science Mrs. Karina Angelieva and experts from the Ministry of Education and Science, as well as the Director of the National Centre for Information and Documentation (NCID) Mrs.

The case of Bulgarian RDA-Europe supported project is presented in the blog series of RDA, aiming to introduce the eight Adoption Grant cases supported in 2019, giving an overview of their project remits and demonstrating the practical approaches organisations can take when looking to implement the RDA’s Recommendations & Outputs.

The Bulgarian RDA node opening conference will be held on 13 of February 2020 at 13.00 in the Conference Hall in Sofia University main Building.

The main focus of the conference will be to present the activities and the main principles of the Research DATA Alliance, and to discuss its mission to facilitate and encourage research data sharing and data-driven innovations in a global perspective.

On 21st of March 2020, the Bulgarian RDA node will organize a conference session dedicated on  "Development of Open Science in Bulgaria - challenges and perspectives".

It will be held during the traditional Spring conference of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.