Advancing Social Science Collaboration through Open Science: The Czech Republic’s EOSC Journey

The Czech Republic is currently establishing a national node as part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative. This node aims to promote best practices in research data management across scientific communities on a federated basis. A key objective of the EOSC implementation in the Czech Republic is to develop a National Data Infrastructure (NDI), a shared platform for data sharing, management, and access to computational resources for research purposes.

The NDI implementation is designed to support scientific and multidisciplinary research activities across a wide range of disciplines, including the social sciences. Within this scope, the new Open Science II project plays a pivotal role by focusing on the social sciences as one of its target areas. What is particularly innovative is the collaboration it fosters among fields such as sociology, social geography, and economics—disciplines that traditionally operate independently.

The project addresses challenges related to new data types, including synthetic data, AI-generated data, data from maps and paradata, while exploring their potential to advance social science research. The poster will present the key themes tackled within the project, highlight the collaborative efforts among social science disciplines, and identify specific challenges that arise in this context.