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On 27 May 2025, the General Assembly of the European Open Science Cloud Association elected Professor Klaus Tochtermann as its new President during its meeting in Antwerp. The Director of ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics will assume the presidency of the European Open Science Cloud Association as of 1 July 2025 as part of an honorary engagement. The European Open Science Cloud is the central European research data infrastructure for science, supported by one billion euros in funding. As President, Klaus Tochtermann will represent the voice of the scientific community in future negotiation processes and will play a key role in shaping the future development of EOSC.
The members of the European Open Science Cloud Association (EOSC-A) elected Professor Klaus Tochtermann as their new President with the required two-thirds majority on 27 May 2025 in Antwerp. Tochtermann, who has served on the eight-member Board of Directors of the EOSC Association since 2020, will take office on 1 July 2025.
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is the central European research data infrastructure, whose development is supported through 2030 by approximately one billion euros from European Commission programmes, EU Member States and associated countries.
The EOSC Association represents the interests of the scientific community in negotiations with the European Commission and Member States concerning the long-term design and development of the EOSC. The Association currently unites more than 250 member organisations.
Klaus Tochtermann aims to secure the sustainable integration of EOSC in the European Commission’s upcoming 10th Framework Programme. He also plans to strengthen the dialogue with actors across the European research system and further develop the governance structures necessary for the operation and advancement of EOSC, ensuring continued representation of all relevant stakeholders. Tochtermann underlines the importance of a strong voice for the scientific community in times of transformation.
Klaus Tochtermann is a nationally and internationally recognised expert in the Open Science movement, with a focus on research data management. As Director of ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and a specialist in digital information infrastructures and Open Science, he brings substantial experience in shaping the EOSC. From the very beginning, he was closely involved in its development. Since 2015, he has played a key role in the two High-Level Expert Groups on the European Open Science Cloud initiated by the European Commission, which helped to define both the strategic foundations and the practical implementation steps of EOSC.
"I am honoured to take on this role. For me, the European Open Science Cloud is more than a digital infrastructure – it represents a new era of collaboration between researchers and infrastructure providers within the European research landscape. As President, I want to help ensure that Europe, with a robust EOSC, plays a leading role in the global exchange of knowledge and research," said Tochtermann following his election.
Press photos of Prof. Dr Klaus Tochtermann: https://www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns/presse/pressebilder/menschen
About the European Open Science Cloud Association (EOSC-A):
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a European initiative aiming to interconnect existing data infrastructures across Europe and make them interoperable. The goal is to provide researchers with a virtual environment in which they can store, manage, analyse and reuse research data across disciplines and borders. The first version of the EOSC became available in October 2024. The EOSC Association was established as a legal entity on 29 July 2020 to govern and further develop the initiative. Today, the Association has more than 250 member organisations, including research institutions and infrastructures across Europe.
Website: http://www.eosc.eu
About the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics:
The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is the world's largest information infrastructure for economic literature. The institution holds approximately 4 million media items and provides access to millions of digital economics documents. In 2025 alone, over 20 million digital downloads were recorded. The ZBW also maintains a rapidly growing collection of open access publications. EconStor, its digital repository, currently offers more than 288,000 freely accessible working papers and journal articles. EconBiz, the ZBW’s subject portal for economics, enables students and researchers to search more than 11 million records. The ZBW also publishes two economics journals – Wirtschaftsdienst and Intereconomics – in gold open access. The ZBW is a research-based infrastructure and conducts interdisciplinary research on Open Science through professorships in computer science, economics, and information science. It is internationally connected through research partnerships, mainly in the context of projects funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) or the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, as well as through the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The ZBW is a member of the Leibniz Association and a public-law foundation.
URL: http://www.zbw.eu
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