CCNet

The Competence Centre Network (CCNet) is closely tied to the Skills4EOSC project. CCNet offers a vehicle for the sustainability and continued development of the Skills4EOSC project outputs, to maintain usable and up-to-date resources for Open Science.

Competence Centre Network

What is CCNet?

The Competence Centre Network (CCNet) was launched in the summer of 2025 as an outcome of the Horizon Europe-funded Skills4EOSC project (2022–2025). CCNet is a coordinated network of Competence Centres across Europe that provides key competencies to enable the practice of Open Science and EOSC. 

These Competence Centres serve as a key point of reference in their respective countries, regions or thematic domains for finding training programmes and materials, best practices and tools for managing, reusing, sharing and analysing FAIR data and other digital research objects.

As part of the commitment to promoting EOSC and Open Science, each Competence Centre has access to a bank of training materials targeting different profiles, ranging from policymakers to data stewards, researchers to professionals, and legal and ethical advisors, on a variety of topics and domains such as Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) aspects, RDM workflows in different disciplines, and more.

The role of SND in CCNet

SND is one of the currently 11 Competence Centres and a full member of the CCNet General Assembly. SND has two representatives in the General Assembly, William Illsley and Arin Tham.

Benefits to the research community

SND’s membership in the CCNet provides support for Swedish research organisations and research data management (RDM) personnel opportunities for networking and peer learning, training and capacity-building, as well as partnerships and advocacy, expert knowledge, and training resources.

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