The GSO Activities and Report Juan Bicarregui STFC, Head of Data Division RCUK, Chair of Data Policy subgroup RDA, Co-chair of Organisational Advisory Board GSO, UK representative on Data Working Group

Outline Mandate of the GSO Ministerial Communiqué, 2013 The 2015 GSO Report Ministerial Communiqué, 2015

Mandate of the GSO (2008++) Established at the G8 Ministerial meeting, Okinawa, 2008: The Group of Senior Officials (GSO) on GRIs was established to: provide a non-binding and open forum for policy exchanges on GRIs and to inform and improve international cooperation; share information about existing and planned new RIs; establish principles for the development of new partnerships and collaborations.

2013 - G8 Ministerial Statement London, June 2013 Global Challenges antimicrobial resistance Global Research Infrastructure Renewed mandate for GSO Open Scientific Research Data “…scientific research data should be open…”

The GSO report (Oct 2015) Policy Areas: Mandates by the G8 Ministers Framework for Research Infrastructures of Global Interest and related Questionnaire Analysis of submitted projects Policy Areas: Promoting Access to Ris Access to data and data management Alignment of evaluation criteria and prioritisation processes Life Cycle issues Legal framework for GRIs Examples of new initiatives of relevance to GSO RDA Future Actions for the GSO New collaborations Case studies Annex: List of GRIs

2015 - G7 Ministerial Statement Berlin Oct 2015 , Neglected tropical diseases Future of the Seas and Oceans Global Research Infrastructures (GRIs) “… Further progress on sharing and managing scientific data and information should be achieved, especially by continuing engagement with community based activities such as the Research Data Alliance RDA. We encourage the GSO to continue their work on convergence and alignment of inter-operable data management that could accomplish an effective open-data science environment at the G7 level and beyond.” Clean Energy