During the 2017 Fall AGU Meeting in New Orleans, representatives from COOPEUS and COOP+ stakeholder research infrastructures took advantage of the opportunity to co-locate a meeting of the COOPEUS Strategic Cooperation Board and the recently formed COOP+ Open Board. The group met on 14 December 2017 to hear brief activity updates from COOPEUS and COOP+, to hold the inaugural meeting of the COOP+ Open Board, and to discuss the re-alignment of the governance of the two efforts. From the meeting, we have realigned this newsletter as the Strategic Cooperation Council (SCC).
Discussions on governance identified the need to avoid overlap and proliferation of these types of activities. Closely linked to the overlap conversation, the group also discussed the appropriate focus for governance e.g. procedural, decisional, process. The group also highlighted the important role that governance can play in facilitating culture change in these communities of practice. A decision was made to hold another face-to-face meeting with a notion to include representatives from other entities that work in aligned spaces, such as RDA, World Data System, CODATA, GEO, and ESIP. The tentative plan is to co-locate this meeting at EGU in April 2018.
The COOP+ Open Board portion of meeting outlined the Open Board structure and function and presented an overview of a key deliverable for the COOP+ project to be developed by the Open Board in consultation with the SCB. This deliverable is a strategic planning document for COOP+.
The meeting at AGU is part of a new effort to hold monthly tag-ups of these groups. These monthly tag-ups are designed to identify and share knowledge gained as part of COOPEUS and COOP+ projects and activities. These meetings are also part of the effort to re-think the organizational aspects of the overarching activity. The hope is to create a common sense of direction and a shared history of constructive interactions. This shared history of progress will better support the overarching goals to align national and regional research infrastructures with their counterparts in other regions.
See our Meeting Agenda
here.
