On March 29, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) cooperated with the International Science Council (ISC), its Committee on Data (CODATA), and the World Data System (WDS), to organize an open-science symposium.

Recently, a new partnership between the Global Open Science Cloud (GOSC) initiative and the Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) project has been established.

On February 3rd, GOSC International Programme Office (IPO) co-hosted by Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences received its first new-year visitors from the China Centre for International Science and Technology Exchange.

As the new year begins, the Global Open Science Cloud (GOSC) initiative starts a new partnership with the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) to jointly promote global open science practices in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).