Seminar
The European legal framework for research data
- Ludovica Paseri
- Date
- Friday 7 March 2025
- Time
- Series
- CWTS Research Seminars
- Location
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Willem Einthoven
Kolffpad 1
2333 BN Leiden
Abstract of presentation
Research data governance is currently characterized by a tension between two seemingly conflicting factors: the autonomy of the scientific community, guaranteed by Academic Freedom, on the one hand; on the other hand, the EU complex regulatory framework on research data. To understand whether these two conflicting factors may align, the analysis focuses on the flow of research data, distinguishing between incoming, i.e., data collected or created outside the field of research but reused for the benefit of science, and outgoing data, i.e., data produced by the research sector and then shared. The analysis of the research data flow points out three research data governance bottlenecks: (i) normative uncertainty and the increased standardization of research practices; (ii) the lack of efficacy of strategies currently at work; and (iii) the under-representation of the scientific community. The aim is to present research data stewardship as a fruitful way in which public actors may develop a proactive role in promoting Academic Freedom, through different levels of intervention and the engagements of multiple interests involved.
About the presenter
Ludovica Paseri is a postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics at the Department of Law, University of Turin. In 2022, she obtained a PhD in Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, in co-tutelle with the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) of the University of Luxembourg, where she obtained the doctoral degree in Computer Science as part of the LAST-JD Joint International and Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in “Law, Science and Technology”. Her doctoral research is on “The European legal approach to Open Science and research data”. In 2017, she graduated in Law at the University of Turin, with a dissertation titled “The European strategy for cloud computing. Problems and perspectives”. Author of several publications and a book, Ludovica is passionate about research activities, engaged in promoting the debate on the interplay between law, technology, and science and teaches the course in “Law and Digital Society” at the Faculty of Computer science of the Università del Piemonte Orientale (UPO). Her research interests encompass the governance of scientific research data, the European Open Science policies, the right to privacy and personal data protection and the role of institutions in the digital revolution. Fellow of the Nexa Center for Internet and Society at Politecnico and the University of Turin, her current research mainly concerns open science and research data, privacy and data protection, law and technology, AI & law. She has recently edited a double special issue on “Open Science and Data Protection” for JOAL, Cornell University.