Covid 19 has given a decisive push for Open Science as modus operandi for science in the 21st century. It showed the benefits of open data and access and global collaborative networks. Since several years, Europe has drawn the card of Open Science and will continue to do so in the future whilst at the same time making sure its ‘’digital sovereignty’’ gets protected. This webinar presents the policy framework and the main components of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). It points the way for the integration and consolidation of e-infrastructures at national, regional and institutional public research infrastructures across Europe. Similar open science cloud initiatives were taken in other regions in the world. What is in it for Latin America and the Caribbean? Speaker: Jean-Claude BURGELMAN is currently Part time Professor at the Free university of Brussels, Faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School. As former Head of the Open Science Unit, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission, he was responsible for open science and data policies. He joined the European Commission in 1999 as a Visiting Scientist in the Joint Research Centre (the Institute of Prospective Technological Studies - IPTS), where he became Head of the Information Society Unit in 2005. In January 2008, he moved to the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (attached to the president of the EC) as adviser for innovation policy. In 2008 he joined DG RTD, as advisor and then Head of Unit in charge of top level advisory boards like the European Research and Innovation Area Board, the Innovation for Growth Group and the European Forum for Forward Looking Activities. Until 2000 he was full professor of communication technology policy at the Free University of Brussels, as well as director of the Centre for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication and was involved in science and technology assessment. He has been visiting professor at the University of Antwerp, the European College of Bruges and the University of South Africa and sits on the board of several academic journals. He chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Innovation and was a member of its Science Advisory Committee. Moderator: Wouter Schallier, Chief of Hernan Santa Cruz Library, ECLAC, United Nations