The Eastern Partnership E-Infrastructures Conferences (EaPEC), which are held within the framework of the "EaPConnect" (EU4Digital: Connecting Research and Education Communities) project coordinated by the European Academic Network GÉANT, in which TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM is on the program committee, aim to expand the cooperation relations between the Eastern Partnership countries.

More than 30 countries participated in the EaPEC 2022 Conference, the fifth of which was held in Baku on September 28-29, 2022 under the slogan "Making Connections".

At the conference, where topics such as the development of electronic education, "open science" platform, cloud technology, cyber security of science and education, efficient use of information resources collected in the field of science and education were discussed, ULAKBIM Director M. Mirat Satoğlu participated as a speaker in the panel "Open Science: Collaboration and Dissemination of Knowledge" panel and "Sustainability of National Research and Education Networks" special session. In his presentation, Satoğlu highlighted the concerns, questions and experiences of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM in providing research e-infrastructure, explained the adoption process of Open Science in Turkey and summarized the plans for the next 10 years. Ebru Soyuyüce Aydın from TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM chaired the "Open Science" and "e-Health" sessions of the conference.

In the digital humanities session, Irmak Güneş Yüceil from the Ministry of Culture presented an exemplary project on cultural heritage management MUES (Turkish National Museum Inventory System), whose goal is to "carry Anatolian cultural heritage into the future".

Prof. Dr. Bilge Demirköz from Middle East Technical University The closing keynote speech "The beginning of a long journey: From Big Data to Scientific Wisdom" gave the audience a lot of insight and was a very inspiring talk. Prof. Demirköz spoke passionately about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and his involvement in space exploration and science diplomacy activities. The concept of scientific wisdom, where science touches the mind, heart and soul, reveals the true meaning and importance of scientific research. His presentation was a fitting finale to the program hosted by Azerbaijan.

All presentations are available on the EaPEC 2022 conference website (https://conferences.eapconnect.eu/), download the conference recordings from the GÉANTtv YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GEANTtv) you can watch.