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+title: "European Galaxy Days 2025: Many communities, one buzzing week in Freiburg"
+date: "2025-10-15"
+authors: "Armin Dadras, Björn Grüning, and Hans-Rudolf Hotz"
+tease: "1–3 Oct 2025, Freiburg: European Galaxy Days, ELIXIR Galaxy, and EuroScienceGateway members convened to align roadmaps and turn plans into solutions, tools, and workflows through talks, demos, and a CoFest."
+tags: [eosc, meeting, esg, esg-wp1, esg-wp2, esg-wp3, esg-wp4, esg-wp5, conference, egd]
+supporters: [eosc, unifreiburg, esg, elixir, eu]
+subsites: [all, esg]
+main_subsite: eu
+---
+From **1–3 October 2025**, the [University of Freiburg](https://uni-freiburg.de/en/) hosted a packed, three-in-one meeting: **European Galaxy Days (EGD)**, the **[ELIXIR Galaxy Community](https://elixir-europe.org/communities/galaxy) face-to-face meeting**, and the **[EuroScienceGateway (ESG)](https://galaxyproject.org/projects/esg/) Final Meeting** with ~100 participants (87 in person + 12 online). Running side-by-side, these events created a special week where platform maintainers, tool and workflow developers, and domain scientists aligned roadmaps and moved from slides to practical solutions and future collaborations.
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+Across talks, demos, Birds-of-a-Feathers (BoFs), and a concluding hackathon, the week showed how the Galaxy ecosystem is advancing research across domains from [Microbiology](https://microbiology.usegalaxy.org/), [Materials Science](https://materials.usegalaxy.eu/), [Ecology](https://ecology.usegalaxy.eu/), [Climate Science](https://climate.usegalaxy.eu/), [Imaging](https://imaging.usegalaxy.eu/), and [Digital Humanities](https://galaxyproject.org/community/sig/digital-humanities/). Freiburg’s campus hosted hybrid sessions and BoFs across multiple rooms, with Friday dedicated to a focused Co-Fest & Hackathon where groups squashed bugs, improved tools, tuned workflows, and formed plans for next collaborations. Coverage rolled out on [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/tags/EGD2025), [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/hashtag/EGD2025?author=galaxyproject.bsky.social), and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23egd2025&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED&sid=kCg) (47 posts with #EGD2025), while Matrix channels ([usegalaxy-eu Lobby](https://matrix.to/#/#usegalaxy-eu_Lobby:gitter.im) and [use-galaxy announce](https://matrix.to/#/!ArjKhGljVCmzqxhauY:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=matrix.uni-freiburg.de&via=t2bot.io)) supported live coordination and announcements.
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+Slides & photos
+<!--- To do by Armin until next week --->
+  - Photo gallery: https://photos.app.goo.gl/haiWYYBryV4pKvxe9
+  - Slides: 
+  | Slide Title | Presenter(s) | Link |
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+| Welcome, Logistics & General Galaxy and ELIXIR Update | Hans-Rudolf Hotz | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1066 |
+| Special Interest Groups and Working Groups: the Galaxy Governance Model | Marisa Loach | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1067 |
+| The Microbiology Galaxy Lab and the effort from the microGalaxy to build the first community-driven gateway for reproducible and FAIR analysis of microbial data | Bérénice Batut | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1021 |
+| Building More Usable Galaxy Workflows with Improved Dataset Collections | John Chilton, Marius van den Beek, Ahmed Awan | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1069 |
+| Building More Usable Galaxy Workflows with Improved Dataset Collections | Mina Hojat Ansari, Paul Zierep, Judith Korb | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1070 |
+| Managing materials science workflows with Galaxy at STFC | Leandro Liborio, Patrick Austin, Subindev Devadasanet al | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1071 |
+| The ISCC Discovery Protocol: Decentralized signing, timestamping, and discovery for the International Standard Content Code (ISCC) | Titusz Pan | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1072 |
+| The Galaxy Community in Switzerland | Hans-Rudolf Hotz, Lucille Delisle, Vipin T. Sreedharan | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1073 |
+| Galaxy Small Scale Admins | Hans-Rudolf Hotz, Lucille Delisle | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1074 |
+| Single Cell and Spatial Omics Community | Marisa Loach | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1075 |
+| The Biodiversity Galaxy Lab: A Collaborative Hub with curated tools, workflows and training | Solenne Correard | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1076 |
+| Galaxy Datarmor Present and Future Perspectives | Jérôme Detoc | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1077 |
+| Streamlining the User Experience for Reproducible Image Analysis in Galaxy | Armin Dadras, Leonid Kostrykin, Beatriz Serrano-Solanoet al | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1080 |
+| From Galaxy to EGA: Orchestrating Sensitive Data Access for Interactive Federated Analysis. | María Chavero Díez | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1081 |
+| Dynamic Meta-Scheduling in Galaxy with TPV Broker for Smarter Workload Distribution | Paul De Geest | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1082 |
+| On-demand, Reproducible Galaxy Instances in a Secure Environment for the Dutch Scientific Community | Mirela Minkova | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1083 |
+| Automatic tool generation for SAQC and OGS – Community building beyond users | Matthias Bernt | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1084 |
+| Evolution of Galaxy at Bologna Sant’Orsola Hospital | Giuseppe Profiti | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1085 |
+| Precision Diagnosis and Risk Stratification of Helicobacter pylori-Induced Gastritis Using Multi-Omics Machine Learning Signatures Or The Synergy Between Complex Research Projects and Galaxy | Paul Zierep, Georg Häcker, Rolf Backofen | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1086 |
+| Broadening the Galaxy: Introducing Digital Humanities in Galaxy | Daniela Schneider | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1087 |
+| Serving Locally Hosted LLMs with Galaxy | Arash Kadkhodaei | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1088 |
+| pyGenomeTracks – make a publishable figure out of your NGS data | Lucille Lopez-Delisle | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1089 |
+| Galaxy Ecology: A new "2 step approach" to contribute source code for Galaxy (re)users(From raw data to operational indicators through essential variables) | Yvan Le Bras, Arhur Barreau, Marie Josséet al | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1090 |
+| Galaxy Tools 2.0 — The next step in accessibility? | Marius van den Beek | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1091 |
+| Simple and Secure Credential Handling for Tools in Galaxy | Alireza Heidari, Arash Kadkhodaei, David Lopezet al | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1092 |
+| New integrations: ELNs (eLabFTW, RSpace) and ARC job runner | José Manuel Domínguez | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1093 |
+| Making Galaxy workflows sustainable and FAIR | Nicola Soranzo | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1094 |
+| Galaxy Ecology 2025 update | Yvan Le Bras | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1095 |
+| Galaxy facing EARTH SYSTEM challenges | Jérôme Detoc, Marie Jossé, Pauline Seguineauet al | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1096 |
+| Updates from the Imaging Community | Beatriz Serrano-Solano | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1097 |
+| Modern Genome Browsing in Galaxy with JBrowse2 | Anthony Bretaudeau | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1098 |
+| GALAXY & ONEDATA INTEGRATION — managing Galaxy data using Onedata (BYOD & BYOS) | Lukasz Opiola | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1099 |
+| Automating Galaxy Tool Management Using Templated Repository | Martin Čech | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1100 |
+| Sustainability of a Platform: The Case of Galaxy | Jain Smitesh | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1101 |
+| A “trivial” task: how to access my files and projects on the HPC file system from Galaxy? | Nikolay Vazov | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1102 |
+| Laniakea Nebula: VPN-Based Isolation for Galaxy Private Deployments | Marco Antonio Tangaro, Federico Zambelli | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1103 |
+| Exploring the Galaxy Training Network: What’s Here, What’s New | Teresa Müller | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1104 |
+| RO-Crate features in Galaxy (that you might already be using) | Eli Chadwick | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1105 |
+| EuroScienceGateway – Final Project Meeting (Work Package 1) | Armin Dadras, Anika Erxleben-Eggenhofer | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1106 |
+| Achievements of Work Package 2 of EuroScienceGateway – Stimulate FAIR and Reusable Research | Eli Chadwick, Stian Soiland-Reyes | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1107 |
+| Achievements of Work Package 3 of EuroScienceGateway – The European Pulsar Network and Open Infrastructure | Marco Antonio Tangaro | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1108 |
+| Achievements of Work Package 4 of EuroScienceGateway – Building Blocks for a Sustainable Operating Model | Sebastian Luna-Valero | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1109 |
+| Achievements of Work Package 5 of EuroScienceGateway – Community Engagement, Adoption, and Onboarding | Nikolay Vazov, Leandro Liborio, Volodymyr Savchenkoet al | https://f1000research.com/slides/14-1110 |
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+Thank you to the University of Freiburg, [ELIXIR](https://elixir-europe.org/), the European Commission for making this event possible, and everyone who contributed talks, demos, code, and reviews. Community momentum is strong—the next cycle is already underway. Are you ready for [GCC2026](https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2026/) in Clermont-Ferrand (France) from June 22-24 2026?
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+![EGD2025 Group photo taken by Pavan Videm](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3fbdb486-4167-4e9b-8f89-622b81a8994a)