STRASBOURG — The European Commission (EC) released its Artificial Intelligence in Science Strategy on Wednesday, 08 October 2025, which highlights the role of the EOSC Federation.
The strategy’s objective is to position the EU as a hub for AI-driven scientific innovation by means of “a virtual European institute to pool and coordinate AI resources for developing AI and applying it in science”.
The new strategy centres on an EC pilot project to develop RAISE – the Resource for AI Science in Europe, to get underway already in 2025. RAISE will be a new virtual institute that will coordinate EU efforts to integrate AI across scientific disciplines. RAISE intends to pool data, computing capacity, talent, and funding to overcome fragmentation in the European research and innovation landscape, and to strengthen competitiveness and technological sovereignty.
Within this structure, EOSC is identified as a critical component, specifically within the data dimension of RAISE. The EOSC Federation, as the Common European Data Space for Research and Innovation, will provide access to interoperable and reusable datasets essential for AI research. The EOSC Federation is part of a broader ecosystem of Common European Data Spaces working to improve the availability and usability of AI-ready data.
The EC strategy foresees the creation of Data Labs within AI Factories to federate data from the EOSC Federation and other sources, offering services for cleaning, enriching, and ensuring interoperability. These will help scientists develop, train, and validate AI models while maintaining alignment with broader EU principles of Open Science, data sovereignty, ethics, and trust in technology.
Some of the strategic actions include:
- Excellence and talent: measures to attract global scientific talent and highly-skilled professionals to “Choose Europe“. This includes €58 million under the RAISE pilot for Networks of Excellence and Doctoral Networks to train, retain and attract the best AI and scientific talent.
- Compute: €600 million from Horizon Europe to enhance and expand access to computational power for science. This investment will secure dedicated access to AI Gigafactories for EU researchers and startups.
- Research funding: aims for doubling Horizon Europe’s annual investments in AI to over €3 billion, including doubling funding for AI in science.
- Data: support for scientists to identify strategic data gaps and gather, curate and integrate the datasets needed for AI in science.
