Science|Business has highlighted the EOSC Association’s common position on EOSC’s role in the next EU framework programme for research and innovation (FP10) in a 15 June article featuring interviews with EOSC-A President Klaus Tochtermann and EOSC-A’s Special Envoy to the EOSC Federation, Bob Jones.
EOSC-A’s membership of roughly 250 research-performing organisations, university alliances, research service providers, research infrastructures, and research funders unanimously adopted the position paper at the Association’s 13th General Assembly on 28 May 2026. The paper highlights the key European scientific and strategic policy impact areas of EOSC and the EOSC Federation and calls for a distinct work programme-based partnership for EOSC in FP10, with EOSC-A as an equal partner with the Member States, Associated Countries and the European Commission in the Partnership’s tripartite governance.
EOSC-A is making the case that open science infrastructure is not a nice-to-have, but a strategic necessity — for Europe’s data sovereignty, AI competitiveness, and scientific excellence… Without a dedicated partnership, EOSC risks losing the stable, structural funding that makes long-term development possible and being forced back onto project-by-project financing — a precarious basis for infrastructure of this ambition.
Science|Business, “Europe’s open science cloud calls for seat at the FP10 table”, 15 June 2026
