EOSC Node Switzerland is a coordinated national node that strengthens the country’s participation in the European research ecosystem.
Concretely, EOSC Node Switzerland contributes to the EOSC Federation by broadening the coverage of high-quality FAIR datasets and services; providing tested patterns for AAI integration, onboarding and metadata harmonization; enabling cross-node scientific workflows through interoperable analysis environments; and offering a trusted cooperation model between global partners, strengthening EOSC’s inclusiveness and resilience.
By integrating with European infrastructures and contributing mature services and governance expertise, EOSC Node Switzerland supports the development of a trusted, resilient, and inclusive EOSC Federation.
Key objective: To establish a fully interoperable national EOSC Node enabling FAIR data access, cross-node workflows, and integration with European infrastructures.
Science areas: Life sciences, social sciences, language sciences, arts, humanities and cultural heritage, materials science, environmental science, biomedical research
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT
EOSC Node Switzerland enables interdisciplinary, cross-border research by providing interoperable access to distributed data and services, enhancing reproducibility, collaboration, and scientific innovation across domains.
FAIR data
FAIR-aligned Swiss datasets across biodiversity, biomedical, materials science, social sciences, language sciences, humanities, arts and cultural heritage, environmental, and institutional repository domains.
Scientific use cases
Enhancing federated multidisciplinary training material (PSI, SIB)
Multidisciplinary reconstruction of human history (ETH Zurich, DaSCH, Universities of Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, SIB, Switch)
Federated analysis of sensitive data in Trusted Research Environments (TREs) – cross health and social sciences and linguistics (SIB, FORS, CHUV, ETH Zurich, University of Basel, Lausanne, Zurich)
Materials science data acquisition to FAIR publication (PSI, Empa, ETH Zurich and UZH)
Accelerating drug discovery and biodiversity research (SIB, HES-SO, University of Basel)
Multidisciplinary, reproducible cross-Node data analysis workflows (Premotec, Switch and ETH Zurich)
White Paper on governance, legal and business model
Technical implementation plan
Operational quality guidelines
Legal framework
Cross-node use case reports and demonstrations
Technical status
Ongoing
Federated AAI
Onboarded service catalogues (EOSC.CH Resource Hub; Switch Open Data Navigator; EOSC.CH Resource Platform)
Application workflow management
Order management
Management system
Planned
Service monitoring
Service and research product accounting
Helpdesk
CAPABILITIES & ACCESS
Interactions with other EOSC Nodes
How to access the Node
Rules of Participation
Access via federated AAI including Switch eduID and MyAccessID, with open, registered, restricted or controlled access according to service and dataset policies.
Access points
To be provided through the EOSC Resource Hub / EOSC-CH Resource Hub.
Dr. Cristina Grisot (UZH) Luca Puliafito (UniDistance Suisse)
Dataspace Expert
Prof. Dr. Matthias Stürmer (BFH)
Contributing organisations
ETH Zurich and Swiss National Supercomputing Center CSCS, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland’s National Research and Education Network Switch, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB, Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences FORS, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Empa, Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities DaSCH, Vaud University Hospital (Centre hospitalier universitaire Vaudois) CHUV, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland HES-SO, University of Basel, University of Fribourg, University of Lausanne, University of Zurich, Berner Fachhochschule, Unidistance, Premotec, The Swiss nodes of CLARIN, DARIAH, ICOS, ELIXIR, CESSDA, SHARE and ESS, with the support of Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI, Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF, Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities swiss universities, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences A+, Swiss Data Science Center SDSC, Swiss Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cluster SSHOC-CH, Swiss Research Data Support Network SRDSN
