The Croatian EOSC Node provides national research data, repositories, and services to the EOSC Federation, enhancing visibility and collaboration for Croatian research outputs.
It integrates national infrastructures including repositories, open access publishing platforms, compute resources, and research software environments.
The Node supports cross-border collaboration through federated services such as file sharing and computing, while aligning national systems with EOSC standards. It contributes large volumes of research outputs and promotes FAIR data practices, improving discoverability, reproducibility, and participation of Croatian researchers in the European research ecosystem.
Key objective: To integrate Croatian research infrastructures and outputs into the EOSC Federation, improving visibility, interoperability, cross-border collaboration and alignment of national services with EOSC requirements.
Science areas: All scientific disciplines, including Open Science, research data management, research software, cross-disciplinary research, advanced computing.
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT
The Croatian EOSC Node increases visibility and reuse of national research outputs while enabling cross-border collaboration and improving representation of research software in EOSC.
FAIR data
EOSC Node Croatia will federate the following FAIR data resources:
DABAR national repository infrastructure with 180+ repositories and research outputs.
HRČAK portal with 560+ open access scientific and professional journals.
The EFSS service PUH stores currently more than 780 TB of data from 287 research projects
Research software resources through OpenCode.hr.
Open metadata and access conditions / licences defined by repositories.
Scientific use cases
EFSS cross-node collaboration with Slovenian and SURF / Netherlands EOSC Nodes
Experimental data sharing generated by instrumental measurements such as microscopy
Research software contribution to EOSC Resource Catalogue through OpenCode.hr Gitlab platform
Service registry and monitoring alignment with EOSC Federation requirements
Research software catalogue proof of concept using OpenCode.hr
Exposure of DABAR and HRČAK outputs to EOSC
Technical status
Planned
Federated AAI
Onboarded service catalogues (national CRIS service registry; DABAR; HRČAK; OpenCode.hr)
Application workflow management
Service monitoring
Service and research product accounting
Order management
Helpdesk
Management system
CAPABILITIES & ACCESS
Interactions with other EOSC Nodes
How to access the Node
Rules of Participation
Croatian researchers and international collaborators may access services according to service policies. Authentication uses eduGAIN or national AAI routes. Repository metadata are open; data access depends on conditions and licenses.
Node capabilities
Federated services
AAI@EduHr
National CRIS service registry
ARGO monitoring with GRNET
Helpdesk
FitSM-based Service Management System
Data repositories
DABAR – Digital Academic Archives and Repositories
HRČAK – Portal of Croatian scientific and professional journals
Compute and storage
Advanced computing infrastructure
Supercomputer, cloud computing and virtual computing cluster
Compute resources for EPOS and CESSDA
VRE
Jupyter
Galaxy
Virtual computing cluster
File sync-and-share
PUH Sync and Share Service
FileSender
Other
OpenCode.hr GitLab platform
SRCE Academy
Research software management support
COORDINATION
Coordinating organisation
University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE)
Node organisation
Coordinator
Draženko Celjak (SRCE)
Management
National stakeholder coordination via Croatian Open Science Cloud Initiative (HR-OOZ)
Service registry within national CRIS system
National repository and publishing infrastructures
FitSM-based Service Management System
Contributing organisations
University of Zagreb University Computing Centre SRCE – coordinator, Ministry of Science, Education and Youth, Croatian Science Foundation, National and University Library in Zagreb, All public universities in Croatia (9), Ruđer Bošković Institute, Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Institute of Etnology and Folklore Research, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics Varaždin, University of Zagreb School of Medicine
