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The EOSC Node North Macedonia combines trusted AAI, repository access, GPU-enabled compute and capacity building into a national EOSC entry point.

Its distinctive feature is structural integration with the Open Science Centre, coupling technical federation with training, community engagement and adoption support. Cross-node validation with EOSC Node Poland covers both operational upskilling and a scientific AI workflow using Polish infrastructure and North Macedonian GPU resources.

EOSC Node | North Macedonia landing page
Key objective:

To establish a coordinated national EOSC Node that integrates infrastructure and skills development, enabling federated access to data, services and compute resources while promoting Open Science adoption.

Science areas: All scientific disciplines, includingartificial intelligence, data science, Open Science, digital research infrastructures, and machine learning workflows

EOSC Node North Macedonia enhances Open Science adoption and data-driven research through integrated national infrastructure, skills support, and GPU-enabled cross-node AI workflows.

FAIR data

  • Repo-MK exposes national publications and research data through open metadata.
  • Controlled access is supported for sensitive or restricted data where required.
  • FAIR dataset publication is demonstrated through the cross-node FUMD-AI scientific workflow.

Scientific use cases

  1. FUMD-AI scientific workflow with EOSC Node Poland
  2. Operational capacity-building track with the Polish Open Science Centre
  3. Federated access via MK-AAI-Proxy
  4. National repository exposure through Repo-MK
  5. GPU-supported AI training and evaluation

Status

Candidate National EOSC Node

20260227_Project Charter_EOSC Node North Macedonia

Deliverables

  1. MK-AAI-Proxy integration
  2. Repo-MK repository access service
  3. OSC-Skills-Hub training registry and learning platform
  4. OSC-Cloud quota-based IaaS and GPU compute
  5. Cross-node operational and scientific validation with Poland

Technical status

Planned

  • Federated AAI
  • Onboarded service catalogues (Repo-MK; OSC-Skills-Hub; OSC-Cloud services)
  • Application workflow management
  • Service monitoring
  • Order management
  • Helpdesk
  • Management system 

Interactions with other EOSC Nodes

EOSC Node | Poland
EOSC EU Node

How to access the Node

Rules of Participation

Federated access through AAIEDU.mk / eduGAIN for eligible research users. Repo-MK provides open metadata and controlled access where needed. OSC-Cloud uses quota-based allocations for researchers and projects.

Access points

Via home page (https://eosc.mk), which is under development.

Node capabilities

Federated services

  • MK-AAI-Proxy
  • OSC-Skills-Hub

Data repositories

Repo-MK

Compute and storage

  • OSC-Cloud
  • GPU-enabled compute resources

VRE

AI and data science environments supported by OSC-Cloud

File sync-and-share

Nextcloud synced storage

Other

  • Open Science Centre
  • Open Science Lab
  • Training and capacity-building programmes
  • NOSCI.mk national coordination

Coordinating organisation

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE), Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje

Node organisation

Coordinator

Prof. Anastas Mishev (FCSE)

Internal organisational structure

  • National operator: FCSE under mandates from the Ministry of Education and Science
  • Operational integration with the University Open Science Centre
  • Open Science Lab service operation
  • NOSCI.mk national outreach and coordination
  • Cross-node validation with EOSC Node Poland

Contributing organisations

Open Science Lab, University Open Science Centre (OSC), National Open Science Cloud Initiative (NOSCI.mk), MARnet