OSCARS
Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research and Society
The OSCARS project brings together ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures organised in five “Science Clusters”—ENVRI-FAIR (environmental science), EOSC-Life (life science), ESCAPE (astronomy and particle physics), PaNOSC (neutron and light source science) and SSHOC (social science and humanities)—that have cooperated over the last four years to rise the efficiency and productivity of researchers by providing open data services and infrastructures for discovering, accessing, and reusing data. The proposed OSCARS project aims at combining individual cluster-based key activities and new shared strategic pathways towards two major objectives: (A) consolidating achievements from the five H2020 INFRA-EOSC-2018-01-04 projects into lasting interdisciplinary services and working practices; (B) leading and fostering the involvement of a broad range of research communities in EOSC via the development of new open science projects, that together will drive the uptake of FAIR-data-intensive research throughout the European Research Area (ERA).
Projects funded under OSCARS Open Calls
To support the research communities to take up Open Science and foster the involvement of scientists in EOSC, OSCARS has completed two Open Calls, in total worth about €16 million. The calls serve to select third parties for the development of new, innovative Open Science projects or services, that together will drive the uptake of FAIR-data-intensive research throughout the European Research Area (ERA).
Fifty-eight such projects will be underway by spring 2025.
