EOSC Node | Finland - EOSC Association

The Finnish EOSC Node, coordinated by CSC – IT Center for Science, provides national FAIR datasets, services, and RDM competence development resources, integrated into the EOSC Federation.

The Node connects with the LUMI AI Factory to provide large and unique datasets, pilots secure processing environments for sensitive data, and promotes interoperability with the EuroHPC Federation. The Node will serve Finnish researchers via the Haka federation and EOSC AAI, and will provide training, FAIR datasets, and multi-node workflow pilots.

EOSC Node | Finland homepage

Key objective: To provide Finnish FAIR datasets and services to the EOSC Federation, enable access to large and sensitive datasets through LUMI AI Factory, ensure interoperability with EuroHPC Federation, and contribute to EOSC federating capabilities.

Science areas: Multidisciplinary – FAIR data management, AI/ML, sensitive data processing, language resources, geodata, biomedical and computational sciences.

SCIENTIFIC IMPACT

FAIR data

The Finnish EOSC Node provides FAIR data via fairdata.fi (Metax, Etsin), research.fi (CRIS data), national repositories (FinCLARIN, geodata services), and CSC competence centre training resources.

Scientific use cases

Imaging data workflows on Galaxy

This science case on imaging data workflows on Galaxy demonstrates how a federated, open-access computational platform can transform the way imaging data are processed, shared, and reused across diverse scientific domains.

The use case leverages the Galaxy platform to integrate data from a wide range of imaging-based research fields—such as life sciences (microscopy), astrophysics (telescope data), climate science (satellite data), and marine science (underwater imagery)—into a unified analysis environment. The goal is to demonstrate that Galaxy can be integrated into the EOSC Federation’s common infrastructure to serve many disciplines simultaneously, allowing researchers to share workflows, reuse methods, and access powerful computational tools without needing specialised technical expertise.

EOSC Federation scientific use case – Galaxy integration

Federated analysis of pathogen genomes

The federated analysis of pathogen genomes science case outlines a federated, cross‑border capability for timely analysis of pathogen genomes that brings computation to the data instead of copying sensitive datasets across institutions.

The objective is to shorten time‑to‑insight for outbreak detection, source attribution, and antimicrobial‑resistance (AMR) surveillance while preserving data sovereignty and meeting European legal and ethical requirements. Experience from COVID‑19 showed that sequencing at scale can transform public‑health decision‑making. Operationally, the effort starts with two neighbouring nodes of the EOSC Federation—the Slovakian national node providing workflows, datasets, computational infrastructure and domain expertise, and the Polish national node (via Poland’s National Science Centre (NCN) and a scientific repository service) supplying key technical support and their own datasets. Their geographical proximity make the two EOSC Nodes an ideal pair for a cross-border pilot. The approach demonstrates how to establish a federation of trusted sites, run harmonized workflows locally, and share only the minimum results needed for action.

EOSC Federation scientific use case – Pathogen genomes

Other use cases

Dataset-as-a-Service via LUMI AI Factory (large, restricted datasets).
Facilitating collaboration across institutional and national boundaries by federating sync-and-shares.
Onboarding Finnish resources (FAIR data, services, training) into EOSC Federation.
Integration with EU Node (AAI and federated catalogues).
Sustaining RDM Competence Centre.

STATUS & TIMELINE

Status

Candidate national EOSC Node (build-up phase)

EOSC Node | Finland Project Charter

Managing Director of CSC-IT Center for Science Kimmo Koski signing the EOSC Federation MoU at the EOSC Symposium, 04 November 2025. ^{_{©️PRYZM • Ievgeniia Pavlenko}}

Deliverables

Project Charter (CSC)
Analysis of EU Node federation capabilities and integration plan (internal)
Service documentation (IT Governance, Architecture, Data Protection Plan) (internal)
Stakeholder and community engagement strategy (internal)
Multi-node use case implementation plan (internal)

Technical status

Completed

Federated AAI (Haka federation, MyAccessID, EOSC AAI integration)
Onboarded catalogues (fairdata.fi, research.fi, data.csc.fi)
Management system (GDPR, CSC IT security policies, AARC Blueprint Architecture)

Planned

Application workflow management
Service monitoring
Service and research product accounting (planned, CSC billing unit model)
Order management
Helpdesk

CAPABILITIES & ACCESS

COORDINATION

The Finnish EOSC Node, coordinated by CSC – IT Center for Science, provides national FAIR datasets, services, and RDM competence development resources, integrated into the EOSC Federation.

FAIR data

The Finnish EOSC Node provides FAIR data via fairdata.fi (Metax, Etsin), research.fi (CRIS data), national repositories (FinCLARIN, geodata services), and CSC competence centre training resources.

Scientific use cases

Imaging data workflows on Galaxy

This science case on imaging data workflows on Galaxy demonstrates how a federated, open-access computational platform can transform the way imaging data are processed, shared, and reused across diverse scientific domains.

Federated analysis of pathogen genomes

The federated analysis of pathogen genomes science case outlines a federated, cross‑border capability for timely analysis of pathogen genomes that brings computation to the data instead of copying sensitive datasets across institutions.

Other use cases

Status

Candidate national EOSC Node (build-up phase)

Deliverables

Technical status

Completed

Planned

Interactions with other EOSC Nodes

The Finnish EOSC Node collaborates with the following EOSC Nodes via multi-node workflows demonstrated with dataset-as-a-service.

How to access the Node

Rules of Participation

Access points

Node capabilities

Federated services

Data repositories

Compute and storage

VRE

File sync-and-share

Other

Coordinating organisation

Node organisation

Coordinator

Operation Manager

Security Officer

Contributing organisations

Finnish universities, research organisations, infrastructures such as FinCLARIN, national stakeholders coordinated via EOSC Finnish Forum, and LUMI AI Factory.