The German EOSC Node empowers European research by providing seamless access to high-quality FAIR data from a broad variety of disciplines and specialised services, fostering digital sovereignty, inclusivity, and innovation in alignment with the European Open Science Cloud.
By lowering barriers for German science organisations to join the EOSC Federation through integrated AAI connectivity, it contributes to a unified and accessible European Knowledge Commons. The Node’s specialised services developed by all scientific disciplines in a bottom-up approach, including NFDI terminology services, enhance interoperability, collaboration, and the full exploitation of Europe’s digital potential, strengthen Europe’s strategic autonomy in research and innovation.
Key objective: To facilitate the connection of NFDI and other national infrastructures, data and services to the EOSC Federation. The Node itself will a) encourage the onboarding of NFDI’s domain-specific services to the EOSC Federation via socio-technical support measures; and b) run a layer of technical capabilities as a stand-alone suite of features as set out in the EOSC Federation Handbook.
Science areas: Specialised services developed by and targeting all science areas.
Status
Candidate EOSC Node (build-up phase)
Deliverables
- Technical concept documentation for onboarding services
- Service interfaces for InvenioRDM and disciplinary repositories
- Legal frameworks (Letters of Intent, enrolment agreements)
- Service management processes (FitSM-based)
- Security frameworks and policy documents (ISO27001, GDPR)
- Training and learning materials for second-wave nodes
Technical status
Completed
- Federated AAI (IAM4NFDI, German AAI)
- Onboarded service catalogues (InvenioRDM, SciKat, Galaxy)
- Application workflow management (Galaxy workflows)
- Management system (ISO27001, GDPR, incident reporting frameworks in place)
Planned
- Service monitoring
- Service and research product accounting
- Order management
- Helpdesk
