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. 

SCIENTIFIC IMPACT
STATUS & TIMELINE
CAPABILITIES & ACCESS

Interactions with other EOSC Nodes

How to access the Node

Access points

  • Via federated German AAI/EOSC AAI
  • Via integration with EOSC EU Resource Catalogue

Node capabilities

Federated services

  • IAM4NFDI AAI
  • metadata harvesting
  • workflows

Data repositories

  • BERD portal
  • SciKat
  • InvenioRDM instances
  • Photon/Neutron datasets 

Compute and storage

  • National HPC
  • EOSC-integrated infrastructures 

VRE

  • European Galaxy server
  • web-based analysis environments 

File sync-and-share

Planned as part of service management 

COORDINATION