The Slovenian EOSC Node integrates mature national research infrastructures and services into the EOSC Federation, providing a sustainable and operational bridge between European Open Science policies and national implementations.
Anchored in permanent national institutions and aligned with Slovenia’s Action Plan for Open Science (2023–2030), the Node brings together established national e-infrastructure, repositories, federated AAI services, high-performance computing (HPC), and scalable storage systems, collaborative platforms, data-intensive storage, high-performance computing (HPC), containerised environments, reproducible workflows and training.
Key objective:
To federate mature Slovenian national repositories and services into the EOSC Federation and deliver the upgrades needed for full EOSC interoperability.
Science areas:
Open Science, data-intensive science, high-performance computing (HPC), cross-disciplinary research, social sciences, humanities, and language technologies
The Slovenian EOSC Node supports reproducible, cross-border research by integrating national repositories, compute, storage, collaboration and workflow services into EOSC-aligned user journeys.
FAIR data
Slovenian institutional, national, and domain repositories for publications, datasets and other research outputs, including open metadata with open, restricted, embargoed or controlled content depending on repository policies.
Scientific use cases
- End-to-end Open Science workflow supporting collaboration, analysis, and publication
- Data-intensive services and federated storage
- Compute-intensive workflows
- Training and skills development
- Dissemination and federated user support (helpdesk)
- Cross-border collaboration with Croatia via federated Nextcloud
- Federated discovery, software platforms, and containerised research environments
- Cross border reproducible analysis workflows using REANA with Slovakia and Poland
Deliverables
- National EOSC Node governance and operational framework
- End-to-end research workflow reference package
- Services integration and operations guide
- National training and capacity-building package
- Dissemination, community engagement, and helpdesk model
- Cross-border Slovenia–Croatia federation report
- Consolidated national EOSC Node knowledge base and final report
- Cross-border Slovenia–Slovakia–Poland federation report
- Establishment of data spaces in the national open science infrastructure to ensure data sovereignty
- Establishment of secure storage for sensitive data
- Establishment of a secure processing environment for sensitive data
- Establishment of a service for the digital preservation of digital research outputs
Technical status
Planned
- Federated AAI
- Onboarded service catalogues (national repositories; COBISS/SICRIS; service portfolio)
- Application workflow management (REANA; Galaxy/Jupyter; containers)
- Service monitoring
- Service and research product accounting
- Order management
- Helpdesk
- Management system
Interactions with other EOSC Nodes
How to access the Node
Rules of Participation
Access follows institutional, repository and project policies. Metadata are open and EOSC-discoverable; content access may be open or controlled. Services use federated institutional access where applicable.
Access points
To be provided through Slovenian EOSC Node / ARNES national entry point.
Node capabilities
Federated services
- ARNES AAI
- File sync-and-share (Nextcloud, FileSender)
- National EOSC Information and Support Point / Helpdesk
Data repositories
- Repository of the University of Ljubljana (RUL)
- Digital library of the University of Maribor (DKUM)
- Digital repository of Slovenian research organizations (DiRROS)
- Repository of the University of Nova Gorica (RUNG)
- Repository of the University of Primorska (RUP)
- Repository of colleges and higher education institutions (REVIS)
- Social Science Data Archives (ADP)
- Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, Slovenia (CLARIN.SI)
- Co-operative Online Bibliographic System & Services (COBISS)
- Digital Library of Slovenia (dLib.si)
- Slovenian Current Research Information System (SICRIS)
Compute and storage
- ARNES HPC cluster
- Vega HPC
- New national supercomputer (SLAIF)
- Ceph storage
- OpenStack VMs
- Kubernetes
- Arnes National Data centre infrastructure
VRE
- Jupyter environments
- REANA reproducible workflow execution
File sync-and-share
- Nextcloud
- FileSender
Other
- Training services: (SPOZNAJ, EuroCC, SLING, SLAIF)
- Open Science Monitor
- Support and data stewardship services
Coordinating organisation
Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES)
Node organisation
Coordinator
Marko Drobnjak, ARNES
Contributing organisations
Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES) – infrastructure provider, Central Technical Library at the University of Ljubljana (CTK), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor (UM FERI), university and national repositories, Institute of Contemporary History (INZ), Institute of Information Science, Maribor (IZUM) – infrastructure provider, Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI), National and University Library (NUK), Slovenian Open Science Community (SSOZ), Social Science Data Archives (ADP), University of Maribor library (UKM)
