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
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT
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
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
COORDINATION
Coordinating organisation
Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES)
Node organisation
Coordinator
Marko Drobnjak, ARNES
Management
Consortium of partners
Infrastructure support by ARNES and IZUM
Repository and community partners
National helpdesk and support point
Training and competence-centre activities
Cross-border use case coordination
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)
