The negotiations around the EU Partnership landscape for the Union’s next framework programme (Horizon Europe 2028-2034), or FP10, are advancing quickly. The case for EOSC’s future is clear.
The European Open Science Cloud is a major initiative of the EU’s research and digital agendas that aims to transform Europe’s research data ecosystem towards a trusted, secure and sovereign common space of high-quality, FAIR research data and related services. However, at a moment when Europe’s competitiveness and values, digital sovereignty, and strategic autonomy are under unprecedented pressure, EOSC becomes far more than a research instrument: it becomes a strategic priority for the Union to build a resilient, productive and sovereign knowledge economy.
Help spread the word about EOSC
Download these resources to help make the case for an EOSC Partnership in FP10:
- Narrative paper of the EOSC Tripartite Governance (April 2026)
- EOSC for Europe one-pager (March 2026)
- 7 policy areas slide deck
Advocacy in motion
EOSC has been highlighted in the following position papers and articles:
- Science|Business (June 2026)
Europe’s open science cloud calls for seat at the FP10 table (15 June 2026)
- EOSC Association (May 2026)
- EOSC Steering Board (May 2026)
- Helmholtz Association (March 2026)
- The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities (March 2026)
EOSC: Empowering Europe’s trusted, secure and sovereign research data ecosystem
EOSC secures Europe’s sovereignty over research data, enables a thriving AI and innovation ecosystem, increases security in research, strengthens the Single Market for knowledge, and ensures that European values—openness, trust, and fairness—remain the foundation of global collaborative science.
EOSC and the EOSC Federation have been called out on several occasions in 2025 as a key structural element for the advancement of European competitiveness in research and innovation, including:
- In the European Council’s recommendations on the ERA Policy Agenda, Priority Area 1: Deepening a truly functioning internal market for knowledge;
- In the September 2025 European Strategy on Research and Technology Infrastructures, where the EC pledges to develop actions in support of “aligning and coordinating investments across Europe for trusted and secure storage, processing and sharing of critical data including through EOSC”; and
- In the Union’s 2025 AI Continent Action Plan and subsequent digital strategies for AI in Science, Apply AI, and the Data Union, where EOSC, as “Europe’s Data Space for research and innovation, is gathering vast amounts of high-quality research data from research institutes to make them available for innovative applications”.
EOSC Tripartite Governance
EOSC Steering Board
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