A number of European projects are running in direct support of the implementation of EOSC, while a number of others are running adjacently. Here we present the Horizon Europe projects that are contributing to the development and deployment of the European Open Science Cloud.
The EOSC Association, together with the European Commission, has developed the "Vademecum: A Handbook for Effective Collaboration within the EOSC co-programmed Partnership" as a tool to coordinate the European projects with the goals and activities of the Partnership.
Vademecum: A Handbook for Effective Collaboration within the EOSC co-programmed Partnership
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Core Components Supporting a FAIR EOSC
Start date: 1 June 2022 End date: 31 May 2025
The FAIRCORE4EOSC project focuses on the development and realisation of core components for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Supporting a FAIR EOSC and addressing gaps identified in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). Leveraging existing technologies and services, the project will develop nine new EOSC-Core components aimed to improve the discoverability and interoperability of an increased amount of research outputs.
Infrastructure for Marine and Inland Water Research
Start date: 1 January 2023 End date: 31 December 2026
The AquaINFRA project aims to develop a virtual environment equipped with FAIR multi-disciplinary data and services to support marine and freshwater scientists and stakeholders restoring healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters. The AquaINFRA virtual environment will enable the target stakeholders to store, share, access, analyse and process research data and other research digital objects from their own discipline, across research infrastructures, disciplines and national borders leveraging on EOSC and the other existing operational dataspaces. Besides supporting the ongoing development of the EOSC as an overarching research infrastructure, AquaINFRA is addressing the specific need for enabling researchers from the marine and freshwater communities to work and collaborate across those two domains.
Artificial Intelligence for the European Open Science Cloud
Start date: 1 September 2022 End date: 31 August 2025
AI4EOSC project will deliver an enhanced set services for the development of AI, ML and DL models and applications in the EOSC. The services will make use of advanced features such as distributed, federated and split learning; provenance metadata; event-driven data processing services or provisioning of AI/ML/DL services based on serverless computing.
A Federated European FAIR and open Research Ecosystem for oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters
Start date: 1 January 2023 End date: 31 December 2025
Blue-Cloud 2026 aims at a further evolution of this pilot ecosystem into a Federated European Ecosystem to deliver FAIR & Open data and analytical services, instrumental for deepening research of oceans, EU seas, coastal & inland waters. It develops a thematic marine extension to EOSC for open web-based science, serving the needs of the EU Blue Economy, Marine Environment and Marine Knowledge agendas.
Leveraging the European compute infrastructures for data-intensive research guided by FAIR principles
Start date: 1 September 2022 End date: 31 August 2025
EuroScienceGateway will leverage a distributed computing network across 13 European countries, accessible via 6 national, user-friendly web portals, facilitating access to compute and storage infrastructures across Europe as well as to data, tools, workflows and services that can be customized to suit researchers’ needs. At the heart of the proposal workflows will integrate with the EOSC-Core. Adoption, development and implementation of technologies to interoperate across services, will allow researchers to produce high-quality FAIR data, available to all in EOSC. Communities across disciplines -- Life Sciences, Climate and Biodiversity, Astrophysics, Materials science -- will demonstrate the bridge from EOSC's technical services to scientific analysis.
FAIR EArth Sciences & Environment services
Start date: 1 September 2022 End date: 31 August 2025
FAIR-EASE focuses on opening gateways for the earth and environmental sciences which require a large volume of data from sources such as satellite, in-situ observations, models, and even omics experiments. Earth system domains are interconnected, but the present digital architecture is based essentially on distributed and domain-dependent data repositories inducing real difficulties for integrated uses of all the environmental data. This creates barriers for several studies with large societal impacts, such as climate change, agriculture and food, human safety and health. To go beyond this state-of-the-art, the overall objective of FAIR-EASE is to customize and operate distributed and integrated services for observation and modelling of the Earth system, environment and biodiversity by improving their different components implemented in close cooperation with user-communities, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and research infrastructures in their design and sustainable availability.
Expanding FAIR Solutions across EOSC
Start date: 1 June 2022 End date: 31 May 2025
FAIR-IMPACT will identify practices, policies, tools and technical specifications to guide researchers, repository managers, research performing organisations, policy makers and citizen scientists towards a FAIR data management cycle. The focus will be on persistent identifiers (PIDs), metadata, ontologies, metrics, certification and interoperability, starting with real-life use cases on social sciences and humanities, the photon and neutron sciences, life sciences and agri-food and environmental sciences.
Next Generation Research Assessment to Promote Open Science
Start date: 1 January 2023 End date: 31 December 2025
GraspOS aims to build and operate a data infrastructure to support the policy reforms and pave the way towards a responsible research assessment system that embeds OS practices and accelerates its adoption in Europe. GraspOS will focus on extending the EOSC ecosystem with tools and services that will facilitate monitoring the use and uptake of various types of research services and outputs (publications, datasets, software) and will catalyse the implementation of policy-level rewards to foster OS practices. These tools and services will build upon multiple sources of metric data (e.g. OpenCitations, Scholexplorer) including capabilities offered by the EOSC Core.
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Research Analysis Identifier System
Start date: 1 October 2022 End date: 31 January 2026
RAISE project aims to provide the mechanisms for a distributed crowdsourced data processing system, moving from open data to data open for processing. To do so, RAISE will attempt to adapt open data to the culture of the research community, ensuring FAIR principles. The vision of the project is the EOSC Web of FAIR Data and Services for Science is an open, fair and reliable Research Community where every researcher will be accredited for their work and all research data will be equally accessible for processing without violating data protection regulations.
Research Data Alliance facilitation of Targeted International working Groups for EOSC-related Research solutions
Start date: 1 January 2023 End date: 31 December 2025
RDA TIGER supports Working Groups within the Research Data Alliance that concretely align, harmonise and standardise Open Science developments and technologies globally. The services it provides will facilitate and support coherent and consistent working group definitions and increases the impact of the key European initiatives on the global level. The project will directly contribute to the European Open Science Cloud Partnership by supporting (via the Working Groups) the international engagement and alignment of policies, technologies, methodologies, practices and other outputs of EOSC-related and other European Open Science developments.
Skills for the European Open Science Commons: Creating a Training Ecosystem for Open and FAIR Science
Start date: 1 September 2022 End date: 31 August 2025
The Skills4EOSC project will work to provide Open Science Commons and create an EOSC-ready skilled European workforce, connecting existing Competence Centres in open science and scientific data management. The aim is to develop common methodologies, activities and training resources to unify the current training landscape into a collaborative and reliable ecosystem and to provide dedicated community-specific support to leverage the potential of EOSC for open and data-intensive research.
EOSC4Cancer
Start date: 1 September 2022 End date: 31 August 2025
EOSC4Cancer will make diverse types of cancer data accessible: genomics, imaging, medical, clinical, environmental and socio-economic. It will use and enhance federated and interoperable systems for securely identifying, sharing, processing and reusing FAIR data across borders and offer them via community-driven analysis environments.
Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access
Start date: 1 January 2023 End date: 31 December 2025
CRAFT-OA project aims to create resilient landscape, a robust pan-European network of infrastructures that will take into account local capacities, and leverage existing systems, while providing upper-level expertise to enable upscaling, professionalisation and consortial momentum. Instead of recreating new platforms, the aim is to strengthen existing ones by central expertise, collaboration and a joint visibility/indexing layer. CRAFT-OA will deliver technical and community tools, training events, training materials, information, and services for the Diamond OA institutional publishing environment. It will foster communities of practice with the capacity to sustain the project improvements over time.
BeYond COVID
Start date: 1 October 2021 End date: 30 September 2024
The BeYond-COVID project aims to make COVID-19 data accessible to scientists in laboratories but also to anyone who can use it, such as medical staff in hospitals or government officials.Going beyond SARS-CoV-2 data, the project will provide a framework for making data from other infectious diseases open and accessible to everyone.
e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Programme 7
Start date: 1 April 2022 End date: 23 September 2023
The project e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Programme 7 (e-IRGSP7) is intended to provide the vital core services to the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG). The project will support e-IRG in providing advice mainly via high-level recommendations and documents on policy-making towards inclusive, federated, user-driven and resilient e-Infrastructures and their related services.
Support to Reinforce the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures 3
Start date: 1 April 2022 End date: 31 March 2026
The goal of the STR-ESFRI project is to reinforce the European STRategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) under the guidance of its Chair, providing additional resources, tools and expertise in performing its activities and supporting its structures. STR ESFRI strengthens the current ESFRI secretariat that is provided by the European Commission with additional resources and tools.
Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice
Start date: 1 June 2022 End date: 31 May 2025
The WorldFAIR project sets out to produce recommendations, interoperability frameworks and guidelines for FAIR data assessment. The WorldFAIR approach, outputs and modes of dissemination will significantly strengthen international cooperation in order to increase and mainstream FAIRness of data and digital objects. The project aims to join up disconnected initiatives on data management, data stewardship, and FAIR data practices, within and across disciplines and internationally, by utilising eleven case studies.