Future Engagement Model for the EOSC Federation

Proposals are expected to cover the following activities:

The CSA should explore concrete use cases of federations of Research Infrastructures and data/service providers to the EOSC Core Platform (EU Node). The CSA should contribute to the further evolution of the Rules of Participation and Acceptable Use Policies based on the identification of specific commitments and needs of the different contributors of the EOSC federation, and contribute to the related development of guidelines and recommendations on various aspects (incl. interoperability framework), and with this further promote the EOSC Core Platform (EU Node). This work should be done in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders, such as the contractors providing the Managed Services for the European Open Science Platform (EU Node)[[Managed Services for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Platform]] , Research Infrastructures, thematic EOSC communities and EOSC national nodes.

To this end, the CSA should engage with and further build the EOSC federation community, and assist in the development of a common framework on the various aspects of the federation, including the following dimensions:

• Legal
• Business model and incentive structure
• Interoperability framework, including the support for FAIR principle and handling of PIDs across EOSC federation
• EOSC Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
• EOSC Security Coordination
• EOSC Rules of Participation.

Coordination and collaboration with the Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC) is required in order to take stock of identified common data infrastructure requirements, including technologies, processes, standards, and tools that will allow reuse of data across the various data spaces

Also, synergies should be established with the contractors of SIMPL[[Smart middleware that will enable cloud-to-edge federations and support all major data initiatives funded by the European Commission]] as foreseen in the latter’s procurement technical specifications, to avoid duplicating efforts and funding among major Union initiatives. The CSA should further provide an analysis of the status quo including the identification of gaps, on the basis of which an actionable roadmap shall be established with actions differentiated by main actors and levels (EU or national, topical or cross-cutting).

The proposed work should incorporate the necessary coordination efforts and resources with other relevant projects and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) governance structure in the context of the EOSC partnership.