EOSC Beyond delivered major advances in the architecture, services, and tools that will underpin the next generation of EOSC. A new federated EOSC architecture was defined, supporting a transition from a centralized model to a distributed network of autonomous yet interoperable Nodes. This architectural work, including the concepts of Federating Capabilities and Node Architecture, is now guiding the establishment of the EOSC Federation.
Ten Pilot Nodes — representing research infrastructures, national initiatives, and thematic communities — were enrolled and validated with the establishment and testing of real scientific scenarios, demonstrating cross-node workflows, shared authentication, resource discovery, and federated data access.
Existing EOSC Core services (AAI, catalogues, monitoring, accounting, PID services, order management, helpdesk and metadata services) were significantly enhanced. The outcome is that these services can now be adopted either as centrally managed offerings or deployed locally by Nodes as white-label services, providing flexible reference implementations for new EOSC Nodes.
Three new EOSC Core capabilities were released:
- The EOSC Core Innovation Sandbox, the Federator Test Node, which is a pre-production environment used by Nodes and providers to test integrations and validate interoperability.
- The EOSC Integration Suite, offering reusable software adapters that simplify the integration of services, data sources, and tools into EOSC. Fifteen adapters were released and already adopted by Pilot Nodes.
- The EOSC Execution Framework, enabling the automated composition and deployment of services and data analysis environments across multiple cloud platforms, using machine-actionable templates through the Interoperability Framework.
The project also initiated an interoperability roadmap between EOSC and SIMPL, focusing on AAI and data transfer, laying the foundation for future cooperation between EOSC and sectoral data spaces.
