The EOSC-hub project contributes to the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud, the federated infrastructure and supporting initiative providing all researchers, innovators, companies and citizens with seamless access to an open-by-default, efficient and cross-disciplinary environment for storing, accessing, reusing data, tools, publications and other scientific outputs for research, innovation and educational purposes.
The project simplifies access to a broad portfolio of products, resources and services provided by the major pan-European and international organizations through an open and integrated service catalogue. It contributed the EOSC Portal and Marketplace development and delivery realising the EOSC Portal as a European-level common discovery and access channel. EOSC-hub also enhances and delivers services through the 'Hub' and thematic data and tools. These are exposed in the catalogue of the EOSC Portal, which aggregates services from local, regional and national e-Infrastructures in Europe and worldwide. The EOSC Portal acts as a single contact point for researchers and innovators to discover, access, use and reuse a broad spectrum of resources for advanced data-driven research.
EOSC-hub removes fragmentation of service provisioning and access to high-quality digital services in Europe and beyond through the technical integration and adoption of standards for interoperability of compute, storage, data and software platforms. It realizes this through an integration and management system that delivers a catalogue of services, software and data from the EGI Federation, EUDAT CDI, INDIGO-DataCloud and major research e-infrastructures. This integration and management system builds on mature processes, policies and tools from the leading European federated e-Infrastructures to cover the whole life-cycle of services, from planning to delivery.
The project also consolidates e-Infrastructures by expanding capacity and capabilities and improving service quality, and improves skills and knowledge among researchers and service operators by delivering specialised trainings and by establishing competence centres to co-create solutions with the users. Furthermore, the project operated a Digital Innovation Hub that stimulates an ecosystem of industry/SMEs, service providers and researchers to support business pilots and market take-up. Thanks to targeted demand-side support activities that include EOSC Competence Centres and the EOSC Early Adopter Programme, EOSC-hub widens the access to services to all user groups including researchers, high-education, business organizations and expand the user base.
