EOSC-Synergy partners have been working in the capacity expansion, contributing to the enlarging EOSC with computing and storage resources, ensuring the quality of services and developing capabilities of research communities, integrating thematic services for being accessible into the EOSC and developing tools and materials to support the training of skills.
In the area of Capacity Building, the National Clouds of the countries have been integrated, and are already serving the scientific needs of the project thematic services. We have contributed to support research to fight the COVID19 pandemic by deploying the first EOSC-enabled Cloud Computing Service based on Galaxy genomics analysis. Furthermore, the project is supporting the education of young students, for example Master students, where one of our MBSc projects produced a service able to benchmark computing Clouds. We made this material available on our Youtube channel to raise awareness among young researchers. This is part of our educational effort on effective usage of e-infrastructures, available in the playlist "Learn with us" of our Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcS98iVAFmVOldBaBXnl4aBz4ssI__waQ )
In the area of Quality assurance, we have defined the first approach to an EOSC service quality baseline, and defined a Quality Badge scheme. A practical implementation is already available as a prototype for scientific applications. We have developed, and made available in open source, a specialised library (JePL) that supports the deployment of the scientific use cases using quality assurance guidelines. Information on how to use JePL is available in the form of tutorial .
We adapted our 10 pioneer thematic services to use the EOSC core, and with that, increase the size of resources available to scientists. Our scientific cases can bee seen at work in our Youtube channel as well . All the software developed by the project, both in the area of middleware and in the scientific applications area, is open source and has a well-defined license. We foresee all our training material to be delivered via our EOSC training platform, of which a first version is already available at
https://learn.eosc-synergy.eu(se abrirá en una nueva ventana). Our platform is enhancedwith best practices on how to create self-deployable tutorials, using advanced toolsets building on the MOOC concepts, and the provision of advanced services such as "Hackatons as a Service".
Finally an in-depth policy analysis regarding EOSC readiness and awareness in the countries involved in the project has taken place. This work has been done in cooperation with sister regional projects building also EOSC-based ecosystems. EOSC-Synergy has produced 7 Landscape analysis reports of EOSC-related national policies and practices, and contributed substantially to the EOSC Working Groups the project has been invited to participate in.
