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EOSC Beyond: advancing innovation and collaboration for research

Project description

The next step for open science

The EU-funded EOSC Beyond project is constructing the technical foundation for a federated European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). It delivers enhanced core capabilities and a pre-production testbed where service providers and potential EOSC nodes can validate integrations. By enabling seamless interoperability and automated composition of resources across a distributed network of national, regional and thematic pilot nodes, the project moves EOSC beyond a central portal towards a resilient, scalable ecosystem. A proven model, demonstrated by 10 pilot nodes, ensures that any research community can connect and collaborate effectively within the open science landscape.

Objective

EOSC Beyond overall objective is to advance Open Science and innovation in research in the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by providing new EOSC Core capabilities allowing scientific applications to find, compose and access multiple Open Science resources and offer them as integrated capabilities to researchers. To do so, EOSC Beyond supports a new concept of EOSC: a federated and integrated network of Nodes operated at different levels, national, regional, international and thematic, to serve the specific scientific missions of their stakeholders. Further specific objectives of the project are to accelerate ‘time to product’ of new scientific applications with software adapters, enable Open Science with machine composability and dynamic deployment of shared resources, support innovation in EOSC with a testing and integration environment, and align the EOSC Core architecture and specifications to integrate with European dataspaces. The project extends the state of the art of the EOSC Core and adopts a co-design methodology, including requirements elicitation, software development and validation in collaboration with different use cases from EOSC national and regional initiatives (e-Infra CZ, Czechia, NFDI, Germany, and NI4OS, South East Europe region), thematic research infrastructures from Social Sciences and Humanities (CESSDA), Life Sciences (CNB-CSIC and Instruct-ERIC), Environmental Science (ENES and LifeWatch), and Health and Food (METROFood-RI). EOSC Beyond builds on the capacities of prospective EOSC Nodes and partners with multi-annual experience in developing solutions for large-scale federated digital infrastructures and aligns with the technical architecture and requirements of data spaces from different business sectors. Ultimately, EOSC Beyond supports Open Science in modern, data-intensive, and multidisciplinary research, facilitating resource discovery, access, and reuse across scientific communities, organisations, and countries.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-INFRA-2023-EOSC-01

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Coordinator

STICHTING EGI
Net EU contribution
€ 2 498 572,50
Total cost
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Participants (33)

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