Recent Activity: EOSC Liaison Platform

The report offers a broad overview of the major integration activities successfully completed by EOSC-hub, focused on the EOSC Portal and on the thematic services from European research communities joining EOSC.

Among the major highlights are the following:

• The project’s significant contribution to the EOSC Portal in collaboration with other EOSC projects
• The EOSC-hub core services and service management processes
• The integration of 30 thematic services from several large research communities: CLARIN, CMS/DODAS, ECAS/ENES, GEOSS, OPENCoastS, WeNMR, EO Pillar, DARIAH, LifeWatch.
• Achievements of the project’s eight Competence Centres
• The launch and operation of the EOSC Early Adopter Programme
• The success of the EOSC Digital Innovation hub

If you’re curious to know more about EOSC-hub achievements, check out the report!...

The EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) aims to create a European open science community and is supported by the governance structures of the EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) Secretariat, along with its Working Groups (WGs).

One of the key concepts of open science is based on a set of sharing principles published in 2016 known as FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability). It stems from the idea of enhancing the reusability of research data and does this by enabling machines to automatically find and use the data, supporting its reuse by individuals. These principles garnered much interest and now are used by national and international funding bodies who ask researchers to make all their data FAIR as one of their funding...

Yesterday, 28 May 2020, the Research Data Alliance published the pre-final version of the RDA COVID-19 Recommendations and Guidelines covering four research areas – clinical data, omics practices, epidemiology and social sciences. This document is also complimented by overarching areas focusing on legal and ethical considerations, research software, community participation and indigenous data.

The detailed guidelines in this body of work aim to help stakeholders follow best practices to maximise the efficiency of their work and act as a blueprint for the current and future health emergencies. The recommendations aim to help policymakers and funders maximise timely, quality data sharing and appropriate responses to health emergencies, particularly COVID-19.

The full announcement together with links to the Recommendations and Guidelines and other useful documents are available at this link https://www.rd-alliance.org/global-research-data-alliance-community-resp...

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As it is known to all of us there is not yet a unique definition of EOSC. Someone believes that it is not correct to give such a unique definition since the meaning depends on the perspective EOSC is observed from. For example, you may observe it from the perspective of a researcher willing to exploit its functionality or you may observe it as a developer of its technological solutions.

The lack of such a shared definition, however, makes it difficult to present EOSC to new stakeholders and explain to them what is its unique value proposition.

To address this problem, a number of EOSC authoritative documents published from 2015 since today have been analysed to identify possible EOSC characterising properties.

The analysis showed that EOSC can be characterised as a system:

1. resulting from the activities and initiatives promoted by the European Commission to support the European policy on
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Following a 16 April launch, the deadline to respond to the OCRE IaaS+ Tender for commercial cloud services that will empower the research capabilities of the European research community is fast approaching on 23 June 2020, 11:00 CEST. 

The announcement, link to the documents and portal for responding to the OCRE IaaS+ Tender estimated at a total value of €600m - can be found in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).

The tender aims to aggregate requirements from the European Research community and facilitate the provision of services from commercial cloud providers. This has been bolstered by an extensive requirements gathering campaign engaging both the demand side - researchers research institutions and groups of potential buyers and the supply side - cloud service providers particularly on their limitations on responding to the tender and the types of services they can provide. Today's launch also follows the publication and...

Dear all,

we are pleased to share with you this report on RDA integration with other European initiatives issued by RDA Europe 4.0 project, describing the key finding from a survey conducted amongst 22 current, EOSC-related projects, to which many of you also contributed.

The survey found that EOSC projects are actively engaged with RDA in numerous ways. For example, several projects are implementing recommendations from specific RDA Working Groups while others use the RDA community as a way to get feedback on their outputs and build their international network of researchers and data practitioners. 

Members of the RDA community are prominent in all three EOSC Governance bodies and RDA members are present in all EOSC Working Groups. In addition, many of the RDA Europe 4.0 national nodes are involved in EOSC projects, whether they be horizontal eInfrastructure initiatives such as EOSC-hub, OpenAIRE, EOSC Nordic, EOSC-Pillar and NI4OS or...

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative has multiple factors of complexity in its Governance, including technological innovation, organisational model, rapid adoption curves, transnationality, cross-disciplinary usership, that might lead to a significant number of risks.

Types of risks vary in topic and severity. A number have been raised at EOSC Stakeholder Forum events such as the EOSC Consultation Day including financial disengagement of stakeholders, monopolies of providers within EOSC catalogues, cross-border service provision and oligopoly in data analytics. With no risk governance structure in place as we move towards 2021 and the implementation of the EOSC, it is of paramount importance that an analysis of risks and how they should be managed is carried out.

Thanks to the EOSCsecretariat.eu co-creation funding, a new study will be carried out by risk management specialists AON Hewitt(*). The...

The online workshop “National Policy Developments Supporting EOSC Implementation”, jointly organised by the EOSC regional projects EOSC-Pillar, EOSC-Nordic, NI4OS-Europe, and EOSC-Synergy, takes place at the EOSC-hub Week on the 20th of May at 10:00. Register now!