EOSC-Pillar has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 857650.
On the EOSC-Pillar survey
Jos van Wezel (KIT)
Lisa Hönegger (University of Vienna)

Coordination and Harmonisation of National Initiatives, Infrastructures
and Data services in Central and Western Europe
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EOSC-PILLAR
CONSORTIUM
Harmonised procedures for research data services delivery across countries
Coordination with other initiatives to achieve harmonisation for an
inclusive EOSC
Increased FAIR data uptake at national levels and across
scientific communities and borders
Launch of new non-commercial transnational services in the EOSC Portal
Active stakeholder community of EOSC supporters in each country
New viable business models for the sustainable provision of transnational
services
Full understanding of the state of national initiatives and
compute and data services, supporting consolidation
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Survey topics
• Business models, SLAs and user support
•Access policies, authorization and authentication models, privacy and legal
aspects
• Data management and certification
• Communities, Services and Usage
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Target groups
Recipients are representatives of one of the following distinct groups (and have
received different questions)
• e-Infrastructures (includes (scientific) data repositories, data archives, digital
archives of national museums, data/computing centres, grid infrastructure, HPC
centers, NREN’s)
• Research Institutions/Infrastructures (of national relevance)
• Funding bodies
• Universities and institutes of higher education (MS degree granting)
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Survey in practice
•Designed by a multi disciplinary team with members from Italy, Austria, Belgium, France,
Germany
•Different target groups received different sets of questions
•Questions visible depend on the target group
•Questionnaires tailored to the different target groups: * consisting of 1 core module (with
general questions on EOSC) and 4 thematic modules * number of questions depending on
target group and answers given by respondents (minimum of 15 questions)
•Expected time to answer is 15 – 45 minutes.
•Privacy policy and consent form
•detailed information about privacy of data is given before the start of the survey
•to be acknowledged (click) by respondent
•allows for internal (project EOSC-Pillar) usage and cross project usage
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Survey in practice
• Results are pseudonymised (personal data is decoupled from responses)
• Only EOSC-Pillar partner Universität Wien has has access and safeguards the key connecting
individual responses to participants
• Respondents can be contacted for follow-up questions proposal, if they have agreed to
• Proposal: The concept of the survey and the questionnaire were developed by EOSC-Pillar but will
be shared and can be used, once finalized, under a CC license by other projects or initiatives.
• First user of the information is the Landscape WG to the Executive Board
• Analysis of the existing national infrastructures, activities and initiatives, funding models and
national strategies and policies
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EOSC Executive Board
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https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/results-call-applications-selection-members-expert-group-
members-executive-board-eosc-2018-nov-23_en
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EOSC EB WORKING GROUPS
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EOSC-Pillar has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 857650.
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