The eosc-hub, funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 program, aims to support advanced data-driven research through a collaborative framework of 100 partners and 33 million euros in funding. It facilitates the management of services and integration across various research infrastructures while providing a centralized access portal for datasets and services. The initiative seeks to enhance service provisioning, user engagement, and innovative research capabilities across multiple scientific disciplines.

1. EOSC-hub receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 777536.
eosc-hub.eu
@EOSC_eu
EOSC-hub: A Collaborative Framework
for the EOSC Implementation
Tiziana Ferrari, Per Öster
Dissemination level: Public

2. 20 digital research infrastructures,
EGI, EUDAT CDI and INDIGO-DataCloud
jointly offering services, software and data
for advanced, data-driven research & innovation
100
partner
s
36
months
33
million
Euro
Mission:
The EOSC-hub project mobilises providers of pan-
European relevance offering services, software
and data for advanced data-driven research and
innovation

3. 3
RI Contributions/Jan 2019
e-Infra
EGI
Federation
EUDAT CDI
INDIGO-
DataCloud
Humanities
Language
and
literature
(CLARIN)
Arts
(DARIAH)
Engineering
Environmen
tal
engineering
(sea vessels,
LNEC)
Civil
Engineering
(Disaster
Mitigation)
Medical
and Health
Sciences
Biological
Sciences
(ELIXIR)
Structural
biology
(WeNMR)
Natural
sciences
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Astronomy (LOFAR)
Fusion (ITER)
High Energy Physics
(CMS and VIRGO)
Space Science
(EISCAT-3D)
EARTH SCIENCE
EO Pillar
GEO
Climate Research
(ENES)
Seismology (ORFEUS,
EPOS)
BIOLOGICAL
SCIENCES
Marine and
freshwater biology
(IFREMER)
Biodiversity
conservation
(LifeWatch)
Ecology (ICOS)
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4. 4
Technical & Strategic Partnerships/Jan 2019
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EOSC
Implementation
Projects
PaNOSC
ENVRI-FAIR
EOSC-LIFE
ESCAPE
SSHOC
…
eInfras
OpenAIRE-Advance
GEANT
eInfraCentral
…
Strategic
EOSC-hub Strategic Board
participation
Technical
Technical support and service
provisioning
Operational
Coordinated user support and
outreach
Jupyter notebooks managed service on cloud
Federated cloud provisioning
Data Management and AAI

5. • Service integration and research project enabling through technical
support → EOSC User interface
• Federation of collaborating national/international facility providers,
onboarding of service providers → EOSC Service Provider interface
- Development and validation of interoperable interfaces across relevant
services and resources
- Definition and maintenance of relevant policies for users and providers →
Rules of Participation
• Engagement with user communities and providers
- EOSC Portal and Marketplace as EOSC collaborative platform
- Competence Centres
- Digital Innovation Hub
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EOSC-hub Roles and Activities in EOSC
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6. • Provides a framework to manage services sourced from
a number of service providers
• Is accountable for end-to-end service governance,
management, integration, assurance and coordination
• Manages the relationships with service providers
through processes like business relationship
management, service portfolio management, quality
assurance
• Provides supporting services and activities, such as the
Service Portfolio Management Tool, marketplace etc.
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Contribution of EOSC-hub to the EOSC
implementation roadmap
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7. • Provides a discovery and access channel to FAIR-
accredited datasets
• Offers EUDAT B2FIND metadata catalogue and other
registries of repositories, as well as community-
specific data discovery and access tools that are part
of the EOSC-hub catalogue
• Makes available generic data management and
compute services to end users to access, stage and
analyse data from FAIR-compliant sources
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Contribution of EOSC-hub to the EOSC
implementation roadmap
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8. • Contributes to the definition of a participatory and
lightweight service portfolio management process in
collaboration with the participating service providers
• Maintains the service portfolio so that all services are
specified, including planning, design and transition of
new or changed services
• Maps offer against demand, identifying gaps, i.e. needs
that are partly or not covered at all
• Monitors and assesses service use as well as service
provider performance and conformance to the EOSC
Rules of Participation
• Defines procurement and delivery model(s) for services
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Contribution of EOSC-hub to the EOSC
implementation roadmap
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9. • Engages with the demand and supply side of the EOSC
• Co-develops and operates a marketplace as one entry
point to EOSC
• Co-develops with research communities the policies
and tools that enable federated access and supply
• Supports different access policies (e.g. sponsored
access, policy-based access and pay for use access) to
enable different business models
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Contribution of EOSC-hub to the EOSC
implementation roadmap
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10. • With input from collaborating projects and initiatives,
collectively gathers and maintains a corpus of Rules of
Participation to the Hub
• Defines the conditions for service providers to offer
services through the Hub, taking into account
different perspectives, for example technical,
operational, legal and financial
• Provides a framework of service/resource-specific
procedures for lightweight quality assurance, for
example through the periodic auditing of
conformance of the participating providers
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Contribution of EOSC-hub to the EOSC
implementation roadmap
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11. EOSC-hub Stakeholders
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12. Service/Product
providers
• Contribute to the
portfolio & Integrate
• Promote, Train,
Exploit
• Participate in the Hub
Early adopters
• Pilot
• Use
• Co-develop
Consumers
• Credit allocation &
exploit
• Support
• Improve with
feedback
• Use
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Research Infrastructure Roles in EOSC-hub
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13. ESFRI – EOSC-hub Collaboration Areas
EOSC Digital Innovation Hub
EOSC Service Portfolio
The Hub
Competence Centres
Service integration,
training, documentation
and best practices
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A system with: Federation & collaboration services;
Processes & policies; Business models & procurement
experience; Strategy & Technical Service Roadmap, etc.
Common &Thematic services;
Business models for individual
services; Rules for participation, etc.
a platform that facilitates engagement
between private industry and public
institutions participating in the EOSC.
Best practices on Open Science, IM /
Service Management / IT Security /
DM trainings, etc.
Usage experience with common services
and guidelines; requirements collection
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14. • Research communities
- Discover services through a
secure online catalogue with a
central access point.
- Access services via harmonised
access policies and Service Level
Agreements. Depending on the
customer’s needs, access will be
provided through a centrally
managed credit-based allocation
system and/or through long-term
resource allocation.
- Leverage a large portfolio of
generic and thematic services via
standard interfaces
- Provide requirements, co-design,
testing
• Research Infrastructures -
Providers
- Contribute to EOSC with services
based on a harmonised corpus of
access, security and provisioning
policies.
- Integrate and Federate services by
relying on harmonised processes and
tools for service integration and
management.
- Scale-up in-house capacity by
procuring services via a centrally run
procurement and purchase
framework.
- Reach out to user communities and
support
- Collaborate with other providers
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The Hub – A Collaboration Platform for ESFRIs

15. Research Project Enabling Cycle
1. Evolve enabling
technologies
2. Integrate services
3. Provide → support →
access → consume
4. Engage with external
user communities and
providers, collect
requirements
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16. • Objective: Widen the access to services to
all user groups including researchers,
high-education, business organizations
and expand the user base
• Objective: Increase innovation capacity of
Research e-Infrastructures Solutions
successfully adopted by user communities
will be supported for broader exploitation
by external stakeholders. In addition to
the DIH, the project stimulates
engagement via large research
collaborations and infrastructures via 8
Competence Centres
Digital Innovation Hub [KER3]
• A platform that allows facilitates
engagement between private
industry and public institutions
participating in the EOSC
Competence Centres [KER5]
• Research communities, service
providers and experts contributing to
- Co-design: Requirements, gap
analysis and technical development
- Piloting and pre-production
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Collaboration Platforms
Co-design Requirements and
Gap Analysis
Technical
development and
service deployment
Piloting and pre-
production service
provisioning

17. • Objective: Provide a knowledge
hub
- Access will be opened to all to
overcome the current funding and
policy barriers
- The project engages adjacent, but
fragmented, scientific communities
in Humanities, Physical Sciences,
Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences,
and Medical and Health Sciences
Service integration, training,
documentation and best
practices [KER4]
• Best practices, use cases
and EOSC success stories
• Training resources
- Innovation Management
- Service Management
- IT Security
- Data management
- EOSC services
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Knowledge hub

18. EOSC-hub Week 2019
10-12 April, Prague
Launch of Call for Research Projects
for integrated service provisioning
In EOSC
Come and become a provider!
https://eosc-portal.eu/for-providers

19. eosc-hub.eu @EOSC_eu
Thank you
for your attention!
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