1) The project established cloud framework contracts with over 400 suppliers across Europe to provide researchers with easy access to cloud services. 2) €8.5 million in funding was distributed to support over 120 research projects utilizing commercial cloud and Earth observation services. 3) The projects covered a wide range of disciplines and countries and provided real-world examples of how cloud and Earth observation data can be applied to important challenges like monitoring the war in Ukraine and modeling drug delivery.

1. Project Outcomes
and Legacy
Dave Heyns
Project Director

2. “Creating a symbiotic (more mutualistic)
public-private innovation ecosystem
requires new methods, metrics and
indicators to evaluate public investments
and their results.”
Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking
Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London
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3. ➢Cloud based digital services –
1. Ease of consumption by European Research community
2. Construction of supporting procurement framework – Individual contracts
3. Significant research focused concessions from Market – Global aggregation
4. Drive visibility and awareness
5. Promote adoption via EC funding initiative
➢Earth Observations services
1. Stimulation of SMEs (European Digital Market)
2. Drive visibility of EO market (Copernicus + value added services)
3. Promote adoption of EO services via EC funding initiative
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Project Ambitions

4. ➢ OCRE Cloud Framework
o 1100 bids from market
o 473 framework contracts across 40 countries (10,000 institutes)
o 37 cloud platforms represented
o Minimum of 9 platforms per country/Maximum 17 platforms per country
o Contract management transferred to GÉANT project
➢OCRE Cloud Catalogue https://www.ocre-project.eu/services/cloud-suppliers
➢OCRE EO Catalogue https://www.ocre-project.eu/eo-catalogue
➢€8.5 Million in adoption funding distributed (both service types)
➢ >>> HEARING the European Research Community
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Project Outcomes

5. Hearing the researcher!
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Austria
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Moldova
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
UK
United
Kingdom
Cloud adoption funding calls
AGRICULTURAL
ALL
ENGINEERING
AND
TECHNOLOGY
HEALTH
SCIENCES
HUMANITIES
NATURAL
SCIENCES
SOCIAL
SCIENCES
22
Countries
represented
All OECD
disciplines
Commercial Cloud and EO services
120
Project
proposals

7. Predictive Algorithms for
Detection of Intimate Partner
Violence in the Healthcare System
Quantifying war damage in
Ukraine based on EO data (impact
to global food production)
A methodology based on aerial and
satellite data for the preliminary
study of Sardinian Nuragic sites
Dutch Comprehensive Childhood
Cancer Commons (NL-4C)

8. Sentinel-2 Semantic Data &
Information Cube
Galactic Research in Cloud
Services
PaNOSC – Photon and Neutron
Open Science Cloud. Scalability
and sustainability
CODALIFE - Prompt and
efficacious neonatal stabilization
Earth Observation Data
Centre GmbH

9. Modelling of Drug Deposition with Realistic Dosages
in Patient-Specific Lung Airways
Digital Healthcare Training in the
METAVERSE;
DL4KGs – Deep Learning for Graphs
Modelling of Drug Deposition with
Realistic Dosages in Patient-Specific
Lung Airways
Self-Supervised Neural Networks
for Video and Images
Approximation of theoretical
models and application-oriented
further evolvment

10. Modelling of Drug Deposition with Realistic Dosages
in Patient-Specific Lung Airways
Agile Response To High
performance computing needs for
Undergraduate Research
Neural network backbones for
medical image comptuing: large-
scale training and adaptation
High Availability OpenStack
Cloud IaaS platform
Stimulate practical application of
forestry impact results by industry

11. Modelling of Drug Deposition with Realistic Dosages
in Patient-Specific Lung Airways
Derivation of green indicators of
human well-being
CLOBOT - Cloud Robotics. Robot OS
incl visualization platform
Scientific Data Analysis of
Sychrotron light experiments
Decentralized Machine Learning
Control for Intelligent Multi-Agent
Dynamical Systems

12. Modelling of Drug Deposition with Realistic Dosages
in Patient-Specific Lung Airways
CryoSat-2 SAR SARin SAMOSA
Consensus Processing
British and Canadian paraglacial
coastlines
Cognitive Power Electronics
Federated Deep Learning for
Predictive Medicine

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Project Legacy
➢Cloud framework contracts accessible via the EOSC MarketPlace
➢Accelerated adoption of cloud services (120% per year)
➢Proven procurement mechanisms
➢Use of OCRE contracts to demonstrate the distribution of commercial
cloud services by European Research Infrastructures (EOSC Future)
https://eoscfuture.eu/eventsfuture/webinar-opportunities-for-european-research-
infrastructures-commercial-cloud-services-under-eosc-call-for-proposals/
➢OCRE contracts supporting the digital transformation of services
supported by the NRENs, ERICS and other e-Infras
➢Portfolio of EOSC case studies
➢OCRE suppliers providing support for Ukrainian institutes

14. OBRIGADO!