The document discusses the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and related e-infrastructure projects. It provides the following information: 1) The EOSC aims to provide EU researchers with a virtual environment for storing, managing, analyzing, sharing, and reusing data across disciplines by integrating existing e-infrastructures. 2) Several projects were funded in 2017-2018 to help develop the EOSC, including EOSC-hub, OpenAIRE Advance, and others to prototype new services. 3) Future work will focus on further developing the EOSC through topics like governance, integrating national initiatives, and consolidating access mechanisms.

1. European Open Science Cloud:
the perspective of
e-infrastructures consolidation
Georgeta Serafim, DG CNECT
Unit C1: e-Infrastructure and
Science Cloud
European Policy Perspectives on Data-intensive Agriculture & Food
Brussels, 11 December 2017

2. eInfrastructures: Where do we stand?
2

3. Integration and consolidation of eInfras:
users, suppliers and access channels
MS
Pan-European
e-Infra 1
Pan-European
e-Infra 2
Facilities Facilities
…
…
TODAY
€ €
EU EU
Researcher
€
EU
€
€
EU
EDI
Facilities
FUTURE
…MS
EOSC
Researcher
Comm
ercial
EDP
EINFRA
-12 -
2017

4. Outcome of the EINFRA-2017 evaluation 2020 and beyond
E-infrastructureOperational
services
European Open
Science Cloud
New cycle of service
prototypes
EOSC-Hub
Data & distributed
computing
eInfrastructure
OpenAIRE-Advance
Access & preservation of
scientific info
DARE
FREYA
PROCESS
XDC
EUXDAT
DEEP
HybridDataCloud
Innovativenewservices
Outcome of EINFRA-12-2017
40M€
20M€

5. In summary
EOSC-HUB
Pan-European access
channel to EOSC services
OPENAIRE
ADVANCE
Open
Access
FREYA
Persistent
Identifiers
Socio technical
network for Open
Science
Services, software and
data for full life-cycle of
research
Federated
network of
interlinked
research objects
Governance
Recommendations

6. Commercial
services
Public e-
INFRA 1
EOSC
• User interface
• Core service provision
• Access rights
• Catalogue of services eInfraCentral
EOSC-hub
OpenAIRE-Advance
Public e-
INFRA 2
ESFRIs,
ERICs ……
INFRAEOSC-01-
2018 / €12M
New
innovative
services
Next technical developments in WP18-20
INFRAEOSC-03-
2020 / €79M
INFRAEOSC-02-
2019 / €28,5M

7. FAIR uptake
mechanism
ESFRI
Clusters
EOSC MS
initiatives
EOSC coord.
structure
Mapping of 2018-2019 actions EOSC call
Facilities
…
EDI
Int.RI:ESFRIs
CERN,EMBL,…
Commercial
GOVERNANCE
• Rules of engagement
• Standard setting & certification
• Agenda setting
Researcher
MS
EOSC Hub
• User interface
• Catalogue of services for research
• Core service provision
• Brokerage of external services
New Services
CNECT
RTD
Thematic
clouds
e.g. Blue Cloud…

8. TOPIC Title
Type of
Action
Open Date Deadline Budget
INFRAEOSC-01-2018
Access to commercial services through
the EOSC hub
RIA 05/12/2017 22/03/2018 €12M
INFRAEOSC-02-2019 Prototyping new innovative services RIA 16/10/2018 29/01/2019 €28.5M
INFRAEOSC-03-2020
Integration and consolidation of pan-
European access mechanisms to public e-
infrastructures and commercial services
through the EOSC hub
RIA tbd tbd
€79M
INFRASUPP-03-2016
Policy and international cooperation
measures for research infrastructures
(b5) Support to the e-Infrastructure
Reflection Group (e-IRG)
CSA 05/12/2017 22/03/2018 € 0.6M
GÉANT - FPA
Research and Education Networking
SGA
Q3-2018 tbd
Increase of long-term backbone capacity SGA Q3-2018
tbd
At least
€16M
e-Infrastructures in WP2018-20 (Chronological view)

9. Thank you!

10. Back-up

11. Political drivers for action
EC Communication "European Cloud Initiative"
published on 19 April 2016
Three pillars:
 EOSC: the European Open Science Cloud
 EDI: the European Data Infrastructure (Development
and deployment of large-scale EU HPC, data and network
infrastructure)
 Widening access & building trust (SMEs, Industry,
Government)

12. European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
o The EOSC will provide all EU researchers a trusted virtual
environment with free, open and seamless services for data
storage, management, analysis, sharing, and re-use, across
disciplines.
o The EOSC will integrate and consolidate horizontal
eInfrastructures.
o The EOSC will federate existing and emerging thematic data
infrastructures and scientific clouds, effectively bridging
todays fragmentation and ad-hoc solutions.
o The EOSC will add value (scale, data-driven science, inter-
disciplinarity, data to knowledge to innovation) and leverage
current & past infrastructure investment.

13.  Clear timeline in the EC Communication on the
European Cloud Initiative (ECI) of 19/4/2016
 Topic for a Pilot action for EOSC in 2016 H2020
Research Infrastructure call
 To demonstrate how to ensure availability of scientific data and
data-analysis services through a cloud infrastructure.
 Designing a stakeholder driven governance framework.
 E-Infrastructures topics in 2017 H2020 calls for
federation & interoperability of data infrastructures
 Further substantial investments in the 2018-2020
Work Programme of H2020
European Open Science Cloud: how

14. Project Description
Requested EU
contribution
Number of
partners
EOSC-hub
• It creates the integration and management system of the future European
Open Science Cloud that delivers a catalogue of services, software and data
from EGI, EUDAT, INDIGO-DataCloud and major research e-Infrastructures
• It builds on mature processes, policies and tools to cover the whole life-cycle
of services, from planning to delivery
• It aggregates services from local, regional and national e-Infrastructures in
Europe and worldwide
• The the consortium involves 12 research infrastructures (BBMRI, CLARIN,
CMS, DARIAH, ECRIN, EISCAT, ELIXIR, EPOS, ICOS/eLTER, LifeWatch,
LOFAR)
• A call for Thematic Service providers will be conducted (EUR 1.45M)
€30M
For 36 months
74
OpenAIRE
Advance
• It builds on the OpenAIRE infrastructure, comprised of a human network and
robust technical services, aiming to be a trusted e-Infrastructure of the
EOSC
• It fosters capacity building activities and radically improves the OpenAIRE
technical services by optimizing their performance and scalability and
refining their functionality based on end-user feedback
• It consolidates the range of services/products into a common e-Infra
catalogue to enable a wider uptake
€10M
For 36 months
48
Starting in January 2018
EINFRA-12-2017

15. Projects Description
Requested EU
contribution
FREYA
Discoverability
Building on the outcomes of the project THOR, FREYA will establish an open, sustainable,
and trusted framework for collaborative self-governance of PIDs and services built on them.
€5M
36 months
DARE
Computing
DARE will improve further and integrate tried and tested programmatic dataflow specification
APIs, big-data technologies and provenance/data-lineage solutions to address the
requirements of European RIs, initially of EPOS (Earth science), and IS/ENES2 (climate).
€2.96M
36 months
DEEP
HybridDataCl
oud
Computing
DEEP will develop innovative services to support intensive computing techniques that require
specialized HPC hardware, like GPUs or low latency interconnects, to explore very large
datasets.
€2.99M
30 months
PROCESS
Computing
PROCESS will develop five very large data service prototypes, implemented using a mature,
modular, generalizable open source solution for user friendly exascale data. It brings together
top-level HPC and big data centres, communities with unique data challenges and e-infras.
€2.97M
36 months
XDC
Computing
XDC will develop scalable technologies for federating storage resources and managing data
in highly distributed computing environments. The services will be capable of operating at the
unprecedented scale required by the most demanding, data intensive, research experiments.
€3.08M
27 months
EUXDAT
Computing
EUXDAT (agri, land monitoring and energy efficiency) builds on existing mature components
for solving problems related to huge amount of heterogeneous data, by providing a frontend
for users to develop applications on top of an infrastructure based on HPC and Cloud.
€3M
36 months
Building new Innovative services
EINFRA-21-2017

16. EOSC
EDI
WIDENING
ACCESS