The document provides an introduction to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). It defines key concepts like open science, FAIR data, and explains what EOSC is - a federated infrastructure to support open sharing and reuse of research outputs across disciplines. It outlines EOSC's goals like enabling multidisciplinary discovery and connecting previously disconnected research resources and data silos. Examples of current EOSC services and resources available via the EOSC Portal are also briefly described.

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Introduction to EOSC
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Sarah Jones
EOSC Engagement Manager
sarah.jones@geant.org
Twitter: @sarahroams
Module 5 – Future Perspectives in Research
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Why Open Science?
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Science has always been open
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The spectrum of Open Science
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“science carried out and communicated in a manner which
allows others to contribute, collaborate and add to the research
effort, with all kinds of data, results and protocols made freely
available at different stages of the research process.”
Research Information Network, Open Science case studies
www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/data-management-and-curation/
open-science-case-studies
Defining Open Science
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• FAIR ≠ Open
• FAIR ensures data can be found, understood and reused
• Data can be shared under restrictions & still be FAIR
"As open as possible, as closed as necessary"
And what is FAIR?
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• EC and Member States committed to FAIR and Open
• Pursue this in research policy and grant conditions
• Lots of investment in infrastructure to support data sharing
• Ultimately supports the science ecosystem and ensures
greater return on investment
FAIR and Open both central to EOSC
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What is EOSC?
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• A web of FAIR data and services
• Federation of eInfra and Research
Infrastructures (RIs)
• Environment in which data can be
brought together with services to
perform analyses and address
societal challenges
The EOSC platform

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Aims to enable multidisciplinary discovery & use
Disconnected silos to a
federated infrastructure
providing added value to
researchers

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FAIR is central to principles in EOSC
• Is the glue that connects data & services
• Requirement for FAIR to support reuse
• Use community standards
• Share all types of output (openly)

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Align with European Partnerships & data spaces
The nine European Common
Data Spaces: Hybrid Public
and Private Data
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9. Skills data
space
7. Agricultural
data space
8. Data spaces
for public
administrations
6. Energy
data space
5. Financial
data space
1. Industrial
(manufacturing)
data
4. Health
data
space
2. Green Deal
data space
3. Mobility
data space
National
Private and
Public data
EOSC

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Many projects and initiatives contributing…

15. Main aims of EOSC Future
• The realisation of EOSC-Core and EOSC Exchange
with interoperable data and resources
• The integration of data and resources from the
science clusters into the EOSC Platform
• The direct involvement of users in the co-design
and implementation of the EOSC Portal
• Briging together eInfra and RIs to achieve this
https://eoscfuture.eu

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• CSA run by EOSC Association
• Will operate a stakeholder forum
• Run project coordination events
• Host consultations on the SRIA updates
• National country day workshops
• Researcher engagement activities
• Annual EOSC Symposium
• ….
EOSC Focus project (forthcoming)
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EOSC governance
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18. Long history of political agreements and activity
Lots of groundwork since 2015
• Council Conclusions
• Expert Group reports
• EC documents
• Major investment in EOSC
related projects to develop the
infrastructure and platform

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• The shared vision between the EC, MS&AC and a large community
• The decision of the governing bodies to institute a Co-programmed
Partnership as the best instrument to collectively achieve this vision
Where does the current governance come from?
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Executive and Governance Boards
from 2018-2020
Changing governance of EOSC
https://eoscsecretariat.eu/eosc-governance/eosc-executive-board
EOSC Association and European
Partnership from 2020 onwards
https://www.eosc.eu

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• Three-party collaboration
• Partnership MOU between EC and
EOSC Association
• Representation of Member States &
Associated Countries involved in
Horizon Europe in Steering Board
• EOSC Association represents
stakeholder community at large via
its membership
Governance model 2021-27
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EOSC
Association
Steering
Board
European
Commission
Joining the EOSC Association
=
Joining the EOSC Partnership!

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• 234 organisations of which 161 are full members and 73 observers
• Mostly research performing and service providers
• Good geographic coverage, strongest in Western Europe

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Timeline of EOSC iterations towards a MVE
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Current state of the EOSC platform –
still a work in progress!
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• Currently the primary resource for
navigating EOSC
• https://eosc-portal.eu
• Includes a virtual tour for new users
• Catalogue and marketplace is how
you discover, access and compose
resources
EOSC Portal

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Search by scientific domains or categories of services
Navigating resources

27. Access to free storage, compute and support services
C-SCALE will federate compute
and data resources from the
Copernicus DIAS, the national
Collaborative Ground
Segments and the European
Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
towards a European open
source Big (Copernicus) Data
Analytics platform:
- Storage services: up to 12 PB
- Cloud services: up to
17,728,500 CPU hours
- HPC/HTC services: up to
3,100,000 CPU hours
- GPU services: up to 6,000
GPU hours
DICE makes available a set of
data management services (and
associated resources) for
researchers and research
communities from any scientific
domain including:
- Data archives (up to 25 PB)
- Policies based data archives (up
to 17 PB)
- Personal and project
workspaces (up to 5 PB)
- Data repository services for
data sharing (up to 8 PB)
- Data discovery services (with
PID and DOI services and
metadata harvesting)
EGI-ACE will deliver the EOSC
Compute Platform and will
contribute to the EOSC Data
Commons. Services offered
include: compute and storage
resources, compute platform
services, data management
services and related user support
and training.
The total capacity that EGI-ACE
makes available through the call
between 2021-2023 is:
- 80,000,000 CPU hours
- 250,000 GPU hours
- 20 PB storage
support to Argos DMP service by
drafting discipline specific DMPs,
Horizon Europe DMP support
set your own community
research gateway
(connect.openaire.eu) and
Zenodo communities
access open science metrics for
your projects, institution,
community
service to anonymise your data
and comply with GDPR
support and mentoring on
Horizon Europe open access
mandates
Provides three core services for
Research Lifecycle Management:
- ROHub: tool to facilitate the
exchange of information across the
scientific community.
- Text Enrichment and Mining:
service which automatically extracts
valuable information and metadata
from bibliographic sources and
other text documents
- Datacube technology for Earth
Observation (EO) data
management: efficient access to
extensive collections of multi-
temporal and multi-dimensional EO
imagery, also allowing
interoperability among the different
information layers.
https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu

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Finding research data
• Currently via community repositories and catalogues
• These are being aggregated to offer a cross-search in EOSC…

29. Improved cross-catalogue discovery
(mock-up – forthcoming work)
As more community
catalogues are integrated
into EOSC, greater search
and discovery functionality
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EOSC Future is using AI techniques to make recommendations to users:
• relevant projects, data, publications, training materials
• potential collaborators (people, task forces, communities)
Recommendations based on
• viewing history
• order history
• general popularity
• popularity among users with
a similar background/interests
Recommendations for users

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• Federated identity management – ease of single sign on
• Access to a greater number of services
• Funding provided to pay for compute e.g. EGI-ACE, DICE
• Discovery of related data from other disciplines / sectors
• Greater ability to collaborate and address key research
questions
Benefits of EOSC for researchers
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Thank you
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The research leading to these results has received funding from
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