This document discusses the Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) and its role within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). It notes that an integrated approach is needed to research data infrastructures that goes beyond individual layers and national/disciplinary silos. The goal of EOSC is to provide a virtual environment for storage, management, analysis and reuse of research data across borders and disciplines. EOSC aims to federate existing initiatives within a single, consolidated platform. The document outlines the EC policy and governance structure behind EOSC, as well as related projects that have received funding. It discusses how SSHOC could be seamlessly integrated within EOSC and the expected impacts, including increased availability of

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SSHOC
Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud
Ron Dekker | CESSDA
11 March 2019

2. Increasing agreement among
Member States and
major research infrastructures and e-infrastructures
Integrated approach to research data infrastructures is needed
going beyond layers (computing, data storage, use) and
national & disciplinary silos
EOSC
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COMPUTING NETWORKS SOFTWARE CONTENT

3. To provide members of Europe’s research community with a
virtual environment
with free at the point of use, open and seamless services for
storage, management, analysis and reuse of research data
across borders and scientific disciplines”
To federate existing initiatives and structures within a single,
consolidated and seamless platform
EOSC - Mission
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From: Interim Report PROMPTING an EOSC in PRACTICE

4. EC Council Conclusions 2015, 2016, 2018 Ministers
EOSC Declaration (2017) Stakeholders
EC-SWD: Implementation Roadmap (2018) EC DG RTD
EOSC-hub: Rules of Participation (2018) Project
FAIR data principles & FAIR Data (2018) Expert Group
Implementing EOSC (2018) Expert Group
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EOSC – EC Policy

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EOSC – Governance
Source: Implementing EOSC – Silvana Muscella

6. Organisations and their representatives
CESAER Karel LUYBEN
CESSDA ERIC Ronald DEKKER
EMBL Rupert LÜCK
European Spallation Source ERIC John WOMERSLEY
GÉANT Cathrin STÖVER
OPENAIRE Natalia MANOLA
Research Data Alliance (RDA) Juan BICARREGUI
Science Europe Stephan KUSTER
Individual experts
Sarah JONES
Jean-Francois ABRAMATIC
Jan HRUSAK
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EOSC – Exec Board

7. PRACE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 87 M€
EOSC-pilot, -hub 40 M€
OpenAIRE, -Plus, -Connect, -2020, -Advance 33 M€
EUDAT, -2020 28 M€
INDIGO-DataCloud 11 M€
SERISS 8.5 M€
FREYA 5.0 M€
RISCAPE 2.0 M€
eInfraCentral 1.5 M€
Total 216 M€
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Some EOSC-related Projects

8. ESFRI-clusters 95 M€
SSHOC 14.5 M€
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ESFRI Clusters
& New Projects and Coming Up
FAIRsFAIR 10 M€
INFRAEOSC-03 2 x 40 M€

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EOSC - Integration
pre-EOSC projects
ESFRI-cluster projects
new EOSC projects
Governance
Member States & EC
e-Infra & Clusters
(stakeholders)
but where are the researchers ?

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e-Infrastructures
Innovation
Tools to
the market
Marketplace
Training
Research
(data)
communities
Governance

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Expected Impact
EU wide availability of high quality SSH
Tools
Data
Access - trusted and secure
Training - e.g. complex, international, multilingual data
Data sharing is the “new normal”
SSHOC seamlessly integrated in EOSC

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EOSC
EOSC as a PLATFORM?
Owned by the EC – setting the conditions and rules of the game
Managed by an Executive Board, with
Governing Board for Supervision
Stakeholders Board for advise
Secretariat for operations
with Service Providers (e-infra, ESFRI’s, 3rd P) on the ‘supply side’
with Researchers & Research Institutions on the ‘demand side’

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Thank you
Ron.Dekker@cessda.eu