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EGI and
EOSC-hub Digital Innovation Hub
Yannick Legré

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3 quick points
1. Who is EGI
2. What is the EOSC-hub project
3. Opportunities
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EGI: Advanced Computing for Innovation
EGI is a federation of over 260 computing and data centres spread
across 40+ countries in Europe and worldwide
EGI delivers services to support researchers, international projects,
research infrastructures and industry
47 Countries
12 Integrated
e-Infrastructures
61,000 users
31 large-scale
research collaborations
22,000 Publications
11 Business cases
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EGI: Advanced Computing for Innovation
260+ HTC
providers
21 Cloud
providers
850,000
CPU cores
650 PB
storage
1.7 Million
jobs/day
2.6 Billion
CPU
hours/year
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eosc-hub.eu
@EOSC_eu
EOSC-hub receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 777536.
EOSC = European Open Science Cloud
Major EC initiative to improve cohesion between researchers,
innovators, and service providers in both public and private sectors
EOSC-hub project
First realization of the EOSC - brings together 20 major digital
infrastructures to jointly offer services, software and data for
advanced data-driven research and innovation

• European Commission Horizon2020 programme
• 100 Partners, 76 beneficiaries (75 funded)
• 3874 PMs, 108 FTEs, more than 200 individual staff
involved
• Co-funded by:
– European Commission: €30,000,000
– EGI Foundation and its participants: €2,155,540
– EGI participants in-kind contributions: €1,221,094
• 36 months: Jan 2018 – Dec 2020
Project figures
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Digital Innovation Hub
For start-ups and SMEs
Objectives
• Create a Pan-European network of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs).
• Help ensure that every company, small or large, high-tech or not, can grasp the digital
opportunities.
EC Definition
An ecosystem of start-ups, SMEs, large industries, researchers, accelerators, and
investors that fosters the creation of partnerships to stimulate innovation.
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Digital Innovation Hub
For start-ups and SMEs
• Offer access to e-Infrastructure resources to support
pilots, prototyping, scaling-up, design, performance
verification, testing, demonstration, etc.
• Facilitate partnerships with SMEs/industry, innovation
clusters, accelerators and investors that stimulate
innovation
• Increase visibility on a European/International level
• Provide business coaching and training to “accelerate”
market uptake and exploitation results
• Support access to funding/grants
• Develop long-term business relationships
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Digital Innovation Hub
6 Initial Business Pilots
1.) CyberHAB (SME: Ecohydros)
• Environment: Early warning and integral management of Harmful Algae Blooms exploiting Data
Cloud Services (DCS) and key processes required (data processing, modelling, image integration).
2.) Moxoff (3 SMEs + CINECA)
• Sport and biomedicine: Develop mobile-friendly cloud platform for data-driven video analysis
processing
3.) Bot Mitigation Engine (2 SMEs + PSNC)
• Security: Prevent on-line services from botnets attacks like: Web Scraping, Online Fraud, Digital Ad
Fraud, Web Application, Security, Spam.
4.) Suite5Pilot (2 SMEs + CINECA)
• Furniture: Enterprise Analytics Platform-as-a-Service
5.) ACTION Seaport (SME: Bentley Systems)
• Seaports: Improve safety, environmental and operational ports through a mobile-friendly platform
6.) DS-DRACO (SME: Hidronav + CESGA)
• Space Weather: Data Services to develop an appropriate cloud super computational pilot
framework for the future commercialization of the DRACO data.
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History of working with private sector
Business Development
Platform Integration IaaS Consumers/Pilots
Public/Private Partnerships
FitSM Training EGI FedCloud Provider
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Exploit large network
• Channel through which
Green-IT policies and
support tools can be
promoted
contact@egi.eu
Call for Participation
• Start-ups and SMEs to join
the EOSC-hub Digital
Innovation Hub
business@egi.eu
Opportunities
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eosc-hub.eu
@EOSC_eu
EOSC-hub receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 777536.
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