As part of a webinar series on Open Research in Ireland, the National Open Research Forum (NORF) presented a webinar focused on Infrastructures to support Open Research on 30 March 2021. This presentation on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was delivered by Sarah Jones (GÉANT).

1. The European Open Science Cloud
Sarah Jones, GÉANT
sarah.jones@geant.org
Twitter: @sarahroams
NORF Open Research Ireland webinar, 30
March 2021

2. What is EOSC?
A web of FAIR data and services
Federation of eInfra and research infrastructures
Environment in which data can be brought together
with services to perform analyses and address
societal challenges

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

4. Interoperability Framework to support reuse
• Adopt FAIR principles
• Use community standards
• Share all types of output –
ideally openly

5. 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

6. Many projects and initiatives contributing…

8. Semantic use case from interoperability framework
A rare disease researcher is
seeking clinical data that
match the study population
and variables to reach the
population size needed
Search EOSC metadata
catalogue to find
candidate datasets
Search semantic artefacts
based on domain metadata
to check relevant variables
are present
Agree subset
of data to
reuse

9. Benefits for researchers
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
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10. Benefits for institutions and service providers
Raise awareness of data and services
Greater discovery and reuse of provision
Ability to access EOSC funding via projects
Access to Open Science training resources
Higher profile and reputation
Better return on investment
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11. Join the EOSC Association!
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Predominance of research performing
organisations & service providers
135 Members and 44 Observers
Board of Directors chaired by Karel Luyben
https://eosc.eu/form/join-eosc-association

12. Thanks!
Questions?