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European Open Science Cloud

The vision for EOSC is to put in place a system in Europe to find and access data and services for research and innovation. This is to help researchers store, share, process, analyse and reuse FAIR research outputs within and across disciplines and borders. 

EOSC builds on existing infrastructure and services supported by the European Commission, Member States and research communities. It brings these together in a federated ‘system of systems’ approach, adding value by aggregating content and enabling services to be used together.

EOSC Association

The EOSC Association is the legal entity established to govern the EOSC. The EOSC ecosystem is being co-created in a series of funded projects and initiatives from Member States and Associated Countries. The EOSC Association plays an important role in helping to coordinate and steer these investments via its Task Forces and other governance structures.

EOSC-A explained
EOSC-A Task Force Reports

FAIR metrics and data quality

Community-driven Governance of FAIRness Assessment: An Open Issue, an Open Discussion

FAIR Assessment Tools: Towards an “Apples to Apples” Comparisons

TOWARDS A DATA QUALITY FRAMEWORK FOR EOSC

Report on FAIR Signposting and its Uptake by the Community

Report on FAIR Evaluation community survey

Financial sustainability

Towards Sustainable Funding Models for the European Open Science Cloud

Analysis of the Financial Sustainability Task Force: Consultation on the Progress report

Long-term data preservation

EOSC Preservation: Overview Discussion Paper

Recommendations Consultation. EOSC-A Long Term Data Preservation Task Force

LTDP-TF Final Report & Recommendations

LTDP-TF Recommendations & Assertions

Upskilling countries to engage in EOSC

Fostering Open Science in Europe: Engagement Strategies from EOSC’s Task Forces on Research Careers and Curricula

Progress towards engagement in EOSC: a report on the activities and impact of the EOSC Association Task Force “Upskilling Countries to Engage in EOSC”

Infrastructures for quality research software

Research Software Lifecycle

Task Force Sub Group 3 – Review of Software Quality Attributes and Characteristics

SIRS Gap Analysis Report

Ensure Software Quality

AAI architecture

EOSC AAI Architecture 2022

Technical interoperability of data and services

Design Considerations for Technical Interoperability in EOSC

A landscape overview of the EOSC Interoperability Framework – Capabilities and Gaps

Data stewardship curricula and career paths

Recommendations for Data Stewardship Skills, Training and Curricula with Implementation Examples from European Countries and Universities

Research careers, recognition and credit

EOSC as an Enabler of Research Assessment Reform: Position Paper from Task Force on Research Careers, Recognition, and Credit

Fostering Open Science in Europe: Engagement Strategies from EOSC’s Task Forces on Research Careers and Curricula

Semantic interoperability

Developing and implementing the semantic interoperability recommendations of the EOSC Interoperability Framework

PID policy and implementation

Forthcoming

EOSC Federation

The deployment of a network between data repositories and services will be instrumental for Open Science to progress in Europe. For this, the EOSC Federation of nodes is being created.

The EOSC Federation will consist of multiple “EOSC Nodes” that are interconnected and can collaborate to share and manage scientific data, knowledge, and resources within and across thematic and geographical research communities. The EOSC Nodes will be entry points for users to the EOSC Federation, with each node offering its own and possibly third-party services, including data reposing and accessing services.