# European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): key elements

Volker Beckmann

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Issues and
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**Volker Beckmann,**
EOSC coordinator at the
French Ministry of Higher
Education and Research
(MESR) and EOSC Steering
Board co-chair. OrcId

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# European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): key elements

Sharing the results of research, the data, software, and services produced, is not only required by French law since 2016¹, but it is in the vital interest of researchers and the scientific communities at large, as it allows to perform new studies using previous results and to ensure the possibility of quality control and verification of academic output. The EOSC will provide a web of FAIR (i.e. findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable)

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How the EOSC is responding to a number of challenges to improve research. (Credits: EOSC Association)

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research data and services along the whole data lifecycle. This starts
with sharing the necessary expertise in order to ensure that data are
FAIR when produced in such a way that they can be used in automated
fashion, for example by AI based systems. In addition, software and
services which have been used in the production of research data,
have to be accessible and usable by colleagues outside the scientific
domain where they have been created. And we need to reflect how we
can more efficiently give researchers access to the e-infrastructures
they need in order to conduct their research across domains and border-
ders, such as network connectivity, storage, and computing.

The EOSC is tackling these challenges by creating a federation, in
which research performing organizations and service providers
connect their FAIR data, services and e-infrastructures at the Euro-
pean level. Researchers shall then be able to use this system of sys-
tems to find the data and tools necessary for their (interdisciplinary)
projects. Some core functions, such as an authentication and autho-
rization infrastructure (AAI), service catalogue, service management
and monitoring of the usage, file sync & share are provided by a cen-
tral EOSC EU Node, which is foreseen to be operational in fall 2024,
as well as provision of virtual machines, containers and the possibili-
lity to setup workflows. Service and data providers will form thema-
tic or service nodes in this federation, ensuring quality control and
continuity of service provision to the users. It is thus more appro-
priate to think of the EOSC as a federated system and as an interface
rather than as a cloud in the common sense.

Preparing for the operational phase of EOSC took years in the making. Since 2017 a number of projects under Horizon2020 and Horizon Europe advanced FAIR data production, provided new services and made work across thematic and geographical borders possible. Since 2021, the EOSC is governed jointly by the European Commission, the EOSC Steering Board representing the countries' interests, and the EOSC Association, representing the research communities and service providers.

The stakeholders are looking forward to the web of FAIR data and ser-
vices later this year when the EOSC Federation shall go into operation
— and are preparing now the operational, governance and financial
model of EOSC under the next European framework program.

<footnote n="2">2 | EOSC EU Node: https://open-science-cloud.ec.europa.eu/</footnote>

<footnote n="3">3 | https://ec.europa.eu/
transparency/expert-groups-
register/screen/expert-groups/</footnote>

<footnote n="4">4 | https://eosc.eu/
consult?lang=en&groupID=3756</footnote>
june
2024

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