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General Questions
The EOSC EU Node is in the focus of the European Commission's mission to transform science through openness, serving as the “seed in the ground” for promoting innovation and optimising research processes. It is an infrastructure node in production that serves as a reference model for the EOSC ecosystem, encompassing the strategic, operational, and regulatory elements required to align efforts with European values and policies. Designed to provide researchers with multi-disciplinary and multi-national resources, it allows for seamless access to data and services, breaking down barriers. Moreover, it establishes a blueprint that will guide and inspire the development of future EOSC Nodes, shaping a cohesive and federated European Open Science Cloud ecosystem.
You can find a detailed overview of the services that are available via the EOSC EU Node here. In short, you can find application services for data management:
A File Sync and Share facility to maintain consistent data sharing across your multiple work environments.
A Notebook environment to create and share documents with real-time code execution.
A Large File Transfer function to reliably send files to colleagues.
If you are a more Information Technology (IT) oriented user, you can find infrastructure services:
Access to Virtual Machines to support processing, analytics, and other data and compute-intensive use cases.
A Cloud Container Platform to streamline the execution of cloud-native research workflows.
A Bulk Data Transfer system to efficiently move large datasets without incurring in any loss.
Yes. The services outlined in the Services Page are provided for free (at the point of use) by the European Commission.
All resources are available through the Resource Hub, which includes resources that are native to the EOSC EU Node – which has been procured by the European Commission – and services and resources onboarded to the EOSC EU Node.
The Resource Hub gives access to:
- Research data, publications and software
- Services offered by the broader research community
- Support and learning material to help you practice FAIR and Open Science
- Deployment tools and recipes that enable execution of data science workflows
The EOSC EU Node is a European Commission-operated platform that serves as a European level gateway to the Web of FAIR data and interoperable services and can be recognised as a blueprint for emerging EOSC Node candidates. All activities are in close collaboration with the EOSC Association (overseen by the EOSC Tripartite Governance), communicating developments to its members and the broader EOSC community.
EOSC EU Node is a Data Space for Open Science. It will partner with the existing Data Spaces in the European landscape contributing to their development with thematic content.
The EOSC Federation is envisioned to be a network of interconnected autonomous nodes that collectively provide federated services, such as computing resources, data storage, and data management tools, all operating under a common framework of standards, policies, and best practices. This ensures interoperability and enables researchers to combine resources from different nodes for their research projects.
Services provided by the EOSC EU Node are procured by the European Commission, and provisioned as managed services by the following third-party contractors and sub-contractors:
The EOSC ecosystem is envisioned to be a network of interconnected autonomous nodes. If you're interested in enrolling as an EOSC Node, you can find the minimum requirements outlined by the EOSC Association here.
The post-2027 governance structure and the EOSC EU Node platform operation is currently under discussion in the EOSC Tripartite Governance with Member States and Associated Countries. The European Commission is committed to fund EOSC in the long term.
Researchers
The EOSC EU Node is your gateway to a world of collaborative research, no matter your field. It provides a one-stop shop for researchers across all disciplines, offering powerful tools and resources to streamline your data-driven endeavours. With the EOSC EU Node, you can:
Find and use existing research outputs, software and services: Easily discover and access data sets relevant to your research even from different disciplines and locations.
Store and share your data: Securely store your research data and effortlessly share it with your colleagues across the globe.
Analyse your data: Access powerful computing tools and software to analyse your research data and make groundbreaking discoveries.
The EOSC EU Node provides Resources, Services and Tools, that allow you to manage your data and projects efficiently, while providing broader access to publications and other Open Science resources. Leaving you with more time to focus on your projects.
The EOSC EU Node provides access to a comprehensive Resource Hub with open data, publications, software, and learning materials to assist you in practising FAIR principles and Open Science. These are collected from scholarly and community-driven data sources in Europe and around the world, validated using well-established processes to ensure their FAIRness, and enriched to create a Knowledge Graph that helps you navigate across disciplines. It includes resources from the OpenAIRE Graph, as well as from the European Open Data Portal and Software Heritage.
The design of EOSC EU Node promotes effortless access to and sharing of research data, tools, and workflows, enhancing the transparency, collaboration, and impact of your research. Here is how the EOSC EU Node empowers you as a practitioner:
Discoverability: EOSC EU Node implements clear metadata standards and powerful search tools. This makes your research data and outputs (publications, code, etc.) highly discoverable by the global research community, fostering collaboration and accelerating scientific progress.
FAIR & Open research: EOSC EU Node is helping you comply with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). This ensures your research outputs are not only discoverable but also easily usable by others, maximising the impact of your work.
Reproducible workflows: EOSC EU Node supports the sharing of publishing workflows and recipes for reproducibility. This allows others to replicate your research findings, fostering trust and transparency in your work.
Harmonisation: EOSC EU Node advocates for the adoption of cohesive tools and methodologies, promoting interoperability among various research projects and enhancing collaboration across disciplines.
EOSC Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI): EOSC EU Node allows researchers to access resources via the EOSC EU Node using a single sign-on, simplifying collaboration and data sharing.
You cannot directly deposit your outputs into the EOSC EU Node. But the EOSC EU Node promotes the use of two major European Commission funded and free repositories where you may seamlessly deposit your work:
Zenodo for research data, software snapshots, preprints, and supporting material.
Open Research Europe for your preprints or publications (with open peer review – currently only for Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries).
There is also a list of community used repositories, allowing you to choose a repository from your own community.
How you use the EOSC EU Node depends on your specific research needs, the nature of your data, and the scale of your project. The EOSC EU Node platform is one of the many entry points to EOSC and it is expected to work in tandem with, and possibly include services from, domain discipline ones. Advantages of using the EOSC EU Node are:
Ability to do cross-disciplinary research as the platform is not limited to a single domain.
Access to a wide range of datasets from various disciplines.
Utilisation of various integrated and free services.
Good hygiene of Open Science practices.
Your User Space is your personal dashboard for managing your research within the EOSC EU Node. Here, you can deploy and manage services and tools, upload, process, and share your data, and collaborate with peers by creating or joining Groups. You can also track your service usage and credit history, monitor your remaining credit balance in your personal wallet, mark favourite tools and resources, follow orders, and more. All from one place.
Credits are virtual units provided free of charge (at the point of use) by the European Commission upon your first login in correspondence with your attributed access group. You can use them to access and consume selected services, according to your permissions and needs. You can view your spending history and remaining credits in your personal wallet. Please note that credits cannot be transferred to another person or carried over between periods.
The exact amount of credits you receive, as well as your level of access to various services, are set automatically based on the affiliation information shared by your home organisation. For more information, please read how they work below and check the User Access Policy.
Service Costs: Each service has a credit cost depending on its size and how long you use it, however some services have no size. The environment size indicates the service limit reserved for you, i.e., how many resources you can use and how many credits it will cost. For instance, a resource-intensive service may cost 10 credits per day, while a lighter service may only cost 0.5 credits per day. You can view and compare the costs of all service offers on their individual pages in your personal workspace, once you log in to the User Space.
Consuming Credits: When you order a service for a specified period, the total credit cost of the service reservation will be deducted from your wallet. You can use your credits on any available service, provided you have sufficient credits in your wallet.
Releasing a Service: If you cancel a service before the end of its reservation term, you will receive a refund in credits for the unused service duration in time.
Credits Replenishment: Credits refresh every 90 days, starting from your first login. Unused credits expire at the end of the period for all services, except for credit grants. Reserved service environments are deactivated upon reservation revoked by the user or automatically ended due to credit or time expiration. Reactivation is possible via Helpdesk request according to the data/infrastructure retention policy.
Credits for Groups: When you create a group, a separate Group Wallet will automatically be generated. This wallet is independent of your personal wallet and comes pre-allocated with additional credits, which you can manage and spend in collaboration with your group members.
More information can be found here.
Yes! Up to 40,000 credits may be provided to EC-funded research and innovation projects (one grant per project) to be used during the project’s duration and exclusively for the needs of the project.
The credit grant is allocated to one EOSC EU Node Group created by the Project Coordinator (Group owner) and is not replenished (one-time grant) nor expires between periods. In case the Project Coordinator is not attributed as Investigator per their access group, they can request to be elevated to this level (via submitting a Helpdesk ticket), or they may delegate the creation of the group to another member of the project.
Information for the Project Coordinator to include in the ticket:
- Grant Number
- EC Project Officer
- Group Project ID and Owner
- A concise description of the intended use of EEN services.
After evaluation and validation of the request and depending on the available resources of the EOSC EU Node, the credit grant is allocated to the indicated Group Project’s wallet. Requests for higher and/or additional credit grants will be reviewed on a case-by-case and best-effort basis (i.e. not guaranteed).
Research Communities
If your repository is not already harvested by the EOSC EU Node Resource Hub, you can directly onboard it soon. Another option is to make it available to OpenAIRE by visiting the OpenAIRE PROVIDE service. Your repository will then be harvested by OpenAIRE and then be also included in the EOSC EU Node Resource Hub.
The EOSC EU Node supports all areas of research; you can discover specialised resources or generic-purpose services that can be applied across disciplines. Check our Services page to see how you can use and adapt services to fit your community needs or visit the Resource Hub to find services provided by the EOSC community.
This page gives you a comprehensive list of the contributing sources (repositories, journals, catalogues, CRIS) to the EOSC EU Node Resource Hub.
The EOSC EU Node is the first of what we hope to be many and will serve as a reference for the architecture of all future nodes to be federated. If you're interested in enrolling as an EOSC Node, you can find the minimum requirements outlined by the EOSC Association here.
Contributors
The EOSC EU Node is currently the first entry point to the EOSC Federation, but it will be one of many possible entry points in the future. As a reference node in the envisioned EOSC federation, it serves as a model and practical example for the architecture and deployment options of future emerging nodes.
As a Contributor to the EOSC EU Node, you are able to:
Contribute with your curated and FAIR research outputs to the Resource Hub of the EOSC EU Node ensuring discovery and findability.
Onboard your research outputs directly to the EOSC EU Node, utilising its core infrastructure capabilities.
Please consult the Contributors section for more information. The Onboarding policy is currently being drafted.
The EOSC EU Node is the culmination of the research infrastructure community's efforts through the establishment of a cohesive, accessible, and efficient platform that supports Open Science across the European research landscape. Contributing to the EOSC EU Node presents a unique opportunity for you to be part of shaping the future, i.e., to have a say in the development of policies, standards, and best practices that shape the emerging EOSC federation. By sharing and integrating your resources in the EOSC EU Node, not only do you increase their visibility within the European and global research communities and foster cross-disciplinary collaborations that were not possible before, but you can also make a stronger case for a more stable base of support and justify future investments. Ultimately, contributing to EOSC is a collective effort that benefits the broader research community altruistically.