The EOSC and Blue Growth

Victoria Tsoukala, PhDUnit eInfrastructure and Science Cloud

European Commission, DG CONNECT

Bluebridge Workshop- January 11, 2017-Brussels

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The European Cloud Initiative:Building a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe (2016)

• European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)• Integration and consolidation of e-infrastructures• Federation of existing research infrastructures and

scientific clouds• Development of cloud-based services for Open Science• Connection of ESFRIs to the EOSC

• European Data Infrastructure (EDI)• Development and deployment of large-scale European

HPC, data and network infrastructure

• Widening access• SMEs, Industry at large, Government

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EOSC & EDI: Dynamic View from 2016 to 2020

(over-simplification)

European Data Infrastructure

European Open Science Cloud

ESFRIs, RIs and scientific clouds

2016 2020

e-Infrastructures

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Widening access: e-Infrastructures as service providers

EOSC

Scientific Users Industry Public Sector

e-Infrastructures

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Current WP (DDL 29/3/2017)• Theme 1 – EINFRA-12-2017 – Data and distributed

computing e-infrastructures for Open Science (€40 M€)• Integration and consolidation of e-infrastructure services

• Theme 2 – EINFRA-21-2017 – Platform-driven e-infrastruct. innovation (€20 M€)• Service development

• INFRASUPP-02-2017(3) – Support to the Research Data Alliance (RDA) (€3.5M€)

• Proposers' Day for EINFRA 12, 19/1/2017 Amsterdam

But what is the EOSC?• Trusted and open environment for the scientific

community to store, share and reuse scientific data and results: a commons, a federated environment

• EOSC leverages other actions taken by the commission to promote Open Science in Europe, e.g. open access to publications and data

• It presupposes shared technological standards, shared services and shared minimum cultural perceptions and practices about openness in the research process

EOSC as enabler of Blue Growth

• Enable data interoperability• Provide cloud-based services to reuse scientific

information • Enlarge the user-base to the public, to businesses

and innovators• Enable a seamless environment across Europe,

overcoming fragmentation to services and information

Blue Bridge and the EOSC

Bluebridge contributions towards building EOSC• Integration of data and technologies• Computational capacity • Services for institutions and SMEs• Contribution towards education and skills development

Bluebridge as part of EOSC • Becoming part of the ecosystem of einfrastructure

service providers • Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration

Thank you!

victoria.tsoukala@ec.europa.eu