EOSC-Nordic

On 1 September 2019, the EOSC Nordic (Horizon 2020) project was launched to support the creation of an open science cloud in Europe. The project has twenty-four partners from the Nordic countries and the Baltic states. The countries represented are: Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Netherlands, Germany. Riga Technical university will represent Latvia.

Objectives of the EOSC-Nordic project

What is EOSC?

Coordinator: NordForsk (NO)
Partners: 24
Total budget: 5.9 M €
Implementation period: 01.09.2019-31.09.2022
Latvia is represented by RTU

Main objectives of the EOSC-Nordic project

Support coordination, harmonisation and alignment of Nordic and Baltic national policies and practices related to the provision of horizontal research data services with EOSC.
Increase the discoverability of Nordic & Baltic services. Extend and expand their use by making them accessible through the EOSC portal.
Promote and support the uptake of FAIR data practices and certification schemas across the Nordics.
Accelerate the progress and attractiveness of EOSC by piloting & delivering innovative solutions developed and tested in a useful and functional cross-border environment.
Provide a Knowledge Hub to deliver training and technical support to new service providers and communities willing to engage with EOSC during and after the project lifetime.

ESOC-Nordic is one of the projects in the H2020 programme called INFRAEOSC-05. The aim of the call is to “prepare the soil” for the implementation of the EOSC, with particular emphasis on the management of the EOSC, including the coordination of EOSC-related national initiatives. A number of similar projects covering different European regions have been approved in the call: EOSC-Nordic, EOSC-Synergy, EOSC-Pilar, NI4OS-Europe , as well as one thematic project, ExPaND.

What ir EOSC?

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a digital platform for science that will provide access to scientific data and services.

For more than 20 years, Europe has been a single academic computer network coordinated by the GEANT project and brings together more than 50 million users. The Latvian academic network has also been in it since 1997 (Latnet, now called SigmaNet). Why could computing, databases and other services not be combined in the same way?

There was an attempt to combine computing resources into a single network (grid computing). Latvia became involved in the Baltic Grid project (2005-2010) and became part of a common European computing network, but then the grid technology was switched by cloud computing.

In 2016, the European Commission put forward a proposal “… creating a reliable and open environment in which scientific data and results can be stored, shared and reused, the European Open Science Cloud.” Already on 1 January 2017, the pilot project EOSC Pilot started, then the EOSC Hub project and the launch of the EOSC took place on November 23, 2018 in Vienna.

EOSC-Nordic

Main objectives of the EOSC-Nordic project

What ir EOSC?

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