CERN Accelerating science

OCRE: Open Clouds for Research Environments

The OCRE consortium combines the expertise of four partners to enable access and drive the adoption and use of commercial cloud services by the European research community. After gathering user requirements, OCRE will manage the adoption of funds and buy resources from the selected suppliers (OCRE will act as customer) and make cloud resources available to institutions. Such a delivery vehicle is effective and efficient for the supply as well as the demand side. Service adoption is the key focus of this work. A legal and technical mechanism will be created to integrate a range of these commercial services into the EOSC hub in order to make them more easily available to researchers.

Coordinator: GÉANT, The Netherlands

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Joao Fernandes

Full costs of the project: 12 M€ 

EU funding: 12 M€

EU funding for CERN: 560 k€

1 January 2019 - 31 December 2021

ESCAPE: European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures

ESCAPE aims to address the Open Science challenges shared by ESFRI facilities (SKA, CTA, KM3Net, EST, ELT, HL-LHC, FAIR) as well as other pan-European research infrastructures (CERN, ESO, JIVE) in astronomy and particle physics. ESCAPE actions will be focused on developing solutions for the large data sets handled by the ESFRI facilities. These solutions shall: i) connect ESFRI projects to EOSC ensuring integration of data and tools; ii) foster common approaches to implement open-data stewardship; iii) establish interoperability within EOSC as an integrated multi-messenger facility for fundamental science. These joint efforts are expected to result into a data-lake infrastructure as cloud open-science analysis facility linked with the EOSC. 

Coordinator: CNRS, France

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Xavier Espinal

Full costs of the project: 15.9 M€ 

EU funding: 15.9 M€

EU funding for CERN: 1.5 M€

1 February 2019 - 31 July 2022

EOSCsecretariat.eu 

EOSCsecretariat.eu will deliver an EOSC Secretariat that is a proactive, dynamic and flexible organisational structure with all the necessary competences, resources and vision to match the ambition of the call "Support to the EOSC Governance". The 30-month project will maintain a practical approach addressing all the specific needs of the coordination structure required for the EOSC. The outputs of EOSCsecretariat.eu include: Secretariat organisational structure, processes & procedures, rules & legal framework; business models; press & media office; pan-European awareness increase; open consultation; knowledge base; coordination services to WGs; coordination with EOSC-related projects; organisation & support to Boards & events; two Stakeholders Forums; liaison with non-EU countries; engaged community with all stakeholder groups represented.

Coordinator: TGB, Belgium

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Bob Jones

Full costs of the project: 9.9 M€ 

EU funding: 9.9 M€

EU funding for CERN: 223 k€

1 January 2019 - 30 June 2021

EOSC Future

EOSC Future will unlock the potential of European research via a vision of Open Science for Society by (1) bringing all major stakeholders in the EOSC ecosystem together under one project umbrella to break the disciplinary and community silos and consolidate key EOSC project outputs, (2) developing scientific use cases in collaboration with the thematic communities showcasing the benefits and societal value of EOSC for doing excellent and interdisciplinary research, (3) engaging the wider EOSC community and increasing the visibility of EOSC through communications campaigns, marketing strategies, and physical and online engagement events, and (4) including the EOSC community in developing the EOSC Portal (including the long tail of science, public and private sectors, and international partners) via co-creation open calls.

Coordinator: TGB, Belgium

Scientist in Charge from CERN: Bob Jones

Full costs of the project: 41 M€ 

EU funding: 39 M€

EU funding for CERN: 550 K€

EGI-ACE: EGI Advanced Computing for EOSC

EGI-ACE empowers researchers from all disciplines to collaborate in data- and compute-intensive research across borders through free at point of use services. Building on the distributed computing integration in EOSC-hub, it delivers the EOSC Compute Platform and contributes to the EOSC Data Commons through a federation of Cloud compute and storage facilities, PaaS services and data spaces with analytics tools and federated access services.
The Platform is built on the EGI Federation, the largest distributed computing infrastructure for research. 

Coordinator: EGI, Netherlands

Scientist in Charge from CERN: Bob Jones

Full costs of the project: 12 M€ 

EU funding: 8 M€

EU funding for CERN: 81 K€

1 January 2021 - 30 June 2023

XDC: eXtreme DataCloud

The XDC project will develop scalable technologies for federating storage resources and managing data in highly distributed computing environments. The services provided will be capable of operating at the unprecedented scale required by the most demanding, data intensive, research experiments in Europe and worldwide. The targeted platforms are the current and next generation e-Infrastructures deployed in Europe, such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) and the computing infrastructures funded by the H2020 EINFRA-12 call. The main high-level topics addressed by the project include: federation of storage resources with standard protocols, smart caching solutions, policy driven data management based on Quality of Service, data lifecycle management, metadata handling and manipulation, data pre-processing and encryption during ingestion, optimized data management based on access patterns. The XDC software will be released as Open Source platforms available for general exploitation.

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Oliver Keeble

Full costs of the project: 3.1 M€

EU funding: 3.1 M€

EU funding for CERN: 506 k€

1 November 2017 - 31 January 2020

THOR: Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research

THOR will support the H2020 goal to make every researcher ‘digital’ and increase creativity and efficiency of research, while bridging the R&D divide between developed and less-developed regions.THOR will allow data-management and curation services to exploit knowledge of data location and attribution; provide robust and persistent mechanism for linking literature and data; enable search and resolving services and generate incentives for Open Science; deliver provenance and attribution mechanisms to underpin data exchange; and provide minting and resolving services for data citation workflows. Its impact will enable third-party services, no-profit and commercial, to leverage the scholarly record.

Coordinator: British Library, UK

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Salvatore Mele

Full costs of the project: 3.4 M€

EU funding: 3.4 M€

EU funding for CERN: 854 k€

1 June 2015 - 30 November 2017

OpenAIRE-Advance: OpenAIRE Advancing Open Scholarship

OpenAIRE-Advance continues the mission of OpenAIRE to support the Open Access/Open Data mandates in Europe. By sustaining the current successful infrastructure, comprised of a human network and robust technical services, it consolidates its achievements while working to shift the momentum among its communities to Open Science, aiming to be a trusted e-Infrastructure within the realms of the European Open Science Cloud. In this next phase, OpenAIRE-Advance strives to empower its National Open Access Desks (NOADs) so they become a pivotal part within their own national data infrastructures, positioning OA and open science onto national agendas. 

Coordinator: NKUA, Greece

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Tim Smith

Full costs of the project: 10 M€

EU funding: 10 M€

EU funding for CERN: 494 k€

1 January 2018 – 31 December 2020 

OpenAIRE-Connect

OpenAIRE- Connect will introduce and implement the concept of Open Science as a Service (OSaaS) on top of the existing OpenAIRE infrastructure1, by delivering out-of-the-box, on-demand deployable tools in support of Open Science. OpenAIRE-Connect will realize and operate two OSaaS services. The first will serve research communities to (i) publish research artefacts (packages and links), and (ii) monitor their research impact. The second will engage and mobilize content providers, and serve them with services enabling notification-based exchange of research artefacts, to leverage their transition towards Open Science paradigms. Both services will be served on-demand according to the OSaaS approach, hence be re-usable by different disciplines and providers, each with different practices and maturity levels, so as to favor a shift towards a uniform cross-community and cross-content provider scientific communication ecosystem.

The resulting services will be based on TRL8 technology developed and deployed on the production system of the existing OpenAIRE infrastructure, completing currently deployed TRL6 service software, and extending OpenAIRE’s TRL9 production services. 

Coordinator: CNR, Italy

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Tim Smith

Full costs of the project: 1.9 M€

EU funding: 1.9 M€

EU funding for CERN: 69 k€

1 January 2017 – 30 June 2019 

Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe towards 2020

OpenAIRE2020 will continue, extend and intensify the activities of the existing OpenAIRE infrastructure. It will provide support and services for the H2020 Open Access (OA) policies, for both publications and data, and it will engage with other national funders and infrastructures so as to provide the European Open Access infrastructure. 

Coordinator: NKUA, Greece

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Tim Smith

Full costs of the project: 13 M€

EU funding: 13 M€

EU funding for CERN: 464 k€

1 January 2015 – 30 June 2018