CERN Accelerating science

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 

INDIGO-DataCloud: INtegrating Distributed data Infrastructures for Global ExplOitation

The INDIGO-DataCloud project aims at developing a data/computing platform targeted at scientific communities, deployable on multiple hardware, and provisioned over hybrid (private or public) e-infrastructures. This platform will be built by leading European developers, resource providers, e-infrastructures and scientific communities in order to ensure its successful exploitation and sustainability.The project aims at developing tools and platforms based on open source solutions addressing scientific challenges in the Cloud computing, storage and network areas.

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Tim Bell

Full costs of the project: 11 M€

EU funding: 11 M€

EU funding for CERN: 306 k€

1 April 2015 – 30 September 2017 

GN4-3 Research and Education Networking - GÉANT

The GN4 Phase 3 Network will implement a very ambitious restructuring of the backbone network operated by GÉANT in order to provide equal access to clouds and other e-infrastructure services in the European research area and beyond. It will improve the overall resilience and reliability of the GÉANT network significantly and offer a base for future improvements in access, transmission speeds and capacity wherever needed.

GN4-3’s vision is to become the European Communications Commons – driving knowledge creation as the global hub for research networking excellence. Its mission is to deliver world-class services with the highest levels of operational excellence. The services in this area of GN4-3 are operated and developed in accordance with user requirements as they need to adapt to the increasingly integrated e-infrastructure environment necessary for supporting the European research community.

Coordinator: GEANT, The Netherlands

Scientist in Charge from CERN: Hanna Short

Full costs of the project: 118 M€ 

EU funding: 77 M€

EU funding for CERN: 276 K€

1 January 2019 - 31 December 2022

FREYA

FREYA aims at supporting the European Commission vision of the three Os: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World to enable everyone - from the research community to laymen - to profit from research outputs. FREYA exploits and extends the concepts of Persistent Identifiers to build a trusted and linked layer connecting researchers, their outputs and their institutions, within, and beyond, the European Open Science Cloud. In order to do so, the project will lay the foundations for a PID Graph, PID Forum and PID Commons which will be developed, operated and governed in an open and sustainable fashion. 

Coordinator: STFC, UK

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen

Full costs of the project: 5 M€

EU funding: 5 M€

EU funding for CERN: 826 k€

1 December 2017 – 30 November 2020 

EUDAT2020

EUDAT2020 brings together a consortium of e-infrastructure providers, research infrastructure operators, and researchers from a wide range of scientific disciplines under several of the ESFRI themes, working together to address the new data challenge. EUDAT2020’s vision is to enable European researchers and practitioners from any research discipline to preserve, find, access, and process data in a trusted environment, as part of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) conceived as a network of collaborating, cooperating centres, combining the richness of numerous community-specific data repositories with the permanence and persistence of some of Europe’s largest scientific data centres. EUDAT2020 builds on the foundations laid by the first EUDAT project, strengthening the links between the CDI and expanding its functionalities and remit. 

Coordinator: CSC, Finland

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Tim Smith

Full costs of the project: 19 M€

EU funding: 18.8 M€

EU funding for CERN: 669 k€

1 March 2015 – 28 February 2018 

EOSC-hub:  Integrating and managing services for the European Open Science Cloud

The EOSC-hub brings together multiple service providers to create the Hub: a single contact point for European researchers and innovators to discover, access, use and reuse a broad spectrum of resources for advanced data-driven research. For researchers, this will mean a broader access to services supporting their scientific discovery and collaboration across disciplinary and geographical boundaries. The project mobilises providers from the EGI Federation, EUDAT CDI, INDIGO-DataCloud and other major European research infrastructures to deliver a common catalogue of research data, services and software for research. EOSC-hub collaborates closely with GÉANT and the EOSCpilot and OpenAIRE-Advance projects to deliver a consistent service offer for research communities across Europe.

Coordinator: EGI, Netherlands

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Joao Fernandes

Full costs of the project: 33 M€

EU funding: 30 M€

EU funding for CERN: 392 k€

1 January 2018 – 31 December 2020 

EGI-Engage: Engaging the EGI Community towards an Open Science Commons

Over the last decade, the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) has built a distributed computing and data infrastructure to support over 21,000 researchers from many disciplines with unprecedented data analysis capabilities. The mission of EGI-Engage is to accelerate the implementation of the Open Science Commons vision, where researchers from all disciplines have easy and open access to the innovative digital services, data, knowledge and expertise they need for their work. EGI-Engage will expand the capabilities offered to scientists (e.g. improved cloud or data services) and the spectrum of its user base by engaging with large Research Infrastructures (RIs), the long-tail of science and industry/SMEs.

Coordinator: EGI, Netherlands

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Bob Jones

Full costs of the project: 8.6 M€

EU funding: 8 M€

EU funding for CERN: 81 k€

1 March 2015 – 31 August 2017 

Interactive and agile/responsive sharing mesh of storage, data and applications for EOSC

CS3MESH4EOSC implements a service for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) with a built-in sustainability model using the on-premise service delivery by utilizing existing key technology enablers: Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) standardized protocol and EduGAIN service. It consolidates and integrates the existing application ecosystem by promoting vendorneutral APIs and protocols following the open-source strategy for delivering services - a platform for a thriving application ecosystem in EOSC. CS3MESH4EOSC empowers service providers in delivering state-of-the-art, connected infrastructure to boost effective scientific collaboration across the entire federation and data sharing according to FAIR principles. The project delivers the core of a scientific and educational infrastructure for cloud storage services in Europe through a lightweight federation of existing sync/share services and integration with multidisciplinary application workflows.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Jakub Moscicki 

Full costs of the project: 5.9 M€

EU funding: 5.8 M€

EU funding for CERN: 1.6 M€

1 January 2020 - 31 December 2022

AARC2: Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration 2

AARC2 aims to address policy and technical interoperability gaps that prevent R&E users from accessing the whole e-infrastructure service portfolio with one login, regardless of where this takes place in the ecosystem.  

AARC2 builds on the requirements gathered during the AARC project interviewing different e-infrastructures and ESFRI projects. AARC2 will extend the project by focusing on community-driven use-cases and offering a comprehensive training suite to disseminate AARC expertise.

Coordinator: GÉANT, The Netherlands

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Romain Wartel

Full costs of the project: 2.9 M€

EU funding: 2.9 M€

EU funding for CERN: 250 k€

1 May 2017 – 30 April 2019