CERN Accelerating science

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 

AARC: Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration

The goal of AARC is to address technical and functional gaps that prevent the interoperability of existing R&E AAIs. The objectives of the project are to deliver the design of an integrated cross-discipline AAI framework, built on federated access production services (eduGAIN); to increase the uptake of federated access within different research communities; to pilot critical components of the proposed integrated AAI where existing production services do not address user needs; to validate the results of both the JRA and SA by engaging with the research communities.

Coordinator: TERENA, 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: 192 k€

1 May 2015 – 30 April 2017