European Open Science Cloud

1. European Open Science Cloud Towardsever more open science - and beyond? Liina MUNARI Deputy Head of Unit European Commission - DG CONNECT e-Infrastructure and Science Cloud Luxembourg

2. EOSC state of playin 2019 • EOSC policydocumentation • Cloud initiative, DSM mid-termreview, Implementation Plan(SWD), Council Conclusions, Commission Recommendation on access to and preservation of scientific information • Common European data space, Open Data and Public Sector Information Directive • EOSC governancestructure composed of Member State representatives and domain experts • EOSC fundingthrough H2020 (DG CONNECT and DG RTD) • EOSC initiatives at (trans)national, regional and thematiclevels to complement and support pan-Europeanleveldevelopments

3. Key questions to address • EOSC role in overall EU Digital Infrastructures? • EOSC architecture: technical federation, role of the federating core, associated infrastructures / services? • EOSC, connectivity and High Performance Computing? • Role of Regulation, Standardisation, Certification? • Public sector use and demandon EOSC? • EOSC for prioritysocietaldomains and societal challenges? • EOSC and commercial clouds / services? • Data: technical, legal, sharing incentivisation? • User involvementand needsanalysis? • Funding: variety of sources, operational vs. projects? • Legalvehicle(s), governance and oversight?

4. Council conclusions (2018) • “RECALLS that the creation of EOSC, one of the major research-centred processes in the EU today, lies in the joint responsibility of the European Commission and the Member States, taking into account the involvement and support of the stakeholders” • “ACKNOWLEDGES that the development of the EOSC is the supply side of a broader policy initiative aimed at ensuring as far as possible open access to scientific results and mainstreaming open science practices in Europe; • “STRESSES that effectiveness requires to act simultaneously on the demand side, with research funders fostering open access, data management mandates and FAIR principles as well as incentives and rewards” • “URGES the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the EOSC is a user-centered environment, serving the research community foremost at the start, building on its most advanced practices, and then expanding further to the broader user community, including SMEs, citizens and public authorities”

5. Link of the EOSC with the European Data Infrastructure (SWD) The European Data Infrastructure (EDI) is the second pillar of the European Cloud Initiative, foreseen to underpin the EOSC by deploying the high-bandwidth networks and the supercomputing capacity necessary to access and process large datasets stored in the EOSC: • EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) to develop, acquire and deploy in Europe top-of-the-range supercomputers for processing big data, based on competitive European technology, so they can run ambitious scientific and industrial applications, and enable scientific discoveries and innovation • Users will have access to pan-European HPC services (EuroHPC JU/PRACE) also through the EOSC catalogue of services • In the longer term, it is expected that part of the capacities of EuroHPC and PRACE machines would be offered as cloud-based/on-demand HPC services. This would contribute to the widening of the user base of HPC, providing easier access via the cloud both to researchers in key scientific disciplines and to the long tail of science.

6. Widening the EOSC (SWD) • As stated in the Communication on ‘Building the European Data Economy’, the user base of the EOSC and of the European Data Infrastructure will expand to the public and private sectors stakeholders, creating solutions and technologies that will benefit all areas of the economy and society. • In order to achieve the above, the EOSC implementation roadmap should be iterative and take into account the impacts of widening the user base and the services it connects to, so that the EOSC could not only respond to changing needs of scientists but also to the increasing needs of other highly knowledge-intensive sectors of society that are in need of this data. Increase the demand side

7. Implementing the future EOSC By end 2020: • Governance model and best-fit legal vehicle for post-2020 • Financing model(s) and sources for post-2020 • Rules of participation to govern the future EOSC • Coordination of EOSC-relevant H2020 projects • FAIR digital objects: turning principles into practice • Expansion of the EOSC service offering to the researchers • Evolution of the EOSC Platform and its interfaces • Widening of the EOSC user base and increasing demand • Interaction between EOSC and EDI (cloud, HPC, network) • Review of Phase 1 by COM and the Member States

8. Future calls: INFRAEOSC-03-2020 Consolidate and scale up the EOSC Portal and its underlying service platform to: • Strengthen the EOSC Portal • Reinforce the role of the marketplace as the access channel to integrated, composable and reliable services • Attract more users within the research community and beyond • Ensure its long-term sustainability taking into account all the relevant governance and business frameworks. Budget: 40,9n Mio € One single proposal to be funded

9. Future calls: INFRAEOSC-07-2020 Coordinate, through the EOSC Portal, the provision of state-of-the-art research enabling services from national, regional and institutional public infrastructures in Europe, covering diverse thematic domains, and further non-research resources to: • Scale up the EOSC Portal • Set-up a model for interaction between service providers and the EOSC Portal operators through pan-European e-infrastructure entities, based on transparency and effectiveness of cost compensation. • Budget: 24 Mio € • Six areas, one proposal per area to be funded

11. Key EOSC stakeholderevents 2019-2020

12. Thankyou!