Since we cannot travel nor physically attend conferences and exhibitions, e-IRG comes to you in a virtual booth.
Lue lisää e-IRG explained in a nutshell:stä »

In our virtual 4 meter below sealevel studio in Almere, we had a guest from the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) in the interview seat to discuss the activities that are happening there and the developments in the context of the European supercomputing ecosystem. Venkatesh Kannan is Technical Manager at ICHEC, Ireland's national supercomputing centre.
Lue lisää ICHEC's Venkatesh Kannan to explain Irish EuroCC activities and quantum computing ambitions:stä »

The EOSC Governance Symposium 2020 Highlights report has just been published on Zenodo. The report gives an overview of the main outputs from all sessions of the Symposium and is a perfect resource if you were not able to attend the symposium, you missed some sessions, or you just want a quick reminder of what was said.
Lue lisää EOSC Symposium 2020 Report now online:stä »

The virtual e-IRG Workshop under German Presidency will be organized online on 1-2 December 2020. There will be three sessions.
Lue lisää Virtual e-IRG Workshop to examine how e-Infrastructures can help address societal challenges:stä »

From 16-19 November 2020, an EOSC Projects EXPO is being held on the sidelines of the 'Realising the European Open Science Cloud' joint event organised by the EOSC-hub, FREYA, and SSHOC projects.
Lue lisää Join e-IRG at EOSC Projects EXPO:stä »

On the 18th of November, 10-12 AM CET, the Dutch Data Prize will be awarded to a researcher or research group who makes extra contributions to science by making research data available for additional research. In order to win this prize, researchers can nominate themselves or another researcher or research group.
Lue lisää Dutch Data Prize "Together We Share" awarded on 18 November 2020 in online event:stä »

The Global Open Science Cloud (GOSC) workshop is jointly organised by EGI, Computer Network Information Center (Chinese Academy of Science) and CODATA. The workshop will discuss how to bring Open Science at the Global Level.
Lue lisää Global Open Science Cloud Workshop now live at EGI 2020:stä »

From the virtual "four meters below sealevel" studio in downtown Almere we had the pleasure to talk with Anders Jensen who is the newly appointed Director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.
Lue lisää Newly appointed EuroHPC Director Anders Jensen working hard on delivering European exascale-ready HPC in machines, innovative projects and education:stä »

The Commission welcomes the Joint declaration by 25 EU Member States on building the next generation of Cloud in Europe. Advancing European Cloud offers is essential to increase the competitiveness of European businesses and provide European citizens, as well as public administrations and companies everywhere, with greater choice regarding the trustworthy data processing infrastructure and...
Lue lisää European Commission welcomes Member States' declaration on EU Cloud federation:stä »

From 16-19 November 2020, the EOSChub, FREYA and Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) projects are joining forces in shaping the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Lue lisää Three EOSC projects to organize joint virtual conference "Realising the European Open Science Cloud":stä »

From its virtual 4m below sealevel studio in downtown AlmerePrimeur Magazinereported from the European Research and Innovation Days, virtually held online on 22-24 September 2020, with 30.000 participants. The event was organized from Brussels and focused on research funded by the European Union and Horizon 2020, the current Framework Programme. There were also discussions around the new...
Lue lisää Two European approaches for modelling and mapping the COVID-19 pandemic:stä »

Two years after its establishment, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is now running under its own steam. As of 24 September 2020, the EuroHPC JU is solely responsible for its operations and has the capacity to implement its own budget, under the direction of Mr. Anders Dam Jensen, its new Executive Director.
Lue lisää The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking becomes autonomous:stä »

The Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud (PaNOSC) and the European Open Science Cloud Photon and Neutron Data Service (ExPaNDS) projects are organizing, jointly with the Extreme-Light-Infrastructure (ELI), a "Photon and Neutron EOSC symposium" on 9 November 2020 followed by the "2020 PaNOSC & ExPaNDS Annual meeting" on 10-11 November 2020.
Lue lisää Photon and Neutron EOSC Symposium and PaNOSC & ExPaNDS Annual Meeting:stä »

Didem Unat is the project coordinator of a newly awarded project called SparCity, an optimization and co-design framework for sparse computation. Didem Unat works as a faculty member at the Koç University located in Istanbul, Turkey.
Lue lisää EuroHPC JU funded SparCity to deliver coherent collection of innovative algorithms and tools for sparse computations on emerging hardware platform:stä »

The EBRAINS infrastructure for neuroscience has officially submitted an application for inclusion in the ESFRI Roadmap 2021. EBRAINS offers researchers a comprehensive package of powerful tools, facilities and resources that have been jointly developed by scientists and engineers in the Human Brain Project, a ten-year European Flagship project running until 2023.
Lue lisää EBRAINS makes bid to enter the European Research Infrastructure Roadmap with ten-country strong coalition and France as lead country:stä »

The open consultation for the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) closed on the 31st of August, collecting insightful input about the current draft of the SRIA document from within and without the EOSC community to help shape the future vision of the European Open Science Cloud.
Lue lisää Overview of the open consultation's results for the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda:stä »

The Deed of Incorporation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association was signed on 29 July 2020, a major milestone for the EOSC community carried out by the four founding members, CESAER, CSIC, GÉANT and GARR.
Lue lisää Organisations can now apply to join the newly-established EOSC Association:stä »

Bastian Koller from the High-Performance Computing Center in Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany, is managing three new EuroHPC projects, namely EuroCC, CASTIEL, and Fortissimo for EuroHPC. We invited him in our 4m below sealevel virtual studio to explain what the three projects are about.
Lue lisää HLRS managing director Bastian Koller explains three new EuroHPC projects to support HPC-related collaboration at national and European level:stä »

Cloud computing is fundamental to unlocking major European policy goals like that of the European Data Strategy and EU Green Deal, being an essential condition for an innovative and sustainable economy.
Lue lisää Cloud services unlock the potential of EU policy goals:stä »

From our virtual 4m below sealevel studio in Almere we caught up with Mark Parsons, Director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), to look into the recently announced selection of HPE by EPCC to power the Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF), Europe's first regional data innovation centre.
Lue lisää EPCC led EIDF will train 100.000 citizens over the next decade to take part in the Edinburgh International Data Facility powered by HPE:stä »

The ENVRI community, guided by the editors Zhiming Zhao and Maggie Hellström, worked hard on a 20-chapter book providing a systematic overview of the common challenges faced by research infrastructures.
Lue lisää Data management book created by ENVRI community is now available:stä »

The Working Groups Insider provides a digest of all the latest activities of the EOSC Executive Working Groups. Their work and outputs are a vital part of the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). In the latest newsletter edition, you can also find out about the latest activities and work done in each of the Working Groups.
Lue lisää Working Groups very busy with EOSC implementation activities:stä »

The EOSC Executive Board has published an open consultation on the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The consultation, which closes on 31st of August 2020, asks for the input of EOSC communities and beyond in setting out the future vision of the European Open Science Cloud.
Lue lisää Open Consultation on the future of EOSC published:stä »

Ten proposals were submitted under the last calls of Horizon 2020 for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The calls, with a deadline on 18 June 2020 and a total budget of 64,9 million euro, aimed to consolidate, scale up and increase the service offer of the EOSC Portal.
Lue lisää Proposals for scaling up the European Open Science Cloud:stä »

Following the open e-IRG Workshop webinars under Croatian EU Presidency, we had the opportunity to talk with e-IRG Chair Paolo Budroni about the plans the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group is hoping to carry out in the months to come.
Lue lisää e-IRG to show resiliency in coronacrisis by going virtual during Croatian and German EU Presidencies with e-IRG Café and webinars:stä »

The Academy of Finland has received a one-off increase of 81 million euro in its budget authority through the Finnish Government's fourth supplementary budget. In accordance with the supplementary budget, the Academy will target funding to support the National Roadmap for Research, Development and Innovation and its objectives relating to solutions for a sustainable and developing society.
Lue lisää Academy of Finland announces funding for Finnish Flagships, research infrastructures and RDI partnership networks:stä »

The European Commission published the final report of the High-Level Expert Group to Assess the Progress of ESFRI and Other World Class Research Infrastructures Towards Implementation and Long-Term Sustainability.
Lue lisää European Commission to publish final report on "Supporting the Transformative Impact of Research Infrastructures on European Research":stä »

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Executive Board has published its second version of the EOSC Work Plan. The plan is a co-ordination document that outlines key activities in this critical final phase of implementation before the "Minimal Viable EOSC" will be presented at the end of 2020.
Lue lisää European Open Science Cloud Work Plan 2020 published:stä »

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) has published a new edition of the e-IRG Magazine. The Spring edition is now available for download.
Lue lisää Spring 2020 edition of the e-IRG Magazine available:stä »

The e-IRG workshop organised within the framework of the Croatian EU Presidency was conducted as a series of three webinars, each of them addressing one of the top challenges for the further development of e-Infrastructures in the Europe Research Area and beyond.
Lue lisää Outcome of the e-IRG Webinar Series organized in the framework of the Croatian EU Presidency on 25-26 May 2020:stä »

The EOSC-hub Week 2020 officially opened on the 18th of May, hosting the co-located EOSC Consultation Day organised by EOSC Secretariat and the EOSC Executive Board.
Lue lisää Highlights from the EOSC Consultation Day in the latest EOSC-hub Magazine:stä »

Following the digital e-IRG Conference under Croatian EU Presidency, that took place online May 25-26, 2020, we had the opportunity to invite Erik Fledderus from SURF and e-IRG delegate for the Netherlands, in our virtual studio. We talked about how partnerships can help to organise national e-Infrastructures, looking at the organisation of horizontal and vertical e-Infrastructures and Cloud...
Lue lisää Building European e-Infrastructure partnerships out of national partnership models:stä »

An interdisciplinary consortium based at Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Statistics Netherlands (CBS), receives 1 million euro to build an open digital infrastructure for network analysis of the entire Dutch population. This will allow scholars and policymakers to gain crucial insights into key issues like segregation, social change, and inequality.
Lue lisää Digital infrastructure for research into the social network of the full Dutch population:stä »

The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to clearly announce their intention to coordinate their efforts in areas and activities that involve both research data and software.
Lue lisää Research Data Alliance announces Memorandum of Understanding with the Research Software Alliance:stä »

The ELIXIR FAIR Training working group has published a paper in PLoS Computational Biology titled "10 Simple Rules for Making training materials FAIR".
Lue lisää ELIXIR FAIR Training working group to publish 10 Rules for Making Training Materials FAIR:stä »

EOSC Synergy, along with EOSC Secretariat, EOSC Nordic, EOSC Pillar, NI4OS-Europe and ExPaNDS, support the EOSC Community with the development and implementation of the European Open Science Cloud initiative, each focusing on specific elements of EOSC. These projects are involved in the so-called INFRAEOSC-05-2018-2019 call, in particular with the subtask INFRAEOSC 5b.
Lue lisää Position papers on EOSC - Insights from Regional Projects & Infrastructures:stä »

Europe has at its disposal some of the best science facilities in the world. They enable our researchers to pursue the greatest of scientific goals. The growing global competition and pressing societal challenges require however additional efforts to reinforce the capacity of European research to develop science-based solutions that can effectively lead the economic, social and environmental...
Lue lisää ESFRI to present new White Paper "Making Science Happen" in "European Research Infrastructures for a Smarter Future" digital conference:stä »

In relation with the COVID-19 situation the details of the EOSC-hub Week 2020 are being finalized. The long-awaited event is being turned into an online workshop for all participants' safety. Four INFRAEOSC 5b projects are joining forces and co-organise within the EOSC-hub week a joint online workshop, which focuses on the "Policy landscape across Europe". This workshop will take place on May...
Lue lisää Policy Landscape Across Europe Workshop at EOSC-hub Week 2020:stä »

The RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model Working Group has announced its public comment period for the FAIR Data Maturity Model specification and guidelines. The report is available for comment on the EOSC Liaison Platform and closes on the 13th May 2020.
Lue lisää RDA FAIR data Working Group launches public consultation on maturity model report:stä »

Due to the evolving COVID-19 situation and the recent restrictions imposed by the different governments in several countries, e-IRG has decided to cancel the e-IRG Workshop originally planned for 25-26 May 2020 in Zagreb as a physical meeting. Instead e-IRG plans to arrange a virtual conference.
Lue lisää e-IRG Workshop under Croatian EU Presidency will be a virtual conference:stä »

Over 500 scientists, software developers and clinicians joined forces in the COVID-19 virtual Biohackathon to develop new tools for working with the COVID-19 data. The outcomes of the event improved the accessibility of data, protocols, analysis pipelines and provided dedicated compute resources to execute demanding data analysis tasks.
Lue lisää Global research community meets online to develop tools for COVID-19 analysis:stä »

During an informal videoconference on 7 April 2020, Ministers responsible for research and innovation supported the first 10 priority actions of the first ERAvsCorona Action Plan which resulted from dialogues between the Commission services and the national ministries.
Lue lisää European Union to take action against COVID-19 with "ERAvsCorona" plan:stä »

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the European Commission, together with other partners have recognised the urgency to develop and deploy a pan European COVID-19 research data platform connected to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Lue lisää European Commission to create Pan-EU Covid-19 Research Data Platform to be integrated in the European Open Science Cloud:stä »

The COVID-19 pandemic presents a major test for the science system and for the research and data infrastructures. These infrastructures, such as open science clouds and data commons, must serve the needs of science, policy, and humanity not only in normal times, but also in times of crisis by providing controlled access to quality data in real time and at scale for a range of scientific- and...
Lue lisää Several Research Infrastructure communities to provide COVID-19 resources and actions:stä »

The e-IRG Knowledge Base has been published as a service at the EOSC Marketplace, available in the EOSC Portal Catalogue and Marketplace.
Lue lisää e-IRG Knowledge Base now available as a service at EOSC Marketplace:stä »

The EOSC Community recently took another crucial step on the road to the development and implementation of the European Open Science Cloud at the end of 2019, when seven key EOSC-related H2020 projects signed a Collaboration Agreement in support of the EOSC Governance.
Lue lisää Working together for the realisation of EOSC: the infraEOSC 05 Collaboration Agreement:stä »

The European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (ETP4HPC) has made available its fourth Strategic Research Agenda.
Lue lisää ETP4HPC's fourth Strategic Research Agenda is available:stä »

The European Commission has unveiled its ideas and actions for a digital transformation that works for all, reflecting the best of Europe: open, fair, diverse, democratic and confident.
Lue lisää Shaping Europe's digital future: Commission presents strategies for data and Artificial Intelligence:stä »

The ESFRI Monitoring System (ESFRI-MoS) is open and ready to accept proposals for new research infrastructure (RI) projects to enter the ESFRI Roadmap 2021 update.
Lue lisää The ESFRI Monitoring System (ESFRI-MoS) is now available to submit your new project proposal:stä »

The interaction between High-Performance Computing (HPC) and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a crucial element of the European Data Infrastructure, and reflections about this relationship have been consistently featured throughout 2019 at relevant events such as the EOSC-hub Week and the EOSC Symposium.
Lue lisää EOSC Secretariat launches brief webform for HPC projects to complete on cooperation opportunities between HPC & EOSC:stä »

On 11 February 2020, the agreement for Estonia to join the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration NeIC was signed at the Delta Centre in Tartu. This agreement gives Estonian research infrastructures the possibility to maintain and enhance their competitiveness and do more international cooperation.
Lue lisää Estonia joined the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration Initiative:stä »

The first open e-IRG Workshop in 2020 under the Croatian EU Presidency, will take place on 25-26 May 2020 in Zagreb, Croatia. The focus of this workshop will be on the Grand Challenges of e-Infrastructures within the new ERA.
Lue lisää e-IRG Workshop "Grand challenges of e-Infrastructures within the new ERA" to issue Call for Participation:stä »

The Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union invites interested parties to participate in the European Research Infrastructures for a Smarter Future Conference to be held in Zagreb on 18 and 19 March 2020 at the Subiceva centre, in the framework of the Future of Research Infrastructures in European Research Area events.
Lue lisää European Research Infrastructures for a Smarter Future Conference to issue Call for Participation:stä »

Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) invites consortia consisting of e-infrastructure providers, developers, researchers and related communities around the Nordic region to propose collaboration projects within e-infrastructure of joint Nordic interest.
Lue lisää NeIC to open call for e-infrastructure collaboration:stä »

The European Commission has launched a project tasked with increasing demand and widening the user base for EOSC services, data and resources by developing and improving the functionality of the EOSC Portal, one of the key components of the European Open Science Cloud.
Lue lisää EOSC Portal to receive boost from EOSC Enhance Project:stä »

At the e-IRG Open Workshop in Helsinki, Finland, we had the chance to talk to e-IRG Delegate Ivan Maric from the University of Zagreb Computing Centre (SRCE) in Croatia. Ivan Maric wears many hats. He is engaged in the European Open Science Cloud Governance Board, he is the Croatian delegate in the Programme Committee for Horizon 2020 and Croatian representative in the Programme Committee for...
Lue lisää Ambitious plans for e-IRG, EOSC and EuroHPC under Croatian EU Presidency - Interview with Ivan Maric, SRCE, Croatia:stä »

At the HPC User Forum in Edinburgh, Scotland, we had the opportunity to catch up on the NEXTGenIO results with three people from the project that has just finished: Tiago Quintino, Michele Weiland and Adrian Jackson.
Lue lisää NEXTGenIO project to deliver brand new system with revolutionary memory for better performance and dissolving I/O bottlenecks:stä »

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) has published a new edition of the e-IRG Magazine. The Fall edition is now available for download.
Lue lisää Fall 2019 edition of the e-IRG Magazine available:stä »

European biomedical research capabilities, and services to industry, will be further enhanced following a new partnership.
Lue lisää Strengthening European biology: European Molecular Biology Laboratory joins Instruct-ERIC:stä »

Right after the second Delegates Meeting and open e-IRG Workshop under the Finnish EU Presidency ended in Helsinki, the e-IRG community with sadness heard the news that Dr. Lajos Bálint passed away on December 6, 2019.
Lue lisää e-IRG community deplores loss of its highly respected Delegate Dr. Lajos Bálint:stä »

Implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), a Europe-wide ecosystem that will empower millions of researchers and science and technology professionals through the whole research lifecycle, is on track for its full launch by 2020.
Lue lisää EOSC Symposium 2019: European Open Science Cloud on track to boost Europe's research capabilities by 2020:stä »

The Netherlands eScience Center and Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) have developed a new FAIR Software website for researchers. The website, which was officially launched during the National eScience Symposium on 21 November 2019, provides recommendations to researchers on ways to improve the quality and reproducibility of their software.
Lue lisää Netherlands eScience Center and DANS launch new FAIR Software website:stä »

e-Infrastructures are IT infrastructures designed to help science. Most of the time the focus is on how e-Infrastructures can help scientific discovery. Science however cannot be in progress without skilled, well-trained scientists. What role can e-Infrastructures play in the scientific education and training process? That is a topic addressed in the e-IRG workshop in Helsinki.
Lue lisää e-IRG workshop in Helsinki focuses on e-Infrastructures and education:stä »

At the 75th HPC User Forum in Edinburgh, Jean-Marc Denis held a keynote presentation on the European Processor Initiative. Before this, we had the chance to talk with him at large about the recent developments in the project.
Lue lisää EPI develops Common Platform for general purpose microprocessor and accelerators for exascale & automotive:stä »

For Europe's ambitious and wide-ranging plan to build an Open Science Cloud, convenience could be the watchword. To make an early impact and overcome inertia, the new European Science Cloud should focus on making researchers' lives easier.
Lue lisää Newly edited report states that Europe's Science Cloud needs solid foundations:stä »

Right after the recent HPC User Forum in Edinburgh, Scotland,Primeur Magazinewas kindly invited by the local forum organizer Mark Parsons, Director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the University of Edinburgh, to his office for an interview.
Lue lisää Interview with EPCC's Mark Parsons - plan for UK exascale supercomputer in 2022/2023 is taking shape:stä »

James Hetherington has been appointed as UK Resarch and Innovation's (UKRI) new Director of e-Infrastructure, to commence at the start of the new year.
Lue lisää New UKRI Director for e-Infrastructure appointed:stä »

The e-IRG Knowledge Base maintained by Genias for the e-IRGSP6 project is the largest information source of e-Infrastructures in Europe. It organises over 20.000 information items in one big Knowledge Graph. The European Open Science Cloud EOSC catalogue gives an overview of the services available in the European Open Science Cloud to researchers in Europe.
Lue lisää Successful integration of EOSC catalogue services in the e-Infrastructure Knowledge Base:stä »

The second e-IRG Open Workshop in 2019 will take place in Finland at the Helsinki City Center, in the "House of Sciences", December 4-5, 2019. The workshop will be co-organised by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture in the framework of the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Lue lisää e-IRG issues Call for Participation to second Open Workshop in 2019 under Finnish EU Presidency:stä »

The 2-day EOSC Concertation Meeting was jointly organised by DG-RTD and DG-CNECT, the two units from the European Commission currently funding the invited EOSC projects and coordinating activities, as well as the EOSCsecretariat.eu. Taking place 9-10 September 2019 in Brussels, the meeting responded to a recognised need to bring the EOSC community together and inform each other about the...
Lue lisää Building together an EOSC greater than the sum of its parts:stä »

The EOSC Symposium that will take place November 26-28, 2019 in Budapest, Hungary is all about giving the EOSC community the chance to shape discussions on the strategic priorities of the EOSC and at the same time contribute to the work of the Executive Board Working Groups. Sessions at the Symposium will focus on these topics and input from EOSC stakeholders is fundamental.
Lue lisää The EOSC Symposium call for contributions is open:stä »

The European Union's Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) has launched the PHIDIAS Project: Prototype of HPC/Data Infrastructure for On-demand Services.
Lue lisää PHIDIAS - Prototype of HPC/Data Infrastructure for On-Demand Services:stä »

The new EOSC-synergy project is kicking off in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, from 23 to 26 September 2019.
Lue lisää New EOSC-synergy project is kicking off in Santiago de Compostela:stä »

Genci, the French national supercomputing organisation, has published its five-year Strategic Plan 2019-2023.
Lue lisää GENCI to deploy new strategic plan 2019-2023: France is preparing to host an EuroHPC exascale system in 2022/2023:stä »

After four years the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project successfully concluded on 31 August 2019. The main goal of the 19 million euro Horizon 2020 project was to bring together bioinformatics resources across Europe and integrate them into a federated infrastructure for life science data.
Lue lisää Successful completion of ELIXIR-EXCELERATE marks new stage in ELIXIR's development:stä »