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 »

The EOSC-hub project has produced a deliverable which proposes an open and participatory approach to the definition of the EOSC Technical Architecture. A survey has been set up and your feedback is welcome.
Lue lisää Have your say on the EOSC-hub proposal for the EOSC technical architecture:stä »

The EuroHPC JU calls for proposals opened on July 25, 2019. The first "Call - Towards Extreme Scale Technologies and Applications" will have a budget of 55 million euro and close on January 14, 2010. The second "Call - Innovating and Widening the HPC use and skills base" will have a budget of 40 million euro and close on November 14, 2019.
Lue lisää The first EuroHPC research and innovation calls and their funding:stä »

Officially kicked off on 5 July 2019 in Rome, for the next 3 years, EOSC-Pillar will coordinate national Open Science efforts across Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Italy, and ensure their contribution and readiness for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Lue lisää EOSC-Pillar: mixing national recipes to build the European Open Science Cloud:stä »

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has been promoted and supported by the European Commission over several years since the adoption of the European Cloud Initiative in 2016. Through H2020 funding, the policy concepts are turned into the initial core technical infrastructure, tools and services of EOSC.
Lue lisää Joint EOSC project meeting on 9-10 September 2019 in Brussels:stä »

ESFRI, holding a key role in policy making on Research Infrastructures invites and welcomes the research community to engage and participate in the process of updating the Roadmap by submitting proposals that will take Europe's excellent research further.
Lue lisää Towards the ESFRI Roadmap 2021: Call for proposals will be launched soon:stä »

The 4th issue of the EOSC-hub Magazine is now published and features articles focused on the project's collaborations, initiatives and services.
Lue lisää The 4th edition of the EOSC-hub Magazine is out:stä »

The European Commission has launched its call to develop a vibrant European Network of Artificial Intelligence Excellence Centres. Proposals can be submitted until 13 November 2019 to finance projects under the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020.
Lue lisää AI Excellence in Europe: 50 million euro to bring world-class researchers together:stä »

On June 20, 2019 the eInfraCentral team gathered 62 researchers from public and private sectors, e-infrastructure service providers, research infrastructures and policy-makers to the EOSC community event.
Lue lisää e-InfraCentral reports on successful EOSC community event in Tallinn:stä »

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

As EOSCpilot officially ended on 31 May 2019, the project team took a look back at some of the key contributions of the project to the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Lue lisää EOSCpilot rounds up key contributions to the EOSC:stä »

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) has officially published a new policy document titled “National Nodes – Getting organised; how far are we?”
Lue lisää e-IRG to publish new policy document on National Nodes:stä »

The EuroHPC JU has approved funding for three pre-exascale and 5 petascale supercomputers. The total value is 840 million euro of which almost half will be paid by the EuroHPC budget.
Lue lisää EuroHPC JU approved 840 million euro funding for eight supercomputers:stä »

The EuroHPC Summit Week 2019 closed successfully and gathered the main HPC stakeholders from 13 May to 17 May 2019 in Poznan, Poland. The entire week was organised by PRACE, EXDCI-2 and ETP4HPC.
Lue lisää Wrap up of an inspiring EuroHPC Summit Week 2019 including PRACEdays19:stä »

On 24 May 2019, the eInfraCentral Consortium gathered for a Plenary Meeting at the premises of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Lue lisää eInfraCentral holds Consortium Plenary meeting:stä »

At the Open e-IRG Workshop, organized at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 20-21, 2019, Jiri Pilar, a Legal and Policy Officer in the Data Policy and Innovation Unit at the Luxembourg-based European Commission's Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), held a presentation on the status of the Public Sector Information Directive.
Lue lisää European Commission Officer Jiri Pilar to introduce Public Sector Information Directive at e-IRG Workshop in Geneva:stä »

The EuroHPC Summit Week 2019, held 13-17 May 2019 in Poznan, Poland, will gather together the main HPC stakeholdersin Europe.
Lue lisää HPC stakeholders in Europe get together at EuroHPC Summit Week 2019:stä »

ELIXIR and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) have announced a Strategic Partnership that will provide technical standards and regulatory frameworks to facilitate responsible sharing of genomic data across national borders.
Lue lisää ELIXIR and GA4GH expand collaboration:stä »

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Executive Board (EB) met on 17 April 2019 in Brussels for its second formal meeting. The members of the Executive Board complete and in addition, there were representatives from DGCNCT and DGRTD present, as well as the EOSCSecretariat team.
Lue lisää EOSC Executive Board meets for the second time to discuss Strategic Implementation Plan, Working Groups and Stakeholder Engagement:stä »

A new H2020-funded project, CatRIS has recently been launched with the aim to develop a catalogue of Research Infrastructure (RI) services - CatRIS.
Lue lisää Towards a new catalogue of RI services: CatRIS runs an open consultation process:stä »

We had the opportunity to interview Guy Lonsdale. CEO of Scapos, an SME in Germany. Scapos is involved in a number of HPC projects. Scapos is also the coordinator of the project called "Concerted action for the European HPC CoEs", also known as FocusCoE.
Lue lisää FocusCoE to support HPC Centres of Excellence for outreach to the broader European HPC community:stä »

eInfraCentral invites researchers from public and private sectors, e-infrastructure service providers, research infrastructures and policy-makers to the EOSC community event on 20 June, 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia: "Building Open Science in Europe: The road ahead for the EOSC community".
Lue lisää eInfraCentral calls for participation to EOSC community event on June 20, 2019:stä »

At the ETP4HPC meeting on March 18, 2019 in Sassenheim, The Netherlands, we talked about the ecosystem around HPC in Europe with three ETP4HPC members including Pascale Bernier-Bruna, Communication Officer for ETP4HPC; Fabrizio Magugliani from E4 Computer Engineering in Italy; and Axel Auweter from MEGWARE in Germany.
Lue lisää A clarifying look at the ETP4HPC role in EuroHPC and opportunities for European SMEs:stä »

On 22 January 2019, we were invited at the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) premises in Luxembourg to talk with Gustav Kalbe, head of the High Performance Computing and Quantum Technologies Unit at the European Commission, who currently is EuroHPC JU's interim Executive Director.
Lue lisää Interview with EuroHPC JU interim executive director Gustav Kalbe:stä »

The e-IRG Chair and the Swiss e-IRG Delegates have launched an invitation for the open e-IRG Workshop, which will be held May 20-21, 2019 at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop is organised by the Swiss Delegates and co-organised with the Research Data Alliance (RDA).
Lue lisää e-IRG issues Call for Participation to first Open Workshop in 2019 under Romanian EU Presidency:stä »

The e-IRG Knowledge Base website, that contains information about European e-Infrastructures - including HPC - has got a new look. This makes it easier to browse the thousands of information items about projects, organisations, countries and national nodes of international organisations.
Lue lisää e-Infrastructures Knowledge Base gets a new look:stä »