Landscape of EOSC-Related Infrastructures and Initiatives Report from the EOSC Executive Board Working Group (WG) Landscape Version 2 EOSC Executive Board Landscape WG November 2020 EUR [number] EN Landscape of EOSC-Related Infrastructures and Initiatives European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation Directorate G — Research and Innovation Outreach Unit G.4 — Open Science Contact Corina Pascu Email [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] European Commission B-1049 Brussels Manuscript completed in November 2020. 2nd edition. The European Commission is not liable for any consequence stemming from the reuse of this publication. The views expressed in this publication are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. More information on the European Union is available on the internet (http://europa.eu). 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EUROPEAN COMMISSION Landscape of EOSC-Related Infrastructures and Initiatives Report from the EOSC Executive Board Working Group (WG) Landscape Edited by: The EOSC Executive Board 2020 Directorate-General for Research and Innovation Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................... 5 HOW TO READ THIS REPORT ............................................................................................ 6 DEFINITIONS OF STAKEHOLDER TYPES IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS REPORT ............................ 7 1. BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................ 8 1.1. The Council and the EOSC ................................................................................... 8 1.2. EOSC governance............................................................................................... 9 1.3. EOSC building initiatives and environment ............................................................. 10 1.4. EOSC relevant stakeholders ................................................................................. 11 1.4.1. Policy makers 11 1.4.2. Funders 12 1.4.3. Other relevant stakeholders 12 1.5. EOSC-in-practice use cases ................................................................................. 12 1.6. EOSC Supporting services ................................................................................... 13 1.6.1. Industry involvement 14 1.7. EOSC-relevant EU projects .................................................................................. 15 1.7.1. EU-funded H2020 projects 15 1.7.2. Horizon 2020 INFRAEOSC-5B 15 1.8. Other important EU and global initiatives .............................................................. 16 1.8.2. Coalition of Doers 17 1.8.3. European Countries with Research Data Alliance (RDA) nodes 17 1.8.4. Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) 17 1.8.5. Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) 18 1.8.6. GO FAIR 18 1.8.7. European Data Portal 18 1.8.8. Big Data Value Association 19 2. EOSC RELEVANT INFRASTRUCTURES AND INITIATIVES ................................................... 19 2.1. E-Infrastructures ................................................................................................ 20 2.2. Networking and other services ............................................................................. 22 2.2.1. European networking infrastructure 22 2.2.2. National networking infrastructures 23 2.4. Computing infrastructures ................................................................................... 31 2.5. Thematic infrastructures ..................................................................................... 34 2.5.1. ESFRI clusters and other consortia 36 2.5.2. Environmental research infrastructures 38 2.5.3. Health and food research infrastructures 40 2.5.4. Physical sciences research infrastructures 45 2.5.5. Energy research infrastructures 46 2.5.6. Astronomy and Astroparticle research infrastructures 47 2.5.7. Social sciences, cultural heritage, digital humanities and languages RIs 48 2.6. EIROforum and other intergovernmental organisations ........................................... 49 2.7. e-infrastructures with identified potential to be federated / accessible to the EOSC..... 52 2.7.1. Austria 52 2.7.2. Belgium 53 2.7.3. Finland 56 2.7.4. France 56 2.7.5. Germany 57 2.7.6. Greece 58 2 Landscape of EOSC-Related Infrastructures and Initiatives 2.7.7. Italy 58 2.7.8. Norway 58 2.7.9. Poland 59 2.7.10. Portugal 59 2.7.11. Serbia 59 2.7.12. Spain 60 2.7.13. Switzerland 61 2.7.14. United Kingdom 61 2.8. Other EOSC-relevant initiatives and projects ......................................................... 61 2.9. Overview of country sheets ................................................................................. 64 2.9.1. Current policy on open science and FAIR data 65 2.9.2. Policy regarding publications 66 2.9.3. Policy regarding data / services 67 2.9.4. Policy regarding research evaluation 68 2.9.5. Policy regarding open learning 69 2.9.6. References to EOSC in the current policies 70 2.10. National strategic documents ............................................................................... 72 3. DESCRIPTIVE EXAMPLES OF EUROPEAN, NATIONAL AND REGIONAL STRUCTURES AND INITIATIVES ................................................................................................................... 76 3.1. IT services and data management mechanisms ..................................................... 76 3.1.1. FAIR data generation 76 3.1.2. Data processing and data preservation 78 3.2. Data storage and data repositories ....................................................................... 80 3.3. Data processing and data preservation ................................................................. 82 3.4. Persistent identifiers ........................................................................................... 84 3.4.1. Managed DOI-assignments in Italy 84 3.4.2. UK National Persistent Identifier Project 85 3.4.3. Persistent identifiers in Belgium 85 3.4.4. The ORCID Austrian Consortium 85 3.5. Regional surveys ................................................................................................ 86 3.5.1. EOSC-Synergy Survey 86 3.5.2. EOSC-Pillar Survey 88 3 Landscape of EOSC-Related Infrastructures and Initiatives EOSC EXECUTIVE BOARD, NOVEMBER 2020 Karel LUYBEN: Executive Board Co-Chair, CESAER Representative Cathrin STÖVER: Executive Board Co-Chair, GÉANT Representative Jean-François ABRAMATIC: Architecture WG chair, Individual Expert Juan BICARREGUI: Rules of Participation (RoP) WG Chair, Research Data Alliance (RDA) Representative Jan HRUŜÁK: Landscape WG Chair, Individual Expert Sarah JONES: FAIR WG Chair, Individual Expert Rupert LÜCK: Sustainability WG Co-Chair, EBML Representative Lidia BORRELL-DAMIAN: Sustainability WG Co-Chair, Science Europe Representative Natalia MANOLA: Skills and Training WG Chair, OpenAIRE Representative John WOMERSLEY: European Spallation Source ERIC Representative Ron DEKKER: CESSDA Representative Jeannette FREY: Observer, LIBER Representative Jose Luis de Miguel: Observer, EOSC Association AISBL Representative Federico Ruggieri: Observer, EOSC Association AISBL Representative 4 Landscape of EOSC-Related Infrastructures and Initiatives EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Landscape Working Group (WG) of the EOSC Executive Board has surveyed and documented the landscape of infrastructures, initiatives and policies across Europe relating to the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) system. This report describes activities in the Member States (MS) and Associated Countries (AC) related to EOSC. It summarises existing policies and investments based on input from the MS and AC and using the expert knowledge of the WG members and delegates to the EOSC governing board, is complemented by information from Horizon 2020 research projects and from open sources. The goal of the EOSC is to make research data and software in Europe open and accessible to all researchers - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable (FAIR). EOSC will be implemented by joint efforts between the European Commission (EC), the EU MS and AC, research communities, and other stakeholders. EOSC is a federated structure with a central core of standards and services that interlinks with national and institutional resources and research infrastructures providing data and services. It is these resources and infrastructures that the WG has focused on in this report. A flexible and sustainable governance model for EOSC must