Victoria Tsoukala's presentation at the BlueBRIDGE Workshop, 11January 2017, Brussels

1. The EOSC and
Blue Growth
Victoria Tsoukala, PhD
Unit eInfrastructure and Science Cloud
European Commission, DG CONNECT
Bluebridge Workshop- January 11, 2017-Brussels

2. The European Cloud Initiative:
Building a competitive data and knowledge economy in
Europe (2016)
• European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
• Integration and consolidation of e-infrastructures
• Federation of existing research infrastructures and
scientific clouds
• Development of cloud-based services for Open Science
• Connection of ESFRIs to the EOSC
• European Data Infrastructure (EDI)
• Development and deployment of large-scale European
HPC, data and network infrastructure
• Widening access
• SMEs, Industry at large, Government
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3. EOSC & EDI: Dynamic View
from 2016 to 2020
(over-simplification)
European Data
Infrastructure
European Open
Science Cloud
ESFRIs, RIs and
scientific clouds
2016 2020
e-Infrastructures
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4. Widening access:
e-Infrastructures as service providers
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EOSC
Scientific Users Industry Public
Sector
e-Infrastructures

5. Current WP (DDL 29/3/2017)
• Theme 1 – EINFRA-12-2017 – Data and distributed
computing e-infrastructures for Open Science (€40 M€)
• Integration and consolidation of e-infrastructure services
• Theme 2 – EINFRA-21-2017 – Platform-driven e-infrastruct.
innovation (€20 M€)
• Service development
• INFRASUPP-02-2017(3) – Support to the Research Data
Alliance (RDA) (€3.5M€)
• Proposers' Day for EINFRA 12, 19/1/2017 Amsterdam
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6. But what is the EOSC?
• Trusted and open environment for the scientific
community to store, share and reuse scientific
data and results: a commons, a federated
environment
• EOSC leverages other actions taken by the
commission to promote Open Science in Europe,
e.g. open access to publications and data
• It presupposes shared technological standards,
shared services and shared minimum cultural
perceptions and practices about openness in the
research process

7. EOSC as enabler of Blue Growth
• Enable data interoperability
• Provide cloud-based services to reuse scientific
information
• Enlarge the user-base to the public, to businesses
and innovators
• Enable a seamless environment across Europe,
overcoming fragmentation to services and
information

8. Blue Bridge and the EOSC
Bluebridge contributions towards building EOSC
• Integration of data and technologies
• Computational capacity
• Services for institutions and SMEs
• Contribution towards education and skills development
Bluebridge as part of EOSC
• Becoming part of the ecosystem of einfrastructure
service providers
• Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration

9. Thank you!
victoria.tsoukala@ec.europa.eu