Presented during the Research Data Alliance's 11th Plenary in Berlin, Germany, the EOSC-hub project, through this presentation, gave an overview on the project and how it will contribute to the development of the European Open Science Cloud.

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@EOSC_eu
EOSC-hub receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 777536.
Integrating and managing services for the
European Open Science Cloud
The EOSC-hub project
Diego Scardaci (EGI Foundation)
Activity Management Board co-Chair

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EOSC-hub mobilises providers from 20 major
digital infrastructures, EGI*, EUDAT CDI** and
INDIGO-DataCloud jointly offering services,
software and data for advanced data-driven
research and innovation.
* EGI is not an acronym (any more)
** CDI – Collaborative Data Infrastructure

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European Commission Horizon2020 programme
100 Partners, 76 beneficiaries (75 funded)
3874 PMs, 108 FTEs, more than 200 technical and
scientific staff involved
- €33,331,18, funded by:
 European Commission: €30,000,000
 EGI Foundation and its participants: €2,155,540
 EGI participants: €1,221,094
36 months: Jan 2018 – Dec 2020
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Project figures

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EOSC-hub Mission
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The project will create EOSC Hub:
a federated integration and management system
for EOSC
• Data
• Applications & tools
• Baseline services
(storage, compute,
connectivity)…
• Training, consultants
• Marketplace
• AAI
• Accounting
• Monitoring
• …
• Security regulations,
• Compliance to
standards,
• Terms of use,
• FAIR implementation
guidelines
• …
Usage according to
Principles of
engagement
From the consortium
AND from external
contributors
• Lightweight certification
of providers
• SLA negotiation
• Customer Relationship
Management
• …
Services
Federation
services
Federated
operations
Processes
and
policies
Based on FitSM

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Work packages

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• Contact point for researchers and innovators to discover, access,
use and reuse a broad spectrum of resources for advanced data-
driven research
 Catalogue of resources and services
 Humanities, Engineering, Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences
• Corpus of policies, processes and federation services
(community-defined)
 Principles of engagement and EOSC “core” services
• Quality assurance reviews
 Manage end-to-end service level management performance
• Competence Centres and a Joint Digital Innovation Hub
 Specialized Technical support, training
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What does the Hub provide?

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From service integration to
utilization
Integrate
production-
ready
services
Operate and
Provide
Access and
Consume

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Architecture

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Service Providers
e-Infra
EGI
Federation
EUDAT CDI
Humanities
Language
and
literature
(CLARIN)
Arts
(DARIAH)
Engineering
Environmen
tal
engineering
(sea vessels,
LNEC)
Civil
Engineering
(Disaster
Mitigation)
Medical
and Health
Sciences
Biological
Sciences
(ELIXIR)
Structural
biology
(WeNMR)
Natural
sciences
Physical Sciences
• Astronomy (LOFAR)
• Fusion (ITER)
• High Energy Physics
(CMS and VIRGO)
• Space Science
(EISCAT-3D)
Earth Science
• EO Pillar
• GEO
• Climate Research
(ENES)
• Seismology (ORFEUS,
EPOS)
Biological Sciences
• Marine and
freshwater biology
(IFREMER)
• Biodiversity
conservation
(LifeWatch)
• Ecology (ICOS)

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Service catalogue at a glance
Compute services
(HTC and Cloud)
Storage & Data
Management
Scientific
Portals/data
analytics
Core research
data resources
and data products
Federation services
– Marketplace,
Accounting,
Monitoring, AAI
Collaboration
services -
Software and
applications
Research communities, ESFRI RIs, National infrastructures
+ Commercial
Cloud providers

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Thank you for
your attention!