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EOSC United

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EOSC United plays a central role in anchoring and uniting the European research community in the EOSC Federation. It also boosts the establishment and growth of the Federation by leveraging the EOSC EU Node resources and blueprint.

EOSC United, a Coordination and Support Action (CSA), was awarded through the Horizon Europe call HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-02-01, Future Engagement Model for the EOSC Federation.

Project Details

  • Duration: 36 months, 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2028
  • Budget: €3.60 million
  • Funding source: Horizon Europe
  • Call identifier: HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-02-01
  • Grant Agreement ID: 101215594
  • Project title: Coordination and Support Action for the Future Engagement Model for the EOSC Federation

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Who is behind EOSC United?

The project consortium was formed through an open call among the EOSC-A members. It is a comprehensive consortium representing key players and stakeholders, who jointly provide a solid foundation for developing a successful future engagement model for the EOSC Federation.

The EOSC United consortium partners are:

What will EOSC United do?

The mission of EOSC United is to bring together and firmly embed the European research community within the EOSC Federation, while supporting the Federation’s growth.

The project will promote the resources of the EOSC EU Node, encouraging their uptake by researchers and a wide range of contributors, including repositories, research infrastructures, institutes, technology providers, software developers, IT professionals, industry partners, and other EOSC Nodes and data space operators. By connecting these diverse actors, EOSC United will help to ensure that researchers across disciplines and borders can access and reuse knowledge more effectively.

In addition, EOSC United will advance the EOSC Federation establishment by assisting the EOSC Tripartite Governance in developing a common operational framework, and increasing understanding of the links between the EOSC Federation and other Common European Data Spaces, ensuring that Europe’s research ecosystem is deeply connected, collaborative, and future-proof.

What are the main objectives of EOSC United?

EOSC United supports the EOSC Tripartite Governance in building and expanding the EOSC Federation while leveraging the resources and blueprints of the EOSC EU Node.

The EOSC Federation is the implementation of the EOSC vision to equip European researchers in the academic and private sectors, as well as citizen scientists, with access to an unprecedented range of FAIR research outputs from different disciplines, sectors, and countries.

The project focuses on three main objectives:

  1. Foster the uptake and evolution of the EOSC EU Node: The project aims to demonstrate the added value of the EOSC Federation, promote its offerings, and identify gaps to enhance and evolve the EOSC EU Node.
  2. Drive standardisation for the EOSC Federation: EOSC United supports the development of an enhanced operation framework and the stimulation of synergies between the EOSC Federation and other Common European Data Spaces to allow better data reusability and exploitation.
  3. Grow the participation in the EOSC Federation: The project strives to support the growth of the EOSC Federation, including through EOSC-A Members, and reinforce the commitment to EOSC in the next EU Framework Programme.

How will EOSC United achieve its objectives?

EOSC United will achieve its objectives through several complementary approaches, each designed to strengthen the EOSC Federation and advance its growth:

  • Leveraging the EOSC EU Node as accelerator for the establishment of the EOSC Federation: The EOSC EU Node, the first node of the EOSC Federation, is a platform designed to support multi-disciplinary and multi-national research while facilitating the creation of the EOSC Federation. It aims to provide a technical and administrative blueprint and interoperability framework for other potential infrastructure node candidates. EOSC United and the EOSC EU Node will align activities and define joint engagement and uptake actions to work in a synergic way.
  • Utilising user-driven use cases to test and evolve the EOSC Federation as a whole: A core part of the EOSC United methodology is the development of use cases to demonstrate and promote the services of the EOSC EU Node, and document experiences, and lessons learned to enable future federated services.
  • Uniting the EOSC Federation through a common operational framework: EOSC United outlines practical requirements for the Interoperability Framework, enabling EOSC Nodes to integrate their resources seamlessly into the EOSC Federation. It will also advance the development of the Federation’s legal framework, as well as its technical and financial aspects.
  • Collaborating with existing initiatives and data spaces: EOSC United seeks to strengthen collaboration with other key stakeholders, initiatives and European Data Spaces, including INFRAEOSC projects supporting the establishment of the EOSC Federation, as well as EOSC Beyond and EOSC Gravity, among others.

Why is EOSC United important?

EOSC United is set to make significant contributions to transforming research in Europe. The project’s work is essential in realising the vision of open, accessible, and reusable scientific data across Europe.

The use cases will support the EOSC EU Node to demonstrate its capabilities as the starting point from which the EOSC Federation will emerge. This will enable researchers to share and exploit research outputs across disciplines and national borders. These results will drive scientific advances, foster innovation, and enhance the overall quality and reproducibility of research, while enabling the connection of the EOSC Federation to other data initiatives within the European Data Strategy.

How does EOSC United differ from EOSC Gravity?

While EOSC United focuses on uniting the research community within the EOSC Federation, EOSC Gravity supports the EOSC Partnership’s transition to its new governance and funding framework after 2027.

EOSC United will closely collaborate with the EOSC Gravity project on adoption calls to show early success of the EOSC Federation, and the organisation of engagement activities for the EOSC community.

Work Packages and Deliverables

The EOSC United project is structured around five comprehensive Work Packages (WPs), each targeting specific goals and areas of focus.

This integrated framework ensures a coherent and coordinated progression of activities, effectively aligning efforts to achieve the project’s overall goal.

WP1: Demonstrate the capabilities of the EOSC EU Node through scientific use cases

WP1 will foster the uptake and evolution of the EOSC EU Node through testing and demonstrating the federating capabilities and deployment, compute, storage, data transfer and scalability capacities of the EOSC EU Node.

It will do this by deploying different use cases on the EOSC EU Node. WP1 will evaluate the capabilities through realworld use cases with application to scientific challenges.

Deliverables:

  • D1.1 Use cases analysis report
  • D1.2 Use cases impact report
  • D2.1 Validation report

WP2: EOSC-EU Node adoption and future evolution

WP2 will increase the uptake of the EOSC EU Node offerings by engaging stakeholders and organising adoption calls to identify new users.

At the same time, it will ensure the future evolution of the EOSC EU Node by collecting user feedback and addressing gaps in service offerings, thereby improving its functionality and scalability.

Deliverable

  • D2.2 Roadmap

WP3: EOSC Federation

WP 3 will establish the EOSC Federation’s governance framework, covering legal, technical, and financial aspects.

It will develop and implement standardised rules of participation for EOSC Nodes and promote interoperability between EOSC Nodes and other data spaces within the EOSC Federation. Furthermore, it will create the EOSC Federation Handbook to serve as a guiding document for operational and governance practices.

Deliverables

  • D3.1 Rules of Participation for the EOSC Federation – v1
  • D3.2 Rules of Participation for the EOSC Federation – v2
  • D3.3 EOSC Interoperability validation report – v1
  • D3.4 EOSC Interoperability validation report – v2
  • D3.5 Comprehensive Legal, Compliance, and Risk Management Framework – v1
  • D3.6 Comprehensive Legal, Compliance, and Risk Management Framework – v2
  • D3.7 EOSC Federation Architecture – v1
  • D3.8 EOSC Federation Architecture – v2
  • D3.9 Standardised Business Model and Incentive Framework – v1
  • D3.10 Standardised Business Model and Incentive Framework – v2
  • D3.11 Operational procedures – v1
  • D3.12 Operational procedures – v2

WP4: Community engagement, communication and education

WP4 will focus on engagement, communications and educational activities to promote the use of the EOSC EU Node and to evolve the EOSC Federation.

Deliverables

  • D4.1 Communication & Dissemination Plan and Implementation Report – v1
  • D4.2 Communication & Dissemination Plan and Implementation Report – v2
  • D4.3 Communication & Dissemination Plan and Implementation Report – v3
  • D4.4 Stakeholder Engagement Plan and Implementation Report – v1
  • D4.5 Stakeholder Engagement Plan and Implementation Report – v2
  • D4.6 Stakeholder Engagement Plan and Implementation Report – v3
  • D4.7 Data Spaces Outreach Plan and Report – v1
  • D4.8 Data Spaces Outreach Plan and Report – v2
  • D4.9 Policy Brief 1 (sensitive)
  • D4.10 Policy Brief 2 (sensitive)

WP5: Project management and coordination

This work package will ensure efficient coordination and management of all project activities across the consortium.

It will oversee financial and administrative processes to guarantee compliance with Horizon Europe requirements. In addition, it will monitor project progress, address potential risks, and secure the timely delivery of outputs and results.

Deliverables

  • D5.1 Management, Ethics, Quality and Risk Plan (sensitive)
  • D5.2 Data Management Plan – v1 (sensitive)
  • D5.3 Data Management Plan – v2 (sensitive)
  • D5.4 Data Management Plan – v3 (sensitive)