Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The call aims to further develop the cross-domain EOSC system of systems, building upon the results of the previous INFRAEOSC calls. The focus is on developing and expanding the EOSC federation through a network of nodes as baseline elements of the federation model.
These EOSC nodes will establish a set of essential federating capabilities, compatible with the EOSC EU Node reference architecture, following the EOSC Federation Handbook and EOSC interoperability framework.
They should have a clearly described identity and offer unique value to EOSC users, for example representing a specific thematic domain (e.g. data or computing) or geographical area amongst the Horizon Europe participating and associated countries.
Detailed Call Description
More specifically, the proposals should focus on all of the following aspects:
- Satisfy the minimal node requirements as defined by the EOSC tripartite governance, and go beyond them by further development and refinement of the harmonized participation model, taking into account the variety of thematic and national dimensions in the EOSC federation. These requirements include:
- Compliance with the requirements on the legal status of the organisation;
- Compliance with the requirements aiming at large-scale, quality service provisioning;
- Capacity to onboard third-party services;
- Capacity to contribute to and/or take-over the EOSC federating capabilities;
- Adoption and integration of the EOSC federation rules and policies, and further refinement and practical adaptation of best practices;
- Support to effectively monitor and report the activities of the services provided.
- Integrate and offer EOSC core federating capabilities pioneered by the EOSC EU Node, such as Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting, Research Catalogues and Knowledge Graph, Application Workflows, Monitoring and Helpdesk
- Contribute to a robust and coordinated strategy for evolving and sustaining the federated governance model for EOSC by fostering effective collaboration and coordination among the other node operators offering federating capabilities. This can be done for example by distributing the work and taking a share in facilitating the identification, selection and integration/enrolment of other organisations interested in becoming responsible for operating an EOSC node and representing various countries, regions and scientific disciplines.
- Enrich the existing guidelines and best practices for the onboarding and enrolment processes.
- Evolve and refine the EOSC federation specifications to drive the evolution across governance, operations, sustainability and technical interoperability.
- Designate and train the EOSC node operators, especially those offering federating capabilities, for high level of responsibilities within the EOSC federation.
- Develop and run community engagement and support programmes around the EOSC nodes and the surrounding ecosystem.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Expected EU contribution per project: between €6.00 & €8.00 million.
Thematic Categories
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Other Services
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
Address: 29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia, P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/