Next generation services for operational and sustainable EOSC Core Infrastructure

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

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.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-04

Call

Next generation services for operational and sustainable EOSC Core Infrastructure

Summary

The EOSC-Core and EOSC-Exchange provide the technological backbone of the federated EOSC ecosystem, supported by the EOSC Interoperability Framework and guidelines, allowing users to discover, share, and exploit resources on the EOSC platform. Data-driven user experience is a fundamental aspect for further development of the EOSC Core, allowing user feedback for the continuous improvement of the EOSC platform’s functionality in an open manner.

Detailed Call Description

Proposals are expected to cover one or several of the following activities:

  • Improve the EOSC Core execution framework by enhanced composability and interoperability of cross-domain data, services, tools and other research objects and resources: by using ontologies (or a collection of controlled vocabularies), EOSC Core should make it easier for various scientific users communities to understand and exchange data and services across disciplines by facilitating better data interoperability. EOSC Core should develop towards applying Digital Rights Vocabulary to clearly express IPR inflation over digital objects.
  • Design and develop components of a comprehensive EOSC Integration Service suite as part of the next-generation EOSC Core that supports seamless integration and composability of applications, tools and services. The EOSC Integration Service should, at the minimum, include a library of predefined adapters, connectors and APIs according to the types of scientific and research data, applications, tools and services on which integrations can be performed. An event/messaging hub, based on the publish-subscribe principle, can be provided at the core of the Integration Service suite for asynchronous data/metadata exchange. A user-friendly visual mapper interface can enable the mapping of connections between applications by dragging source connectors onto target adapters.
  • Provide open Application Programming Interface (API) registry, management, development and testing workflow, platform and tools for EOSC Core service users. A data-driven API monitoring tool should oversee security, compliance, and performance. It should send alerts towards the EOSC Core monitoring function as well as support built-in integrations with messaging services. An end-to-end API testing solution for testers and developers should facilitate an approach where test cases are in natural languages that helps the conveyance between scientific users and research tool/service providers.
  • Support custom-made front-end portal development environment for various scientific communities, utilizing the EOSC Core portal back-end functions via integration services. A potentially low-code development environment for community portal services should offer seamless integration with the EOSC Core functions and other service integration functionalities with the EOSC Exchange applications and services out-of-the-box. Personalization and AI-driven recommendation software should support the ultimate user experience.
  • Facilitate an independent EOSC service incubator and technology development environment that can serve as an open experimentation “testbed” for the EOSC stakeholders proposing the next-generation of tools and services for EOSC Core and Exchange in production.
  • Ensure financial sustainability assurance and readiness assessment processes, tools, workflows and services applied for the next-generation of EOSC Core and horizontal services to ensure seamless end-user experience and frictionless DevOps cycles.

 

Call Total Budget

€10,00 million

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

100%

EU Contribution: €10,00 million

Thematic Categories

  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions

Eligibility For Participation Notes

Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional access rights:

  • Each beneficiary must grant royalty-free access to its results to the EOSC Association for monitoring and developing policies and strategies for the European Open Science Cloud. Each beneficiary must also provide directly to the EOSC Association the information the beneficiary deems necessary for monitoring and developing policies and strategies for the European Open Science Cloud.
  • Each beneficiary must grant royalty-free access to its intellectual property rights which are part of the results and are needed for further developing the European Open Science Cloud to legal entities identified by the granting authority and established in Member States or countries associated to the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. Such access rights are limited to noncommercial use. Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Horizon Europe – Work Programme 2023-2024 Research Infrastructures Part 3 – Page 51 of 142 Community (2021-2025).

Call Opening Date

06/12/2022

Call Closing Date

09/03/2023

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia
P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Phone Number: +357 22205000
Email Address: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/

Contact Persons:
Dr Charalambos Papatryfonos
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 016
Contact Email: cpapatryfonos@research.org.cy

Dr Ioannis Theodorou
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 038
Contact Email: itheodorou@research.org.cy

(Publish Date: 16/12/2022-for internal use only)

EU Contact Point

Contact the Research Enquiry Service (RES) for any general question on Horizon Europe:

https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/contact-us/research-enquiry-service_en