Today at the #EOSC Symposium, the European Open Science Cloud took a major step toward its consolidation as Europe’s #research and #innovation data space. The 14 coordinators of the EOSC Federation’s first wave of EOSC Nodes joined EOSC Association President Klaus Tochtermann and Co-Chair of the EOSC Federation’s Build-up Group Bob Jones on the stage to introduce the EOSC Federation’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The agreement, to be signed by 13 candidate EOSC Nodes and EOSC-A, marks the culmination of eight months of hard work and coordination carried out on an in-kind basis by the dozens of European organisations standing behind the nodes. As champions of the European research community, these organisations—including Research Infrastructures, e-Infrastructures, and research-performing organisations—have established the technical and organisational foundations for the future of #OpenScience in Europe.
The MoU ceremony served to close out a day dedicated to high-level discussions between European policy-makers and research community stakeholders on the future of EOSC. These were placed in the context of the afternoon’s debut of the EOSC Federation and a showcase of its scientific impact.
”What matters most is to keep the momentum, the ambition and the shared purpose that have brought us this far. So let’s seize this moment, let’s act together to complete [the EOSC Federation] fast and make it the backbone of Europe’s digital research and innovation ecosystem,” said Marc Lemaître, Director-General of the EC’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation, in the Symposium’s opening speech.
Joining Lemaître on the Symposium’s opening day were Robbert Dijkgraaf, President-elect of the International Science Council, Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council, and Mattias Björnmalm, PhD, Secretary General of EOSC-A founding member CESAER, together with DG RTD’s ERA & Innovation Acting Director Jean-David Malo, EOSC Steering Board Co-Chair Volker Beckmann from the French ministry of higher education, research and space, and Tochtermann.
“This moment shows what shared stewardship of Europe’s research ecosystem can achieve. The EOSC Federation will not only connect technical infrastructures, but also people and principles in a corresponding social infrastructure,” said Tochtermann.
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