EOSC Platform Early Adopter Programme

EOSC Platform Early Adopter Programme

At this stage of implementation, the European Open Science Cloud already provides a powerful tool for solving complex data-processing challenges in a variety of domains. To build on this, the EOSC Future project is launching the EOSC Platform Early Adopter Programme with C-SCALE, DICE, EGI-ACE, OpenAIRE Nexus, Reliance and ARCHIVER. Research communities and service providers will get help accessing EOSC services and expertise. Find out more and apply now.

The recently launched EOSC Platform Early Adopter Programme (EOSC Platform EAP) aims to foster a culture of cooperation among researchers and providers within the EOSC ecosystem. The hands-on format of the programme will equip researcher communities and service providers with expert knowledge and resources, covering different services and e-infrastructures.

Beyond this in-kind support, programme participants will play an active role in EOSC development, helping to create an EOSC that serves the actual needs of European research communities in all domains.

The programme

Selected applicants will be grouped into ‘Early Adopter Projects’ with well-defined work plans and objectives (e.g. onboarding a service in EOSC, running a data analysis workflow, etc.).

Each project can have a duration of 3, 6 or 12 months.

The Early Adopter Projects will get the support they need in terms of:

  • accessing technical services and resources throughout the project’s entire research life cycle
  • receiving technical support from EOSC Future experts and project partners to identify, access and use the services and resources
  • onboarding services to the EOSC Marketplace and making services more visible to the broader EOSC community
  • benefitting from EOSC services (i.e. AAI, helpdesk, monitoring, accounting, etc.).

Please note: The programme aims to provide technical support; however, this does not include direct financial support to applicants.

Participation

The programme is aimed at service providers looking to integrate their services into the EOSC-Core, to make them available to the research community at large, and research communities working to address cross-disciplinary, societal or complex research challenges, with the help of EOSC resources from different disciplines or e-infrastructures.

Among other elements, successful applications must include:

  • a summary of research project, scientific area and potential impact
  • how the project will take advantage of EOSC-federated resources
  • for providers, a selection of EOSC-Core services.

In a second stage, successful projects will be able to scale up their projects towards full-scale production.

Apply now

Applications are already open for the EOSC Platform EAP: https://eosc-portal.eu/eosc-early-adopter-programme  

A cut-off date for the 1st round of Early Adopter Projects is set for 15 May 2022.

Applicants who submitted their applications will be informed of the evaluation committee's decision within 1 month.

Apply now

24 March 2022