Goal:

Contributing actively to the building of the EOSC Federation by:

  • integrating national resources into the EOSC ecosystem
  • integrating European research resources to enhance accessibility for the Polish scientific community
  • ensuring interoperability, and developing use cases demonstrating the benefits of a federated research ecosystem for researchers and research communities
Needs:
  • lack of a unified national research data infrastructure assimilated into a larger European context, like EOSC
  • limited interoperability and data-sharing frameworks among European institutions
  • synchronized AAI to ensure seamless and secure access to federation resources across multiple nodes
  • insufficient resource support for small research groups
  • insufficient level of standardization in data repositories and computational frameworks
Benefits:
  • a consistent framework for national institutions regarding their integration with the EOSC ecosystem
  • seamless integration of national research resources within EOSC, ensuring efficient access for researchers
  • enhance findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of country-based research data through standardized metadata, searchability tools, and open-access frameworks
  • federated authentication, identity management, and service monitoring, which will ensure secure authentication and authorization (AAI) and seamless user provisioning
  • support for multi-disciplinary, long-tail and cross-border research, which will facilitate integrated workflows, supporting large-scale scientific initiatives
  • interoperability between domain-specific and general-purpose infrastructures, which will comprehensive scientific collaboration
  • development of common policies, which will establish aligned governance, security, access rights, and sustainability policies within EOSC, ensuring cross-institutional and cross-national consistency
  • developing and facilitating research data support through competence center/s and beyond, raising awareness, and promoting EOSC services and knowledge transfer
Stakeholders:
  • structured and operational communities focusing on a given scientific discipline or scientific matter
  • individuals and small research groups who gain access to federated resources, computing capabilities, and data services they would not otherwise have
  • interdisciplinary research teams that can collaborate more efficiently across disciplines using shared infrastructures and open science workflows
  • research organizations, which benefit from integrated national and European infrastructures
  • public sector bodies and policymakers, who gain better access to open research outputs and data-driven insights to support evidence-based policy and decision-making
  • citizens and society at large who benefit from more transparent, collaborative, and impactful scientific research outcomes