CERN joins the build-up phase of EOSC Federation

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC ) is the long-term pan-European initiative to develop a web of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) data and services across all scientific fields. EOSC is being designed as a network of federated nodes, called the EOSC Federation. The first node, the EOSC EU node, was launched in April 2024 and began full production in October. In the spirit of Open Science, this platform, which will serve as a reference for future federated nodes, allows researchers to access and use tens of millions of scientific publications, data and software, to use integrated computing resources and storage, and to create teams.

At a meeting recently held in Brussels, experts from CERN and 12 other scientific organisations, along with representatives from the EU node and the EOSC Association, gathered to begin developing a joint action plan for delivering a prototype of the EOSC Federation by the end of 2025. The workshop gave the organisations, which have been selected to contribute to the build-up phase of the federation, an opportunity to highlight both their scientific and infrastructure use cases as well as the added value their data and services would bring to end users of the federation.