The European e-Infrastructures Assembly
European e-infrastructures provide a critical foundation for research across Europe, offering advanced services, data centres, repositories, connectivity, computing resources, and expert teams.
In October 2024, leading European e-infrastructures GÉANT, EGI, EUDAT, OpenAIRE, and PRACE, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) establishing the European e-Infrastructures Assembly. This collaboration aims to bolster the position and promote the services of e-infrastructures, empowering researchers across Europe to drive innovation and advance scientific discovery. The e-Infrastructures Assembly focuses on several key objectives:
- Joint Advocacy: Increasing awareness and visibility of e-infrastructures with policymakers, funding bodies, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Collaboration and Coordination: Aligning activities in areas of common interest, including seeking joint funding opportunities and avoiding duplication of efforts.
- Innovation and Open Science: Collaborating in research and development (R&D) to support service innovation and promote Open Science principles and practices.
- Community Engagement: Enhancing connections with research communities and fostering dialogue with them to understand their needs better.
- Policy Influence: Actively contributing to shaping discussions on the digitisation of European research and education (R&E).
The European e-infrastructures Solutions for Nodes in the EOSC Federation
European e-Infrastructures offer a wide portfolio of innovative digital services that are tailored to the needs of the science and research communities and align with the interoperability requirements of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Through their collaboration in the e-Infrastructures Assembly, these leading providers offer fundamental support and expertise to organisations founding or developing EOSC nodes and federating the local web of data with EOSC and the EOSC EU Node. Their scalable and ready-to-use solutions align with the EOSC interoperability requirements and bring assistance and expertise to the development of new and existing EOSC node’s core capabilities and additional resources.
