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The European Open Science Cloud’s (EOSC) COVID-19 Data Platform, a free to use, open, digital space for researchers to share and upload data sets, has seen more than 73,000 users and 2.6 million request

The platform has had 73,000 users and 2.6 million requests since its launch in April.

The European Open Science Cloud Secretariat initiative has approved €1,235,000 in emergency funding for 32 projects to specifically tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

As privacy concerns grow over contact-tracing technology, a new monitoring system funded under the European Open Science Cloud initiative will launch on 10^th July that allows users with strong symptoms of coronavirus to take full ownership of their personal data while participating in national track-and-trace schemes.

The EOSC Secretariat – an initiative that has approved €1,235,000 in emergency funding for 32 projects to specifically tackle the COVID-19 pandemic – is supporting the new app that aims to improve contact tracing while simultaneously maintaining privacy.

The EOSC Secretariat– an initiative that has approved €1,235,000 in emergency funding for 32 projects to specifically tackle the COVID-19 pandemic – is supporting a new app that will improve contact tracing while simultaneously maintaining privacy.

The EOSC Secretariat– an initiative that has approved €1,235,000 in emergency funding for 32 projects to specifically tackle the COVID-19 pandemic – is supporting a new app that will improve contact tracing while simultaneously maintaining privacy.

With backing as part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - an initiative changing the way European research is conducted through ‘Open Science’ where researchers are quickly developing instant diagnoses for major diseases and tackling climate change - a small research team has been able to respond rapidly to the pandemic and develop a contact-tracing app in the space of a few months

The European Open Science Cloud Secretariat initiative has approved €1,235,000 in emergency funding for 32 projects to specifically tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the new apps the initiative is supporting is called Tracing Ireland’s Population (TIP), which will focus on giving users with coronavirus symptoms ownership of their personal data

The European Open Science Cloud Secretariat initiative has approved €1,235,000 in emergency

In an opinion piece by European University Association President Michael Murphy, he says open science, particularly, the European Open Science Cloud can provide new opportunities for opely sharing data and results. 

The Science|Business article explores the effects of a pandemic-induced recession to Mediterranean countries's R&D. In the article, the EOSC is seen as a platform for data sharing and best practices in epidemiology and prevention to help avert such disasters in the future. 

The EC announced that a new call for commercial cloud providers has been published by the EU-funded OCRE (Open Clouds for Research Environments) project. Under the terms of the IaaS+ (Infrastructure as a Service) tender, bidders are invited to apply for funding for services designed to better interconnect commercial cloud platforms with the European research community. One of the main objectives of the project is make the selected services accessible through the service catalogue of the European Open Science Cloud.

Europe cloud computing market is set to record momentous growth on account of rapid expansion of cloud services vendors in the region. The EU is contributing to this through the OCRE project's tender which will source commercial cloud services for the European Open Science Cloud.

EUA hosted the first workshop of the newly launched EOSC Skills and Training Working Group, to discuss a work plan for 2020 and strategies to bridge European and national activities. 

In an opinion piece in Science|Business, Jean-Claude Burgelman, the former open science head of unit at the European Commission highlights the European Open Science as an example of cooperation that is the solution to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Parliament Magazine article states that the Commission and EU Member States must make the EOSC a high priority as it would boost the knowledge creation at the heart of the digital package and consolidate Europe as a global research leader and frontrunner in Open Science.

In this University World News article, the EOSC "model" is proposed as a solution for the rising cost of scientific publishing.

As the globalisation of research proceeds apace, the nascent European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will need to be connected with similar initiatives elsewhere in the world. This paper explores how open science is developing around the world and the ramifications for EOSC and research in Europe.

Shanghai Daily reports that Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Resources Center (SSTIR) has become the first outside local data sharing platform outside Europe to join the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

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EOSC project ARCHIVER announces the launch of its tender, the resulting services of which would contribute to the European Open Science Cloud. 

Scientists from EMBL present a tool for large-scale analysis of genomic data with cloud computing. Main advantages of the new tool, called Butler, are continuous system monitoring and its ability to self-heal in case of failure, allowing for 43% more efficient data processing than previous approaches. The tool was developed for the Pan-Cancer project which was one of the first demonstrators for the European Open Science Cloud under the EOSC-pilot project.

The final solutions and tools deveoped by PolicyCloud wil eventually become available as public cloud services, contributing to the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), a core element in the European Commission's vision of making Europe a global leader in data management as recently explained by EC President von der Leyen at the 5oth annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The European Bionformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) played a crucial role by providing access and support to their Embassy Cloud, which was used for testing Butler. THer system has recently been used in other projects as well, for example in the European Open Science Cloud project (EOSC).

Flemish Open Science Board launch to fulfill European engagement and invest in Open Science. And the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is an ambitious cloud project with the intention of offering European researcher an environment for "data storage, management, analysis and re-use across disciplines" - ringing together infrastructures, both horizontal and thematic.

EC President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU’s Open Science Cloud, which is in development, will offer huge amounts of valuable research and data for scientists to share.

To promote innovation and help scientists find new solutions to the world's problems, EC President Ursula von der Leyen proposes the expansion of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), where researchers can upload and access vast amounts of data. "It is being developed in Europe for for European solutions", she said. Eventually the EC plans "to open this to the broader public sector and to businesses".

The EU has set up "the building blocks of a European defense union," EU Commission chief ursula von der Leyen has said in Davos. She also hailed a "European open science cloud" aimed to boost research in the bloc.

The EU considers data as a renewable resource will can be "opened up as a resource for innovation" by creating datasets that will be made available to European researchers. THe project is called the European Open Science Cloud.

The European Open Science Cloud is here and we have to prepare for the post-2020 period, living in the Horizon Europe era.

As a leading case in point, Straus points to the European Open Science Cloud, where it is planned to store all data coming out of publicly funded researche, and open it to the public. Straus complains that the European Commission is not taking IP protection into accout in the project. The idea of an open science cloud seems "naive without a concrete plan on how the EU should protect the general macroeconomic interest," he told ScoenceIBusiness.

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a pan-European system that will help millions of researchers, science and technology workers throughout the research cycle. The implementation of EOSC is already underway and will be fully launched in 2020, read the EOSC Communication.

Europe's leading scientific institutes will meet in Budapest at the EOSC Symposium to review the status of the EOSC. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) i a pan-European system that brings millions of researchers, science and technoogy workers together to learn more information, new ideas and even more innovation.

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a pan-European system that will help millions of researchers, science and technology workers throughout the research cycle . The implementation of EOSC is already underway and will be fully launched in 2020.

Ambitious plans for e-IRG, EOSC and EuroHPC under Croatian EU Presidency - Interview with Ivan Maric, SRCE, Croatia.

The implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) began in 2015 with the support of the European Commission. The idea is to give European researchers free access to the vast amount of data that has been accumulated during their R&D work.

An equally important aspect is the presentaion of PSNC actitivvites related to the European Open Science Cloud, "such as the provision of computing infrastructure for applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning, integration of national repositories of science with EOSC and support for cooperation of science with industry within the EOSC Digital Innovation Hub", says Marcin Plociennik (PSNC).

That is one of the findings of a new report the ScienceIBusiness Cloud Consultation Group, an independent group of cloud experts from academia, industry and public sector institutions. Entitled Buildign a Sustainable Science Cloud, the report considers how the EU's new European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) can become a compelling and financially viable proposition for researchers and service providers alike.

The EU is also investing in data-intensive research through the Europan Open Science Cloud. The aim is to create a comprehensive European service environment for sharing the results of publicly funded research. There are still challenges to the transparencyy of data.

Over the past few decades, the Open Science movements has called or widespread data sharing as fundamental to better research. This has prompted several changes. One is the birth of journals devoted largely to the publication of data sets. Another ambitious investment in data infrastructures, exemplified by the European Open Science Cloud.

The internet and digital technologies are already transforming the EU member states’ knowledge and operation systems. During last five years the turn has come to science, research and innovation with a new concept of free access to all kind of research (called “open access”).

Registraton for one of the offered services for the European Open Science Cloud is now open. Two FitSM Advanced Level cources that will take place in Amsterdam this November 2019.

The European Open Science Cloud enables researchers to combine multiple datasets and services, developed by different organisations in Europe, to predict the spread of dangerous and invasive species in the Mediterranean Sea and to highlight the high-risk zones for fisheries and health security in the area.

The 1st Annual Meeting of the Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud project (PaNOSC) will take place on 4-5 November 2019 in Trieste, Italy. The meeting will bring together PaNOSC project partners and other EOSC clusters, with the aim of sharing information and increasing collaboration among different parts.

European Open Science Cloud workshop moderated by Sara Di Giorgio - Project Manager at teh Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

2019 sees the exciting launch of 1 out of the five successfully retained INFRA-EOSC-04-2018 Cluster projects, which the European Commission supports with €16 million to boost the implementation of the Euorpean Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

These surveys are part of the FAIRsFAIR project to assess the current landscape and to develop recommendations to enable and promote FAIR policies and practices. They will feed FAIRsFAIR recommendation reports on semantics and data practices on practice to be shared with EOSC governance bodies.

The European Open Science Cloud was featured as one of the upcoming international research affair to start offering services by 2020.

One of the primary goals of the EU's nascent European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is to make much easier for researchers to pursue fully open science by federating the myriad of reseatch infrastructures, tools and datasets being employed by the 1.7 million researchers across the EU.

We live in an era where Genomics becomes increasingly important globally. The European Union's genomic collaboration and research have to be citizens-focused and patient-friendly, making sure that the highest standards are applied for the usage, access and storage of genomic data.

The European Union has launched the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative to support the data driven research in pursuing excellent science.

The two other ‘Os’ — open innovation and open science — have been a significant focus of Moedas’s political energy over the past four years. This has given rise to the European Open Science Cloud, a virtual repository for data produced by Europe’s 1.7 million publicly funded researchers. And streams of work are ongoing under the Open Science Policy Platform on issues such as scholarly publishing, rewards and incentives, next-generation metrics and research integrity. These will come to fruition in the final design of Horizon Europe, to be unveiled over the next few months.

At a different scale, we could decisively move away from Amazon, Google and Microsoft’s control over cloud computing and imagine computing as a basic 21st-century utility. Initiatives such as the European Union’s Open Science Cloud demonstrate one model for providing a publicly funded and operated cloud infrastructure. There’s no reason why governments shouldn’t provide citizens with free access to a public cloud that ensures privacy, security, energy efficiency and equal access for all. Our digital infrastructures should not be left in the hands of profit-seeking monopolies, but instead run democratically for the common good.

The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship are intended to improve the infrastructure for and services around scholarly data. These principles, as presented on the GO FAIR website that hosts them, are intended as 'guidelines to improve the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse of digital assets'. They now guide the design and implementation of major initiatives such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as illustrated by the recently launched FAIRsFAIR project.

The European Open Science Cloud Council have been adopted, bringing together existing and emerging data infrastructures and offering a virtual environment. We finalized negotiations with the EP on the European Code of COnduct for Electronic Communications and on the Regulation on the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications.

A Science|Business Cloud Consultation Group meeting and dinner discussion with the EOSC Board tackles what it  is aiming to achieve between now and 2020, immediate priorities, and how will it engage the broader scientific community in both the public and private sectors. 

EOSC cited as key development alongside tendencies towards data sharing in an article calling for the international alignment in research data management. 

Dr Giovanni Lamanna, the Director of the CNRS-IN2P3 Laboratory of Particle Physics in Annecy, LAPP, discusses the laboratory’s research programme through a journey into particle and astroparticle physics and the scientific and technological challenges inherent therein. It's role and activities towards realising the EOSC is highlighted.