Projects

The EGI Foundation represents the EGI federation in a number of European-funded projects:

H-Cloud is a H2020 coordination and support action that will support the European cloud community by providing recommendations and strategies to guide the future of European cloud services and their market regulations.

Coordinator: Martel GmbH

EGI Contribution: the EGI Foundation is leading the H-Cloud strategy and contributes to other tasks in community building and stakeholder engagement. The EGI director will be the scientific director of the project and manage engagement of experts via the Advisory Board.

Newsletter article: H-Cloud project kicked off

The NextGEOSS project will develop the next generation centralised hub for Earth Observation data, where the users can connect to access data and deploy EO-based applications.

Coordinator: DEIMOS

EGI Contribution: technical advice and consultancy to identify the best solutions to get scientific and/or commercial applications up and running on an integrated cloud platform.

Newsletter article: NextGEOSS project: Earth Observation

PolicyCLOUD aims at delivering an integrated cloud-based environment for data-driven policy management. The environment will provide decision support to public authorities for policy modelling, implementation and simulation through identified populations, enforcement and adaptation.

Coordinator: ATOS Spain S.A.

EGI Contribution: The main contribution of EGI to the project will be the cloud provisioning and the operation of the computing capabilities for the PolicyCLOUD and coordinate the resulted cloud-based environment for data-driven policy management in EOSC. Moreover, EGI will participate in dissemination and exploitation tasks, and will be involved in the activities related to the market analysis and exploitation, communication and stakeholder engagement, as well as to the road-mapping and impact on adoption.

SoBigData++ strives to deliver a distributed, Pan-European, multi-disciplinary research infrastructure for big social data analytics, coupled with the consolidation of a cross-disciplinary European research community, aimed at using social mining and big data to understand the complexity of our contemporary, globally-interconnected society.

Coordinator: CNR 

EGI Contribution: EGI is an e-infrastructure engineer partner. EGI Foundation is one of the main contributors to the design and definition of the EOSC architecture and the federated service management framework, and coordinates service pilots participates by the scientific demonstrators. EGI also contributed to the definition of the governance framework and to the works on Rules of Participation. In the project, EGI will enhance the SoBigData platform with two services: Notebooks and the workflow manager Galaxy, leading the T9.3 0n-line coding and workflow design.

EOSC Enhance will improve and enhance the discoverability of scientific services and data resources by further developing and widening the EOSC catalogue. This will be done through the integration of additional services and data resources (notably the ESFRI clusters and thematic and geographic clouds) as well as further technical enhancement of the functionalities for service providers (Open APIs, AAI) and users (search and comparison tools, etc.). Quality reports will be provided to service providers.

Coordinator: University of Athens

EGI Contribution: EGI will provide expertise on privacy policies and EOSC rules of participation, expertise in standards for service management, change management and software release and validation, design and implementation for service discovery and access platforms for research groups and large research infrastructures, and expertise in federated service provisioning and integration. EGI will participate in requirement provisioning, gathering, analysis, technical support to users and providers and will contribute to release management activities.

PaNOSC will contribute to the construction and development of the EOSC, an ecosystem allowing universal and cross-disciplinary open access to data through a single access point, for researchers in all scientific fields. The project will work closely with the national photon and neutron sources in Europe in order to develop common policies, strategies, and solutions in the area of FAIR data policy, data management and data services.

Coordinator: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)

EGI Contribution: technical support and service provisioning via the EGI Federated Cloud, EGI Notebooks service, EGI Data Transfer service, coordinated user support and outreach.

News piece: The PaNOSC project has started

EOSC-Synergy will contribute to the European Open Science Cloud landscape by expanding the resource capabilities and building human capacities to use EOSC. In practice this will mean more compute and storage available to researchers, and more datasets and tools to expand avenues of research.

Coordinator: Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

EGI Contribution: communications and dissemination tasks, innovation management and policy development activities.

News piece: EOSC-synergy – Expanding Capabilities, Building Capacities

The EOSC Photon and Neutron Data Service (ExPaNDS) will create opportunities for the scientific community and through their findings for humankind across the globe. This will be achieved through the collaboration and federation of 10 national Photon and Neutron Research Infrastructures (RIs) from across Europe and is based upon the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) services.

Coordinator: DESY

EGI Contribution: The main input of EGI relates to EOSC data catalogue services for Photon and Neutron national RIs, EOSC data analysis services for Photon and Neutron national RIs, training activities through EOSC platforms.

Blog articles: ExPaNDS kick-off meeting

TRIPLE, the European discovery solution, enables researchers to discover and reuse social sciences and humanities data, but also other researchers and projects across disciplinary and language boundaries. It provides all necessary means to build interdisciplinary projects and to develop large-scale scientific missions.

Coordinator: CNRS

EGI Contribution: Thanks to its expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) high-throughput computing (HTC), and Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs), EGI will be mainly involved for the single-sign on service, to facilitate the connection with the EOSC, and to contribute to business strategy.

OPERAS-P (Preparation) project will support the development of OPERAS, the European Research infrastructure for open access publications in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). The project will further the development of the infrastructure in view of achieving the necessary scientific, technical and community maturity.

Coordinator: CNRS

EGI Contribution: EGI will participate in the E-Needs projections task, support integration in the EOSC portal, and will lead the user authentication implementation task.

DIGITbrain is an EU innovation program to give SMEs easy access to digital twins. A Digital Twin is the virtual representation of a product, system or process that simulates its physical attributes in the real-world in real time.

Coordinator: PNO Consultants

EGI Contribution: EGI will offer technical advice and consultancy to identify the best solutions to get industrial applications up and running on an integrated HPC and cloud platform, with dedicated support mechanisms tailored to users’ needs. This includes serving as a matchmaker for users and the appropriate service provider(s) across the EGI Federation and beyond.

GoSAFE is a project funded under EIT Digital aiming to propose a secure, interoperable privacy preserving approach, to use COVID-19 citizen related personal information, provided by the national health systems, to enable safe cross-border mobility of people around Europe.
GoSAFE aims to simplify contact tracing operation thanks to a digital Personal Locator Form (PLF) based on interoperable data model which can be recognised in all European Countries.

Coordinator: Engineering SpA

EGI will ensure the hosting of the developed platform as well as the infrastructure for the required development, including technical support required for the service delivery. Additional expertise will be provided in the area of authentication and authorization infrastructures (AAI).

EUHubs4Data is setting up a European federation of Big Data Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs), with the ambition of becoming a reference instrument for data-driven cross-border experimentation and innovation, and support the growth of European SMEs and start-ups in a global Data Economy.

Coordinator: Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI) https://www.iti.es/

EGI contribution: Lead the federation of data sources and datasets activity while supporting activities such as federation model development, DIH and private sector community building, cross-border experiments and training programme as well as driving the project online presence.