EGI-Engage

Engaging the EGI Community towards an Open Science Commons

About

EGI-Engage

EGI Foundation

The mission of EGI-Engage is to accelerate the implementation of the Open Science Commons vision, where researchers from all disciplines have easy and open access to the innovative digital services, data, knowledge and expertise they need for their work. The Open Science Commons is grounded on three pillars: the e-Infrastructure Commons, an ecosystem of key services; the Open Data Commons, where any researcher can access, use and reuse data; and the Knowledge Commons, in which communities have shared ownership of knowledge and participate in the co-development of software and are technically supported to exploit state-of-the-art digital services.

Cordis

start

01/03/2015

end

31/08/2017

Funding Source

Horizon 2020

project budget

EUR 8,000,000

egi budget

EUR 2,804,223.75

Contract No.

654142

type of project

Research and innovation

Target Group

Research communities

Zenodo Community

EGI Foundation role in the project:

EGI.eu is the coordinating partner of the project and provides leadership in all the activities.

Relevance for EGI:

EGI-Engage will expand the capabilities offered to scientists (e.g. improved cloud or data services) and the spectrum of its user base by engaging with large Research Infrastructures (RIs), the long-tail of science and industry/SMEs. The main engagement instrument will be a network of eight Competence Centres, where National Grid Initiatives (NGIs), user communities, technology and service providers will join forces to collect requirements, integrate community-specific applications into state-of-the-art services, foster interoperability across e-Infrastructures, and evolve services through a user-centric development model. The project will also coordinate the NGI efforts to support the long-tail of science by developing ad hoc access policies and by providing services and resources that will lower barriers and learning curves.

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