Call for proposals
Horizon 2020 – Excellence Science – “Implementing the European Open Science Cloud” - H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-2020
Objective and description
New
topics have been opened for submission of proposals under the Horizon
2020 Programme within the pillar “Excellent Science”, within the call
for proposals “Implementing the European Open Science Cloud” (call
identifier: H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-2020).
This call will achieve
the vision put forward by the European Cloud Initiative and it will
make the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) a reality. In order to
realise an EOSC that truly supports interdisciplinary research and Open
Science, a new pan-European model for research data and related services
that is both scalable and flexible needs to be put in place, so that it
can be adapted to the emerging needs of the scientific community and
support the whole research data lifecycle. The new model will build on a
pan-European service access mechanism providing access primarily to
public e-infrastructure services supplied at national, regional and
institutional levels. The Call will support the setup of an appropriate
governance for such a relevant endeavour, which takes into account the
outcomes of previous efforts and the active contribution of all
scientific stakeholders. The Call will ensure strong positioning of EOSC
in the context of similar initiatives in other world regions to enhance
and ‘open to the world’ international collaboration.
The call will develop
the EOSC ecosystem providing all European researchers with seamless,
non-discriminatory and secure access to public and commercial services
and appropriate access modalities to a wider user community like
industry, public sector, citizen scientists, etc. Capacity building for
this ecosystem, in particular concerning storage, computing, software
and other resources and services, could in the future allow piloting of
innovative financial schemes and/or consider pan-European joint
procurement facilitated by the EOSC governance - and implemented in
close conjunction with the funders - for aggregation of demand.
Proposals are invited against the following topics:
(RIA Research and Innovation action)
This
topic will ensure the connection of the research infrastructures
identified in the ESFRI Roadmap to the EOSC. Support to this activity
will be provided through cluster projects gathering ESFRI projects and
landmarks in each of the following large thematic domains: Biomedical
Science, Environment and Earth Sciences, Physics and Analytical
Facilities, Social Science and Humanities, Astronomy, Energy.
Consortia
should include key participants of the involved infrastructures and/or
the infrastructure legal entities as well as other partners needed to
address the challenges or develop the required solutions. Proposals
should build upon the state of the art in ICT and e-infrastructures for
data, computing and networking and work in cooperation with
e-infrastructure service providers.
(RIA Research and Innovation action)
The
topic aims to set-up a legal and technical mechanism to integrate these
supplementary commercial services into the EOSC hub in order to make
them available to the scientists. Proposals will address the
availability of both types of services listed below:
a)
Commodity type commercial digital services that are necessary for
interdisciplinary research activities including, but not limited to,
e.g. cloud services (storage, computing, and applications), software
licenses, simulation tools, collaboration and virtualization tools.
b)
A wide variety of secure Earth Observation commercial services.
Proposals should address commercial services stemming from the use of
Copernicus open data accessible through the 'DIAS' platforms and its
smart integration into the service catalogue of the EOSC. These
commercial services may include other space or non-space inputs.
Eligible applicants
Participants can be at least three legal entities.
Each of the three must be established in a different EU Member State or
Horizon 2020 associated country. All three legal entities must be
independent of each other.
Budget
Research and innovation actions (RIA): 100%
RIA Research and Innovation action: 95,000,000 EUR. The
Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the
EU of between EUR 6 and 24 million would allow this challenge to be
addressed appropriately.
RIA
Research and Innovation action: 12,000,000 EUR. The Commission
considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of
between EUR 11 and 12 million would allow this challenge to be addressed
appropriately.
Deadline for proposals’ submission
The deadline for both topics is 22 March 2018, 17:00 (Brussels local time).
Applicants must submit their proposal electronically, following the link on the submission service.
Further information
You can find more information and the call documents at the following link: http://tinyurl.com/ycea5dls
Kind regards,
Ioanna
Ioanna Asimakaki
Erasmus+ Trainee
European Office of Cyprus
Rue du Luxembourg 3, 2nd floor
B-1000, Brussels
Tel/Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 22 85
E-mail: eoc.brussels3@ucy.ac.cy
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