Deep Hybrid Data Cloud i a project that supports intensive computing techniques (ML/DL) that require access to specialized HPC hardware, like GPUs or low-latency interconnects, to explore very large datasets.

EOSC-DIH and DEEP-Hybrid-DataCloud (DEEP) have entered into a collaboration agreement aiming to foster their adoption by SMEs, undertake dissemination of new offerings, and collaborate on business pilots. Specifically, the collaboration agreement forsees the following goals to achieve:

• To disseminate the following DEEP-Hybrid Data Cloud services throught their inclusion into the EOSC DIH offering, fostering their adoption by SMEs:

– ML application porting to EOSC technological infrastructure

– ML implementation best practices

– AI-enabled services prototyping in EOSC landscape

•  To identify SMEs interested in such an offer and set up a business pilot
• To disseminate the new offer through EOSC DIH channels
• To redirect existing and future SME collaborations through the EOSC DIH channel
• To find providers willing to support the business pilot and DEEP services through the EOSH DIH.

OpenAIRE is a European e-Infrastructure that promotes open scholarly communication for all actors in the research ecosystem, by providing services, resources and network. 

Key to  OpenAIRE is the provision of a set of services that support on the one hand researchers in performing Open Science practices covering all phases of the research lifecycle, and beyond that, and on the other, actors that complement and produce value from open research results. Through the OpenAIRE-Nexus H2020 project, OpenAIRE brings into EOSC services and resources that help the industry be more actively involved in the research ecosystem development, specifically, in using and uptaking resources. OpenAIRE services are fully embedded in researchers’ workflows and practices of openness and Fairness for research data, making scholarly content accessible so that SMEs, start-ups and spin-offs can improve, challenge and co-create the future services within EOSC. The current users of OpenAIRE services are researchers, content and services providers, research managers, groups and networks, research infrastructures, funders and policy makers, citizen scientists and SMEs.

We invite visionaries and innovators to become the leaders of tomorrow and together co-design, co-create and co-develop services for the EOSC ecosystem. 

The following activities will be provided by OpenAIRE to the EOSC-DIH business pilots:

Resources & Support

• Programmatic access to trustable, accurate, interlinked interoperable services all in one place.
• Access to the OpenAIRE Research Graph (https://graph.openaire.eu/), that provides millions of metadata collection of scholarly works (publications, research data, software, other research products) and their links.
• Technical support and training.
• Personalised support with videoconferencing and emails.

Business Value

• A great testing environment that will allow business pilots to calibrate and run optimum solutions to fulfil their goals.
• Time and resources saving process.
• Get support from ideation to exploration and implementation of the best valued solution.
• Increase business solutions value to potential future funders, investors and open-up to science and research domain for collaborations.

EOSC Vision

• Interoperability of business pilots with OpenAIRE.
• Visibility and credibility of business pilots on the OpenAIRE and EOSC portals.
• Positioning of business pilots within EOSC, reaching out to Europe’s research organisations.

Join OpenAIRE and help us mainstream innovation in EOSC.

To find a detailed list of the OpenAIRE-Nexus services with a brief description, please visit the services section on the EOSC-DIH dedicated portal. 

About OpenAIRE: OpenAIRE, is a European e-Infrastructure with the mission to establish, maintain and operate an open scholarly communication infrastructure. It provides services, resources and a network, to support a common European e-science environment. Maintaining a network of 37 National Open Access Desks (NOADs),  OpenAIRE provides a forum for the alignment of policies and best practices on Open Access to publications, interoperability of repositories, Research Data Management and training to researchers, content providers, research managers and policy makers. Operating since 2009, OpenAIRE is an integral part and a leading force behind the European Open Science Cloud developments. OpenAIRE A.M.K.E. is a Non-Profit Partnership established in September 2018 with 47 members.

EOSC-synergy is an European project coordinated by CSIC (Spain) in the IBERGRID framework that contributes to the European Open Science Cloud landscape by expanding the capabilities and adoption of EOSC services at the National level in the countries participating in the consortium: Portugal, Spain, UK, Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Slovakia and Check Republic.

Thematic services and training initiatives deployed in EOSC Synergy are susceptible to be integrated as innovation activities through the experiments or pilots developed in the EOSC DIH. The objective of this partnership is to explore the ways of collaboration to maximize the impact of the EOSC services offered by both initiatives and promote the innovation and exploitation of the main results. 

The following activities will be carried out:

• Explore the exploitation of research data and services with a clear industrial exploitation path from the EOSC Synergy thematic services,  considering different business models to be applied. 

• Analyse the adoption and integration of EOSC Synergy training tools, i.e. the Hackathon as a Service (HaaS) under the Training and support service of the EOSC DIH. This would increase the skill development service provided by the EOSC DIH while maximizing the visibility of the EOSC Synergy results in a commercial environment. 

• Reciprocate dissemination and promotional activities and results

The BigDataStack H2020 project is a R&D project in the Big Data domain under the umbrella of the BDVA PPP. BigDataStack aims at providing a complete infrastructure management system, which will base the management and deployment decisions on data from current and past application and infrastructure deployments. This complete infrastructure management system is delivered as a full“stack” that facilitates the needs of operation data and application. 

BigDataStack project started in 2018 and the project consortium is composed of 10 industrial partners and 4 Academia and research partners.

EOSC-DIH and BigDataStack have started a collaboration aiming to explore the joint collaboration in the execution of pilots with SMEs.  Specifically, the collaboration agreement foresees the following objectives:

• Understand the offerings of the BigDataStack project 
• Investigate possibilities of extending EOSC DIH offers with the BigDataStack offerings in a partnership
• Investigate the possibilities of defining common pilots, 
• Looking for potential SME’s interested in the collaboration

DICE service providers would like to partner with EOSC-DIH to better reach out SMEs stakeholders and their exploitation of the services offered via DICE, increasing the impact of the project in the private sector.

The Data Infrastructure Capacities for EOSC (DICE) project brings together a network of computing and data centers, and research infrastructures, for the purpose to enable a European storage and data management infrastructure for EOSC, providing generic services and building blocks to store, find, access and process data in a consistent and persistent way. The service and resource provisioning will be accompanied by enhancing the current service offering in order to fill the gaps still present to the support of the entire research data lifecycle; solutions will be provided for increasing the quality of data and their re-usability, supporting long term preservation, managing sensitive data, and bridging between data and computing resources.

All services provided via DICE will be offered through the EOSC Portal and interoperable with EOSC Core via a lean interoperability layer to allow efficient resource provisioning from the very beginning of the project.

The data services offered via DICE through EOSC are designed to be agnostic to the scientific domains in order to be multidisciplinary and to fulfil the needs of different communities.

DICE service providers would like to partner with EOSC-DIH to better reach out SMEs stakeholders and their exploitation of the services offered via DICE, increasing the impact of the project in the private sector.

EGI-ACE is a 30-month project coordinated by the EGI Foundation with a mission to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate in data and compute-intensive research through free-at-point-of-use services. Building on the distributed computing integration in the EOSC-hub project, EGI-ACE will deliver the EOSC Compute Platform and will contribute to the EOSC Data Commons through a federation of cloud compute and storage facilities, PaaS services and data spaces with analytics tools.

EGI-ACE’s main goal is to implement the compute platform of the European Open Science Cloud and contribute to the EOSC Data Commons by delivering integrated computing platforms, data spaces and tools as an integrated solution that is aligned with major European cloud federation projects and HPC initiatives.

EGI-ACE will like to partner with EOSC-DIH to increase the exploitation of EGI ACE services through the private sector while opening the innovative collaboration with Industry, generating wider impact for private companies and society. Specifically the following actions will take place:

• EOSC DIH will use EGI-ACE as a support infrastructure for business pilots that require advanced computational services.
• EGI-ACE will involve EOSC DIH in the support of use cases that approach EGI-ACE but could benefit from broader engagement with the commercial face of EOSC.
• Promotion of joint achievements at various events.

Riverfresh is a company that operates directly and through established agreements with a select group of associate partners and is able to offer an expanding range of services to high growth scale-ups, start-ups, HEIs, Independent Research Organisations, venture building, corporate accelerator and open innovation teams both in the UK/Europe and globally. These services include:

• Technology and Innovation Scouting.
• Venture Building and Accelerated Commercialisation Services.
• Growth and Innovation Funding.
• Company Acquisition Search Services.
• Business and Go To Market Strategy Execution.

Riverfresh would like to partner with EOSC-DIH to leverage and provide additional synergy to support the DIH services portfolio including where they relate to transitioning academic research into product development and commercial exploitation; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Digital Health; Quantum; Advanced Materials; Industry 4.0 and Robotics.

Media Futures is reshaping the media value chain through responsible, innovative uses of data. 

Together , EOSC DIH and Media Futures will exchange knowledge and experience on sustainability, operations and the management of startup and SME communities. Moreover, we will utilize the EOSC DIH and the MediaFutures communities to further disseminate and exploit the outputs of both projects.

And of course, we will deliver and receive relevant online workshops and explore the sustainability potential of both the MediaFutures and EOSC DIH communities.

Make sure to keep an eye on our event section and social media channels for updates on this collaboration and to stay up-to-date about upcoming events and trainings.

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