NI4OS General info

National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe – NI4OS- Europe, aims to be a core contributor to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Open science plays an important role in scientific research. Open Cloud offers a wide range of services including computing, data management and storage. EOSC is a trustworthy digital platform that provides scientists with continuous access to the entire research data cycle at the European level. NI4OS intends to support the development of national Open Science Cloud schemes in 15 EU Member States and associated countries. It will design, analyse and categorise the national Open Science environment in these countries to create national OSC structures to support general EOSC governance.

Facts

Project number: 857645
Call identifier: H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-3
Project start date: 1st September, 2019
Project period: 3,5 years
Project budget: 5.992.475 EUR
Kick-off date: 8-10 October, 2019
Homepage: https://ni4os.eu/

Objectives

1. Mission and vision of the project are to be a core contributor to European Open Science Cloud service portfolio, commit to EOSC governance and ensure inclusiveness on the European level.

2. Spread the EOSC and FAIR principles in the community and train it, and provide technical and policy support in on-boarding of the existing and future service providers into EOSC, including generic services.

3. The overall approach is that the national Open Science landscape in all countries will be mapped, analysed and systematized so as to facilitate both the creation of national OSC initiatives to support the overall EOSC governance, and to engage all stakeholders.

4. A set of providers (generic e-Infrastructure providers, thematic providers, repositories) will be on-boarded into EOSC - following the best practices, policies, guidelines and tools formulated by the project, in alignment with the existing EOSC initiatives and standards.

Partners

Ethniko Diktyo Erevnas Technologias AE

Greece

ATHINA-Erevnitiko Kentro Kainotomias stis Technologies tis Pliroforias, ton Epikoinonion kai tis Gnosis

Greece

The Cyprus Institute

Cyprus

University of Cyprus

Cyprus

Institute of Information and Communication Technologies

Bulgaria

Sveuciliste u Zagreb - Sveucilisni Racunski Centar

Croatia

Ruđer Bošković Institute

Croatia

Kormanyzati Informatikai Fejlesztesi Ugynokseg

Hungary

Debreceni Egyetem

Hungary

Institutul National de Cercerate-Dezvoltare in Informatica – ICI Bucuresti

Romania

Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii

Romania

Akademska raziskovalna mreza Slovenije

Slovenia

Univerza v Mariboru, Univerzitetna knjiznica Maribor

Slovenia

Institut za fiziku

Serbia

Univerzitet u Beogradu

Serbia

Qendra Nderuniversitare e Sherbimeve Dhe Rrjetit Telematik

Albania

Univerzitet u Banjoj Luci

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje

Macedonia

Javna Ustanova Univerzitet Crne Gore Podgorica

Montenegro

Research and Educational Networking Association of Moldova

Republic of Moldova

Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

Armenia

Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association

Georgia

Authorized contact persons and members

Project Coordinator: Ognjen Prnjat

Project Director: Eleni Toli

Project Financial Manager: Evangelina Athanasaki

Project Communication Coordinator: Dimitra Kotsokali

Project Innovation Manager/Coordinator: Judit Fazekas-Paragh

Project Quality Assurance Coordinator: Milutina Radonjic

WP leaders

WP1: Project administrative and technical management: Evangelia Athanasaki

WP2: EOSC national initiatives and policy support: Eleni Toli

WP3: Federation and on-boarding operational mechanism and tools: Anastas Mishev

WP4: ORDM, processes, tools, certification themes: Branko Marovic

WP5: Service provider integration, on-boarding and horizontal service maintenance: Dusan Vudragovic

WP6: User engagement, training and demonstrators: Andreas Gavrielides

WP7: Communication, marketing, sustainability and innovation: Judit Fazekas-Paragh

NI4OS services-related resources

Pre-production environment

Resource portfolio management tool

https://agora.ni4os.eu/

NI4OS RPMT implements EOSC Profiles v3.0 and it has an extensive API available at https://agora.ni4os.eu/api/v2. It is tightly integrated with NI4OS-Europe AAI and to get access one needs to log in and then send a request to be given the appropriate rights as a Provide Admin or a Resource admin. More info on how to add resources in agora can be found at

Agora Guide for Resource Providers

On-boarded resources

Repositories	Thematic services	Generic services	Core services
NI4OS-Europe repository service	FEPrepare	AVITOHOL	Agora Resource Portfolio Management Tool
SZTE repository of publications	DREAMM	PARADOX-IV cluster	Configuration Management Database
	NanoCrystal	Data analysis service	NI4OS Login
	ChemBioServer	FINKI cloud	ARGO monitoring
			Accounting system
			Helpdesk
			NI4OS-Europe training and webinar portal

On-boarding candidates

Repositories	Thematic services	Generic services
Repository of Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb	Live Access Server	Simple storage service
Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia Repository	Clowder4DCH	Data discovery service
Repository of the Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb	DREAM	Avitohol cloud
HELIX Data	Schrodinger	ARIS
UKIM Repository	Airpolution prediction	Archival service
	OMApp	CyI Cloud Facility
	IoT Cloud Platform	Cy-Tera
	High Energy Solar Particle Events foRecastIng and Analysis	ONYX

On-boarded resource providers

Resource provider
National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (GRNET)
Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA)
Athena Research & Innovation Center (ATHENA)
The Cyprus Institute (CYI)
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT)
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Science (IMI)
University of Zagreb, University Computing Centre (SRCE)
Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI)
Governmental Agency for IT Development (KIFU)
University of Debrecen (UD)
National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI)
Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)
Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES)
University of Maribor Library (UMUKM)
Institute of Physics Belgrade (IPB)
University of Belgrade (UOB)
Albanian Academic Network - Interinstitutional ICT Research Centre (RASH)
University of Banja Luka (UNI BL)
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (UKIM)
University of Montenegro (UoM)
Research and Educational Networking Association of Moldova (RENAM)
Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems (IIAP)
Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association (GRENA)
University of Szeged (SZTE)