European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

The objective of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is to provide researchers and innovators in Europe with an open and trusted multi-disciplinary environment where they can publish, find and reuse data, tools and services for research and innovation. Through this environment, EOSC aims to mobilise, align and scale resources across Europe to accelerate open science, higher productivity and increased reproducibility and trust in research.

EOSC should catalyse access for researchers and machines to high-value, machine-actionable research data and other digital objects produced along the research life cycle, such as software and publications. It should enable interoperability of data across and within disciplines, and (re-)use of data by linking them with related tools and services, in line with the ‘FAIR’ (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) data principles.

EOSC ultimately aims to contribute to a 'web of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reuseable) data and services' for science in Europe, upon which a wide range of value-added services can be built.

EOSC is recognised by the Council of the European Union among the priority actions of the policy agenda of the European Research Area (ERA) with the objective to deepen open science practices in Europe. It is also recognised as the common European research and innovation data space, articulated with the other sectoral data spaces defined in the European strategy for data.