The European Commission has awarded funding to the EOSC-Nordic project proposal {Call Topic: INFRAEOSC-05-2018-2019 Type of action: RIA). The project was ranked #1 in the competition. EOSC-Nordic will form a part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative, and it is a collaborative project between 24 organisations in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Germany.
International Advisory Committee: Ana Proykova, Professor in Physics, University of Sofia (Bulgaria), Francoise Genova, Senior Researcher at Strasbourg astronomical data centre (France), Wilco Hazeleger, Director, Netherlands eScience Center, Ingrid Dillo, Deputy Director, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (Netherlands), Daniel Mallmann, Head of Data Services, Juelich (Germany), Andrew Treloar, Director Projects, Engagements and International, The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) (Australia), Christine Kirkpatrick, Executive Director, National Data Service (US).
The EOSC-Nordic project will promote the openness of research data in the Nordic and Baltic countries. In addition, the project aims to facilitate the coordination of EOSC initiatives in the participating countries and to harmonise operational policies and services. Over the course of the project, Nordic and Baltic countries seek to establish themselves as pioneers of open science cloud infrastructure in Europe.