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EuroScienceGateway Annual Project Meeting

5th-6th October 2023, Freiburg

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Welcome to the ESG annual meeting!

What do we plan to achieve together?

  • Present achievements of the first year ESG
  • Alignment with the proposal and planning year 2

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  • Invitation: please fill in the Rolling notes, as the meeting progresses with the highlights you find important

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Agenda 6th October 2023

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9.00 - 9.30

Registration

9.30 - 10.00

Welcome and Report of WP1: Project management, coordination and dissemination (ALU FR)

10.00 - 10.30

Report from the WP2 Leader: Stimulate FAIR and reusable research (UNIMAN)

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee break

11.00 - 11.30

Report from the WP3 Leader: Pulsar Network: Distributed heterogeneous compute (CNR)

11.30 - 12.00

Report from the WP4 Leader: Building blocks for a sustainable operating model (EGI Foundation)

12.00 - 13.00

Report from the WP5 Leader and community representatives: Community engagement, adoption and onboarding (UiO)

13.00 - 14.30

Lunch

14.30 - 16.00

WP workshops and discussions in parallel, and later mixed as needed

16.00 - 16.30

Coffee break

16:30 - 17:30

Wrap-up and closing remarks

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Main objective

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The overall objective of EuroScienceGateway is to achieve our shared vision of an open collaborative digital space for European scientists.

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  • 100.000 user with access to large compute and storage resources
  • more training, more access, more possibilities for researchers

→ democratising data science

  • Make it easier to handle FAIR data and FAIR data analysis
  • 3 new communities in the grant
    • Material science
    • Biodiversity, climate, BioGenEU
    • Astrophysics
  • Raise national Galaxy servers + Pulsar to TRL-9
  • FDO integration
  • Job distribution system across Europe

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What do we want to achieve?

Objective 1: Accessible e-Infrastructure resources for European scientists to enable pioneering data-driven research across scientific domains. 

Objective 2: Support the varieties of analysis types and diverse usage patterns through efficient and smart job distribution to appropriate and sustainable infrastructures.

Objective 3: The application of FAIR principles to workflows and adoption of FAIR Digital Objects to stimulate reusable and reproducible research and enable the EOSC Interoperability Framework. 

Objective 4: Adoption of the EuroScienceGateway by researchers in diverse scientific disciplines

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Objectives

O1.1 Establishment of functions for project management.

O1.2 Organisation and execution of project management, managing board and project annual meetings.

O1.3 Development and implementation of a risk management plan to ensure project objectives are achieved.

O1.4 Develop and periodically update a data management plan.

O1.5 Establishment of a long-term sustainability model.

O1.6 Disseminate the project outcomes within well-established networks and scientific communities.

O1.7 Provision of new content and delivery of training for the deployment of the EuroScienceGateway Open Infrastructures

What WP1 is planning to achieve?

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Tasks

1.1 Establishment and implementation of the Project Management Unit

  • General Assembly, Executive Board, EOSC HE Communication Task Force, Project Manual

1.2 Organization and execution of all project management and partner meetings

  • Kickoff Meeting, annual meeting, first year report

1.3 Quality and risk management

  • Data Management Plan

How did we contribute to achieve the objectives in year 1?

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Tasks

1.4 Development of a sustainability model and community assessment

  • Broad (and growing) engagement in EOSC, HE and national projects (e.g. NFDI)

1.5 Outreach and dissemination with tailored communication and branding

  • Dissemination & Exploitation (D&E) plan
  • Blog posts, social media, communication channel (Element), publications, …
  • Contributions to conferences (talks, posters, booths)
  • Involvements in the HE meetings (Communication Task Force, Technology Group)
  • Established connections within EOSC (MoU with OpenAIRE, co-op agreement with FAIR-EASE, AquaINFRA)

1.6 Capacity building via development and admin training

  • Admin workshop in Ghent, Smorgasbord 2023, GCC 2023

How did we contribute to achieve the objectives in year 1?

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Milestones and Deliverables of ESG from year 1

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This project was funded by the European Union’s HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01, under the Grant Agreement number 101057388.

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Deliverable/Name

Lead

Status

WP1

D1.1 Data Management Plan

VIB

Feb 23, submitted

WP1

D1.2 Dissemination and exploitation plan

ALU

Feb 23, submitted

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Milestone/Name

Lead

Status

WP1

M1.1 Admin training sessions, codefest and hackathons

ALU

April 23, delivered

WP4

M4.1 BYOC and BYOS integrated into ESG

EGI

August 23, delivered

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Report

Technical report, Part A

  • Participants list checked; Publications/Dissemination/Communication looks good; “Results”...

Technical report, Part B

  • Has grown a lot (thank you!), lively discussions, several referenced resources, … Next: streamlining

Financial report

  • Delivered: CESNET, EGI, AGH, UP, (INFN), VIB, TUBITAK, IISAS, (CNR), UiO, ALU-FR, UB
  • Delayed: BSC, CNRS

→ Documents will be locked next week; WP1 has time until end of Oct to import information into EC portal

State and first feedback

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Year 2

  • Milestones and Deliverables
  • Events and conferences
  • Transition: Feedback from and to WP1

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Milestones and Deliverables of ESG for year 2

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WP

Deliverable/Name

Lead

Due

WP5

D5.1 Community onboarding cookbook published

UiO

Feb 24

WP2

D2.1 Reproducible FAIR Digital Objects for workflows

UNIMAN

Aug 24

WP3

D3.1 Operations documentation on the Open Infrastructure deployment

INFN

Aug 24

WP4

D4.1 Bring Your Own Infrastructure (compute, storage) Demonstrator

EGI

Aug 24

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Milestone/Name

Lead

Status

WP2

M2.1 Initial EuroScienceGateway workflows registered [Collection in WorkflowHub]

VIB

Feb 24

WP1

M1.2 Admin training sessions, codefest and hackathons (Update)

ALU

Aug 24

WP2

M2.3 Initial EuroScienceGateway knowledge graph [Zenodo data deposit]

VIB

Aug 24

This project was funded by the European Union’s HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01, under the Grant Agreement number 101057388.

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Year 2 Planning

  • Monitoring of the progress
  • Webinars (?), trainings, EOSC project/ community meetings
  • Outreach: Publications, Blog Posts
  • Events
    • EOSC Winter school Jan/Feb 2024 -> 5 people per EOSC project
    • EGI meeting
    • GCC 2024
    • Joint EOSC/NFDI Meeting (Berlin)
  • WPs 2/3/4: actual developments are progressing, some need to be nailed down
  • Community-driven developments: time for roadmaps

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Transition: Feedback from and to WP1

  • All goals reached for the first year
  • We are doing very good.

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  • Enhance outreach activities
  • Communication… has improved.

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  • Your feedback?

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Link to other (EOSC) projects

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EuroScienceGateway – Thank you!

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