Implementing EOSC in Ireland
HEAnet Conference 2025
Roberto Sabatino,
Research Engagement Officer, HEAnet
Outline
Introduction to EOSC as an enabler of Open Science
The EOSC EU node
The EOSC federation of nodes
And Ireland ?
Connected initiatives
Fundamentals of Open Science
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as the enabling infrastructure for Open Science, building the web of FAIR data and associated services
FAIR data
F for Findable
A for Accessible
I for Interoperable
R for Reusable (and I might add Reproducible)
EOSC as an enabler of Open Science
The EOSC EU node
The EOSC Federation of nodes
EOSC federation build-up
Organisation | Offering | Oragnisation | Offering |
CSC (Finland) | General Repository, Competence centre. Thematic repositories onboarded in stages. Chipster: SW to analyse genomic data | ESRF/PaNosc | Infrastructure, VREs |
CNR BlueCloud (Italy) | Thematic RI for marine research. Data sets and VRE | EUDAT | RDM services |
NCN (Poland) | Generic national. Repos and infrastructure | NFDI (DE) | Federated Repositories and associated services. |
BBMI ERIC | Thematic node, Datasets and resources, notebooks | CNRS/ Dataterra | Thematic RI |
CERN | “Onboarding” zenodo, Inspire, Indico, HepData, SW analysis workflow (reana) | ICSC | Generic infrastructure, thematic and academic repositories. Sensitive data |
SURF (NL) | Aggregates resources from institutes, infra and repos. Sensitive data | CVTI (SK) | Generic national |
LSRN (Elixir, EMBL, Instruct, Bioimanging) | Infrastructure and data resources | | |
Requirements for Federation: AAI architecture
Two integration options:
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Where are we in Ireland ?
NORF NAP projects + networks. |
SCOIR, MOSSi, iFRAME, PID Roadmap |
Sonraí, TROPIC, PublishOA, CORD,… |
Open Access Repository Assessment and Alignment |
National Open Access Monitor, IRLDAT |
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IRLDAT | SSO | National HPC |
National Production Services | ||
NORF NAP projects + networks. |
SCOIR, MOSSi, iFRAME, PID Roadmap |
Sonraí, TROPIC, PublishOA, CORD,… |
Open Access Repository Assessment and Alignment |
National Open Access Monitor, IRLDAT |
… |
IRLDAT | SSO | National HPC |
National Production Services | ||
Siloed, inconsistent resources |
Data Respositories |
Institutional HPC |
Thematic RIs ( GDI, ELIXIR, ISSDA…) |
Non–Research DI (data.gov.ie, commercial,…) |
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A vision for Ireland�
NORF NAP projects + networks. |
SCOIR, MOSSi, iFRAME, PID Roadmap |
Sonraí, TROPIC, PublishOA, CORD,… |
Open Access Repository Assessment and Alignment |
National Open Access Monitor, IRLDAT |
… |
IRLDAT | SSO | National HPC |
National Production Services | ||
EOSC Ireland Node
Thematic RI
(GDI,ELIXIR, ISSDA…)
Non-R DIs (data.gov.ie, commercial, etc)
Data Repositories
Connected initiatives
Connected Infrastructures
Opportunities for synergies
Gap in national landscape
Producing a vision
From an initial HEAnet vision delivered in 2024 to a national vision paper delivered July 2025.
January 2025 to July 2025 intensive work with colleagues from universities and research centres
Implementing the EOSC in Ireland : https://zenodo.org/records/16266119
Benefits of EOSC Ireland
Contributes to advancement of Ireland’s core policy and strategic goals:
ERA priority 1 on Open Science, NORF
Open Data Alignment
Digital transformation: secure data access, reproducibility, robust data governance
Ensures ongoing competitiveness of Irish research
By enabling data interoperability and removal of data silos, it contributes to addressing priorities of multiple government departments and agencies
See the QuarryLink talk later today !
Sabatino, R., O'Neill, J., Dowling, L., Burbidge, C., Brown, W., Collins, D., Culhane, A., Doran, M., Farrell, G., Golden, D., Kannan, V., Moran, R. P., Neff, F., Whelan, L., & Wrynn, S. (2025). Implementing the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in Ireland - Version 2 July 2025. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16266119
From Vision to Service
Paper: Vision
Implementation Plan
The What & Why
The How and Who
CSA
Architecture
MVP
Organisation
Funding Model
The Service
WP Title | Participants | Cost Category | Effort | Cost | Totals |
WP0, project management | HEAnet | Staff | 0.5 FTE, 12 months | 50K | 52K |
Travel&events | | 2K | |||
WP1 Technical architecture | ICHEC and 2 others TBD | Staff | 1.2 FTE, 8 months | 80K | 82.5K |
Travel and events | | 2.5K | |||
WP2 technical trials | ICHEC and 2 others TBD | Staff | 1.2 FTE, 9 months | 90K | 158.5K |
equipment | | 6K | |||
Travel & events | | 2.5K | |||
Other external services (licenses, consultancy) | | 60K | |||
WP3 organisational, governance, funding models | TUDublin and 5 others TBD | Staff | 1 FTE, 9 months | 75K | 80K |
consultancy | | 5K | |||
WP4 Planning connection to EOSC Federation | UL and 2 others TBD | Staff | 0.6 FTE, 4 months | 20K | 23K |
Travel and events | | 3K | |||
WP5 Planning for access to services for handling sensitive data | TCD and 2 others TBD | Staff | 1 FTE, 4 months | 33.3K | 35.83K |
Travel and events | | 2.5K | |||
WP6 Community Engagement | HEAnet | Staff | 0.2 FTE, 12 months | 20K | 30.5K |
Travel & events | | 5.5K | |||
Materials & Consumables | | 5K | |||
Totals | Budget 462,333 | Overhead at 25% 115,583 | 577,19k | ||
Estimated Operational cost over 5 years 9-10M
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WP0 PROJECT MANAGEMENT & COORDINATION | Project Management |
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WP1 TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE | Develop technical architecture |
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WP2 TECHNICAL TRIALS | Conduct technical trials |
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WP3 ESTABLISHING ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE | Determine Organisational Structure |
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Business Case & Recommendation for EOSC Ireland establishment |
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WP4 TECHNICAL PLANNING |
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WP6 ENGAGEMENT |
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WP leads: HEAnet, ICHEC, TUDublin, UL, TCD
Participants: SETU, DCU, UCD, UL, LERO, TUS, DRI, UoG
Advisory: UCC/APC, UL, NDA, UoG
Broader national engagement carried out through WP0 and WP6
Please get in touch if interested !
Connected initiatives
SURF Research Cloud PoC
Resources
EOSC4ALL
Thank you
Any questions?