European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative is the tangible outcome of a number of key European and global policy milestones and position statements regarding Open Science.

• Join the national EOSC Finnish Forum: Subscription is open for all Finnish stakeholders and membership is free of charge.
• Join the EOSC Association: Subscription is open to all organisations that support the vision and mission of EOSC.

EOSC-Nordic was a 3-year project operating as a part of EOSC. The project started in September 2019. It aimed to promote the deployment of EOSC in Northern Europe. EOSC-Nordic had a budget of € 5.99M. The project was coordinated by NeIC, which is part of NordForsk, and involved members from 24 organisations, in addition to the Nordic countries from Germany, the Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Finnish partners in the consortium were:

It is important that Finnish stakeholders follow how EOSC continues to develop under Horizon Europe framework programme. This way they can better understand and influence the research priorities in the area, bring the Finnish expertise to the European context and bring back to the country the most suitable opportunities and services coming out from EOSC to foster innovation and boost the societal impact of Finnish high-quality research.

What is EOSC?

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is one of the new partnerships supported by the European Commission and the Member States. It aims to realise a web of FAIR data and related services and provides a virtual environment with access to various services supporting open science and the management of the research data lifecycle, from sharing to processing and preserving data. The objective of EOSC is to give the European Union a global lead in research data management and ensure that European scientists reap the full benefits of data-driven science.

The chairperson for the Steering Group 2019–2020 was Vice-Rector Jaakko Aspara (Hanken) and the secretary Henriikka Mustajoki (Finnish Federation of Learned Societies). The meeting memos are in the archive (in Finnish).