Call for Proposals: EOSC Architecture and Interoperability Framework

Deadline: 9-Mar-23

The European Commission (EC) is calling for proposals for EOSC Architecture and Interoperability Framework.

Scope

• The EOSC Architecture and Interoperability Framework coordination and governance seeks to ensure that interoperability is built, encouraged and maintained with structure, fairness and transparency.
• Achieving interoperability is essential in order to federate services, integrate data and enable interoperation with applications or workflows for analysis, storage and processing. The EOSC Interoperability Framework (EOSC IF) provides the procedures and services required to support a flexible framework of standards and guidelines that facilitate the interoperability and composability of EOSC resources in the EOSC-Exchange via the EOSC-Core. The overall EOSC architecture should be overseen by an independent Architecture Board.

Funding Information

The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for: 

• public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and 
• cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).

Expected Outcomes

Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

• Robust governance structure, coordination and maintenance of the EOSC Interoperability Framework and guidelines to support operations.
• Well-established design, specification and review processes for the EOSC architectural building blocks that compose the EOSC Interoperability Framework.
• Independent, multi-stakeholder Architecture Board collecting feedback and functional requirements from cross-community use cases to share, access, analyse and re-use resources via services.
• Support for standards development, adoption and certification. EOSC cannot enable FAIR and support interoperability without standards to describe and understand digital objects.
• Scientific and research community engagement for the EOSC Interoperability Framework.

Eligibility Criteria

• To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
• To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
  • the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions,
  • the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States,
  • countries associated to Horizon Europe;
  • the following low- and middle-income countries.

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