Deadline: 23-Sep-21
Calls for proposals are now open for the Deploying EOSC-Core components for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR).
Scope
Proposals should address all of the following activities:
- Contribute to the consolidation of an interoperable ecosystem of PID Infrastructures based on open specification and standards to support machine actionability and offer sufficient flexibility and capacity e.g. by developing a common PID ‘meta resolver’ and standardised interfaces and open protocols for exchanging information on PIDs to support the creation and use of a PID Graph.
- Develop EOSC PID services to address a wide variety of applications appropriate to community needs.
- Develop schemas and APIs based on open specifications and metadata framework as well as related crosswalks for improved discovery and interoperability.
- Develop and deploy a flexible and scalable federated search service across the EOSC repositories, exploiting the aforementioned building blocks (PIDs resolution, APIs and metadata schemas). Such service should ensure customisability of querying (e.g. interfaces, APIs and scripts) and, when possible, ranking of queries results according to FAIRness of data and other prioritisations responding to the users’ needs.
- Develop services and tools to archive, reference, describe and cite research software, based on standards and common practices of the different disciplines.
- Develop services that build on metadata registries, starting from those that support communities in the uptake of metadata schemas and crosswalks and facilitate their maintenance; services to validate data sources against metadata schemes and to monitor data sharing, notably across communities and disciplines, are also expected.
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:
- European researchers can find, access and re-use an increasing amount of research outputs across borders and disciplines through state-of-the-art technologies underpinning discoverability and interoperability of research outputs;
- contribute to the Horizon Europe EOSC Partnership.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
- eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe
- low- and middle-income countries
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