We are glad to announce a new series of webinars covering the contribution of European e-Infrastructures to EOSC, supported by the European e-Infrastructures Assembly (the collaboration of leading e-Infrastructures EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT, OpenAIRE, and PRACE). The first webinar in this series will be organised in collaboration with the GÉANT Special Interest Group on Research Engagement Development (SIG-RED). It will showcase the EOSC EU Node services and their value for researchers.
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Time: 9:00-10:30 CEST
An essential set of services to support data-driven research
The EOSC EU Node was officially launched by the European Commission in October 2024 as the first European-level node of the emerging EOSC Federation. It relies on the contributions of European repositories, research infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, scientific service providers, and several European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), including CESNET (Czech Republic), GRNET (Greece), PCSS (Poland), Sikt (Norway), and SUNET (Sweden).
The EOSC EU Node is a collaborative environment built on the FAIR principles, promoting transparency and accessibility with Open Science at its core. Currently, it comprises a robust set of six publicly available services:
- File Sync and Share
- Interactive Notebooks
- Large File Transfer
- Virtual Machines
- Cloud Container Platform
- Bulk Data Transfer
These services address key challenges in modern research workflows, enabling researchers to work efficiently in data-intensive environments, across disciplines and across borders. The application and infrastructure services of the EOSC EU Node have been selected to support a wide range of research domains, providing a common baseline for researchers in all fields.
In this webinar, participants will:
- Learn about the EOSC EU Node and its future plans, [Peter Szegedi, European Commission, DG CONNECT]
- Discover training resources available via the EOSC EU Node Learning Center, [Maja Dolinar, OpenAIRE]
- Discuss the benefits of promoting EOSC EU Node services from the perspective of an NREN, [Olga Popcova, RENAM]
- Explore HOMEROS-OSCARS use cases in Earth Sciences, [Angeliki Adamaki, Uppsala University and Vassilis Anagnostou, Ion-Anastasios Karolos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]
- Use Case 1: How the EOSC EU Node Interactive Notebooks service can facilitate day-to-day research processes in seismology and geodesy.
- Use Case 2: How the EOSC EU Node Virtual Machines service can enable a reproducible processing environment for geodetic data.
- Share experiences and insights with the community.
Stay tuned!
The new webinar series coordinated by the European e-Infrastructures Assembly aims to showcase the combined contributions of these fundamental organisations and their members to EOSC.
Looking ahead, the series plans to expand on the practical contributions of European e-Infrastructures Assembly to the EOSC EU Node and particularly around the EOSC EU Node Core Capabilities, such as the EOSC AAI, Resources Catalogues and Registry Services. It will also explore recent developments surrounding established and emerging EOSC Nodes, and new projects and initiatives shaping the EOSC ecosystem.
