WP1 Project management and coordination
- Overall project administration, finance and project management including definition and coordination of the quality and risk management.
- Monitoring of resource and financial expenditures, contractual obligations and reporting.
- High-level supervision of work packages, internal review of deliverables and plans, monitoring of risk analysis, contingency plans, procedures, KPIs and metrics
WP leader: EGI.eu
T1.1 Administration and Finance
T1.2 Project and Activity Coordination
T1.3 Risk and Quality Management, Service Management System and Continual Improvement
WP2 Strategy and Business Development
- Define and manage the overall project strategy, in collaboration with relevant boards.
- Support evolution of services by managing the service roadmap, service portfolio and service catalogue, in collaboration with the Technology Committee.
- Define a sustainability plan for organising and sustaining the provision of data & compute resources to European Researchers in the context of the European Open Science Cloud.
- Formulate policies to facilitate the sharing and safe processing of both open and “restricted” data from across European research infrastructures and promote current models of good practice on the management of restricted data from around the EOSC-hub consortium.
- Ensure ongoing liaison with other strategic initiatives (RDA, EOSCpilot, e-Infra-12 (b), ESFRI Funder Forum) in view of aligning strategic activities and exploiting synergies.
WP leader: CSC
T2.2 Service roadmap, service portfolio and service catalogue
T2.3 Governance and Sustainability
WP3 Innovation Management, Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
- Develop & implement a stakeholder-oriented dissemination & engagement strategy;
- Develop & implement the project's communications plan to support dissemination & engagement
- Ensure that project results are captured, disseminated and exploited
- Organise and roll-out a series of EOSC-hub events for all key stakeholders
Make sure that a joint communication plan is created and executed with OpenAIRE-Advance
WP leader: Trust-IT
T3.1 Innovation Management: Dissemination, IPR and Exploitation
T3.2 Stakeholder Engagement Programme: EOSC-hub Community
T3.5 Branding & web-based support tools
WP4 Federated Service Management
- Implement ITSM best practices across the federation, and plan for the continuous improvement of the operational architecture
- Coordinate the federated operations of the service providers in the project, by defining the policies and procedures, and their implementation, to ensure quality of service and security
- Support new service providers joining the federation and enable new users to access the services in the catalogue, and ensure the quality of the services provided to the existing users
- Collect usage statistics for the benefit of the users and the service providers
- WP4 will also collaborate with other initiatives, for example GÉANT, to exchange best practices and knowledge and mutually improve operational processes.
WP leader: EGI.eu
T4.1 Operations Coordination and Supplier Relationship Management
T4.2 Order and Customer Relations Management
T4.3 Service Availability, Continuity and Capacity Management
T4.4 Information Security Management
T4.5 Incident and Service Request Management, Problem Management
T4.6 Configuration Management, Change Management, Release and Deployment Management
WP5 Federation and Collaboration Services: Integration and Maintenance
- Maintain the high-quality of the federation and collaboration services and tools according to a maintenance plan, and ensure that they evolve according to the developing requirements. Includes software maintenance (e.g. bug fixes) and perfective maintenance to improve their performance and maintainability.
- Integrate the federation and collaboration services and tools according to an integration plan and support the integration with common and thematic services.
- Identify requirements and opportunities for improvement.
- Analyse opportunities and requirements to consolidate the business and operational process harmonisation by further integrating the federation and collaboration services of different conceptual frameworks.
- Support the evolution of the services and tools that enable national and regional IT services to join or interoperate with the pan-European EOSC-hub network.
WP leader: KIT
T5.1 Identification, Authentication, Authorisation and Attribute Management
T5.2 Marketplace and Order Management Tools
T5.3 Integrated Business and Operations Support Systems
T5.4 Monitoring, Accounting, Messaging, Security Tools
WP6 Common Services: Integration and Maintenance
- Maintain the high quality of the baseline and advanced common services from the evolving service catalogue according to a maintenance plan, ensure that these services are developing according to the requirements of users, thematic services and competence centres, and provide support and contribute to the documentation
- Integrate the storage, compute and data services from different infrastructures and ensure their discoverability, accessibility, interoperability, reusability and integrity
- Integrate the common services with federation and collaboration services as well as the integration with the thematic services and competence centres.
WP leader: MPCDF
T6.3 Processing and Orchestration
WP7 Thematic Services: Integration, maintenance and Exploitation
- Vertically integrate thematic services with common components
- Foster thematic services deployment and operation
- Enable users access to services
- Monitoring and accounting systems are part of this integration.
WP leader: CINECA
WP8 Competence Centres
- Running proofs of concept to test the feasibility of use cases, based on specific scientific and technical requirements defined by high impact research communities.
- Conducting pilots to define and test the architecture of solutions.
- Preparing the production environments to make platforms available to users beyond the CC.
- Defining business models to sustain the solutions within EOSC after the end of the project.
WP leader: EGI.eu
WP9 Joint Digital Innovation Hub
- Create partnerships with SMEs/industry, innovation clusters, accelerators and investors that stimulate innovation (new products, services).
- Facilitate access to e-Infrastructure resources to support prototyping, scaling-up, design, performance verification, testing, demonstration, development of pilot lines, validation for market replication, including bringing innovation to investment readiness and maturity for market take-up.
- Connect with regional and pan-European networks of Digital Innovation Hubs.
- Share best practices and competencies for knowledge transfer between the public and private sector.
- Develop long-term business relationships outside of/beyond the project.
- Provide feedback from the SMEs, industries on provided services and infrastructure (also through pilot activities).
- Offer business oriented coaching with the mission to accelerate market uptake and results in exploitation of the both the pilots and Competence Centres.
WP leader: EGI.eu
T9.3 Commercialisation Support
WP10 Technical Coordination
- Define the technical roadmap, with external and internal input from user and service providers’ requirements, existing and planned services, technologies, standards, frameworks.
- Contribute to external standardisation bodies and relevant initiatives.
- Define the criteria for inclusion of new services into the catalogue and assessing conformance.
- Identify solutions to community requirements and lead their integration into the service portfolio.
- Help the WP13 service operators/managers to understand technical solutions.
WP leader: INFN
T10.2 Service Catalogue Technical Evolution
WP11 Training and Services for Service operators, Reaserch and Higher Education
- Define and coordinate the annual training plans for supporting research activities (T11.1).
- Support the implementation of proper DMP for helping research communities to manage their research data efficiently (T11.2).
- Deliver of IT service management trainings to learn the fundamentals of IT service management processes and support the professional development of EOSC-hub services (T11.3).
- Define and deliver training contents about common and federated services for supporting scientific activities of TS, CCs and research communities (T11.4), and domain-specific training for data providers and data scientists (T11.5).
WP leader: EGI.eu
T11.1 Training programme and online services for training
T11.2 Data Management Planning
T11.3 Federated Service Management Training and Certification
T11.4 Training about common and federated services
T11.5 Domain-specific training to data providers and data scientists
WP12 Business Models and Procurement
- Develop the know-how and the prototype procurement and purchasing framework that interested organisations can use to acquire digital services from either publicly-funded infrastructures or commercial providers.
- Focus on the services integrated by the projects and consider external services emerging from the requirements analysis.
- Reduce the barriers, risks and administrative cost to purchase digital services for research and to provide key building blocks for the future European Open Science Cloud.
WP leader: EGI.eu
T12.2 Procurement and purchasing framework
WP13 Access Provisioning
- Manages the Virtual Access to services of the EOSC-hub catalogue
WP leader: EGI.eu
