EOSC-Nordic aims to facilitate the coordination of EOSC relevant initiatives within the Nordic and Baltic countries and exploit synergies to achieve greater harmonisation at policy and service provisioning across these countries, in compliance with EOSC agreed standards and practices. By doing so, the project seeks to establish the Nordic and Baltic countries as frontrunners in the take-up of the EOSC concept, principles and approach. EOSC-Nordic brings together a strong consortium of 24 partners including e-Infrastructure providers, research performing organisations and expert networks, with national mandates with regards to the provision of research services and open science policy, and wide experience of engaging with the research community and mobilising national governments, funding agencies, international bodies and global initiatives and high-level experts on EOSC strategic matters.

Facts

Project number: 857652
Call identifier: H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-3
Project start date: 1st September, 2019
Project periode: 3 years
Project budget: 5,992,225.00 EUR
Kick-off date: 1st September, 2019
Homepage: www.eosc-nordic.eu

Objectives

Objective 1: EOSC-Nordic aims to facilitate the alignment of the delivery of horizontal services by improving interoperability practices across the national initiatives. This is to establish a truly coherent environment where services can work and be combined together to enable seamless access to resources. This project addresses interoperability issues at the four levels identified by the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) (organisational, semantic, legal and technical) in order to facilitate the integration of the services with EOSC.

Objective 2: This will include identifying and engaging with prospective service providers and supporting their integration with the EOSC catalogue, service management framework and operational environment. Particular attention will be paid to services, which can be “opened up” to users beyond their initial, local customer base. By integrating services with EOSC core components, such as EOSC portal, federated AAI, marketplace, and helpdesk, our goal is also to simplify access to these services across the Nordics and beyond.

Objective 3: EOSC-Nordic will work in close collaboration with FAIRsFAIR and other relevant initiatives (such as GoFAIR) on data management to promote best practices and support the adoption of relevant certification schemas. We will also address the question of incentives and develop a set of recommendations for the uptake of FAIR practices across EOSC.

Objective 4: The project will demonstrate the potential of EOSC by piloting innovative solutions, designed to support cross border research collaboration, using the Nordic and Baltic countries as a testbed environment. We will focus on a series of demonstrators addressing different parts of the research and data life cycle: discovery and re-use, analysis and post-processing, data management (including sensitive data management), sharing and archiving. The solutions which will be tested and validated by research communities leverage existing services (from national e-infrastructures and/or research communities as well as core EOSC services and components provided by pan-European initiatives involved in EOSC) and are suitable by-design to spin-off on a cross-border environment such as EOSC.

Objective 5: EOSC-Nordic will consolidate and expand a distributed network of experts and service operators at local and national levels. A distributed team will be created involving experts within and from outside the consortium to deliver training and technical support to new service providers and communities willing to engage with EOSC, during and after the project lifetime.

People

Project Office

Gudmund Høst (Coordinator)
Lene Krøl Anderssen (Project Leader)
Jens Begtrup (Project Officer)
Tiina Timonen (Financal Coordinator)

Project Management Board

Lene Krøl Andersen, DeiC (PM & WP1 Lead)
Jens Begtrup, NordForsk (Project Officer)
Tiina Timonen, CSC (Financial Officer)
Damien Lecarpentier, CSC (IL)
Maijastiina Arvola, CSC (WP2 Lead)
Ilja Livenson, ETAIS (WP3 Lead)
Andreas Jaunsen, NORDFORSK (WP4 Lead)
Adil Hasan, Sigma2 (WP5 Lead)
Maria Francesca Iozzi, Sigma2 (WP5 Deputy Lead)
Minna Lappalainen, CSC (WP6 Lead)
Jonna Helenius, CSC (WP6 Deputy Lead)
Mathias Brannvall, SNIC (observer)
Tomasz Malkiewicz, NeIC (observer)

WP leaders

WP1: Lene Krøl Andersen
WP2: Maijastiina Arvola
WP3: Ilja Livenson
WP4: Andreas Jaunsen
WP5: Adil Hasan
WP6: Minna Lappalainen

International Liaison

Damien Lecarpentier

General Assembly

NordForsk: Gudmund Høst (Chair) - NeIC Director. Deputy: Mikael Heimonen
DeiC and Computerome (DTU): Steen Pedersen - DeiC CEO & DTU CIO. Deputy: Martin Bech
CSC: Pekka Lehtovuori - Director, Computing Services for Research. Deputy: Per Öster
UNINETT SIGMA2: Hans A. Eide - Special Adviser. Deputy: Gunnar Bøe
SNIC (University of Uppsala): Per-Olov Hammargren - Coordinator. Deputy: Ann-Charlotte Sonnhammer
ETAIS (University of Tartu): Ivar Koppel - Head of HPC
University of Iceland: Ebba Thora Hvannberg - Professor. Deputy: Helmut Neukirchen
University of Vilnius: Linas Bukauskas - Associate professor. Deputy: Eduardas Kutka
Riga Technical University: Lauris Cikovskis - Head of HPC centre
SDU: Claudio Pica - CEO National HPC center. Deputy: Fabrizio Montesi
NORDUnet: Lars Fischer - Strategy & Policy Offier. Deputy: Josva Kleist
SUNET (Vetenskapsrådet): Valter Nordh - CTO
University of Helsinki: Jörg Tiedemann
KBFI: Andi Hektor - Contact of the project
Tampereen Yliopisto (FSD): Mari Kleemola - Development Manager, Deputy Director. Deputy: Helena Laaksonen
University of Gothenburg (SND and GGBC): Matthias Obst - Associate professor
Norsk senter for forskningsdata (NSD): - Director. Deputy: Katrine Utaaker Segadal
Rigsarkivet: Anne Sofie Fink - Head of Section
Ilmatieteen Laitos: Sanna Sorvari Sundet. Deputy: Anca Hienola
ITA- Suomen Ylipisto (UEF): Jarmo Saarti - Library Director
Go Fair Foundation: Drs. Bert Meerman
DKRZ: Hannes Thiemann - Deputy Department Head
University of Copenhagen: Søren Brunak - Research director, professor. Deputy: Piotr Jaroslaw Chmura
Region Hovedstaden (RH): Henning Bundgaard - Professor, consultant. Deputy: Alex Hørby Christensen

Executive board

Gudmund Høst, NeIC/NordForsk
Pekka Lehtovuori, CSC
Hans Karlson, SNIC
Hans A. Eide, UNINETT SIGMA2
Steen Pedersen, DeiC/DTU
Ivar Koppel, ETAIS
Vigdis Namtvedt Kvalheim, NSD

International Advisory Committee

Francoise Genova (France)
Andrew Treloar (Australia)
Ingrid Dillo (Netherlands)
Wilco Hazeleger (Netherlands)
Ana Proykova (Bulgaria)
Christine Kirkpatrick (USA)
Daniel Mallmann (Germany)

List of Deliverables

#	Deliverable Title	Lead beneficiary	First Draft (ToC)	Ready For Review	Due Date	Dissemination level	First Author	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Status
Work package 1
D1.1	EOSC-Nordic Quality Plan and Risk Register	NordForsk	31.10.2019	14.11.2019	30.11.2019	CO	Jens Begtrup, Lene Krøl Andersen	Gudmund Høst	Mathias Brännvall	At EC for approval
D1.2	Data Management Plan	NordForsk	31.01.2020	14.02.2020	29.02.2020	CO	Troels Rasmussen	Henrik K. R. Jakobsen	Trond Kvamme	At EC for approval
D1.3	Report on the interactions, synergies and cooperation with EOSC related initiatives and their outcome	NordForsk	31.07.2022	14.08.2022	31.08.2022	PU
D1.4	Collaboration Agreement(s) between the INFRAEOSC 5 granted projecs	NordForsk	30.11.2019	14.12.2019	31.12.2019	CO	Gudmund Høst, Damien Lecarpentier, Lene Krøl Andersen	Annu Rosenqvist	Vigdis Kvalheim	At EC for approval
Work package 2
D2.1	Open science policies and resource provisioning in the Nordic and Baltic countries (first report)	SNIC (University of Uppsala)	31.01.2020	14.02.2020	29.02.2020	PU	Per-Olov Hammargren, Päivi Rauste, Troels Rasmussen, Maijastiina Arvola	Marina Adomeit	Lars Fischer	At EC for approval
D2.2	Cross border collaboration models – the Nordic experience	NORDUnet	31.01.2021	14.02.2021	28.02.2021	PU
D2.3	Open Science in the Nordics: legal insights	University of Helsinki	31.07.2020	14.08.2020	31.08.2020	PU		Anca Heinola	Antti Pursula
D2.4	The EOSC delivery chain	NORDUnet	31.07.2020	14.08.2020	31.08.2020	PU		Francesca Iozzi	Valter Nord
D2.5	Open Science policies and resource provisioning in the Nordic and Baltic countries (second report)	SNIC (University of Uppsala)	31.01.2021	14.02.2021	28.02.2021	PU
D2.6	Cross-border collaboration in the context of EOSC	NORDUNET	31.07.2021	14.08.2021	31.08.2021	PU
D2.7	Open Science in the Nordics: Recommendations on legal issues	University of Helsinki	31.07.2021	14.08.2021	31.08.2021	PU
D2.8	Open Science policies and resource provisioning in the Nordic and Baltic countries (final report)	SNIC (University of Uppsala)	31.01.2022	14.02.2022	28.02.2022	PU
D2.9	Sustaining the coordination of EOSC national initiatives at Nordic level	CSC	31.01.2022	14.02.2022	28.0.2022	PU
Work package 3
D3.1	EOSC Service compliance checklist and maturity model	SIGMA2	31.01.2020	14.02.2020	29.02.2020	PU	Dejan Vitlacil, Ilja Livenson, Leah Riungu-Kalliosaari, Ari Lukkarinen	Azab Abdulrahman	Thomas Röblitz	At EC for approval
D3.2	First report on mapping of EOSC prospective service providers and candidate services	SIGMA2	31.07.2020	14.08.2020	31.08.2020	PU	Valter Nordh, Marina Adomeit	Ivar Koppel	Lars Fischer
D3.3	Service interoperability framework	ETAIS (University of Tartu)	30.09.2020	14.10.2020	31.10.2020	PU
D3.4	Programmatic access and resource provisioning of services	ETAIS (University of Tartu)	31.01.2021	14.02.2021	28.02.2021	PU
D3.5	Second report on mapping of EOSC prospective service providers and candidate services	SIGMA2	31.07.2021	14.08.2021	31.08.2021	PU
D3.6	Feasibility assessment of the implementation of X-Road for research data	ETAIS (University of Tartu)	31.07.2021	14.08.2021	31.08.2021	PU
D3.7	Report on the implementation of XRoad in the Nordics and recommendations to EOSC	ETAIS (University of Tartu)	31.01.2022	14.02.2022	28.02.2022	PU
D3.8	Programmatic access and resource provisioning of Nordic services via EOSC Marketplace	ETAIS (University of Tartu)	31.07.2022	14.08.2022	31.08.2022	PU
D3.9	Final report on the integration of services into EOSC	SIGMA2	31.07.2022	14.08.2022	31.08.2022	PU
Work package 4
D4.1	Initial report on Nordic repositories and their FAIR practices	NordForsk	31.07.2020	14.08.2020	31.08.2020	PU	Andreas Jaunsen, Heikki Lehväslaiho, Pauli Assinen, Adil Hasan	Troels Rasmussen	Damien Lecarpentier
D4.2	Implementation plan for the adoption of data standards and certification schemas	NordForsk	30.11.2020	14.12.2020	31.12.2020	CO
D4.3	Report on Nordic repositories and their uptake of FAIR	NordForsk	31.01.2022	14.02.2022	28.02.2022	PU
D4.4	Report and recommendations on FAIR incentives and expected impacts in the Nordics, Baltics and EOSC	NordForsk	31.03.2022	14.04.2022	30.04.2022	PU
D4.5	Report on completed FAIR data standard adoption and certifications of data repositories in the region	NordForsk	31.07.2022	14.08.2022	31.08.2022	PU
Work package 5
D5.1	Discovery and re-use of Nordic community specific data in EOSC	DeiC and Computerome (DTU)	31.01.2021	14.02.2021	28.02.2021	PU
D5.2	Cross borders computing through portals	ETAIS (University of Tartu)	31.01.2021	14.02.2021	28.02.2021	PU
D5.3	Virtual Computing Laboratories	SIGMA2	31.07.2021	14.08.2021	31.08.2021	PU
D5.4	Integrated data management workflow	CSC	31.07.2021	14.08.2021	31.08.2021	PU
D5.5	Actionable Modular Data Management for brokering distributed resources	SIGMA2	31.07.2021	14.08.2021	31.08.2021	PU
D5.6	Cross borders orchestration of sensitive data infrastructure	SIGMA2	31.01.2022	14.02.2022	28.02.2022	CO
D5.7	Mapping of technical, repository-specific harvesting endpoints to jointly agreed domainspecific standards and coordination of semantic mapping procedures	DeiC and Computerome (DTU)	31.07.2022	14.08.2022	31.08.2022	PU
D5.8	Cross borders operations for a Nordic sensitive data distributed infrastructur	SNIC (University of Uppsala)	31.07.2022	14.08.2022	31.08.2022	CO
D5.9	Service deployment and cloud computing on distributed Nordic cloud resources	SIGMA2	31.07.2022	14.08.2022	31.08.2022	PU
Work package 6
D6.1	Stakeholder identification, engagement and communication strategy	CSC	31.01.2020	14.02.2020	29.02.2020	CO	Minna Lappalainen	Lene Krøl Anderssen	Johanna Törnroos	At EC for approval
D6.2	Knowledge Hub planning	DeiC and Computerome (DTU)	30.04.2020	14.05.2020	31.05.2020	CO	Birgitte Vedel Thage	Maria Francesca Iozzi	Ilja Livenson	At EC for approval
D6.3	Communication and outreach strategy report	CSC	31.01.2021	14.02.2021	28.02.2021	CO
D6.4	Knowledge Hub establishment	DeiC and Computerome (DTU)	31.07.2021	14.08.2021	31.08.2021	PU
D6.5	Final communications and outreach strategy report	CSC	31.07.2022	14.08.2022	31.08.2022	PU
Work package 7
D7.1	POPD - Requirement No. 1	NordForsk	30.11.2019	14.12.2019	31.12.2019	CO	Catherine Collin, Piotr Chmura	Søren Brunak	Lene Krøl Andersen	At EC for approval

List of Tasks

#	Task Title	Periode	Lead	Participants	Responsible
Work package 1
T1.1	Management	M1-36	NeIC (1PM)	DeiC (13PM), CSC (1PM)	Lene Krøl Andersen
T1.2	Quality Control and Risk Management	M1-36	NeIC (1PM)	DeiC (1PM)	Jens Begtrup
T1.3	Financial Management	M1-36	NeIC (1PM)	CSC (5PM), DeiC (1PM)	Heli Autere
T1.4	Internal Communication	M1-36	NeIC (4PM)	DeiC (1PM)	Jens Begtrup
T1.5	Governance Support	M1-36	NeIC (1PM)	CSC (4PM), DeiC (2PM)	Lene Krøl Andersen
T1.6	Interaction and Cooperation with EOSC related initiatives	M1-36	NeIC	CSC, DeiC	Lene Krøl Andersen
Work package 2
T2.0	Coordination of the work package activities	M1-36	CSC (4PM)		Maijastiina Arvola
T2.1	Open science policies in the Nordic and the Baltic countries	M1-30	SNIC (5PM)	CSC (2PM), UEF (2PM), SIGMA2 (3PM), NORDUnet (1PM), UT/ETAIS (3PM), DeiC (2PM), UICE (1PM), RTU (1PM), VU (1PM), FMI (2PM)	Per-Olov Hammargren
T2.1.1	Open science policies in the Nordic and the Baltic countries	M1-30		SNIC, UEF, SIGMA2, UT/ETAIS, DeiC, UICE, RTU, VU
T2.1.2	Resource provisioning & access policies	M1-30		SNIC, CSC, NORDUnet, SIGMA2, UT/ETAIS, DeiC, UICE, RTU, VU
T2.2	Opening up and delivering services in a cross border environment	M1-36	NORDUnet (4PM)	SNIC (5PM), CSC (4PM), SIGMA2 (2PM), UH (6PM), UT/ETAIS (4PM), DeiC (1PM), UICE (1PM), RTU (1PM), VU (1PM)	Lars Fischer
T2.2.1	Opening up and delivering services in a cross border environment	M1-36		NORDUnet, CSC, UT/ETAIS, SNIC
T2.2.2	Legal issues	M1-36		UH, SIGMA2, SNIC, UT/ETAIS, DeiC, UICE, RTU, VU
T2.2.3	Roles and responsibilities in the overall EOSC delivery chain	M1-36		NORDUnet, CSC, UT/ETAIS, SNIC
T2.3	Fostering a coordinated policy approach towards	M1-36	CSC (4PM)	NeIC (3PM), FMI (2PM), UEF (2PM), SIGMA2 (2PM), DeiC (1PM), SNIC (1PM), UT/ETAIS (1PM), UICE (1PM), RTU (1PM), VU (1PM)	Maijastiina Arvola
T2.3.1	Ensuring engagement and commitment from policy-makers	M1-36		FMI, UEF, SIGMA2, DeiC, SNIC, UT/ETAIS, UICE, RTU, VU, CSC
T2.3.2	Making the case for a Nordic-Baltic collaboration	M1-36		NeIC, CSC
T2.3.3	Sustaining the coordination of national initiatives	M1-36		NeIC, CSC
Work package 3
T3.0	Coordination of the work package activities	M1-36	UT/ETAIS (4PM)		Ilja Livenson
T3.1	Integrating service providers & services in EOSC	M1-36	SIGMA2 (12PM)	CSC (11PM), KTH/SNIC (7PM), LU/SNIC (1PM), UmU/SNIC (1PM) , UT/ETAIS (6PM), DeiC (6PM), UICE (4PM), RTU (1PM), KBFI/ETAIS (2PM), SUNET (4PM), VU (1PM), SDU (4PM)	Adil Hasan
T3.1.1	Identification & description of EOSC prospective service providers & candidate services	M1-24		SUNET, CSC, SNIC, SIGMA2, UT/ETAIS, DeiC, UICE, RTU, KBFI/ETAIS, VU, SDU	Valter Nordh
T3.1.2	EOSC service compliance checklist and capacity maturity model	M1-24		SNIC, CSC, SIGMA2, DeiC, KBFI/ ETAIS, SUNET	Dejan
T3.1.3	Support to the integration of mature services into EOSC portal	M6-18		DeiC, CSC, SNIC, SIGMA2, UT/ ETIAS, UICE, SUNET	Claudio Pica
T3.1.4	Support to aligning with EOSC service management & operational environment	M12-36		SIGMA2, CSC, SNIC, UT/ETAIS, UICE, SDU	Adil Hasan
T3.2	Improving service interoperability across EOSC	M1-36	UT/ETAIS (17PM)	CSC (6PM), KTH/SNIC (2PM), SIGMA2 (2PM), DeiC (2PM), UICE (1PM), KBFI/ETAIS (5PM), SUNET (1PM), SDU (2PM)	Ilja Livenson
T3.2.1	Organisational, semantic and technical interoperability of services	M1-12		CSC, SNIC	Leah Riungu-Kalliosaari
T3.2.2	Connecting services to EOSC through the interoperable approach	M1-36		UT/ETAIS, CSC, SNIC, SIGMA2, DeiC, UICE, KBFI/ETAIS, SUNET	Ilja Livenson
T3.2.3	Federating services and databases	M12-36		CSC, UT/ETAIS, SDU	Pekka Muhonen
Work package 4
T4.0	Coordination of the work package activities	M1-36	NeIC (4PM)		Andreas O Jaunsen
T4.1	State of FAIR practices in the Nordics	M1-36	NeIC (6PM)	CSC (3PM), UH (2PM), LU/ SNIC (2PM), SIGMA2 (2PM), DeiC (2PM), KBFI/ETAIS (2PM), UICE (2PM), RTU (2PM), GFF (4PM)	Andreas O Jaunsen
T4.1.1	Overview of Nordic data repositories and their functionalities	M1-36		NeIC, CSC, UH, SNIC, SIGMA2, DeiC, KBFI/ETAIS, UICE, RTU, GFF	Andreas O Jaunsen
T4.1.2	FAIR Gap Analysis	M1-36		NeIC, CSC, GFF	Heikki Lehväslaiho
T4.1.3	Boosting FAIR metric scores	M1-36		NeIC, UH, SNIC, SIGMA2, DeiC, KBFI/ETAIS, UICE, RTU, GFF	Andreas O Jaunsen
T4.2	Support to the adoption of standards and certification	M1-36	NeIC (7PM)	CSC (5PM), UTA/FSD (4PM), UH (2PM), UGOT/SND (4PM), NSD (3PM), DNA (4PM), GFF (3PM)	Andreas O Jaunsen
T4.2.1	Selection of data repositories for the advancement of FAIR data standards and certification	M6-18		NeIC, CSC, UGOT/SND, NSD, DNA	Birger Jerlehag
T4.2.2	Support for adoption of FAIR data standards	M12-36		NeIC, CSC, UTA/FSD, UH, UGOT/SND, NSD, DNA, GFF	Andreas O Jaunsen
T4.2.3	Support for adoption of FAIR certification schema	M12-36		UTA/FSD, NeIC, CSC, UGOT/SND, NSD, DNA, GFF	Mari Kleemola
T4.3	Incentives for the uptake of FAIR practices	M12-36	NeIC (7PM)	CSC (5PM), UH (4PM), LU/SNIC (5PM), DNA (3PM)	Monica Lassi
T4.3.1	Mapping of policy implemented incentives within the Nordic and Baltic members states	M12-36		CSC, NeIC, SNIC, DNA	Josefine Nordling
T4.3.2	Identifying effective incentives that increase uptake of FAIR practices	M12-36		NeIC, CSC, UH, SNIC, DNA	Henrik Jakobsen
T4.3.3	Dialog with stakeholders and policy makers	M12-36		NeIC, CSC, UH, SNIC	Bert Meerman
Work package 5
T5.0	Coordination of the work package activities	M1-36	SIGMA2 (6PM)		Francesca Iozzi
T5.1	Discovery and Re-use of research data in EOSC	M1-36	DeiC (6PM)	UICE (2PM), CSC (3PM), DKRZ (6PM)
T5.1.1	Discovery and re-use of Nordic community specific data in EOSC	M1-36	DeiC	UICE
T5.1.2	Semantic mapping procedures and quality standards	M1-36	DKRZ	DeiC, CSC
T5.2	Analysis and Post-processing across borders	M1-36	SIGMA2 (11PM)	CSC (6PM), UT/ ETAIS (12PM), SNIC (7PM), UICE (5PM), SDU (2PM), FMI (3PM), UIO-USIT/SIGMA2 (3PM), UGOT/GGBC (5PM), UIO-GEO/SIGMA2 (5PM), UIO-INF/SIGMA2 (7PM), UH (5PM), CGG/UCPH (3PM)
T5.2.1	Cross-border data processing workflows	M1-36	UT/ETAIS	UIO-USIT/SIGMA2, UICE, SNIC, UGOT/GGBC, FMI, SU/SNIC, UIO-GEO/SIGMA2
T5.2.2	Code Repositories, Containerization and “virtual laboratories”	M1-36	SIGMA2	UICE, CSC, UIO-GEO/SIGMA2, UIO-INF/SIGMA2, UH
T5.2.3	Platform as a Service for Scientific Cloud Computing and Cloud Native Execution mechanisms	M1-36	SIGMA2	SNIC, CSC, UGOT/GGBC, UT/ETAIS, UIO-INF/SIGMA2, UH, SDU
T5.3	Data management planning in a distributed environment	M1-36	SIGMA2 (13PM)	CSC (6PM), GFF (3PM), UICE (2PM), FMI (2PM), UIO-INF/SIGMA2 (5PM), SNIC (7PM), UH (3PM), UIO-GEO/ SIGMA2 (2PM), UGOT/SND (3PM)
T5.3.1	Integrated Data Management Workflows	M1-36	CSC	UIO-INF/SIGMA2, UH, SNIC, UICE, UIO-GEO/SIGMA2, FMI, SIGMA2
T5.3.2	Machine actionable DMPs	M1-36	SIGMA2	GFF, SNIC, UGOT/SND
T5.4	Sensitive Data	M1-36	SIGMA2 (2PM)	UIO-USIT/SIGMA2 (11PM), CSC (7PM), SNIC (11PM), Computerome (11PM), RH (5PM), UCPH (5PM)
T5.4.1	Cross borders orchestration of sensitive data clouds	M1-36	DeiC	SNIC, CSC, DeiC, UIO-USIT/SIGMA2, RH, UCPH
T5.4.2	AAI and operations procedure for a Nordic eHealth Cloud	M1-36	SIGMA2	SNIC, CSC, DeiC, UIO-USIT/SIGMA2
Work package 6
T6.0	Coordination of the work package activities	M1-36	CSC (4PM)		Minna Lappalainen
T6.1	Engagement and communication Strategy	M1-36	CSC (6PM)		Jonna Helenius
T6.2	Web portal, communication tools and branding	M1-36	CSC (7PM)		Jonna Helenius
T6.3	Communication and dissemination	M1-36	DeiC (9PM)	CSC (9PM), UT/ETAIS (6PM)	Cecilie Maagaard Winther
T6.3.1	Targeted Content Generation	M1-36	DeiC, CSC
T6.3.2	Digital Presence	M1-36	CSC, DeiC
T6.3.3	EOSC-Nordic & Third Party Events	M1-36	DeiC, CSC
T6.4	Knowledge Hub, Capacity Building and Trainings	M1-36	DeIC (8PM)	UmU/SNIC (6PM)	Troels Rasmussen
T6.4.1	Knowledge hub Coordination and Strategy	M1-36
T6.4.2	Knowledge hub content generation	M1-36
T6.4.3	Training events	M1-36

List of Milestones

Number	Milestone title	Lead beneficiary	Due Date (in months)	Completed
Work package 1
MS1	EOSC-Nordic Kick-off meeting	NordForsk	2	✔
MS2	Executive Board mtgs year 1 - Q1	NordForsk	3	✔
MS3	Executive Board mtgs year 1 - Q2	NordForsk	6	✔
MS4	Executive Board mtgs year 1 - Q3	NordForsk	9	✔
MS5	Executive Board mtgs year 1 - Q4	NordForsk	12
MS6	International Advisory Committee mtg - year 1	NordForsk	9	✔
MS7	International Advisory Committee mtg - year 2	NordForsk	21
MS8	International Advisory Committee mtg - year 3	NordForsk	30
MS9	General Assembly meetings - 1	NordForsk	12
MS10	General Assembly meetings - 2	NordForsk	24
MS11	Executive Board mtgs year 2 - Q1	NordForsk	15
MS12	Executive Board mtgs year 2 - Q2	NordForsk	18
MS13	Executive Board mtgs year 2 - Q3	NordForsk	21
MS14	Executive Board mtgs year 2 - Q4	NordForsk	24
MS15	Executive Board mtgs year 3 - Q1	NordForsk	27
MS16	Executive Board mtgs year 3 - Q2	NordForsk	30
MS17	Executive Board mtgs year 3 - Q3	NordForsk	33
MS18	Executive Board mtgs year 3 - Q4	NordForsk	36
Work package 2
MS19	First policy workshop	CSC	6	✔
MS20	Second policy workshop	CSC	18
MS21	Consensus on post-project sustainability plan	CSC	24
MS22	Third policy workshop	CSC	30
Work package 3
MS23	Support group for EOSC service integration has been established	ETAIS (University of Tartu)	4	✔
MS24	First services are published in EOSC portal	ETAIS (University of Tartu)	6	✔
MS25	Nordic service operability framework has been agreed	ETAIS (University of Tartu)	24
Work package 4
MS26	Community engagement workshop(s) completed	NordForsk	9	✔
MS27	Completion of initial interviews and commitments of participating repositories for T4.2	NordForsk	10
MS28	Assessment of initial FAIR metrics for each of the Nordic data repositories	NordForsk	10
MS29	First FAIRification hackathon completed	NordForsk	16
MS30	Completion of first FAIR certification of a repository	NordForsk	20
MS31	Completed first Metadata-4machines event	NordForsk	20
MS32	Completion of incentives study and draft report	NordForsk	28
MS33	Completion of first FAIR data standards adoption in a repository	NordForsk	30
MS34	Workshop for stakeholders for the evaluation of FAIR incentives	NordForsk	30
Work package 5
MS35	Activities related to enhance the discoverability of Nordic repositories has been initiate	SIGMA2	6	✔
MS36	Activities to enable cross border computing has been initiated	SIGMA2	12
Work package 6
MS37	EOSC-Nordic web portal initial version	CSC	2	✔
MS38	First EOSC-Nordic branding package available	CSC	3	✔
MS39	EOSC-Nordic project Launch Event	CSC	12
MS40	Knowledge Hub (TtT) event	CSC	24
MS41	EOSC-Nordic End-of-Project Event	CSC	36

List of Key Performance Indicators

Key Performance Indicator (KPI)	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3
KPI-1: # published services in EOSC Portal	5	15	30
KPI-2: # repositories assisted with the aim to boost their FAIRness by the use of hackathons (collaborative events or one-on-one)	2	8	20
KPI-3: # additional repositories with adopted data standards or certification schema	N/A	2	5
KPI-4: # repositories harvested by EOSC (e.g. B2find)	3	7	12
KPI-5: # organisations/stakeholders (service providers, universities, research councils, etc.) reached out / consulted by the project studies & activities	30	60	90
KPI-6: # stakeholders from different countries actively participating in the policy workshops (measured as number of individuals)	20	40	60
KPI-7: # trained providers / communities (hackathons, workshops, one to one trainings)	20	40	60
KPI-8: # requests handled by the Knowledge Hub	20	45	70
KPI-9: # computing facilities accessible through community specific portals	2	6	7
KPI-10: # artificial intelligence based projects enabled on distributed cloud resources	N/A	2	8
KPI-11: # institutional/community-specific/funding body-specific DMP templates integrated in the DMP tools	2	6	12

KPIs for communication

Stakeholder interactions and effectiveness of the communication strategy can be reviewed by number of involved or interested stakeholders, project activities and materials, participants in the activities, visitors in website and social media followers. The initial set of indicative KPIs are set below and the criteria will be detailed during the execution of the project according to opportunities of maximizing value and impact vs efforts. Usage of marketing software will allow to monitor the real-time effectiveness of the targeted newsletters and social media activities.

Action	Key Performance Indicator (KPI)	Measure
A profiled database of contacts	Number of contacts	2,000 by end of year one and over 4,000 contacts by the project end
Content in the web portal	Number of published news, articles, blog posts, interviews, reports, videos, success stories, webinars, information sheets etc	At least 3 / month
Marketing materials	* Number of targeted newsletters * The amount of the newsletter orders	* 10 years newsletters * At least 500 / year * Other metrics: click through rates
Project website	* Total Site Visits The goal is converting anonymous visitors to registered visitors	* At least 1000 visits per month * Other metrics followed: interactions per visit, new visitors, referrals, country, organic keywords, source: direct visitors or organic/search traffic
Social Media Channels	* Number of followers * Number of tweets	* >700 outside of the project * At least 500 tweets per year (unique and retweeted)
Support publications	* Number of leaflets/fliers/brochures * Number of posters	* 15 for the lifetime of the project * 10 for the lifetime of the project
Engagement with stakeholders	* Number of stakeholders involved * Number of external events participated	* Over 500 end-users in the science demonstrators and other events by the project end * 200 participants in each EOSC-Nordic stakeholder engagement event * At least 15 for the lifetime of the project

Minutes

General Assembly

1. Meeting. Espoo, Finland. 2. September, 2019

Executive Board

International Advisory Committee

1. Meeting International Advisory Committee. 6. May, 2020

EOSC-Nordic representations

Event	Date	Participants
FAIRsFAIR kickoff, Amsterdam	14. March, 2019	Lene Krøl Anderssen (DeiC)
EOSC-Hub week, Prague	9-11. April, 2019	Damien Lecarpentier (CSC), Gudmund Høst (NeIC), Francesca Iozzi (Sigma2)
NeIC2019, Copenhagen	14-16. May, 2019	Lene Krøl Andersen (DeiC), Francesca Iozzi (Sigma2), Ilja Livenson (ETAIS), Anders Conrad (DeiC)
GBIF, Oslo	23. May, 2019	Andreas Jaunsen (Nordforsk)
TNC2019, Tallinn	16-20. June, 2019	Ilja Livenson (ETAIS), Damien Lecarpentier (CSC)
EOSC-Nordic kickoff, Espoo	2-3. September, 2019	All
SNIC all-hands, Stockholm	6. September, 2019	Lene Krøl Anderssen (DeiC)
Building EOSC through the H2020 projects, Brussels	9-10. September, 2019	Lene Krøl Anderssen (DeiC), Damien Lecarpentier (CSC)
Open Science FAIR, Porto	16-18. September, 2019	Lene Krøl Anderssen (DeiC)
Tryggve all hands meeting, Espoo	8-9. October, 2019	Saara Kontro (CSC)
European Open Science Coordinators' meeting, Helsinki	21. October, 2019	Saara Kontro (CSC)
The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC, Helsinki	22. October, 2019	Lene Krøl Anderssen (DeiC), Jens Begtrup (NordForsk), Saara Kontro (CSC), Damien Lecarpentier (CSC), Francesca Iozzi (Sigma2), Ilja Livenson (ETAIS)
DeiC Conference, Fredericia	30-31. October, 2019	Lene Krøl Anderssen (DeiC), Ilja Livenson (ETAIS)
European infrastructures in data management and scientific computing: Finland’s point of view. EOSC-Nordic presentation, Helsinki	6. November, 2019	Saara Kontro (CSC), Gudmund Høst (NeIC)
EOSC Symposium, Budapest	26-27. November, 2019	Lene Krøl Anderssen (DeiC), Saara Kontro (CSC), Jens Begtrup (NordForsk)
e-IRG workshop, Helsinki	4. December, 2019	Saara Kontro (CSC), Maijastiina Arvola (CSC), Gudmund Høst (NeIC)
Open Science Event w/ OpenAIRE, Copenhagen	6 February, 2020	Gudmund Høst (NeIC), Maijastiina Arvola (CSC),Troels Rasmussen (DeiC), Lars Fisher (NORDUnet)
EOSC-Nordic Workshop: FAIRification of Nordic and Baltic repositories	22 April, 2020	Andreas Jaunsen (NordForsk)
EOSC Landscape Validation workshop	27-28 April, 2020	Lene Krøl Anderssen (DeiC), Maijastiina Arvola (CSC), Per-Olov Hammargren (SNIC), Troels Rasmussen (DeiC), Lars Fisher (NORDUnet)
WP4 taking part in FAIRsFAIR Synchronisation workshop breakouts	6-14 May, 2020	Andreas Jaunsen (NordForsk), Mari Kleemola (Tampereen Yliopisto), Monica Lassi (Lund University)
EOSC-Hub week - 1. EOSC-Nordic position paper (Minna) - 2. Tuesday May 19; 14-15:30 CEST: Issues in Cross-Border Consumption of Resources in EOSC (Ilja) - 3. Wednescay, May 20; 10-11:30 CEST: National Policy Developments Supporting EOSC Implementation (Maijastiina)	18-20 May, 2020	Ilja Livenson (ETAIS), Maijastiina Arvola (CSC), Minna Lappalainen (CSC)
Bioinformatics Community Conference 2020	19-22 July, 2020	Anne Claire Fouilloux (UiO)
Closed mtg hosted by: OECD Directorate for Science, Technology & Innovation, Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy. Mtg Topic: Revision of the OECD Recommendation of the Council concerning Access to Research Data from Public Funding		Francesca Iozzi (Sigma2)

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