Romania

NOSCI Information

• Name: Romanian Open Science Cloud Initiative (RO-NOSCI)
• Description: At the European level, EOSC provides the main support for building the Open Science ecosystem in a predictable, consensual, and integrated manner. Institutions and researchers have the possibility to access a shared pool of infrastructure services, data sets, and thematic services which makes it possible to compensate existing gaps and to identify opportunities for transnational and cross-domain scientific collaboration. RO-NOSCI was established to connect the national stakeholders for their participation into the EOSC Ecosystem and for the coordination of the activities at national level that enable interconnection with the EOSC at technical, policy and governance levels.
• The main objectives of the initiative are:
  • • To contribute to the identification and capitalization of technical modalities and means dedicated to the establishment and administration of a national OSC specific infrastructure of resources and services compatible with EOSC, for the benefit of the research and innovation community
    • To create synergy at national level between organizations demonstrating interest and playing an active role in the EOSC area, to optimize and coordinate national activities dedicated to share and integrate national infrastructures and services in the EOSC
    • To provide support to the academic and research community in defining and implementing “Open Science” and “Open Science Cloud” policies aligned with relevant European recommendations and policies, and capacity building.
• Website: https://uefiscdi.gov.ro/ro-nosci
• Date of establishment: 17/06/2021
• Set-up workflow: Hybrid
• Governance structure: The RO-NOSCI is a consortium coordinated by 3 organizations (ICIBucharest, IFIN-HH, UEFISCDI), each one being in charge with one objective. The RO-NOSCI governance structure includes: the General Assembly and the Executive Committee. The General Assembly is composed of one delegate per Member with voting rights and one delegate per Observer without voting rights. The Executive Committee is composed of representatives from 3 RO-NOSCI co-ordinating organizations and has the mandate to implement the General Assembly decisions and to coordinate current activities at the RO-NOSCI level. The governance structure is regulated by MoU.
• Members:
  • • RO-NOSCI currently includes 20 members and 1 observer.
    • 11 universities from 7 large university centers: Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Constanta, Craiova, Brasov and Galati
    • 7 research organizations, including 6 national R&D institutes (in Informatics, Nuclear Physics, Marine Geology and Geo-ecology, Earth Physics, Chemical-Pharmaceutical, Industrial Ecology) and the Institute for Space Science;
    • One RDI funding organization–UEFISCDI
    • Romanian Digitalization Authority
    • One emergency clinical hospital.

An updated list of involved organisations may be found here as well as the application to join the RO-NOSCI. The application process is still open.

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• NI4OS-Europe contact point: UEFISCDI and ICI Bucharest are co-initiators and coordinators of RO-NOSCI.