Project Results

* Pending EC approval

Deliverable D1.14 Data Management Plan	Data Management Plan outlines how data will be handled during and after the project, describes what data will be collected, processed or generated and following what methodology and standards, how these data will be shared and/or made open, and how they will be curated and preserved.
Deliverable D2.1 Stakeholder map, inventory, policy matrix	The Stakeholder map, inventory and policy matrix is a landscaping study implemented by NI4OS-Europe, which provides insights on the existing Open Science initiatives, infrastructures, services, policies, stakeholders and topics in NI4OS-Europe partner countries. The description of the methodology, designing and implementation of the survey is accompanied with an initial mapping and a preliminary inventory of infrastructures and services and a policy matrix.
Deliverable D2.2 – National OSC initiatives models	National OSC initiatives models" - examines existing Open Science policies and models in Europe, describes the elements an Open Science Cloud model should include, and proposes workflows for setting up National Open Science Cloud Initiatives, whose aim is to become important contributors to the EOSC governance.
Deliverable D2.3 Intermediate report on liaison activities	Intermediate report on liaison activities represents the report of the NI4OS-Europe liaison activities in the first 18 months of the project (September 2019 – February 2021).
Deliverable D2.4 - Keholder map, inventory, policy matrix update	Stakeholder map, inventory, policy matrix update: Along with identifying changes in the landscape (new stakeholder clusters within NOSCIs; new inventories; new policies), the deliverable provides the details as captured in the second half of NI4OS-Europe, highlights the value of the sources of information created during the project and mechanisms to keep these sources updated.
Deliverable D2.5 - Business models recommendations	“Business models recommendations” provides a set of recommendations related to business modelling aspects, based on the state of the art in NI4OS-Europe countries and recommendations adapted from the leading pan-EU initiatives. This document covers procurement practices and business models stemming out of the EOSC Governance Board, related initiatives and EOSCpilot, EOSC-hub, INFRAEOSC-05b projects. It describes and analyses the NI4OS-Europe survey on national procurement practices, funding, costs for making data FAIR, and NOSCIs funding and sustainability. After summarizing the expected future work, the report integrates prior findings, NI4OS-Europe specifics and prospects, and gives general recommendations for the observed aspects, but also NOSCIs business models.
D2.7 - Final report on liaison activities	This document reports on the various liaison activities in the second phase of the NI4OS-Europe project with a focus on the liaison with EOSC Association, projects and communities. It also reports on liaison activities at national and international levels.
Deliverable D2.8 Collaboration Agreements	The Collaboration Agreement is signed by complimentary projects EOSC-Pillar, EOSC-synergy, EXPANDS, NI4OS-Europe, EOSC-Nordic, EOSCSecretariat.eu, and FAIRsFAIR. It will be a living document, evolving to meet the needs of the complementary projects and also those of EOSC overall.
Deliverable D3.1 Best practices for on-boarding and related policies	Best practices for on-boarding and related policies, outlines Rules of Participation as they evolve within the EOSC bodies that are defining them and describes best practices and procedures for on-boarding of the providers using the NI4OS-Europe on-boarding process. It specifically focuses on organizational and technical conditions for service providers to offer services through the EOSC portal.
Deliverable D3.2 First report on pre-production environment	First report on pre-production environment - defines components (services and tools) of the project's pre-production environment, describes their purpose, and reports the current development status of the pre-production environment.
Deliverable D3.3 Recommendations for HPC centres on-boarding	This deliverable deals with the analysis of requirements and with the initial design of potential on-boarding approaches for HPC centres to EOSC, taking into account developments within EDI (European Data Infrastructure) and avoiding any potential duplications or misalignments. Operational and technical requirements and recommendations for the HPC centres are suggested, enabling the HPC centres to measure their EOSC readiness.
Deliverable D.3.4 NI4OS-Europe Best practices for on-boarding and related policies 2nd version	The deliverable is a follow-up on the changes in the EOSC on-boarding best practices and policies, as well as the lessons learnt from the first set of on-boarded resources through the NI4OS-Europe project. It builds on the first version of the deliverable (D3.1), highlighting the changes and updates in the originally proposed on-boarding procedure. Additionally, new recommendations regarding the policies that accompany the on-boarded resources are addressed.
Deliverable D4.1 Incentives for supporting ORDM and FAIR	This deliverable describes the incentives and rewards that can be employed to improve the uptake of ORDM and FAIR in general, as well as their integration in EOSC through country-tailored systems of rewards and incentives. Some of them are or will be employed within the NI4OS-Europe activities in the fifteen partner countries. The project landscaping survey and narrative reports from four partner countries show different stages of national and institutional OS implementation. Based on the current state in partner countries, and numerous reports, guidelines and documents, a set of incentives and reward mechanisms are proposed that can be used by different stakeholders at different levels of OS implementation.
Deliverable D4.2 Data repository integration and ORDM/FAIR compliance guidelines	This document delivers the results of the analysis of guidelines for open science – more specifically, a description of the approach to ORDM and FAIR for 15 NI4OS-Europe partner countries, by observing the relevant existing guidelines on data repository integration, ORDM and FAIR on the global level. The applied methodology for selection, adoption and promotion of relevant guidelines is also described.
Deliverable D4.3 Mapping of legal,technical and procedural tools	The purpose of this deliverable is to analyze and categorize contemporary existing tools supporting FAIR and ORDM, and thereby provide a scanning of the landscape. This will help to identify potential gaps in the literature and current best practices applied, either on the strategic, operational or technical level and to create a tools catalogue for NI4OS-Europe stakeholders to consult from. Ultimately, a major aim of this work is determined to support the production of tools that move away from duplicating efforts in areas that have already been extensively explored and/or have triggered the creation of a plethora of equivalent products.
D4.4 - Delivery of data management and certification tools	This document is accompanying to the deliverable D4.4, which delivers the NI4OS-Europe Dataset License Clearance Tool.
D4.5 - Delivery of legal, technical and procedural tools	This document is accompanying to the deliverable D4.5, which delivers the NI4OS-Europe legal and procedural tools.
D4.6 - Second set of data management and certification tools	This document is accompanying the deliverable D4.6, which delivers the NI4OS-Europe License Clearance Tool.
D4.7 - Second set of legal, technical and procedural tools	This document is accompanying the deliverable D4.7, which delivers the NI4OS-Europe RoLECT and RePol tools.
D4.8 - Final report on WP4 tools	This document provides the final update on the tools developed by NI4OS-Europe: LCT, RoLECT and RePol. These developments were originally reported in Deliverables D4.4 and D4.5, and updated in D4.6 and D4.7. It also includes information on related and supporting activities carried out by WP4: the work on the brochure “Incentives and rewards for supporting ORDM and FAIR”; hybrid hands-on workshop on open source, software tools and service management; and the related report with recommendations on FOSS in open science.
Deliverable D5.1 Provider landscape analysis and provider categorization	Provider landscape analysis and provider categorization – presents the collection of detailed information about resource providers – generic computing services, generic data storage services and generic data management services, thematic (discipline-specific) services, and repositories (publication repositories, datasets repositories, software repositories). The information collected contains technical, operational and support information about the candidate services.
Deliverable 5.2 First report on provider and repository integration	First report on provider and repository integration - presents the current resource and provider on-boarding status. The deliverable gives details on the on-boarding procedure and reports fully and partially integrated repositories, thematic and generic services, as well as services from the pre-production environment.
Deliverable D5.3 Update of the service catalogue	The deliverable presents updates of the service catalogue, and in this way, reflects the current progress of the on-boarding activities. Three different stakeholder groups perform the updates, and they are presented in the same way in the document: updates based on WP6 scientific communities' feedbacks, resource providers content editing, and catalogue team development updates.
Deliverable D6.1 EOSC service and FAIR uptake strategy	“EOSC service and FAIR uptake strategy” provides the detailed description of the plan and all related actions in order to strengthen the uptake of the European Open Science Cloud and the FAIR principles in the region.
Deliverable D6.2 Training plan	NI4OS-Europe training plan outlines the plan of training events and training modules to be developed during the project, which is based on the survey of the training needs and requirements in the region. The plan also describes the project policies for training events organization including evaluation of events, cooperation with other projects concerning training activities, the training calendar, and training platform that will be used for the training purposes.
Deliverable D6.3 User Communities’ test-cases	The deliverable provides a detailed description of cross-border test-cases including research groups involved and their mapping to generic, thematic and repository services which will be tested. It describes cross-border use cases for the target scientific areas of Life Science, Climate Science and Digital Cultural Heritage as well as for the area of Computational Physics.
Deliverable D6.4 Service evaluation by user communities	The deliverable deals with the execution of demonstrators by the user communities and specifically the evaluation of the first set of onboarded services by the user communities. Thematic services belonging to the Life Science, Climate Science, Digital Cultural Heritage, as well as Computational Physics communities, together with generic and repository services were used as use cases by researchers from all user communities. These cross-border use cases were described and reported in Deliverable 6.3. The researchers provided brief reports detailing their experience using these services, with an emphasis on the ease of access and usage. The status of generic, thematic, and repository services which are or will be on-boarded to NI4OS-Europe are also discussed in this report.
Deliverable D6.5 Open call specification	Open Call Specification is a report on the implementation of the pan-European open call of NI4OS-Europe project, the process and the objectives of the call, and the available on-boarded EOSC services offered through the call.
Deliverable D6.6 - Training report	Training report – provides a summary report of the training activities in the project including national and project-wide training events, development and maintenance of the training platform and catalogue, development of asynchronous training materials, as well as gathering and analysing trainees’ feedback. The report also provides information on liaison activities with other projects and workings groups regarding training as well as common description and publication of training materials.
D6.7 - EOSC service and FAIR uptake strategy	This document is a detailed report of all actions taken to ensure the promotion of EOSC and FAIR uptake in the user communities.
D6.8 - Report on the open call	This document reports on the open call implementation, the allocated resources distribution, and the outcomes of the accepted projects.
Deliverable D7.1 Internal and external communication platform	NI4OS-Europe communication platform serves the project internal and external communications. The system consists of the NI4OS-Europe website, the files repository, the agenda tool, the mailing lists, the training portal, the info-share platform and the social media accounts. While it ensures the smooth communication among partners for the optimal implementation of the project, the infrastructure also constitutes a highly effective dissemination mechanism.
Deliverable D7.2 Marketing, dissemination and sustainability plan	Marketing, dissemination and sustainability plan presents a comprehensive plan on how to implement a wide-ranging marketing, communication and exploitation strategy aiming at the promotion of the project and its services to all relevant stakeholders. It includes plans and guidelines on how to foster and exploit innovations and to achieve sustainability, based on the overall project strategy and objectives, as well as the expected project results.
Deliverable D7.3 Promotional Package	NI4OS-Europe brand identity and dissemination material is used to effectively support the project strategic marketing and communication activities. A series of promotional elements, namely the project brochure, posters, presentation, roll up and web banners, are built on a common graphic style and, together with the project communication platform, form the backbone of the project community outreach and public visibility.
Deliverable D7.4 1st Dissemination and marketing report	This deliverable provides an overview of the dissemination, communication and marketing activities, as well as project innovations and sustainability results during the first 18 months of the project.
Deliverable D7.5 Promotional package with updates	Promotional package with updates presents the full package of the project branding and dissemination material that constitutes a powerful tool of the NI4OS-Europe marketing and communication strategy.
D7.7 - NI4OS-Europe Sustainability Report	This document describes NI4OS-Europe activities and outcomes produced between 1 September 2019 and 28 February 2023, highlighting the contribution NI4OS-Europe made to the EOSC governance to achieve the vision of EOSC, to implementation of collaborative research standards in Europe. The sustainability of project outcomes is described based on a three-pillar approach: EOSC-level key exploitable results, national or local-level key outputs and others.
NI4OS-Europe Governance structure model	NI4OS-Europe Governance structure model is an extra document, in order to provide a dedicated publicly available output where the governance model of the project is given as a best-case example for the community.
NI4OS-Europe Second report on provider and repository integration and horizontal service delivery	Second report on provider and repository integration and horizontal service delivery" presents the resource and provider on-boarding status. The deliverable gives details on the updated on-boarding procedure and presents integrated repositories, thematic and generic services, as well as services from the pre-production environment and relevant statistics.