Stichting EGI

EU Legislative Interests

EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA and OPEN SCIENCE - Applying equity in open science - Facilitating and accelerating the responsible use of AI in science in the EU - Accelerating R&I investments for Europe's transformation and competitive sustainability - Enhancing research security - Enabling open science via sharing and re-use of data, including through EOSC - Strengthening sustainability, accessibility and resilience of research infrastructures in the ERA - Upscaling knowledge valorisation capacities and activities - Implementing the Global Approach to R&I NEXT GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRIAL DATA, EDGE and CLOUD The EGI Federation is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructures for data-intensive research collaborations. It federates hundreds of major research data centres in Europe and worldwide, making advanced computing services, capacity and research data accessible in a federated manner to members of international scientific collaborations. EGI expands the federation of its facilities with other non-European digital infrastructures in North America, South America, Africa-Arabia and the Asia-Pacific region, as such EGI fully realises the “Open to the World” vision. In order to interoperate at international level, EGI and its partners operate in the context of a lightweight collaboration framework defining rules of participations via a corpus of policies and technical guidelines.

Communication Activities

In 2014, we launched a vision for an Open Science Commons (OSC) as an approach for sharing and governing advanced digital services, scientific instruments, data, knowledge and expertise that enables researchers to collaborate more easily and be more productive. Within the OSC, researchers from all disciplines would have easy, integrated and open access to the advanced digital services, scientific instruments, data, knowledge and expertise they need to collaborate and achieve excellence in science, research and innovation. The Open Science Commons builds on the understanding that managing shared resources as a Commons maximises benefits for society. Applying this principle to the Open Science process is expected to improve stewardship from funding agencies in collaboration with stakeholders. It will also create clear and non-discriminatory access rules together with the sense of shared ownership stimulates a higher level of participation, cooperation and social reciprocity. The Open Science Commons relies on four pillars, representing a wide range of groups, providers and community types: - Data. The data that is the subject matter for research. It should be dealt with according to the principles of open access and open science, while maintaining trust and privacy for researchers. - e-Infrastructures. The technology and technical services supporting researchers, building towards integrated services and interoperable infrastructures across Europe and the world. - Scientific instruments. The equipment and collaborations which generate scientific data, from small-scale lab machines to global collaborations around massive facilities. - Knowledge. The human networks, understanding and material capturing skills and experience required to carry out open science using the three other pillars. As part of our activities in support to Open Science, we participate in the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud initiative enabling access and reuse of data and to related events and communications activities.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

Big Data Value Association: BDVA - http://www.bdva.eu/ European Open Science Cloud: EOSC - https://eosc.eu/ GAIA-X - https://gaia-x.eu/ ORCID https://orcid.org/ RDA https://www.rd-alliance.org

Organisation Members

https://www.egi.eu/egi-federation/

Additional Information

EGI Foundation is a Stichting according to Dutch law and receives financial contributions from its members. EGI Foundation participates in the Horizon Europe and Digital Europe programmes and receives grant funding from the EC for the participated projects.