Expanding and deepening the EOSC Federation (EOSC Partnership)
Research Infrastructures 2027 · HORIZON-COFUND · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds a large coordinating project to expand the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation, a shared system letting researchers across Europe access data storage, computing, software and collaboration tools. The winning project will run joint calls to give grants to other organisations that provide these digital services, help set up shared management and accounting systems, and build sustainable business models so the services continue after the project ends.
cloud edge computing · data analytics · research excellence · software platforms · cybersecurity · regional development
Who wins this
A large consortium of research infrastructures, digital infrastructure providers, and EOSC-related organisations experienced in managing cascading grants and federated digital services across multiple European countries.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €40M
- Funding model
- Budget-based — reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Programme Cofund Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium — a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Eligible applicants
- research organisation, public body, digital infrastructure provider
- Funding rate
- 50% (third-party financial support)
- Support to third parties
- Grants to third parties up to a maximum of EUR 2.00 million per third party; at least 20% of total third-party financial support must be open without additional geographic restrictions.
- Also required
- Beneficiaries must grant royalty-free access to results and IP to the EOSC Association and to entities in Member States/associated countries for non-commercial EOSC development purposes; only one grant expected with a total budget of EUR 40 million.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, IL, TR, UA, RS, MK, ME, AL, BA, XK, GE, AM, MD, TN, NZ
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible Countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligible Conditions Subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks. described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes The following additions to the general award criteria apply: For the ‘Impact’ criterion, the following aspects will also be taken into account: The extent to which the proposed work incorporates the necessary coordination efforts and resources with other relevant projects and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) governance structure in the context of the EOSC Partnership. are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. Financial support provided by the participants to third parties is the primary activity of the action in order to be able to achieve its objectives. Given the type of action and its level of ambition, as well as that access to certain types of digital services can be costly and that activities other than access will also be supported, the maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 2.00 million. The funding rate is 50% of the eligible costs. This is justified as the provision of digital services to users of the EOSC Federation and the broadening and integration of research communities in the EOSC Federation are activities with strong European added value that are typically not supported by national funding bodies. At least 20% of the total financial support to third parties must be open to entities eligible for funding as described in the General Annex B, therefore it must not have any additional geographic restrictions for eligibility for funding. Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional access rights: Each beneficiary must grant royalty-free access to its results to the EOSC Association for monitoring and developing policies and strategies for the European Open Science Cloud. Each beneficiary must also provide directly to the EOSC Association the information the beneficiary deems necessary for monitoring and developing policies and strategies for the EOSC. Each beneficiary must grant royalty-free access to its intellectual property rights which are part of the results and are needed for further developing the EOSC to legal entities identified by the granting authority and established in Member States or countries associated to the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. Such access rights are limited to non- commercial use. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the specific topic of the Work Programme
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