08-Jun-2026
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)-A General Assembly held its 13th meeting on 28-29 May in Brussels. At this meeting, the Association’s position paper, “The EOSC Association calls for a distinct Work Programme-based Partnership for EOSC in FP10 to accelerate excellent, scalable science in Europe”, was adopted unanimously.
The policy paper is released in the context of the EU-wide negotiations on the EU’s proposed 10th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10). It presents the EOSC-A membership’s shared vision for EOSC by calling on decision-makers to support the establishment of a distinct Work Programme-based Partnership for EOSC under FP10, with EOSC-A as an equal partner alongside the Member States, Associated Countries and European Commission within the Partnership’s tripartite governance. It reasons that this basis is the best way forward to sustain the momentum generated in the wake of the 2025 launch and 2026 expansion of the EOSC Federation, and to capitalise on the achievements and progress of significant prior investments made across European, national and organisational levels.
The paper goes on to describe the unique and indispensable role EOSC will play in FP10 as the recognised Common European Data Space for Research and Innovation. As such, EOSC is essential to securing European sovereignty over its research data, strengthening resilience in science and innovation, enabling a globally competitive and trusted European AI ecosystem, and accelerating the development of a genuine EU Single Market for knowledge and innovation. You can read the full position paper here.
Instruct-ERIC has been a longstanding supporter of EOSC initiatives and has been involved in several EOSC projects, including EOSC Beyond, and EOSC-Life. More recently, and alongside partners ELIXIR, EMBL, and EuroBioImaging, we have formed a node in the EOSC Federation, the EOSC Life Sciences Connect (LSC) Node.
The EOSC LSC Node brings together biodata expertise and resources to improve access to repositories, software tools, services, standardised workflows and reproducible methods for life science researchers. It will work with other EOSC nodes to share expertise and give users access to interoperable, FAIR, secure and ethically compliant data, services and computational resources across Europe.”
You can read more about the involvement of Instruct-ERIC in EOSC projects here.
