Nordic Workshop to discuss collaboration on the upcoming e-Infrastructure calls

9 Dec 2024, 12:00 → 10 Dec 2024, 16:00 Europe/Stockholm

Conference Room (LUNARC - Center for Scientific and Technical Computing)

Abdulrahman Azab Mohamed (Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration - NeIC), Vilma Häkkinen (NeIC)

NENEC is the NeIC Expert Network for Nordic and EU Collaboration. The network is a community coordinated by the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) and acts as an agile group of experts investigating and discussing interesting Nordic EU infrastructure call opportunities, joint interests, and possible collaboration bearing in mind the NeIC strategy, Nordic Added Value and interests of the national providers.

 

NeIC is organizing a workshop for the Nordic Expert Network for Nordic and EU Collaboration to discuss the shared interests and potential opportunities for Nordic partners (and other collaborators) to join/compose consortia. 

Monday, 9 December

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:15 Introduction: The NeIC Expert Network for Nordic and EU Collaboration

Description of the NENEC network, it's purpose, mandate, and role within NeIC

Convener: Abdulrahman Azab Mohamed (Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration - NeIC)

13:15 → 16:00 Call Presentations and discussion

Discussion on the HE 2025 INFRA calls

Tuesday, 10 December

09:00 → 11:45 Call Presentations and discussion

Other Calls: OSCARS

To support the research communities to take up open science and foster the involvement of scientists in EOSC, OSCARS has launched two Open Calls (in total worth about 16 million Euro) to select third-parties for the development of new, innovative Open Science projects or services, that together will drive the uptake of FAIR-data-intensive research throughout the European Research Area (ERA). (https://oscars-project.eu/open-calls)

The first Open Call was launched on the 15th of March 2024, the second Open Call will be launched on the 15th of January 2025.

First call: 58 projects selected, a total of €13 million in funding was made available in this first call, projects funded: https://www.oscars-project.eu/sites/default/files/2024-10/NEWS-OSCARS_1stOpenCall-FundedProjects.pdf

Available funding in the 2nd OSCARS Open Call: ~€3 million EUR
Funding per project: Between €100,000 to €250,000 (lump sum)
Potential maximum of funded projects in the 2nd OSCARS Open Call: ~30, if all projects ask for the minimum amount of funding. If projects ask for a similar amount of funding as in the 1st OSCARS Open Call, about ~13 projects will be funded.
Target user communities: Research Infrastructures, Universities, Institutes, SMEs and large companies, either consortia or individual researchers.
2nd Open calls launch: 15 January 2025 - the call will stay open for 60 days.
Time for project implementation: 12-to-24 months (after signature of a Third-Party Project Agreement – TPPA).
Start of the projects: Within 4 months from TPPA signature (to give organisations time to hire staff if needed)

11:45 → 12:00 Conclusions and action points

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch