{"id":1,"date":"2026-05-18T11:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:11:29","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Launch of the EOSC.ie project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting in 2024, the European Commission began work to develop and manage the <a href=\"https:\/\/research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu\/strategy\/strategy-research-and-innovation\/our-digital-future\/open-science\/european-open-science-cloud-eosc_en\">European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)<\/a> architecture through federated regional, national and thematic nodes. In 2026, Ireland launched the EOSC.ie project to build an Irish node that would connect to the growing network of national and regional EOSC nodes providing access to FAIR research data, infrastructure, and services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nominated by DFHERIS,\u00a0Asiera\u00a0is the <a href=\"https:\/\/eosc.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EOSC Association<\/a> Mandated Organisation for Ireland. DFHERIS asked\u00a0Asiera to investigate what Ireland would need to do to create an EOSC Ireland node as an enabler of Open Science. Through consultation and collaboration with the Irish research community a position paper was published in 2025 and a\u00a0subsequent\u00a0business case\u00a0submitted\u00a0to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ie\/en\/department-of-further-and-higher-education-research-innovation-and-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)<\/a>, proposing a 1-year project to carry out detailed planning for an EOSC Ireland node via a CSA (Co-ordination and Support Action) followed by full implementation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project started in February 2026. Led by Asiera, it includes partners from the across the Irish research community, including: the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin), University of Limerick (UL), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), South East Technological University (SETU), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), and University College Dublin (UCD). The aim is to recommend architectural and technical solutions, propose governance, business, and funding models and drive stakeholder engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the EOSC Ireland node proposal on <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.15261566\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.15261566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zenodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in 2024, the European Commission began work to develop and manage the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) architecture through federated regional, national and thematic nodes. In 2026, Ireland launched the EOSC.ie project to build an Irish node that would connect to the growing network of national and regional EOSC nodes providing access to FAIR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-updates","tag-project-launch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eosc.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}