Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

• Project title: OpenAire-Connect

• Partners: PI: CNR, Italy; Athena Research And Innovation Center In Information Communication & Knowledge Technologies, Greece; Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland; JISC LBG, UK; Universitaet Bremen, Germany; Universidade Do Minho, Portugal; CNRS (Visages, Creatis), France; Universita Di Firenze, Italy; Institut De Recherche Pour Le Developpement (IRD), France; European Organization For Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland; International Center For Research On The Environment And The Economy, Greece

• Budget: 2M € (120k€ for CNRS)

• Abstract: The OpenAire-Connect H2020 project will introduce and implement the concept of Open Science as a Service (OSaaS) on top of the existing OpenAIRE infrastructure, delivering out-of-the-box, on-demand deployable tools. OpenAIRE-Connect will adopt an end-user driven approach (via the involvement of 5 prominent research communities), and enrich the portfolio of OpenAIRE infrastructure production services with a Research Community Dashboard Service and a Catch-All Notification Broker Service. The first will offer publishing, interlinking, packaging functionalities to enable them to share and re-use their research artifacts (introducing methods, e.g., data, software, protocols). This effort, supported by the harvesting and mining “intelligence” of the OpenAIRE infrastructure, will provide communities with the content and tools they need to effectively evaluate and reproduce science. OpenAIRE-Connect will combine dissemination and training with OpenAIRE's powerful NOAD network engaging research communities and content providers in adopting such services. These combined actions will bring immediate and long-term benefits to scholarly communication stakeholders by affecting the way research results are disseminated, exchanged, evaluated, and re-used. In this project VisAGeS is acting, through CNRS, as the French coordinator to develop the link with the Neuroimaging research community. This will be performed in the context of the FLI-IAM national infrastructure.

• Abstract: EIT Health aims to promote entrepreneurship and develop innovations in healthy living and active ageing, providing Europe with new opportunities and resources. EIT Health will enable citizens to lead healthier and more productive lives by delivering products, services and concepts that will improve quality of life and contribute to the sustainability of healthcare across Europe. EIT Health is a strong, diverse and balanced partnership of best-in-class organisations in education, research, technology, business creation and corporate and social innovation. EIT Health intends to foster cooperation and unlock Europe’s innovation and growth potential – developing and retaining the best talents, creating high-quality jobs and boosting the global competitiveness of European industry. VisAGeS is involved in this project through the Inserm and Inria institutions. Christian Barillot is representing Inria as one expert in the dedicated WG “Healthy Brain”. VisAGeS is also concerned by the WG “big data”..