Fostering the uptake
of Open Science 
in Europe

 

 

Call for Open Science projects & services now OPEN

 

About OSCARS

OSCARS brings together world-class European Research Infrastructures (RIs) in the ESFRI roadmap and beyond to foster the uptake of Open Science in Europe.

Such RIs are part of the five Science Clusters (Humanities and Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Photon and Neutron Science, Astronomy, Nuclear and Particle Physics), which have strived to make open data easily accessible to the users and the public, by providing FAIR data management policies and practices for enabling Open Science.

Today, the Science Clusters are an integral part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative and, through OSCARS, will further contribute to its development and implementation process.

 

In collaboration with

Science Clusters

 eosc

Our mission

OSCARS aims to further consolidate past achievements of the Science Clusters into lasting interdisciplinary FAIR data services and working practices.

Through a cascading grant mechanism, a broad range of research communities will be involved for the development of new, innovative Open Science projects, that together will drive the uptake of FAIR-data-intensive research throughout the European Research Area (ERA).

OSCARS will thus give an opportunity for inter-cluster cross-adoption and co-development of services that will be part of the EOSC Exchange portfolio.

Through OSCARS, Community-based Competence Centres (CCCs) will be established and operated, virtual research environments (VREs) will be deployed fostering the alignment of practices in scientific data analysis. Both objectives will contribute to consolidate the role of the clusters as thematic "EOSC Science Cluster Nodes.

 

 

The five Science Clusters of research infrastructures

Envri
Life Science
Escape
Panosc
SSHOC

Cascading-grant Open Calls

On March 15th, 2024, the Science Clusters will launch the first OSCARS cascading-grant call for Open Science projects and services, to which the scientific community at large is invited to apply before May 14th, 2024. A second call is expected to be opened in November 2024.

OSCARS Open Calls have a total worth of ~16 million EUR. Each selected proposal will be funded with a lump sum between 100,000 and 250,000 € and have to be implemented in a period between 12 and 24 months.
 

More info about the open calls