Published June 19, 2026
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EOSC & Research Infrastructures - Opportunities and Strategies - Policy Workshop - Highlights Report
- 1. EOSC Steering Board
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University of Milan
Contributors
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European Commission
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Athena Research and Innovation Center In Information Communication & Knowledge Technologies
- 3. European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)
- 4. Czech Academy of Sciences, J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry
- 5. e-IRG
- 6. EIRO Forum
- 7. University of Milano-Bicocca
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EOSC Association
- 9. British Library
- 10. Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
- 11. Ghent University
- 12. ERIC Forum
Description
This document highlights the key points that emerged from the Policy Workshop on 'EOSC and Research Infrastructures: Opportunities and Strategies' organized by the ESFRI–EOSC Task Force on March 16-17, 2026, in Milano. The workshop addressed the critical issues in linking European Research Infrastructures (RIs) and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
About 90 participants, from Research Infrastructure, EOSC nodes, EOSC-SB, EOSC-A and EC, discussed the progress of convergence between RIs and EOSC Federation highlighting success stories as well as weaknesses in the process. The following points are a synthesis of the main issues, progresses and criticalities emerged in the two-day workshop.