NI4OS-Europe project - support for the National Open Science Cloud Initiative

The mission and vision of the NI4OS-Europe project lies in making a key contribution to the
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) service portfolio, in the engagement in EOSC governance and in
ensuring inclusion at European level. To highlight the importance and timeliness of these contributions, the
paper begins with a presentation of the project context by referring to relevant documents adopted at
European level for the thematic areas of Open Science / Open Data and EOSC. The brief presentation of the
concepts specific of these areas, and of some structures dedicated to their implementation facilitates the
detailing of the main lines of action of the project which are focused on the pre-production infrastructure,
services and repositories, and the involvement of user communities. The application domains related to
generic and thematic services, as well as to data repositories are also highlighted. The end of the paper is
dedicated to the approach of the project on the establishment of national OSC initiatives and to the
presentation of the preliminary results obtained in this respect.