On July 15, 2020 OCRE announced the publication of its First Open Funding Call focused on consumable commercial cloud and digital services for researchers, available via its frameworks. It will open on September 15, 2020 and will last for six weeks with no extensions currently foreseen.
Under this new funding call, OCRE aims to fund projects which:
- Intend on consuming cloud and digital services to accelerate research outcomes
- Are able to demonstrate the impact of these services in terms of their outputs and agility
- Are not currently using these tools at scale
- Provide significant relevance in terms of their research discipline
- Form part of the broader European research community
- Hope to support further research and collaboration through their efforts
- Look to begin consuming services at year end 2020 or early 2021
OCRE (Open Clouds for Research Environments) is part of the broader European Open Science Cloud landscape and focuses on the delivery of commercial cloud and digital platforms providing for excellence regarding European research outcomes and ensuring that related data support the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) data principles.
One of OCRE’s goals is to increase the adoption of cloud services in European research. Those researchers, research institutions, research groups and projects, that have expressed interest, will be the first to be informed once more information is made available. Please note that this DOES NOT constitute an application.
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