Author: Magdalena Brus

ENVRI Community at ICRI 2024

3-5 December 2024, Brisbane, Australia

About ICRI

Hosted biennially, the International Conference on Research Infrastructures is the major professional forum for the global research infrastructure community. ICRI 2024 will bring together policymakers, research institution leaders, facility operators, users and researchers, to discuss pressing topics of interest, trends and challenges facing research infrastructures around the world.

 

ICRI 2024 will be hosted in the beautiful city of Brisbane (Meanjin in Aboriginal language), the capital of the state of Queensland in Australia, traditionally owned by the Turrbal and Jagera People.

Relevant sessions and side events

ICRI 2024 in Brisbane brings together global experts to discuss key advancements in Research Infrastructures (RIs). This event offers invaluable sessions, with highlights for the ENVRI community including:

Main Conference Session
Tuesday, December 3 | 2:00 pm
Improving Critical Ocean and Earth Observations
This breakout session focuses on strengthening Earth observation capabilities and developing sustainable practices across RIs.

ENVRI Community Side Events

  1. Empowering RIs for Global Impact: Digital Tools and Collaborative Solutions
    Monday, December 2 | 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    This session, led by the EGI Foundation, highlights digital projects like ENVRI-Hub NEXT, iMagine, RI-SCALE, SPECTRUM, and PHENET. Learn how advanced tools and AI integration are transforming RI capabilities and expanding data accessibility for broader impact.
  2. Leveraging RIs for Climate Change Resilience
    Monday, December 2 | 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
    Organized by the IRISCC project, this session addresses the role of RIs in global climate action, discussing drought, flooding, and air quality impacts from both EU and international perspectives. The session will feature talks from ICOS, eLTER and RIs from outside the Europe

Join us to engage with digital and collaborative solutions that are driving impactful change across environmental and climate research infrastructures.

More information

Go to the ICRI 2024 website for more information: https://icri2024.au/

 

The European Commission Announces the EOSC EU Node’s Transition to Full Production

The European Commission is pleased to announce the official launch of the EOSC EU Node services, marking a critical milestone in its goal to accelerate the adoption of Open Science across Europe.

Following the launch of the EOSC EU Node initial web presence in April 2024, this platform now serves as a gateway for researchers to:

  • Discover, access and use tens of millions of scientific publications, data and software.

  • Find and access services and tools from research infrastructures, technology providers, world-leading scientific clusters and more.

  • Use integrated compute, storage as well as interactive collaboration tools, applications and services free at the point of use.

  • Create teams and work together putting Open Science principles in practice to access a variety of tools, services, and resources designed to streamline and enhance their research efforts.

The platform supports users at every stage of the research lifecycle, fostering greater collaboration and innovation across Europe’s scientific landscape.

Newly Released Services

The full deployment of the EOSC EU Node includes a robust set of services that address key challenges in modern research workflows, allowing users to operate efficiently within data-intensive environments. The following tools are now live:

Bulk Data Transfer: Move data effortlessly to data-intensive execution environments. Learn more.

Large File Transfer: Streamline large file transfers online with added security and integrity. Learn more.

Virtual Machines: Design and conduct experiments with flexibility while ensuring reproducibility. Learn more.

Cloud Container Platform: Deploy cloud-native containerised applications that can easily scale. Learn more.

Interactive Notebooks: Create and share documents with real-time code execution. Learn more.

File Sync & Share: Enable automatic file syncing and secure sharing across locations and teams. Learn more.

These services not only facilitate collaboration across borders but also enable researchers to work with large-scale data, develop advanced simulations, and execute complex computations—all within a secure and highly integrated environment.

In line with its mission to promote Open Science, the EOSC EU Node is the first European-level node of the emerging EOSC Federation, which is envisioned to be a network of interconnected autonomous nodes, all operating under a common framework of standards, policies, and best practices. It welcomes contributions from scientific resource providers throughout Europe, known as Contributors within the EOSC EU Node ecosystem, are invited to share their data, software, services, and tools, expanding the rich ecosystem of resources available through the platform.

With the launch of these services, contributors can now access select core capabilities “as a Service,” allowing them to leverage EOSC’s infrastructure for their own projects. This federated approach to resource sharing is a key feature of the EOSC EU Node, creating a more collaborative and interconnected research environment.

As the EOSC EU Node continues to evolve, users and contributors alike are encouraged to stay engaged with the platform – not only by utilising and contributing to its services, tools, and resources, but also by sharing insights and providing feedback through the User or Technology Forum. Future updates will bring additional features and functionalities, further enhancing the capacity of researchers across Europe to pursue groundbreaking discoveries. The EOSC EU Node remains committed to supporting the European research community in its mission to accelerate scientific progress and innovation through Open Science.

For more information and to explore the newly launched services, please visit the EOSC EU Node website.