The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is a global bottom-up initiative building the technical and social bridges for data sharing and exchange, to address grand challenges and accelerate data driven innovation worldwide.
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is a co-operative effort – tasked with developing infrastructure and services to enable the use of digital technologies to improve higher education and research, and promoting open science and research.
HPC-Europa3 is an EC-funded programme which allows researchers to carry out short "transnational access" visits to other countries to collaborate with a research department working in a similar field. During visits HPCE3 provides access to some of the most powerful computers in Europe.
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).is an ambitious programme of the EU to provide a virtual environment with open and seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data, across borders and scientific disciplines by federating existing scientific data infrastructures, currently dispersed across disciplines and the EU Member States.
The European Open Science Cloud for Research Pilot (EOSCpilot) is a two year project (2017–2018) which aims to establish the governance framework for the EOSC, and demonstrate its feasibility through a number of pilots that integrate services and infrastructures across different scientific domains. The project engages with a broad range of stakeholders, crossing borders and communities, to build the trust and skills required for adoption of an open approach to scientific research.