A six-month preparatory project to deliver the Project Charter for the EOSC Citizen Science Node — its governance, technical architecture, and operational framework.
The EOSC Federation is built from interoperable Nodes — which can be thematic, geographic or institutional — that connect through the EOSC Interoperability Framework and the federating capabilities of the EOSC EU Node reference architecture, as described in the EOSC Federation Handbook.
eosc.eu →EOSC Gravity (GA 101188045, June 2025 – December 2027) is the Horizon Europe coordination and support project tasked with consolidating the EOSC ecosystem and supporting the EOSC Partnership's transition to a new governance and funding model beyond 2027, including through cascading funding to grow the EOSC Federation of Nodes.
eosc.eu/eosc-gravity →Access to the EOSC Federation today depends on EduGAIN. This works for researchers with a university or research-institution affiliation, but excludes the citizen scientists, NGO researchers, civic-tech communities and independent scholars who generate substantial scientific data across Europe every year.
EOSC-CSN delivers the governance, technical and operational blueprint for a Citizen Science Node within the EOSC Federation — with AARC-compliant identity proxies, FAIR validation at the source, and professional tooling adapted to community-led research.
Articulate how the node bridges traditional research and citizen-generated data, with FAIR compliance ensured.
Strategic alignment with the EOSC Federation Handbook. All Minimum Viable Node requirements — technical and legal — addressed.
A multi-level governance representing the diverse CS community. Existing platforms orchestrated within an EOSC-compatible framework.
Integration of the RIECS core services with EOSC: AAI proxy, FAIR validation, ARGO monitoring, APEL accounting.
A training matrix for unaffiliated researchers, fully aligned with the EOSC Academy and integrated into the EOSC Knowledge Hub.
A public event demonstrating live integration of citizen science projects into the EOSC Federation through the node.
An automated validator that connects citizen science projects to scientific data repositories, certifying that the data they produce is valid and ready for research.
Researchers and citizens without an institutional affiliation get the same access to the EOSC Federation as anyone at a university — an account, a workspace and the tools they need to do science.
Every piece of data moving through the federation stays linked to the person and the project that created it, so its journey and reuse can always be traced and properly attributed.
The node provides, on demand, the computing resources that hackathons and other citizen-led events with heavy computational needs require — virtual machines, GPU access, storage buckets and the rest of the infrastructure, available for the duration of the event.
We are constituting a focused group of 10–15 experts to review and validate the governance, technical and operational blueprint of the EOSC Citizen Science Node. Selection is open — we want to discover profiles beyond our existing network.
Selection is balanced by discipline, country and gender. Applicants who are not selected may still contribute through wider community consultations open to all.
Send a short document (PDF or Word) to info@ibercivis.es with the following:
Recommendations of other experts or organisations are also welcome. People not selected may still be invited to contribute through wider community consultations.
Citizen science communities, research infrastructures, national platforms, ministries — we welcome collaboration enquiries from organisations interested in shaping the EOSC Citizen Science Node.
