OSCARS delivers results beyond the state of the art by moving from siloed and fragmented data and services within individual domains to coordinated, cross-cluster, FAIR solutions embedded in the EOSC ecosystem.
By consolidating the capacities of the five EOSC Science Clusters, the project has identified and co-designed composable Open Data and Analysis Services that operate across disciplinary boundaries and communities and integrate with EOSC core services.
In addition, the 70 projects funded via OSCARS Open Calls have produced advanced outputs and outcomes throughout the full research data lifecycle:
• Upgraded infrastructure: new stations installed, VREs
• Governance frameworks and FAIR data policy adoption: Regulatory documentation, DMPs, user requirements collection and publication, gap analyses, reports
• FAIR compliance of newly collected datasets
• Interoperable and standardised data curation practices: Data cleaning & processing workflows, (meta)data standards and protocols, vocabularies (and their integration), ontologies, annotation pipelines and tools, new data classification models, metadata schema and knowledge graphs & maps
• FAIR-aligned data preservation and seamless access: APIs, data catalogues, repositories, databases, data hubs, data portals
• Enhanced data analysis and exploration capacity: Jupyter Notebooks, analytical workflows, data dashboards
• New and upgraded software and (AI) tools: design, development and implementation of tools and technologies (for data annotation, search, visualisation, analysis, teaching)
• Capacity strengthened through new training resources: textbooks, materials and platform development
• Scientific networks strengthened within and across communities
The establishment of Clusters’ Open Science Competence Centres, providing expertise, best practices and services in relation to Open Science and promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration and of a European-wide pool of Open Science evaluators, further strengthens the structural capacity for sustained FAIR implementation.
The strong oversubscription of the 2nd Open Call demonstrates high community demand and scalability potential.
Ensuring long-term uptake will require continued support for cascading funding instruments, sustained integration of services within EOSC, alignment with evolving standards and interoperability frameworks, and ongoing investment in community-based expertise to maintain and expand the results and structural outcomes across the European Research Area.
