Want to know more about what OCRE can do for you? Selected providers will become an integral part of the EOSC service catalogue and be connected to the GÉANT data network and the community's single sign-on (SSO) systems, bringing them into the heart of this community's ICT ecosystem.
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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offerings.In the first half of 2019, OCRE will gather requirements from the research community and input from cloud providers. The project will also map the EO services providers landscape to gain concrete insights on the EO service offerings to present to the scientific community. The pan-European tender is expected to begin in October 2019, with services expected to be available for usage in early 2020. Evenflow, an SME specialised in the promotion and market uptake of EO-based solutions, will contribute to the mapping of the EO service offering for the scientific community.EARSC will contribute to analysing and matching the supply and demand for EO services for OCRE.
EARSC is a membership- based, not for profit European organisation which promotes activities of European companies engaged in delivering EO services.Trust also coordinates the following organisations that will also contribute to the project: Trust-IT fosters information exchange between a wide range of stakeholders and will lead the outreach and promotion of OCRE and the available portfolio.
Through its subsidiary, SixSq, RHEA will provide the technical platform to manage and track the cloud uptake. RHEA is a security and space system engineering company with broad EO expertise which will support the EO service procurement.CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics will establish a number of buyer groups, gathering organisations from different research disciplines to consume the results of OCRE.GÉANT interconnects Europe’s National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) to reach thousands of research and education institutions, enabling OCRE to offer service providers a direct delivery route.The OCRE project - an important element in the success of EOSC - receives funding from the European Commission and is a consortium of the GÉANT Association (coordinator), CERN, RHEA and Trust-IT. This core team will be supported by the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) and specialised consultancy Evenflow (as subcontractors). Furthermore, OCRE will make €9.5 million in service credits available to research institutions, via adoption funding from the European Commission. Over 10,000 research and education institutions will be able to directly consume these offerings, with ready-to-use agreements via the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) service catalogue. €9.5 million in adoption funding available for European research community
OCRE, which launched in January 2019, will address this by running a pan-European tender and establishing framework agreements with cloud service providers that meet the specific requirements of the research community, saving institutions the time-consuming and complex process of doing this themselves. The Open Clouds for Research Environments project (OCRE), aims to accelerate cloud adoption in the European research community, by bringing together cloud providers, Earth Observation (EO) organisations and the research and education community, through ready-to-use service agreements and €9.5 million in adoption funding.Ĭloud-based services offer the European research community a wealth of powerful tools, but for many researchers, these are currently out of reach, with suitable services difficult to find and select. PRESS RELEASE 5 February 2019 OCRE enables easy cloud usage through the European Open Science Cloud
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