Scientific Large-scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies – Preparatory Phase
Overview
The digital infrastructures research community continues to face numerous new challenges towards the design of the Next Generation Internet. This is an extremely complex ecosystem encompassing communication, networking, data-management and data-intelligence issues, supported by established and emerging technologies, such as IoT, 5/6G, and cloud-to-edge computing. Coupled with the enormous amount of data generated and exchanged over the network, this calls for radically new design paradigms. Experimentally driven research is becoming worldwide a de-facto standard, which must be supported by largescale research infrastructures to make results trusted, repeatable and accessible to the research communities.
Based on two preceding projects within SLICES-RI (Research Infrastructure), SLICES-PP will validate the requirements to engage into the implementation phase of the RI lifecycle. It will set the policies and decision processes for the governance of SLICES-RI: i.e., the legal and financial frameworks, the business model, the required human resource capacities and training programme. It will also settle the final technical architecture design for implementation. It will engage member states and stakeholders to secure commitment and funding needed for the platform to operate. It will position SLICES as an impactful instrument to support European advanced research, industrial competitiveness and societal impact in the digital era.
Objectives
Establish the legal entity of SLICES-RI, and the associated legal and governance frameworks for the future implementation of SLICES-RI.
Define a comprehensive and sustainable financial framework of SLICES-RI that covers all sources of costs and funding, including the design of a sustainable, long-term business model, that will make it possible to ensure the financing and to launch the investments at the end of the project.
Define the long-term scientific roadmap and the technical design of SLICES-RI to ensure that this RI will be able to address the current and future scientific challenges in the domain of Digital Sciences.
Define a comprehensive operational plan and the procedures for implementation and operation.
Define a user engagement strategy and connect the user stakeholders with the RI.
Define measures to maximise the impact of SLICES-RI.
Contribute to the European Research Area (ERA), liaising with relevant RIs and communicate effectively.
eBOS Role in the Project
eBOS will be actively involved in the interactions with the member states, as well as in the definition of the final technical design and components. Moreover, eBOS will contribute to the data management policy and FAIR principles adoption, as well as to the ethical oversight, management and privacy requirements.
Finally, eBOS will participate in the Communication and Dissemination activities to maximise the impact of the project’s tasks.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
