• Posted 07-Sep-2020

New open funding call for cloud digital services

Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) announced the publication of its first open funding call focused on consumable commercial cloud and digital services for researchers. The first funding call for projects will open on 15 September 2020 and will last for six weeks.

The OCRE project, 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.

Under this new funding call, OCRE aims to fund projects which:

• Intend on consuming cloud and digital services to accelerate research outcomes.
• Are able to demonstrate the impact of these services in terms of their outputs and agility.
• Are not currently using these tools at scale.
• Provide significant relevance in terms of their research discipline.
• Form part of the broader European research community.
• Hope to support further research and collaboration through their efforts.
• Look to begin consuming services at year end 2020 or early 2021.

A webinar will also launch the call on 15 September 2020, 11:00 CEST. All those interested in learning more about the funding call should join the webinar. 

Source: European Commission | Research and Innovation News (https://bit.ly/32667KA)