D8.1 A first draft review of the EU e-Infrastructure landscape

IBISBA’s mission as a distributed European research infrastructure is to provide world-class cutting-edge research and innovation services enabling the development of biotechnology as a technology cornerstone of the circular bioeconomy. To achieve this, IBISBA integrates Europe’s leading public-operated research infrastructure facilities into a coordinated business environment.

The H2020 PRPEP-IBISBA project is designed to finalize the design and prepare IBISBA for future operation. To achieve this the project is organized into several work packages that focus on different aspects of the infrastructure, including its business model, legal structure, and scientific and technological strategy.

In this report, we focus on the necessary coordination of IBISBA with the European technical e-Infrastructure landscape. We overview the positioning of EU infrastructures, and their plans, policies and technical solutions. The deliverable primarily focuses on the European Open Science Cloud, the thematic Research Infrastructures and Clusters serving the Biosciences, notably EOSC-Life and ELIXIR. We seek to preliminarily identify digital infrastructure that PREP-IBISBA can exploit, should align with or may contribute to.

FAIR initiatives such as FAIRsFAIR, and potential community and commercial infrastructures and their role are briefly discussed. The work was undertaken through a mixture of desk research, participation at EOSC community meetings and workshops, and interviews with key EOSC leaders and service users.

This deliverable is an outcome of Task 8.2 (Coordinate with the European technical e-Infrastructure landscape). It informs Task 8.1 (Develop a technical reference service framework, roadmap and evaluation process for the e-tools for the management of EU-IBISBA business processes and FAIR asset stewardship) and its associated deliverable 8.2 (A first technical design report) and Task 8.4 (Assemble a “sandbox” implementation of the service framework for supporting the preparatory stage of EU-IBISBA using candidate components to demonstrate and assess readiness)