Provisional members and Observers of the EOSC Association
The mandate of the current EOSC governance comes to an end on 31 December 2020.
As explained by EOSC EB Co-chair Cathrin Stöver, the EB, GB and the EC have agreed that there will only be four initial members in the EOSC Association, whose main mission would be to quickly accept Members and Observers as soon as it starts it operations.
The Deed of Association of the EOSC Association was signed on 29 July 2020. On 11 September the EOSC Association received the Royal Decree, meaning that legally, the Association is now established. The first General Assembly is taking place on 17 December 2020. Please find the EOSC Association Statutes at this link
Applications received before 15 October were considered for preliminary admission in time for the first General Assembly on 17 December. Applications filed thereafter will be considered for the next round of admissions which will be in 2021.
Please find a full PDF list of all members, provisional members, and provisional observers.
Please apply via this webform
CLARIN ERIC
Country: Netherlands
CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) is a distributed research infrastructure that provides easy and sustainable access to digital language data (in written, spoken, or multimodal form) and a wide range of interoperable language processing services to support researchers through a single sign-on platform. The service offer addresses researchers from the social sciences and humanities, and beyond, and is enabled through a networked federation of over 50 centres. More than 20 countries have joined CLARIN ERIC as member.
Website: https://www.clarin.eu
Climate Change Centre Austria
Country: Austria
The Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA) is a research network. It promotes climate and impact research and fosters collaboration, provides society and policymakers with scientifically information. The CCCA Data Centre as one operational facility is an archive for climate data and information. The data made accessible includes observation and measurement data, scenario data, etc. We offer interoperable services for publishing and retrieving resources, providing infrastructure components.
Website: http://ccca.ac.at
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
Country: France
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas: defence and security, low carbon energies (nuclear and renewable energies), technological research for industry, fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences. The CEA is deeply involved in the implementation of large-scale European programs and infrastructures.
Website: https://www.cea.fr/english
Conférence des Grandes Ecoles
Country: France
Created in 1973, the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE) brings together 216 French and foreign higher education and research institutions representing the full spectrum of higher education degrees in the Grandes écoles at Master's level and higher. The Conférence des Grandes Écoles is a think tank which values the collective expertise of its members as well as the importance of the Grandes Écoles in higher education and research.
Website: https://www.cge.asso.fr/
CONFERENCE DES PRESIDENTS D'UNIVERSITE
Country: France
The Conference of University Presidents (CPU) is composed of the directors of universities, national polytechnic institutes, écoles normales supérieures, grandes écoles, and research and higher education clusters. It has been representing and protecting the interests of its member institutions.
Website: http://www.cpu.fr
Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas
Country: Spain
/*-->*/ Crue Universidades Españolas is a not-for-profit association, created in 1994, and constituted by 76 Spanish universities, 50 public and 26 private. Crue is the main point of contact for Spanish universities with our national government and other national and international institutions and organisations relevant for the Higher Education sector. Crue plays a key role in the normative developments that affect Higher Education and Research in Spain.
Website: https://www.crue.org/
Conseil des recteurs
Country: Belgium
The Conseil des recteurs (CRef), created in 1990, is a consultation body that brings together the rectors of the universities of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels. Its main missions are developing exchanges between universities, collecting useful information for the institutions, undertaking studies and researches related to universities and their cooperation, and communicating and publishing data, information and results to public authorities and the wider public.
Website: http://www.cref.be
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Country: Italy
The CNR, as a national public research body has the task of carrying out, promoting, and enhancing research in the main sectors of knowledge, pursuing the integration of disciplines and technologies; to transfer and apply the results for the scientific, cultural, technological, economic and social development of the country and to provide technical-scientific support to constitutional bodies and public administrations.
Website: https://www.cnr.it/en
Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya
Country: Spain
The CSUC is a consortium of all the public universities of Catalonia, three privately-owned universities and the Government of Catalonia. CSUC provides a wide range of services to its members and to other public institutions. Those services include purchases of energy, equipment, software and academic information. CSUC also provides communication, supercomputing, cloud infrastructure and data management services.
Website: https://www.csuc.cat/en/csuc
Consorcio para el Diseño, la construcción, el equipamiento y la explotación del Centro de Láseres Pulsados Ulstracortos Ultraint
Country: Spain
The Spanish Center for Pulsed Lasers was established in December 2007 as a Consortium, and as part of the implementation of the Spanish Roadmap for Unique Research and Technology Infrastructures (ICTS by its Spanish initials). The main founding objectives are: to operate a Petawatt laser, to develop ultrashort pulses technology in Spain, to make important advances in compact and intense laser technology, and to promote the use of this technology in several fields.
Website: https://www.clpu.es
Consorcio para la Construcción, Equipamiento y Explotación del Laboratorio de Luz de Sincrotrón
Country: Spain
The ALBA Synchrotron is a Research Infrastructure located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, (Barcelona). It is dedicated to the production of synchrotron light, and operates state-of-the-art instrumentation for the study of matter in a myriad of fields, from life science to material science. It receives more than 2000 users per year from Spain and abroad, both from the academy and the industry. Their cutting-edge experiments have an ever-increasing data production.
Website: https://www.cells.es/en
Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives
Country: Norway
CESSDA provides sustainable data services to the social sciences. It brings together social science data archives across Europe, promoting the results of social science research and supporting international research. By acquiring the status of a trust repository, Service Providers demonstrate their reliability to researchers as well as national and international research funders. CESSDA supports continuous learning and training of its Service Provider staff and the social science user community.
Website: http://www.cessda.eu
Consortium unifié des établissements universitaires et de recherche pour l'accès aux publications numériques
Country: France
Couperin is an academic consortium, it includes more than 270 universities, research organizations, high schools, the national library, academic hospitals and others institutions. The consortium negotiates with publishers the prices and conditions of access to scientific publications for the benefit of its members. It promotes open science and has developed an expertise, it supports open access initiatives (journals, platforms and repositories), organize training to develop open science skills.
Website: https://www.couperin.org/
CSC - IT Center of Science
Country: Finland
CSC is a non-profit state enterprise with special tasks. As part of the national research system, we develop, integrate and provide high-quality information technology services and ensure that Finland remains at the forefront of development. CSC has an important role as an instrument for steering and developing the Ministry of Education and Culture's education, science and cultural policy.
Website: https://www.csc.fi
Data Archiving and Networked Services
Country: Netherlands
DANS is the Netherlands Institute for permanent access to digital research resources. DANS encourages researchers to make their digital research data and related outputs Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. We provide expert advice and certified services. Our core services are: DataverseNL for short-term data management, EASY for long-term archiving, and NARCIS, the national portal for research information. By participating in (inter)national projects, networks and research, DANS contributes to continued innovation of the global scientific data infrastructure. Open if possible, protected where necessary. DANS is an institute of the Dutch Academy KNAW and funding organisation NWO.
Website: https://dans.knaw.nl/en
