The EUDAT Conference is EUDAT's flagship biennial event, a European forum where researchers, data managers and IT service providers discuss the latest advances in Research Data Management and Open Science. This year's edition, held with the support of IT4I, is themed "Sustaining the next decade of Europe's research data ecosystem". It celebrates 10 years of EUDAT operations and will see EUDAT's members sign a new decade-long commitment to support the next collaborative data infrastructure.
The programme covers AI compliance and AI-enhanced data management, user-centric RDM solutions, integration of EUDAT with other services, and trust, security and sensitive data. Keynotes and panels will also present EUDAT's contributions to the EOSC Federation.
EOSC-CONNECT at the conference
On 26 November 2026, EOSC-CONNECT will present a poster in the session "Building and Sustaining the EOSC Federation: Interoperable Nodes, Shared Services and the Role of e-Infrastructures".
As the EOSC Federation takes shape as a network of interconnected nodes, EUDAT services are becoming part of a federated mesh rather than a central hub. The session presents concrete integration cases and the lessons learned along the way.
Poster: "Connecting National Nodes to the EOSC Federation: EOSC-CONNECT and the Role of e-Infrastructures like EUDAT"
Where EOSC-CONNECT and EUDAT meet
EOSC-CONNECT brings together 14 National Nodes to build, consolidate and advance the EOSC Federation. Much of its technical work speaks directly to EUDAT's mission:
- Federating capabilities: AAI (assessing OpenID Federation and the EU Digital Wallet alongside the EOSC AAI architecture), federated resource and service catalogues, and an EFSS (sync-and-share) federation for researchers, building on CS3MESH4EOSC and the OpenCloudMesh protocol;
- Resilience: a plan for critical federating capabilities, so that responsibility now concentrated in the EOSC EU Node can be shared across multiple actors in the Federation, including established e-infrastructures;
- Built for reuse: several partners are active members of EUDAT and other e-infrastructures (GÉANT, EGI). This helps ensure the project's outputs are designed for compatibility with, and reuse by, e-infrastructure providers.
The connection is also formal. EUDAT operates the EOSC Node EUDAT and is part of the EOSC4ALL and EOSC Mesh projects. EOSC-CONNECT collaborates with both, as well as with EOSC-Marine, under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the four projects funded under the HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01 call. Coordinated by the EOSC Association, the collaboration focuses on technical interoperability, community engagement, governance and long-term sustainability. Implementation of a joint work plan is expected to begin in early 2027.
The poster aims to open a dialogue with the EUDAT community. It looks at aligning federating capabilities, sharing experience, and finding concrete opportunities for EUDAT services and expertise to plug into the National Node ecosystem now taking shape across Europe.
If you're visiting the conference, come and find us at the poster session on 26 November.