The EuroCC project, funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and 33 participating European states, will build a sustainable and globally competitive European HPC ecosystem. It will serve research and science in academia while also supporting industries in European member states with a particular focus on encouraging small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to turn to and exploit the advantages of HPC.
High-Performance Digitisation initiative creates an intelligent annotation pipeline and a corresponding service for processing and enriching archived material, such as scanned newspapers, books and official documents. This material is digitised in large scale but the usability of the archives could and should be much higher. The new pipeline runs in a supercomputing environment and uses high-performance GPU accelerated machine learning methods for computer vision and artificial intelligence based annotation.
ELIXIR, the European life-science infrastructure for biological information, is a unique and unprecedented initiative that consolidates Europe's national centres, services, and core bioinformatics resources into a single, coordinated infrastructure.
EU-OPENSCREEN (The European Infrastructure of Open Screening Platforms for Chemical Biology) aims to provide a state-of-the-art open infrastructures and technologies to develop new bioactive small molecules. This supports for example drug research and also promotes basic research widely in the biosciences. EU-OPENSCREEN is included in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) roadmap.
Euclid Cosmology Mission is the next cosmology satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA). The main object of Euclid is to solve the mystery of dark energy – why is the expansion of the universe accelerating. Dark energy represents around 75 % of the energy content of the Universe today, and together with dark matter it dominates the Universes' matter-energy content. Both are mysterious and of unknown nature but control the past, present and future evolution of Universe.
INAR Ecosystems is a national collaboration of terrestrial ecosystem and biodiversity research organizations and data management centres. It is complementing the Finnish Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) in improving the research infrastructures for in forests, peatlands, agricultural fields and urban areas. The activities of INAR Ecosystems include upgrading research infrastructures at various ecosystem observation stations and experimental stations and laboratories, coordination of their national activities and creation of deeper co-within ecosystem research in Finland.
CSC is supporting actively the development of the Kainuu region towards an international data center location and ecosystem. This work is done in close cooperation with local authorities, education and research organizations, and companies. To speed-up the development further and to take advance of the unique time window opened by the LUMI EuroHPC supercomputer installation in Kajaani, CSC has started two regional projects that are supported by the Regional Council of Kainuu and the City of Kajaani. The goal of the projects is to strengthen the data center ecosystem in Kainuu by attracting new companies and investments to the Kainuu region.
HEAP will provide a research resource for the integrated and efficient analysis of the human exposome. HEAP will launch a state-of-the-science informatics infrastructure (IaaS) composed of prime ICT resources from partner institutions in several EU countries, accessed through a software platform (PaaS) that includes the world’s fastest Hadoop platform to provide data warehousing and applied AI.
Public registers, biobanks, health registers and research projects are examples of actors that collect and store vast amounts of data that has huge potential for advancing scientific research. However, much of the data is sensitive as it includes information on individuals and, naturally, the data needs to be stored and processed so that integrity and privacy of individuals is secured. Enabling the research utilising sensitive data while fulfilling legal requirements for privacy poses a challenge for research supporting e-Infrastructure.
Main objective of the scientific Center of Excellence is to reduce the scientific uncertainties related to climate change at global scale by quantifying the essential feedback mechanisms between the atmospheric processes and changing functioning of biosphere.
SeaDataNet connects together more than 100 data centres aiming at preserving and making re-useable marine observations ranging from ocean physics to chemistry and biology. It provides a standardized infrastructure for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the automatic observation systems. The SeaDataNet infrastructure networks and enhances the currently existing infrastructures, which are the national oceanographic data centres or data focal points of 34 countries, active in data collection. The networking of these professional data centres, in a unique virtual data management system provide integrated data sets of standardized quality on-line.
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is a global bottom-up initiative building the technical and social bridges for data sharing and exchange, to address grand challenges and accelerate data driven innovation worldwide.
PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) is the European high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. PRACE has 25 members, representing European Union Member States and Associated Countries. PRACE hosts the leading-edge HPC systems in Europe (Tier-0 systems). CSC represents Finland in the PRACE projects, and provides a seamless route to the Tier-0 resources for Finnish researchers.
The objective of the oGIIR project is to establish a user oriented and open-access infrastructure to support the entire Finnish scientific research community with spatial data and analysis services.
The Nordic countries collaborate actively on network services for Higher Education Institutions and research community. Collaboration started already in 1980 and NORDUnet was founded in 1985. NORDUnet is a joint collaboration by the 5 Nordic National Research and Education Networks in Denmark (DeIC), Finland (Funet), Iceland (RHnet), Norway (UNINETT) and Sweden (SUNET). NORDUnet is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
NordForum is an informal collaboration initiative between the national providers of Student Information Systems in four Nordic countries, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and the Netherlands. NordForum aims to share experiences, ideas and best practices and to identify possibilities for cooperation with long term as well as short term goals.
The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) is an organisation that facilitates the development and operation of high-quality e-Infrastructure solutions in areas of joint Nordic interest. The NeIC is a distributed organisation consisting of technical experts from academic high-performance computing centres across the Nordic countries. The NeIC is administered by NordForsk and funded by national research funding agencies (in Finland by the Academy of Finland).
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is a co-operative effort – tasked with developing infrastructure and services to enable the use of digital technologies to improve higher education and research, and promoting open science and research.
HPC-GIG project (HPC Governance Intelligence Gathering) will provide intelligence gathering from the European HPC stakeholders for the Governance of the Euro High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).
HPC-Europa3 is an EC-funded programme which allows researchers to carry out short "transnational access" visits to other countries to collaborate with a research department working in a similar field. During visits HPCE3 provides access to some of the most powerful computers in Europe.