About OSCARS

OSCARS is a four-year Horizon Europe project that fosters the uptake of Open Science in Europe by consolidating the achievements of world-class European RIs in the ESFRI roadmap and beyond into lasting interdisciplinary FAIR data services and working practices across scientific disciplines and communities.

 

OSCARS strengthens the role of the Science Clusters (SCs) in the European Research Area (ERA) by developing Community-based Competence Centres (CCCs) and Composable Open Data and Analysis Services (CODAS), data processing and management solutions, and by fostering the implementation of Open Science projects and services.

Two Open Calls (total worth ~16 million Euro) have attracted the broader research community for the development of Open Science projects and services. Together they drive the uptake of FAIR-data-intensive research throughout the ERA. Projects haven been proposed in, and beyond the domains of the Science Clusters, by single researchers or group of researchers, through a cascading grant mechanism. OSCARS has granted 70 projects through its Open Calls. The first Open Call was launched in March 2024. The second one closed in May 2025. 

 

OSCARS funded projects

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