At the OSCARS webinar on “EOSC Federation and the Science Cluster EOSC Nodes & Hubs: Onboarding of Services”, OSCARS WP3 co-lead, Romain David, presented on behalf of Jonathan Ewbank (ERINHA) and Jonathan Tedds (ELIXIR), the Life Science Research Infrastructures (LS-RI) Science Cluster and its contribution to EOSC Federation, particularly across the health and food domains.
The LS-RI cluster brings together a diverse landscape of research infrastructures that have progressively consolidated collaboration through previous EOSC-related projects and cross-RI initiatives, including major health-driven efforts. Within OSCARS, the focus is shifting from project-based funding towards the sustainable uptake and integration of services provided by the Research Infrastructures. Two emerging nodes are central to this effort: the “Life Science Connect node” and the “BBMRI node”.
- The Life Science Connect EOSC Node aims to strengthen health research through life science data expertise, enabling FAIR integration of omics and imaging data, providing Virtual Research Environment workflows, and supporting secure access frameworks. Itaims aims to build on the federated AAI, coordinating the onboarding of service catalogues between all RIs, as well as workflow management applications, such as Galaxy and Jupyter, and connecting to major data resources like PDBe. In this way, the LS-RI cluster is building interoperable, AI-ready, and EOSC-aligned ecosystems.
- The BBMRI EOSC Node focuses on integrating Europe’s biobanks and biomolecular resources into the EOSC Federation by providing GDPR-compliant and FAIR access to biosamples, genomics, imaging, and clinical data across more than 500 biobanks in 25 countries, positioning itself as a node for secure and federated access to sensitive biomedical data in alignment with emerging European frameworks such as the European Health Data Space (EHDS).
OSCARS funded projects such as Fragalysis Cloud illustrate how fragmented structural biology and drug discovery data can be integrated into FAIR, standardised platforms within EOSC, providing a clear pathway from research outputs to sustainable federation-level services.
If your project develops services in the health and/or food domains, get in touch with the LS-RI Competence Centre to identify a clear route from results to long-term impact.