Introduction

The EOSCpilot project objectives are to:

• design and propose a possible governance framework for the EOSC and contribute to the development of European open science policy and best practice;

• develop a number of pilots that integrate services and infrastructures to demonstrate interoperability in a number of scientific domains; and

• engage with a broad range of stakeholders, crossing borders and communities, to build the trust and skills required for adoption of an open approach to scientific research

The objective of Work-package 2 is to design and trial a stakeholder driven governance framework with the involvement of research communities, research institutions, research infrastructures including e-infrastructures, and research funding bodies, to shape and oversee future development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), and to identify appropriate federated governance model(s) and decision-making structure for it (see Figure 2).

Figure 2 - EOSCpilot WP2 Governance Outline

As part of that objective, this document outlines a framework for a stakeholder driven governance and decision-making structure which could be used after the initial implementation phase of the EOSC.

The framework outlines:

• A three-layer governance model consisting of Strategic, Executive and Stakeholder layers, and the interactions and decision flow between these layers;

• A resource model for the EOSC, and a skeleton outline of the Executive layer’s role in commissioning and supporting the EOSC resources;

• An outline of the role and structure of the Stakeholder layer and its interaction with the Executive.

The ideas within this document have been developed in consultation with key stakeholders via a variety of fora including, as well as other workshops and presentations:

• The EOSCpilot Governance Development Forum¹

• Stakeholder consultations²

• EOSCpilot Governance Piloting Process³

• EOSCpilot Stakeholder Forum events⁴

This document is structured as shown in Table 1, below.

Table 1 - Document Structure

This document is intended to become a living document owned by the community. For that purpose, the contents of the most up to date version can be found on github at:

• Reading version: https://europeanopensciencecloud.github.io/Governance/

• Editable version: https://github.com/EuropeanOpenScienceCloud/Governance/