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<div>txs for the nice comments.<br>
I can only say that we will help were we can</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> 23 November 2018 16:51<br>
<b>To:</b> african-open-science-platform@googlegroups.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> The European Open Science Cloud is officially launched<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:black">Congratulations to our European counterparts! Hoping that the African Open Science Platform will follow in the footsteps of EOSC soon, and we are looking
forward to future collaboration with all!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79"><a href="https://eosc-hub.eu/news/european-open-science-cloud-officially-launched" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://eosc-hub.eu/news/european-open-science-cloud-officially-launched</a>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is officially launched today, 23 November 2018, during an event hosted by the Austrian Presidency of the European Union. The inauguration
marks the conclusion of a long process of consultation and reflection with stakeholders led by the European Commission. The event demonstrates the importance of EOSC for the advancement of research in Europe and introduces the new <u><a href="http://www.eosc-portal.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">EOSC
Portal</span></a></u>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">The <a href="https://eosc-portal.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">EOSC Portal</span></a> provides access to
data, services and resources. It is a source of up-to-date information about the EOSC initiative, including best practices, governance and user stories. All service providers, research communities and other entities with a stake in EOSC are invited to visit
the EOSC Portal and explore how they can benefit from its functionalities.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">The launch event features live demonstrations to showcase how researchers can interact with and benefit from the functionalities of the portal. The demonstrators, presented
live and at the demo booth, cover a wide range of disciplines and user scenarios to show the many different user journeys through the portal.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">The scientific demonstrations are complemented with the presentation of the newly appointed EOSC Executive Board.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333"><a href="https://www.eosc-hub.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">EOSC-hub </span></a>is a lead contributor to
the development of the <a href="https://eosc-portal.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">EOSC Portal</span></a> and its components, in particular the <a href="https://eosc-hub.eu/news/eosc-portal.eu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">information
website</span></a> and the EOSC Marketplace.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">EOSC-hub services also support many of the demos featured during the launch, for example:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">The CLARIN demonstrator presented by Maciej Ogrodniczuk relies on EUDAT's <a href="https://www.eosc-hub.eu/catalogue/Component%20MetaData%20Infrastructure" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">CLARIN's
VLO</span></a>.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">The <a href="https://www.eosc-hub.eu/catalogue/WeNMR%20suite%20for%20Structural%20Biology" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">WeNMR
suite for structural biology</span></a> is a EOSC-hub thematic service and is the focus of one of the launch demos.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">The sustainable development goals demo uses <a href="https://www.eosc-hub.eu/catalogue/EGI%20Cloud%20Compute" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">EGI
Cloud Compute</span></a> for computing resources.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">The PROMINENCE demonstrator relies on <a href="https://www.indigo-datacloud.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">INDIGO-DataCloud</span></a> Infrastructure
Manager, <a href="https://www.eosc-hub.eu/catalogue/EGI%20Cloud%20Compute" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">EGI Cloud Compute</span></a>.</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">More information:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">twitter handle: @eoscportal</span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsaUFy5LJ3rJ28qDg2StGA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">youtube
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333"><a href="https://www.eosc-hub.eu/sites/default/files/EOSC_Portal_Booklet.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#B58A2E; text-decoration:none">EOSC
Portal booklet</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:#333333">The EOSC Portal was jointly developed and maintained by the eInfraCentral (731049), EOSC-hub (777536), EOSCpilot (739563) and OpenAIRE-Advance (246686) projects funded by
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme with contribution of the European Commission.</span></p>
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