The EOSC Core Innovation Sandbox is a comprehensive testbed equipped with advanced automation tools designed for the testing and validation of EOSC services. It serves two primary purposes: prototyping enhanced and new EOSC Core services, and allowing providers to validate their integration with the EOSC before deploying services into production.
Key Features:
- Multi-Environment Hosting: The Innovation Sandbox hosts three distinct versions of the EOSC Core Services:
- Development: For individual Core providers to test their own developments.
- Integration: To test and validate the capabilities of the entire EOSC Platform.
- Pre-production: An environment that includes new capabilities delivered by the project, simulating the production environment.
- Distributed Infrastructure: Each Core provider deploys instances of their services for the Sandbox on their premises, mirroring the setup of the production EOSC Core services.
- Governed Access: Processes and procedures are in place to manage service provider access to the Innovation Sandbox, ensuring a structured and secure environment.
- Automated Integration: The integration of EOSC Exchange services with the EOSC Core Infrastructure will be increasingly automated throughout the project, utilising EOSC Core adapters from the EOSC Integration Suite.
Who Should Apply?
- Service Providers: Test publishing data, offering cloud resources, or deploying tools in EOSC.
- Research Communities: Validate workflows (e.g., structural biology pipelines) and assess EOSC’s capabilities for your domain.
- Infrastructure Operators: Trial new EOSC Node setups or interoperability strategies.
Technical experts from the EOSC Beyond consortium will provide tailored support throughout your testing journey.
How to Get Started
Selected providers will receive access credentials and onboarding guidance.
- Visit the EOSC Core Innovation Sandbox page.
- Submit a request via the contact form, briefly describing:
- Your organisation/community.
- Your use case (e.g., “Setting up a climate modeling node” or “Testing FAIR data publication workflows”).
- Technical requirements or support needed.
- Selected providers will receive access credentials and onboarding guidance.
Timeline
1
July 2024
EOSC Core Innovation Sandbox ready for core providers
2
March 2025
EOSC Core Innovation Sandbox ready for the first set of external providers
3
March 2026
EOSC Core Innovation Sandbox ready for the second set of external providers