EUDAT OY

Their core work

EUDAT OY operates a collaborative data infrastructure that provides shared data management services to European research communities. They build and maintain tools for storing, finding, accessing, and managing research data across disciplines — including services for data discovery, data sharing, data preservation, and data staging between computing centers. Their work directly supports the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by connecting distributed data resources and making them accessible to researchers across Europe.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

EUDAT's early H2020 involvement (2019) included both HPC infrastructure support through PRACE and initial EOSC portal work, reflecting a broad e-infrastructure role. By 2021, their focus narrowed decisively toward the European Open Science Cloud — building collaborative data infrastructure, data services for user communities, and cloud resource integration. This shift mirrors the EU's own strategic pivot from fragmented e-infrastructures toward a unified open science cloud.

EUDAT is fully committed to the EOSC ecosystem, making them a natural partner for any project requiring European-scale research data infrastructure or open science compliance.

How they like to work

EUDAT operates exclusively as a participant in very large consortia — their 4 projects involve 144 unique partners across 32 countries, meaning average consortium sizes well above 30 members. They have never coordinated an H2020 project. This profile is typical of an infrastructure provider that contributes a specific, well-defined service layer (data management) to large multi-partner initiatives rather than driving the research agenda.

With 144 unique consortium partners spanning 32 countries, EUDAT has one of the broadest collaboration networks in the European e-infrastructure landscape. Their reach is pan-European with no apparent geographic bias, reflecting their role as a shared infrastructure serving all EU member states and associated countries.

What sets them apart

EUDAT is not a research institute — it is the operational entity behind one of Europe's core collaborative data infrastructures. Where most organizations bring domain expertise to a consortium, EUDAT brings the data backbone: storage, discovery, sharing, and preservation services that other partners build upon. For consortium builders, EUDAT offers a ready-made, production-grade data management layer that satisfies FAIR data and open science requirements out of the box.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EOSC Future
  Largest funding (EUR 1.55M to EUDAT) in a flagship project that aims to integrate the full EOSC ecosystem — signals EUDAT's central role in European open science infrastructure.
• DICE
  Focused specifically on building data infrastructure capacity for EOSC, directly aligned with EUDAT's core mission of collaborative data services.
• PRACE-6IP
  Connects EUDAT to the European HPC community, showing their data services extend beyond pure storage into high-performance computing workflows.