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Their core work

JNP Strategy & Management Consulting is a Greek SME specializing in strategy and operations consulting for European research infrastructure initiatives. They provide management, cataloguing, and service-mapping expertise to help research infrastructures and e-infrastructures become more discoverable, interoperable, and useful to researchers. Their core contribution across H2020 has been designing service catalogues, defining key performance indicators, and supporting the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) ecosystem — essentially helping organize and present the complex landscape of European research services so that scientists and service providers can find each other.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

JNP started in 2017 with a focus on e-infrastructure service catalogues and KPI frameworks (eInfraCentral), essentially mapping and measuring what European digital research services existed. By 2019-2021, their work shifted decisively toward open science, the EOSC ecosystem, and connecting researchers with cloud resources and service providers. The trajectory is clear: from cataloguing infrastructure to actively shaping how the European research cloud operates and serves its users.

JNP is moving deeper into the EOSC ecosystem, positioning itself as a management consulting partner for open science cloud governance and service integration at European scale.

How they like to work

JNP operates exclusively as a participant, never as coordinator, which is consistent with a consulting SME that provides specialized management and strategy input rather than leading large research agendas. With 111 unique partners across 27 countries in just 4 projects, they work in very large consortia — EOSC Future alone is one of the biggest EOSC initiatives. This means they are comfortable operating in complex, multi-partner environments and likely bring structured project management to these large groups.

Despite only 4 projects, JNP has built an unusually broad network of 111 partners across 27 countries, driven by their participation in large pan-European EOSC initiatives. Their reach spans virtually all EU member states, reflecting the continent-wide scope of research infrastructure projects.

What sets them apart

JNP occupies a niche at the intersection of management consulting and research infrastructure policy — they are not a technology provider or a research lab, but a strategy firm that helps European research infrastructure initiatives get organized. Their consistent presence across the eInfraCentral-CatRIS-EOSC pipeline means they carry institutional knowledge about how European research services are catalogued, measured, and governed. For anyone building an EOSC-related or research infrastructure consortium, JNP brings both strategic consulting skills and deep familiarity with the EOSC landscape.

Highlights from their portfolio

• CatRIS
  Directly built the Catalogue of Research Infrastructure Services, a concrete tool now used across European research communities.
• EOSC Future
  Their largest project (EUR 617K) and one of the flagship EOSC initiatives integrating research communities with the European Open Science Cloud.
• eInfraCentral
  Their entry point into the research infrastructure ecosystem, establishing the service gateway concept and KPI frameworks that informed subsequent EOSC work.