Integration and consolidation of the existing pan-European access mechanism to public research infrastructures and commercial services through the EOSC Portal

Expected Outcome The Research Data Alliance (RDA) - in the context of EOSC Future - is seeking applications for experts to become external evaluators for a series of diverse grants to be funded over the duration of the EOSC Future project (April 2021 - September 2023). Evaluators will be responsible for evaluating applications in response to RDA’s open calls. EOSC Future aims to have a pool of international external evaluators to support its decision-making processes for the award of these grants. As part of RDA’s principles of transparent and community-driven action, the project will use external expert evaluators to support its decision-making processes for the award of RDA open call grants in Europe. The planned grants are varied and diverse in order to engage diverse stakeholders to be active in and to contribute to EOSC. They will include a focus on disciplinary and domain specific support, support for RDA / EOSC meetings as well as standards and adoption grants, early career researcher studies and activities, community of practice and domain ambassadors as well as calls for open and community-led technical solutions to maintain and curate RDA outputs within the context of EOSC. The grants range from 7k Euro – 50k Euro depending on the call, the announcements will be multiple and numerous with expected regular calls each month over the duration of the project. More information What is required to become an External Evaluator? - External evaluators will operate remotely via the EOSC Future Grants Platform and will be responsible for evaluating the applications in response to RDA open calls. RDA aims to have a wide pool of external evaluators with differing expertise to enable flexibility when assigning applications. - Evaluators will be routinely selected from the pool according to the expertise required and to ensure that no conflict of interest exists in their duties as evaluators. - Evaluators will be asked to sign a non-conflict of interest and confidentiality agreement, before being accepted to perform their evaluation duties. - Selected evaluators will be contracted until the end of the EOSC Future project (Sept 2023) and the number of applications to be evaluated will be based on the expertise required, lack of conflict of interest, etc. Background The RDA Open Calls mechanism - with a €1 000 000 grant fund - will be used to engage with multiple stakeholders, including, but not limited to, targeted scientific communities, technical experts, Early Career Researchers. It will be complemented by a series of activities and channels such as events, use cases, info packages, and best practices. The creation of a Scientific Ambassador Network and dedicated RDA groups will further strengthen these activities. This will lead to a continual innovation workflow and engagement with science projects to support the implementation of EOSC. More Information For further information please consult the EOSC Future Grants Platform: https://eoscfuture-grants.eu