ESCAPE

Brief description

ESCAPE (European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructures) is a cloud for research data in Europe allowing for universal access to data through a single online platform. Since data should be accessible to the growing scientific communities as they collaborate and interact, EOSC federates existing resources across national data centres, e-infrastructures and research infrastructures allowing researchers and citizens to access and re-use data produced by other scientists. The ESCAPE project brings together partners from astronomy and particle physics to collaborate on building the EOSC.

Our Role

Trust-IT brought its expertise, participating in the activities of engagement and communication, which consisted of: 

• Establishing and executing a dissemination and exploitation plan, while building the ESCAPE community;
• Generating standard branding and public engagement materials for ESCAPE (press communications, interviews, flyers, posters, videos, etc). A dynamic presentation video was produced recently to promote ESCAPE, along with many other communication materials which were distributed and presented at worldwide third-party events;
• Creating a project website and portal for internal coordination, and internal and external dissemination of ESCAPE results;
• Supporting attendance at high-level events and meetings where ESCAPE results can be showcased to external stakeholders;
• Supporting test mass participation experiments in face-to-face classroom settings;
• Organising the ESCAPE final event, with 200 participants from 20 different countries across the world.

Trust-IT also developed a “Virtual Research Environment interface development support”, a user interface to put together all ESCAPE services components which are being developed by ESCAPE work packages. Plus, Trust-IT built synergies with industries and SMEs especially in the field of data science to address innovation and development aspects of the project. 

Impact

ESCAPE serves part of the global EOSC catalogue of scientific software, to ensure global open access and long-term usability, which is unlocking innovation for the society at large.

It facilitates interdisciplinary and networked research between different sciences, by building a cross-border and multi-disciplinary open innovation environment for research data, knowledge and services.

This is increasing researchers’ efficiency, thanks to scientific data interoperability, and establish new methodological approaches and rules for quality certified data and science tools sharing.

Funding

ESCAPE has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824064.