EOSC Steering Board provides recommendations to strengthen Europe’s research data management capacity

The EOSC Steering Board has published an Opinion Paper setting out recommendations to strengthen Europe’s capacity to manage, govern and safeguard research data and data services. The paper proposes options to reinforce the resilience and long-term sustainability of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), ensuring that European research data remain accessible, high-quality and securely governed. It highlights principles such as responsible openness, federation autonomy and strict data-quality control, and calls for sovereign services and closer alignment with common European data spaces. The goal is to enable trusted, transparent data management while keeping Europe fully engaged in global scientific collaboration.

Data sovereignty is also a cornerstone of the European Strategy on Research and Technology Infrastructures, adopted in September 2025, which sets a long-term vision for Europe’s laboratories, data centres and federated digital infrastructures.

The Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026–2027 backs these ambitions with new funding opportunities, including support for trusted frameworks for secure data sharing, sustained provision of digital services and risk management for critical data, as well as support for the Global Biodata Coalition. Together, these measures aim to reinforce Europe’s research data sovereignty and its competitive edge in science and innovation.

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