To demonstrate the role of commercial cloud solutions in the effectiveness of research projects, the Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) project will support 15 projects.
In total, approximately 6 million euros will be distributed among 15 European innovation projects, as part of the second phase of the project for the adoption of cloud services created through the OCRE IaaS+ framework agreements.
Each project will receive between €100,000 and €500,000, and one of the distinguishing features of this financing mechanism, explains the OCHER, on its website, is how it “directly connects commercial cloud service providers and researchers.”
All applications were evaluated, scored, and ranked by the OCRE team for cloud technology adoption funding and overseen by an external advisory board.
This moment is seen as fundamental in OCRE's objective of founding a single digital market for digital and information services. cloud for European research. This second phase of funding was also a way to use a remaining portion of the OCRE budget to "help researchers have the tools they need at their disposal, demonstrating their value."
For OCRE Project Director Dave Heyns, this close collaboration between researchers and commercial cloud service providers has been "extremely rewarding for the OCRE team." "We believe we have demonstrated the significant benefits that commercial cloud computing offers to the European research community and contributed to making these services more accessible."
On its website, OCRE details the projects receiving funding. Genetic analysis, virtual reality, or machine learning are some examples that fall into three major areas: Health, Environment and Digital Technologies.
You can find out about the supported projects on the project's official website & others success stories.
