Work Packages

This Work Package will oversee the overall project administration, finance and project management including definition and coordination of the quality and risk management. It will coordinate monitoring of resource and financial expenditures, contractual obligations and reporting. High-level supervision of Work Packages, internal review of deliverables and plans, monitoring of risk analysis, contingency plans, procedures, KPIs and metrics will also be managed by WP1.

This Work Package will set up the Copernicus Data Federation, making data held by the federation members (including the involved DIAS platforms as well as the collaborative ground segment nodes) available to C-SCALE users and automated workflows. It will also support access to Copernicus data held by third parties, especially where compatible with solutions used in the federation, and maintain or even improve the level of FAIRness of data held by individual members in the federation through the adoption of related EOSC standards and best practices.

This Work Package will define the type and level of integration/federation in the compute federation. It will also coordinate and implement compute federation, leveraging existing EOSC services, standards and interoperability guidelines. Integration of IaaS compute resources into the federation is also coordinated by WP3. Additionally, it will integrate managed HTC and HPC compute resources into the federation, enable Kubernetes and other Docker orchestrators into Copernicus compute and data platforms.

This Work Package will set up the User Forum as the mechanism for the user community to provide feedback to data and compute federation
providers. It will also iteratively (during the progressive implementation of the C-Scale data and compute federation) deploy mature use cases on the C-Scale federated infrastructure to test its usability and functional design. WP4 will also provide feedback via a User Forum to the C-Scale federated infrastructure providers on how to improve its implementation.

This Work Package will focus on the execution and refinement of the plan for the dissemination and exploitation of results (presented in Section 2.2.2). Due to the importance of the EOSC as a dissemination and exploitation channel, the Work Package will also coordinate engagement with VA and other service providers to EOSC. To support capacities of the EOSC and EO communities to use the whole palette of C-SCALE services, the Work Package has a dedicated task for user support and training. This will provide an effective channel for gathering feedback related to service offered and their innovation potential. The long-term exploitation models are based on a sustainability blueprint that is prepared in collaboration with key stakeholders from the EO and EOSC communities (including other projects funded in the INFRAEOSC-07 and -03 calls).