Forty representatives e-Infrastructure and Open Science from 15 EU Member States & Associated Countries participated in the kick-off meeting of the H2020 NI4OS-Europe project in Athens. NI4OS is a three-year project that will support the development and inclusion of the national Open Science Cloud initiatives, services and e-Infrastructures in 15 South East European countries, to the European Open Science Cloud – EOSC.

During three intensive days of meetings, the NI4OS-Europe partners worked together to review the project strategic plan and the lines of action, define priorities and goals, and conduct detailed planning. The partners also shared information on the current status of Open Science landscape in each of the participating countries. Ramaz Kvatadze made presentation about future plans related of EOSC activities at GRENA.

NI4OS-Europe is coordinated by GRNET and the consortium consists of 22 partners. The project aspires to enable researchers of the region to store, manage, analyze and share open scientific data, enhancing their work, boosting innovation in Science.