Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite IGDORE members to join and collaborate with the Open Science Commons Cloud (OSCC).
OSCC is a shared, persistent infrastructure for open science and education. It provides continuous, openly governed environments where research, teaching, and collaboration can be conducted in real conditions, without reliance on fragmented or proprietary systems. The infrastructure integrates open courseware, collaborative workspaces, data management, and open peer review into a single, reproducible environment. OSCC emerged from the practical limitations encountered in large-scale European collaboration on open science and education. Existing efforts have developed methods, standards, and networks, but remain largely bound to project timelines and fragmented toolchains. OSCC addresses this gap by providing a continuous operational layer where outputs can be deployed, maintained, and used over time. While the European Open Science Cloud has established a strong policy and federation framework, limitations persist at the level of implementation. Access pathways remain complex, services are unevenly integrated, and many research and education communities lack environments where FAIR principles can be applied in everyday practice. OSCC complements this landscape by providing ready-to-use, integrated systems where data, tools, and workflows are already aligned with open science requirements.
The objective is to address a structural limitation in current research and education systems. Open science is widely endorsed, yet its implementation remains constrained by the absence of stable, shared infrastructure. OSCC provides this missing layer, embedding transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration directly into operational environments.
Participation is open to researchers, educators, and institutions. The infrastructure can be used for teaching, research workflows, and publication processes, while also supporting active contribution to system development. This includes open courseware development, collaborative projects, and the implementation of open peer review and evaluation processes.
For organisations such as IGDORE, OSCC offers a complementary environment aligned with principles of independence, integrity, and openness. It enables research and dissemination within transparent, reproducible systems, while maintaining full control over data, workflows, and outputs.
OSCC is conceived as a long-term infrastructure. The medium to long term trajectory is towards formalisation within the European research infrastructure landscape, including the potential establishment of a European Research Infrastructure Consortium. This would provide stable governance and funding, enabling sustained operation and integration within the European Research Area.
In the short term, we are preparing proposals for the upcoming June calls, in particular the Horizon Europe topic on the uptake of FAIR data management practices and integration with the European Open Science Cloud. This call supports cascading funding for open science projects, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and the deployment of FAIR data, tools, and services within operational environments. OSCC is positioned as the infrastructure layer where such projects can be executed, validated, and sustained beyond their duration. In parallel, we are engaging with NGI Zero Commons Fund, which supports the development of open, commons-based internet infrastructure aligned with OSCC’s model.
These calls require strong consortia and committed participants. We therefore invite interested members to engage in proposal development, either as partners contributing to working groups or as pilot users and institutional sites formally committed to deploying and using the infrastructure. This includes participation in open calls, development of FAIR datasets and workflows, and integration of results into shared environments.
The infrastructure is currently operational and under capacity, ready to support additional users and institutional participation. Engagement at this stage allows contributors to shape both technical development and governance as the system scales.
We would welcome the opportunity to explore collaboration further.
Further information is available at: https://health.int.eu.org
Kind regards,
Henning (né Enric) Garcia Torrents (it / those)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4787-850X
University professor in training, FPU grantee, Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain. Founder and current gender equality and social inclusion officer, EU BEACON One Health Education, EU COST action CA24106 (OC-2024-1-27164). Founder, Open Science Commons Cloud (OSCC).
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Open Science Commons Cloud is a non-profit initiative developing and providing digital infrastructure for schools, higher education institutions, research centres, and collaborative actions and networks. It supports open, interoperable, and community-governed environments for education, science, and public interest work. |
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Editorial activity Reprisals against integrity: Call for chapters for an approved book and online conference (Editor) https://zenodo.org/records/19686799
Recent publications Henning, G. T. (2026). Beyond witnessing: ethical imperatives in action-research on suffering, victims of violence, and structural harm in mental health systems. Methods in Psychology, 14, 100242. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260126000172 Henning, G. T. (2026). EU COST CA24106 BEACON action communication: One Health education, open science, and collaborative infrastructures. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18139649 Henning, G. T. (2025). From compliance to collaboration: Reframing participation, autonomy, and care in mental health systems. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18335321 Torrents, E. G., Björkdahl, A. (2024). Alternatives to Coercion. In: Hallett, N., Whittington, R., Richter, D., Eneje, E. (eds), Coercion and Violence in Mental Health Settings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61224-4_17 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-61224-4_17
