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Four innovative public-private consortia leading the design of the European hybrid cloud platform for science

Earlier this year, ten of Europe’s leading public research organisations with co-funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme - launched the Helix Nebula Science Cloud (HNSciCloud) Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP). The four successful consortia were announced on November 2nd, in Lyon during the award ceremony hosted by CC-IN2P3 (CNRS), one of the main academic data centres in France and a procurer of HNSciCloud. The ceremony was followed by around 80 participants, and the representatives of the four winning consortia presented their vision and approaches for the design of the hybrid cloud platform.

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D7.1 Communication, Dissemination Outreach & Stakeholder Engagement Plan

Report including the communication, dissemination, and stakeholder engagement strategy and covering all communication and outreach activities planned across the target groups. It also defines the performance measures that can be used to monitor the effectiveness of the plan. An updated version of the plan is foreseen at month 18.

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€5.3 million tender for Hybrid Cloud Platform serving science

21 July 2016

Today Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud (HNSciCloud) launched a €5.3 million tender for the establishment of a European hybrid cloud platform. The purpose of the platform is to support the deployment of high-performance computing and big-data capabilities for scientific research.

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How to implement Public Procurement of Innovation: Lessons learned from the PAPIRUS project

PAPIRUS project (Public Administration Procurement Innovation to Reach Ultimate Sustainability) was one of the pilot projects in the area of Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) which is co-financed by the European Commission within the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). This guide on "How to implement Public Procurement of Innovation"...

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PICSE: Guide to Cloud Procurement

This document is not simply a ‘how to’ guide. Rather, its purpose is to act as a checklist for all those involved in procurement of cloud services including problem-owners (customers), operational staff, contract advisors and solutions providers (suppliers) to establish the extent to which their procurement practices are fit for cloud procurement.

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PICSE: Cloud Services Procurement Roadmap for public research organisations

While technology service options continue to evolve, procurement processes and policies of these organisations have remained firmly rooted in historical practices that are no longer effective.  
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PICSE Procuring cloud services today report

Digital transformation is absolutely crucial to any organisation whether public or private. It is at the very core of the digital single market to ensure Europe reaps the socio-economic benefits of new technologies. Cloud computing has the potential to reduce IT expenditure and boost organisational agility while at the same time improving the scope for delivering flexible high-quality new services.

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D2.1 Report on the Open Market Consultation and the results

This report summarizes the results of an open market consultation for the Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) of the Helix Nebula Science Cloud project (HNSciCloud).

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"Helix Nebula Science Cloud Pre-Commercial Procurement pilot", 5 April 2016

Bob Jones, PICSE & HNSciCloud Coordinator, was invited to present the PICSE results and the new HNSciCloud project in the "data infrastructure" session of the Open Science Conference on the 5th of April 2016.

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D1.1 Data Management Plan

This document describes the initial Data Management Plan (DMP) for the HNSciCloud project. It is based on the Guidelines on Data Management in Horizon 2020 document version 2.0 of 30 October 2015.

The deliverable is also available on Zenodo at https://zenodo.org/record/48171?ln=en#.V3vRg01f2Uk

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Who's behind HNSciCloud?

HNSciCloud Pre-Commercial Procurement is driven by ten leading research organisations from across Europe.