OCRE for Earth Observation Research

FREE COMMERCIAL CLOUD & EO SERVICES FOR RESEARCH Easy. Free at the point of the user. Designed for individual researchers and institutions.

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€9 million will be distributed between 2020 – 2021 to be used for services from suppliers who have been awarded a framework agreement in the OCRE tender. 50% will be for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS & 50% for Earth Observation services.

First batch of additional €500k will be distributed to researchers who want to use the IaaS offerings available in the GÉANT IaaS framework. Vouchers distributed via organisations who represent or have access to researchers.

Our multi-tier approach ensures funds for researchers, institutions and buyer groups.

Services to be offered

Commercial Cloud Services IaaS and PaaS providing compute, storage, network and related services and/or platforms allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications, as a public cloud service and SaaS for file storage (sync and share), online collaboration, simulation and virtualisation tools.

Earth Observation Services

Earth observation services covering interactive data analytics and provision of specific Earth Observation data.

OCRE will enable the commercial service providers who create their front- office services on top of back-end DIAS, to offer their services to the research community.