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Description
The OSCARS project represents a unique European collaboration that unites Research Infrastructures across the European Science Clusters (SCs) representing the key domains: environmental research, physics and astronomy, photon and neutron, social, and life sciences. At its core, OSCARS focuses on promoting open science and FAIR data principles and addresses this challenge by three primary objectives: consolidation of existing research data services, engagement with a broad network of stakeholders, and the uptake of open science principles. A key initiative addressing these objectives are the Cascading Grants to support small-scale Research Projects focusing on various tasks around the FAIR principles from all five SCs. These Research Projects are facilitated by and aligned with the European Open Science Cloud and prove to be a very successful bottom-up approach for open science adoption.
In this contribution, we present the activities of OSCARS from the focus on the Photon and Neutron Open Science Cluster (PaNOSC), identifying the benefits to our community. We will highlight the activities of the three work packages that engage directly with the SCs, including the establishment of domain-oriented community-based competence centers, enhancing scientific discovery by composability, and the connection to national and international projects in Europe.
