Today, CERN will host an open day event to discuss on-going efforts aimed at developing a ‘European open science cloud’. The goal of this work is to bring public research organisations and e‐infrastructures together with commercial cloud-computing suppliers to build a common platform offering a range of services to Europe’s research communities.

The event is being run jointly by the Helix Nebula Initiative and the PICSE (Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe) project, which is working to develop innovative procurement models that enable research centres to collectively acquire cloud-computing services to support their research.

The event will take place in the CERN IT Amphitheatre and will also be available to follow via webcast. You can register to attend the event here.