Common use of EGI Foundation Clause in Contracts

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-high- throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/ ANNEX 2. IMCS UL IMCS UL was established on 11th November 1959. Implementing changes in policy on the status of scientific institutions in Latvia, the IMCS UL has been re-registered several times. In 2008, IMCS UL was registered in the EU Register of Scientific Institutions - PIC number 999645723. On 24th of November 2015 with the Cabinet of Ministers order about the UL Agency - Scientific Institute "UL Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science" transformation into the University of Latvia Scientific Institute - a derived public person - "The Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia". On 14th of December 2015, IMCS UL was registered in the Register of Scientific Institutions of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia with a new Certificate number - No. 381013. Several departments and laboratories of IMCS UL focus on their respective fields of research: Knowledge Engineering with Models, Ontologies and Diagrams is conducted at the Research Laboratory of System Modelling and Software Technologies. Research in Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics is conducted at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (with participation of Research Laboratory of System Modelling and Software Technologies). Research in Bioinformatics is conducted at the Research Laboratory of System Modelling and Software Technologies. Research in Real-Time and Autonomous Systems is conducted at the Real Time Systems Laboratory. Research in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis is conducted at the Mathematical Technologies Laboratory. Research on Many-valued Mathematical Structures is conducted at the at the Mathematical Technologies Laboratory. Large scale computing infrastructure architecture is designed to address a wide range of research tasks and provide opportunities to address new challenges: Big Data, In Memory Computing, HPC, Data Streaming, Batch stream computing, GPU Computing, Data intensive computing. Virtualization with the ability to select the virtual server with required processor power, RAM, storage, and unified access to data resources is central in the Cloud Computing services and implemented with the OpenStack platform. The cloud is called E-spiets2. It’s total capacity is: 1760 CPU cores, 28TB RAM, 1PB storage, 10Gbps internal network and 10Gbps connections to the Latvian Academic Network (LAT), GEANT and largest Latvian telecommunication operators. Some of the cloud users are:  Latvian Biomedicine Research and Study Centre, running genome sequence analyses and supporting computations.  Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, using cloud as a cache system for high bandwidth (usual observations are 4Gbps, 24h continuos streams) storage, synchronisation and post-processing.  Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, training and running Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing systems.  Faculty of Computing of University of Latvia, assigning cloud resources to students and staff to develop and deploy various IS and IT configurations for research and education purposes. IMCS UL was partner in EGI-InSPIRE and BalticGrid (I and II) projects. IMCS UL is also part of the GEANT project and managing GEANT access to members of LAT and other Latvian research and education institutions.

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-high- throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/ Annex 2. IMCS UL Description of the legal entity and activities, its cloud infrastructure and user communities that are relevant for the MoU. IMCS UL was established on 11th November 1959. Implementing changes in policy on the status of scientific institutions in Latvia, the IMCS UL has been re-registered several times. In 2008, IMCS UL was registered in the EU Register of Scientific Institutions - PIC number 999645723. On 24th of November 2015 with the Cabinet of Ministers order about the UL Agency - Scientific Institute "UL Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science" transformation into the University of Latvia Scientific Institute - a derived public person - "The Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia". On 14th of December 2015, IMCS UL was registered in the Register of Scientific Institutions of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia with a new Certificate number - No. 381013. Several departments and laboratories of IMCS UL focus on their respective fields of research: Knowledge Engineering with Models, Ontologies and Diagrams is conducted at the Research Laboratory of System Modelling and Software Technologies. Research in Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics is conducted at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (with participation of Research Laboratory of System Modelling and Software Technologies). Research in Bioinformatics is conducted at the Research Laboratory of System Modelling and Software Technologies. Research in Real-Time and Autonomous Systems is conducted at the Real Time Systems Laboratory. Research in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis is conducted at the Mathematical Technologies Laboratory. Research on Many-valued Mathematical Structures is conducted at the at the Mathematical Technologies Laboratory. Large scale computing infrastructure architecture is designed to address a wide range of research tasks and provide opportunities to address new challenges: Big Data, In Memory Computing, HPC, Data Streaming, Batch stream computing, GPU Computing, Data intensive computing. Virtualization with the ability to select the virtual server with required processor power, RAM, storage, and unified access to data resources is central in the Cloud Computing services and implemented with the OpenStack platform. The cloud is called E-spiets2. It’s total capacity is: 1760 CPU cores, 28TB RAM, 1PB storage, 10Gbps internal network and 10Gbps connections to the Latvian Academic Network (LAT), GEANT and largest Latvian telecommunication operators. Some of the cloud users are: Latvian Biomedicine Research and Study Centre, running genome sequence analyses and supporting computations. Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, using cloud as a cache system for high bandwidth (usual observations are 4Gbps, 24h continuos streams) storage, synchronisation and post-processing. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, training and running Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing systems. Faculty of Computing of University of Latvia, assigning cloud resources to students and staff to develop and deploy various IS and IT configurations for research and education purposes. IMCS UL was partner in EGI-InSPIRE and BalticGrid (I and II) projects. IMCS UL is also part of the GEANT project and managing GEANT access to members of LAT and other Latvian research and education institutions. Annex 3. Joint Work plan To support the collaboration objectives defined in article Article 2 (“Purpose and scope”), a joint work plan is defined and will be regularly reviewed and updated at least annually. The Parties will jointly deliver e-infrastructure services and support the needs of global scientific communities. The cooperation is focused, but not limited to the following areas: Coordinated offering of cloud resources and user support for open science via EGI and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Exchange applications and scientific datasets that facilitate open science with e-infrastructures. Exchange information about the impact of e-infrastructure services and offerings on science and showcase these at relevant events. Joint Activity 1. Coordinated delivery of cloud and user support EGI will support IMCS UL to connect with the user access services of EGI and EOSC, particularly to Catalogue/onboard the UL Cloud in the EOSC Cloud catalogue, indicating its availability for Latvian researchers and international projects with Latvian members. Integrate the UL with the EGI Check-in service to enable single sign-on across the EOSC Portal, Marketplace and the cloud itself, and to comply with the EGI Security Policies. Deliver user support and training for national and international communities based on matching interest and skills. Specific focus will be on … Duration 12 months Joint Activity 2. Exchange applications and data EGI will support IMCS UL to connect with the content distribution services of the EGI Cloud, particularly to Connect the UL Cloud with the EGI AppDB Virtual Machine Image Marketplace to enable the staging of Virtualized applications and tools to the UL Cloud for the benefit of Latvian researchers. Connect the UL Cloud to the EGI DataHub to enable the replication of scientific datasets to the UL Cloud for the benefit of Latvian researchers. Share relevant Latvian applications and datasets with EGI and EOSC users via the EGI AppDB and DataHub. Facilitate cross-infrastructure data processing and analytics workflows as demanded by user communities. Duration 18 months Joint Activity 3. Impact of e-infrastructure services EGI and IMCS UL will align and connect their customer relationship management (CRM) process to share EGI and EOSC user feedback and to feed this into their continuous improvement processes. To share success stories, to prepare joint articles, publications, presentations and demonstrations and to present/distribute these at high impact events and through EGI and UL dissemination channels.

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-high- throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/ ANNEX 2. T-SYSTEMS With locations in over 20 countries, 37,900 employees, and an external turnover of 6.8 billion euros (2019), T-Systems is one of the world-leading cross-manufacturer digital service providers with a European headquarters. T-Systems is driven to support its customers to successfully digitize work and business – today and in the future. The portfolio ensures that the digital transformation reduces complexity, saves costs, and makes day-to-day work easier across all areas of customer activities. Cloud computing is increasingly gaining acceptance alongside the classic operation of IT systems. T-Systems can bring around 20 years’ experience to the table in outsourcing, system integration, and the planning, assembly and operation of IT systems, HPC, Big Data enabled large-scale systems and networks. Together with some 90 partner companies – including industry leaders such as Avaya, Cisco, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow and VMware – T-Systems offers customers the full array of different cloud models, from tailored private clouds and low-cost public cloud services through to hybrid clouds. Each of these variants can be in high-security data centers in Europe and operated in accordance with strict European data-privacy standards. Companies can choose to source their – individually scalable – infrastructure, platforms, software and cloud integration "as a service." Since more than 15 years, T-Systems has a strong collaboration with the European Science community, Space Agencies and the European Commission in the Galileo and Copernicus Programmes, various projects and funding programmes. For Galileo, T-Systems is part of the Service Operator being responsible for several core IT- and communication systems that provide services at extremely high availability in classified and non-classified environments. For Copernicus with the first Sentinel Products becoming available for public use, T-Systems was tasked in 2014 to build the Sentinel Datahubs, to provide users worldwide with free and open data access. The Datahubs were implemented based on a T-Systems Big Data Architecture to cater for the by then unpredictable scalability and download requirements. The system meanwhile caters for more than 300,000 users and has provided more than 215 PB of data downloads with an availability of 99,8%. T-Systems advocated in 2015 a paradigm shift from bringing data to users, to bringing users to the data. That led in 2018 to the establishment of several Copernicus Data and Information Access services (XXXX), that today provide users with a choice of industrial data platforms, where they can directly run geo-analytics and AI applications on the data and combine the data with other data sources. T-Systems is the infrastructure provider for Mundi, one of the XXXX platforms, and also designed the architecture for the distributed WEkEO platform, run by EUMETSAT, ECMWF and Mercator Ocean for the weather and marine user communities. Through the participation in various R&D activity related to science cloud computing e.g., the Horizon2020 INDIGO-Datacloud and Helix Nebula Science Cloud projects, T-Systems has been able to obtain significant expertise in the domain of Open Science and the agile, fit-for-purpose services that are required to support scientific communities and transfer technologies to industry. A very strong experience and expertise is available how to combine commercial cloud services with e-Infrastructures through federated identity management and efficient use of the GÉANT network to create Big Data platforms and on-demand infrastructure for the use with AI. Furthermore, T-Systems and its parent Deutsche Telekom are founding members of the new Gaia-X project, launched in October 2019. Gaia-X is a European initiative from the French and German Government, supported by the European Commission, Science and Industry to establish a performing, competitive, secure and trusted data infrastructure for Europe. Gaia-X will be an important asset and accelerator for the know-how and wide-spread use of AI in Europe. Start-ups, SMEs, Enterprises and Science communities are already using and benefitting from T-Systems cloud services, first and foremost Open Telekom Cloud (OTC), T-Systems’ public cloud service based on OpenStack. OTC has been further developed through EU and national R&D programmes to support AI and Big Data use cases and includes functions for Data Management, AI- functions, HPC-as-a-Service, and access to Supercomputing resources of HLRS in Stuttgart. OTC is registered as service in the EOSC Hub and offers components and resources such as servers, containers, orchestration, storage, network, big data, identity management and security functions.

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-for- profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – − coordinated by XXX.xx – − is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – − the Application Database – − EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands DocuSign Envelope ID: 3871858F-FF9E-430C-8AD8-1627B4F5C302 of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/ DocuSign Envelope ID: 3871858F-FF9E-430C-8AD8-1627B4F5C302 ANNEX 2. OPERAS OPERAS is the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area. Its mission is to coordinate and federate resources in Europe to efficiently address the scholarly communication needs of European researchers in the field of SSH. OPERAS’ aim is to make Open Science a reality for research in the SSH and achieve a scholarly communication system where knowledge produced in the SSH benefits researchers, academics, students and more generally the whole society across Europe and worldwide, without barriers. The European landscape of scholarly communication in the SSH is currently patchy, fragmented and not organized enough to be efficient, particularly to address the challenge of transitioning to Open Science. This is due to several factors, such as the small size of resource providers, the historical underfunding and lack of sustainability in this area, the variety of technical skills and resources across the community. The nature of the SSH disciplines also adds specific challenges which are not correctly addressed at scale, such as the diversity of publication languages, the entrenchment in diverse cultural backgrounds and the need for specific forms of scholarly communication (monographs, critical editions, and edited bibliographies, amongst others). By fulfilling its mission, OPERAS provides the research community with the missing brick it needs to find, access, create, edit, disseminate and easily and efficiently validate SSH outputs across Europe. In one word, OPERAS unlocks scholarly communication resources and enables the whole field to reinvent itself in the new Open Science paradigm. OPERAS is currently in its preparation phase, developing a catalog of different scholarly communication services at European level, addressing the specific needs of the research community identified in the previous OPERAS projects OPERAS-D and HIRMEOS. Despite their diversity, OPERAS’ services are designed according to the same pattern that originates in its federating overall mission: they pool, aggregate, or federate existing resources from across Europe to deliver to European researchers a single access point from where they can benefit from the full range of the resources rather than being limited to the local ones. With the development of its services, OPERAS will build a transnational access to scholarly communication resources available to researchers across the European Research Area and integrate its service into the EOSC marketplace as soon as they are ready. DocuSign Envelope ID: 3871858F-FF9E-430C-8AD8-1627B4F5C302 ANNEX 3. JOINT WORK PLAN To support the collaboration objectives defined in article Article 2 (“Purpose and scope”), a joint work plan is defined and will be regularly reviewed and updated at least bi-annually. The Parties will jointly deliver e-infrastructure services and support for Social Science and Humanity research. The cooperation is focused, but not limited to the following areas:

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-for- profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – - is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centerscentres. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-high- throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/ ANNEX 2. CAS AND CNIC Comprising a comprehensive research and development network, Chinese Academy of Sciences brings together scientists and engineers from China and around the world to address both theoretical and applied problems using world-class scientific and management approaches. Under the umbrella of CAS, CNIC is an institute of informatization affiliated to the national science academy under the law of the People’s Republic of China. CNIC has established itself as an important member of the international academic network and achieved high-speed connections with Internet backbones at home and abroad. CNIC is also a domestically important force in frontier fields such as future network, cloud computing and big data. As China’s earliest provider of supercomputing service, CNIC plays a key role as the operation management center and the main northern node of China National Grid. As the constructor, operator and service provider of the scientific database of the CAS, CNIC has established the largest research data storage facility and the basic data resource covering the broadest range of academic disciplines. In addition, CNIC serves as the constructor, operator and service provider of various important national systems such as China Science and Technology Cloud, National Data Sharing Service Platform for Basic Science, National Internet of Things Name Service Platform and Virtual Science Museums of China. Funded by CAS and held by CNIC, CSTCloud takes the responsibilities to integrate the cyberinfrastructure in and out of the academy using the cloud computing technology and to construct and operate the cloud infrastructure monitoring platform and moderately develop the remote monitoring of the basic resources at research institutions. Besides, CSTCloud is also obliged to construct, operate and maintain the cloud service platform and to develop and maintain various services based on cloud resources such as the email system service, video conferencing service, passport service of CSTCloud, document archiving service for working groups and conference organization platform. Further info could be accessed via xxx.xxxx.xx and xxx.xxxxxxxx.xx.

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-for- profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/ Annex 2. CloudFerro CloudFerro provides cutting-edge cloud services. The company builds and operates cloud computing platforms for specialized markets, such as the European space sector, climate research and science. Its broad experience and in-depth expertise include storing and processing big data sets, such as multi petabyte repositories of Earth Observation satellite data. The company offers cost-effective, open-source-based, flexible cloud solutions in a public, private or hybrid model, customized to meet user needs. Extensive range of ancillary services and dedicated technical support are provided by the highly experienced local team of IT specialists with unmatched competences. CloudFerro has been trusted by leading European companies and scientific institutions from various big-data-processing market sectors, including the European Space Agency (ESA), EUMETSAT, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Mercator Ocean International, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), the EGI, to name a few. CloudFerro is the operator of several cloud platforms dedicated for storing, processing and dissemination of Earth Observation data, including CREODIAS, WEkEO, CODE-DE and the Climate Data Store. All the platforms share a common code-base, but each of them offers some specificity in terms of functionality, target-community, localization, available tools and data sets. Copernicus XXXX platform with integration, online storage, continuous ingestion, indexing of newly arriving data, data discovery and access interfaces for the vast majority of Copernicus collections (including Copernicus services) and also for other collections including: Envisat Meris, ESA/Landsat, S2GLC (Global Landcover) and VHR data from commercial providers (currently Jilin-1, KazEOSat, soon: KOMPSAT and others) (see xxxxx://xxxxxxxx.xx/data-offer). We provide online access to EO data for the cloud users of the CREODIAS platform (see: xxxxx://xxxxxxxx.xx/what-is-creodias). The data is available according to individual license (e.g. Copernicus free license). CREODIAS users have access to the rich set of IaaS and data related services (see xxxxx://xxxxxxxx.xx/computting-cloud). Users can process EO data in their cloud environments (using cloud VMs, cloud storage, containers via Kubernetes etc.) using multiple data access interfaces like object S3 or NFS, can process EO products via PGaaS (Product Generation as a Service) where custom (like e.g. S-2 L1 to L2 sen2cor) and private processors can be used, can access data via OGC WMS/WMTS services, can browse data with an online browser and can download data outside of the cloud in a zipped format. The level of access to the EO data (access from a VM, OGC WMS/WMTS, browsing or downloading) can be dependent on a user level of authorization. In addition to ‘raw’ data from Copernicus and commercial suppliers we also have ARD (Analysis Ready Data) collections. One of them is S2GLC. The main purpose of the S2GLC was to develop a methodology for producing a new, high resolution global land cover map based on Sentinel-2 imagery. The Sentinel-2 Global Land Cover data set is exclusively available on CREODIAS. S2GLC project was founded by ESA and created by CBK PAN (Space Research Center, Polish Academy of Science) with usage of CREODIAS resources with full integration with Finder tool (search engine platform) and Browser tool (WMS viewer). Annex 3. Joint Work plan To support the collaboration objectives defined in article Article 2 (“Purpose and scope”), a joint work plan is defined and will be regularly reviewed and updated at least annually. The Parties will jointly deliver e-infrastructure services and support the needs of European scientists and international scientific research activities. The cooperation is focused, but not limited to the following areas: Coordinated offering of cloud resources and user support for open science via EGI and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Exchange applications and scientific datasets that facilitate open science with e-infrastructures. Exchange information about the impact of e-infrastructure services and offerings on science and showcase these at relevant events. Joint Activity 1. Coordinated delivery of cloud and user support EGI will support CloudFerro to connect with the user access services of EGI and EOSC, particularly to Catalogue/onboard CloudFerro service in the EOSC Cloud catalogue, indicating its availability for researchers and international projects. Integrate CloudFerro with the EGI Check-in service to enable single sign-on across the EOSC Portal, Marketplace and the cloud itself, and to comply with the EGI Security Policies. Deliver user support and training for national and international communities based on matching interest and skills. Specific focus will be on creating exemplary value chains utilizing CREODIAS services, creating and taking advantage of containerized processors and using Kubernetes-related services for scalability. Duration 12 months Joint Activity 2. Exchange applications and data EGI will support CloudFerro to connect with the content distribution services of the EGI Cloud, particularly to Connect CloudFerro with the EGI AppDB Virtual Machine Image Marketplace to enable the staging of Virtualized applications and tools to CloudFerro for the benefit of its existing and future users. Connect CloudFerro to the EGI DataHub to enable the replication of scientific datasets CloudFerro for the benefit of its existing and future users. Share relevant applications and datasets from CloudFerro with EGI and EOSC users via the EGI AppDB and DataHub. Facilitate cross-infrastructure data processing and analytics workflows as demanded by user communities. Duration 18 months Joint Activity 3. Impact of e-infrastructure services EGI and CloudFerro will align and connect their customer relationship management (CRM) process to share EGI and EOSC user feedback and to feed this into their continuous improvement processes. To share success stories, to prepare joint articles, publications, presentations and demonstrations and to present/distribute these at high impact events and through EGI and CloudFerro dissemination channels.

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/ Annex 2. Open Science Grid The Open Science Grid (OSG) provides common service and support for resource providers and scientific institutions using a distributed fabric of high throughput computational services. The OSG does not own resources but provides software and services to users and resource providers alike to enable the opportunistic usage and sharing of resources. The OSG is funded through a diverse portfolio of awards from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. The OSG supports science such as: High Energy Physics Structural Biology Community VO (multiple sciences): OSG Connect The OSG is primarily used as a high-throughput grid where scientific problems are solved by breaking them down into a very large number of individual jobs that can run independently. The most successful opportunistic applications run on the OSG share the following characteristics: The application is a Linux application for the x86 or x86_64 architecture. The application is single- or multi-threaded but does not require message passing. The application has a small runtime between 1 and 24 hours. The application can handle being unexpectedly killed and restarted. The application is built from software that does not require contact to licensing servers. The scientific problem can be described as a workflow consisting of jobs of such kind. The scientific problem requires running a very large number of small jobs rather than a few large jobs. Further info could be accessed via xxxxx://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/. Annex 3. Joint Work plan To support the collaboration objectives defined in article Article 2 (“Purpose and scope”), a joint work plan is defined and will be regularly reviewed and updated at least bi-annually. The Parties will jointly deliver e-infrastructure services and support the needs of global scientific communities. The cooperation is focused, but not limited to the following areas: Provide joint support for international communities Establish technical working groups on topics of joint interest (e.g. data management/transfer; AAI) Organize joint ‘call for use cases’ Harmonize and align operational activities regarding support to middleware, operational security, libraries and tools Joint Activity 1) Provide support for international communities The parties will identify research communities of joint interest in using resources/services from both OSG and EGI, and will coordinate support and service delivery for these communities. Examples of scientific disciplines include structural biology (WeNMR), astronomy and astrophysics (LSST, LIGO/Virgo, …), high-energy physics, neutrino observatory (IceCube), and communities providing scientific gateways of international relevance. Joint Activity 2. Establish technical working groups on topics of joint interest The parties will establish focused, technical working groups to study technologies of joint interest, and to exchange information about experiences with the use of those technologies in federated environments. The first working groups are foreseen to be established on data management and on authentication-authorization infrastructure (AAI). Joint Activity 3. Organize joint ‘call for use cases’ The parties will organize one annual joint open call to expand the group of jointly supported research collaborations. The calls will invite international research communities to express interest in the use of resources/services from OSG and EGI. The parties agree to implement disciplinary cooperation and relevant use cases in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Parties’ governance boards. Joint Activity 4. Harmonize and align operational activities regarding support to middleware, operational security, libraries and tools

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/ Annex 2. CAS and CNIC Comprising a comprehensive research and development network, Chinese Academy of Sciences brings together scientists and engineers from China and around the world to address both theoretical and applied problems using world-class scientific and management approaches. Under the umbrella of CAS, CNIC is an institute of informatization affiliated to the national science academy under the law of the People’s Republic of China. CNIC has established itself as an important member of the international academic network and achieved high-speed connections with Internet backbones at home and abroad. CNIC is also a domestically important force in frontier fields such as future network, cloud computing and big data. As China’s earliest provider of supercomputing service, CNIC plays a key role as the operation management center and the main northern node of China National Grid. As the constructor, operator and service provider of the scientific database of the CAS, CNIC has established the largest research data storage facility and the basic data resource covering the broadest range of academic disciplines. In addition, CNIC serves as the constructor, operator and service provider of various important national systems such as China Science and Technology Cloud, National Data Sharing Service Platform for Basic Science, National Internet of Things Name Service Platform and Virtual Science Museums of China. Funded by CAS and held by CNIC, CSTCloud takes the responsibilities to integrate the cyberinfrastructure in and out of the academy using the cloud computing technology and to construct and operate the cloud infrastructure monitoring platform and moderately develop the remote monitoring of the basic resources at research institutions. Besides, CSTCloud is also obliged to construct, operate and maintain the cloud service platform and to develop and maintain various services based on cloud resources such as the email system service, video conferencing service, passport service of CSTCloud, document archiving service for working groups and conference organization platform. Further info could be accessed via xxx.xxxx.xx and xxx.xxxxxxxx.xx. Annex 3. Joint Work plan To support the collaboration objectives defined in article Article 2 (“Purpose and scope”), a joint work plan is defined and will be regularly reviewed and updated at least annually. The Parties will jointly deliver e-infrastructure services and support the needs of global scientific communities. The cooperation is focused, but not limited to the following areas: Develop and adopt interoperable e-infrastructure services and federation resources. Define a governance framework and align access policies, rules for participation, Operation Level Agreements and mechanisms that facilitate joint e-infrastructure federations. Explore the development of an open science cloud with a global scope, mobilize and Co-sponsored the Global Open Science Cloud Initiative. Show case demonstrated approaches, services and tools for open science. Joint Activity 1. MoU definition The two parties aim to have an official MoU (this MoU) prepared and signed by Q2 2020. A joint permanent working group (the “Working Group”) of experts from the Parties will be established to define, implement, maintain, and review this joint work plan over time. Task duration: 2 months.

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – - is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centerscentres. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/

EGI Foundation. The Stichting EGI (also known as the EGI Foundation and abbreviated as XXX.xx) is a not-for-for- profit foundation established under the Dutch law to coordinate the EGI federation (abbreviated as EGI), an international collaboration that federates the digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation has participants and associated participants drawn from representatives of national e-infrastructure consortiums (NGIs), EIROs, ERICs, and other legal entities. These entities provide the physical resources and shared services that enable EGI to deliver, improve and innovate services for communities. The EGI Foundation coordinates areas such as overseeing infrastructure operations, user community support, contact with technology providers, strategy and policy development, flagship events and dissemination of news and achievements. The EGI Federation – coordinated by XXX.xx – is one of the largest distributed computing infrastructure for researchers. It leverages the local investments of national research funding agencies by bringing together hundreds of data centres worldwide. It also includes the largest research cloud federation in operations in Europe with tens of participating cloud providers across most of the European countries offering IaaS cloud and storage services. The EGI offering includes a federated IaaS cloud to run compute- or data-intensive tasks and host online services in virtual machines or docker containers on IT resources accessible via a uniform interface; high-throughput data analysis to run compute-intensive tasks for producing and analysing large datasets and store/retrieve research data efficiently across multiple service providers; federated operations to manage service access and operations from heterogeneous distributed infrastructures and integrate resources from multiple independent providers with technologies, processes and expertise offered by EGI; consultancy for user-driven innovation to assess research computing needs and provide tailored solutions for advanced computing. The EGI Cloud Federation aggregates resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. Through the EGI Virtual Machine image library – the Application Database – EGI offers the possibility to share and reuse virtual appliances and to dynamically deploy them in a federated cloud infrastructure. Besides cloud compute and storage services, the cloud will offer the capability of accessing open datasets of public and commercial relevance for scalable access to big research data, fostering a culture and environment for sharing and reuse of open research data. EGI supports the implementation and adoption of cloud open standards. The EGI technical platforms are co-developed with research communities and technology providers. In order to do so, EGI has established processes and technical infrastructures for requirements gathering, software validation, verification and distribution through the Unified Middleware Distribution. Over the last decade, EGI has built a federation of long-term distributed compute and storage infrastructure that has delivered unprecedented data analysis capabilities to tens of thousands 11 of researchers from many disciplines (e.g., Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural Sciences, and Art and Humanities). Examples of the supported research include the search for the Xxxxx boson at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN; the search for gravitational waves of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, or the development of complex simulations to model climate change. Further information (e.g. governance; services) can be found at: xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/ ANNEX 2. OPERAS OPERAS is the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area. Its mission is to coordinate and federate resources in Europe to efficiently address the scholarly communication needs of European researchers in the field of SSH. OPERAS’ aim is to make Open Science a reality for research in the SSH and achieve a scholarly communication system where knowledge produced in the SSH benefits researchers, academics, students and more generally the whole society across Europe and worldwide, without barriers. The European landscape of scholarly communication in the SSH is currently patchy, fragmented and not organized enough to be efficient, particularly to address the challenge of transitioning to Open Science. This is due to several factors, such as the small size of resource providers, the historical underfunding and lack of sustainability in this area, the variety of technical skills and resources across the community. The nature of the SSH disciplines also adds specific challenges which are not correctly addressed at scale, such as the diversity of publication languages, the entrenchment in diverse cultural backgrounds and the need for specific forms of scholarly communication (monographs, critical editions, and edited bibliographies, amongst others). By fulfilling its mission, OPERAS provides the research community with the missing brick it needs to find, access, create, edit, disseminate and easily and efficiently validate SSH outputs across Europe. In one word, OPERAS unlocks scholarly communication resources and enables the whole field to reinvent itself in the new Open Science paradigm. OPERAS is currently in its preparation phase, developing a catalog of different scholarly communication services at European level, addressing the specific needs of the research community identified in the previous OPERAS projects OPERAS-D and HIRMEOS. Despite their diversity, OPERAS’ services are designed according to the same pattern that originates in its federating overall mission: they pool, aggregate, or federate existing resources from across Europe to deliver to European researchers a single access point from where they can benefit from the full range of the resources rather than being limited to the local ones. With the development of its services, OPERAS will build a transnational access to scholarly communication resources available to researchers across the European Research Area and integrate its service into the EOSC marketplace as soon as they are ready.