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This document has the main objective of communicating and raising awareness of the UNLOCK-CEI project and its positioning in the larger umbrella initiative named “European Cloud, Edge and IoT Continuum”, formed upon request of the European Commission to help synergise the efforts of a series of funded projects in these domains. The document provides information on how UNLOCK-CEI plans to target the main stakeholders, describing all relevant channels such as the website, social media, events, tools etc. The document outlines also the main expected results and impacts of the communication, dissemination and stakeholder engagement activities as well as how they support the overall project's objectives.

There are several research infrastructures or other data services running in Europe that cover a multitude of marine-related sciences, providing specific datasets coming from observations collected with different methods. These infrastructures constitute a diverse world, each looking at a piece of the big picture. Blue-Cloud aims to overcome fragmentation and create a bridge between thematic science clusters - such as humanities, climate, food and agriculture sciences - and EOSC, creating a data federation and providing a common access to a so-called thematic EOSC for marine data to enhance the visibility and discoverability of data from marine and environmental domains. To overcome this fragmentation, a dedicated Data Discovery and Access Service (DD&amp;AS) has been implemented. This service facilitates discovery and retrieval of data sets and data products for external users in stand-alone mode, also interoperable with other Blue-Cloud services, such as the Virtual Research Environment (VRE). More than 10 million data sets are managed in blue data infrastructures (BDIs) that are connected to this Blue-Cloud service to serve federated discovery and access. A common interface is provided for discovery and retrieval of data sets and data products from each of the federated BDIs. <strong>The Blue-Cloud VRE is powered by the D4Science Infrastructure. [M. Assante et al. (2019) Enacting open science by D4Science. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 101: 555-563 10.1016/j.future.2019.05.063 ]</strong> The full list of EOSC in practice stories is available here

The second FAIRCORE4EOSC Briefing summarises the latest technical updates on the components development, the progress on case studies and the major achievements. Furthermore, it includes an overview of FAIRCORE4EOSC participation in events and forged synergies with partners and other projects.

&lt;p&gt;The CS3MESH4EOSC &ldquo;D5.2 Interim report on dissemination and exploitation of project results&rdquo; is an updated version of &ldquo;D5.1: Communication and stakeholder engagement plan&rdquo; released in September 2020 (M9).&nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

FAIRCORE4EOSC is envisioned to work in close collaboration with other actors in the EOSC ecosystem, including the EOSC Association itself, the H2020 project EOSC-Future, as well as the Horizon Europe project FAIR-IMPACT, with which we have also established a Technical Bridging Team. FAIRCORE4EOSC Briefings are designed to provide periodic updates to the EOSC Partnership on a quarterly basis. They provide a quick overview on project progress, fostering uptake in EOSC of main technical results. Extra! Extra! Read all about it! FAIRCORE4EOSC First Briefing!

From January 2019 to April 2022 SSHOC transformed the current social sciences &amp; humanities data landscape with its disciplinary silos and separate facilities into an integrated, cloud-based network of interconnected data infrastructures. The final conference programme was designed to showcase the results achieved, lever on the valuable synergies built and learn about user stories from the community. There was also time to reflect on policy &amp; sustainability issues and look towards the future. The SSHOC Final Conference brought together 290 of which 90+ joined in Brussels from Research infrastructures, Researchers, Research Libraries and Archives, EOSC key-players, industry and policymakers from the Social Sciences and Humanities and beyond.

On 4 May 2022, EOSC Synergy, together with EOSC-Pillar, EOSC Nordic, ExPaNDS, NI4OS-Europe, EOSC Future<br> and FAIRsFAIR held a workshop, ‘National Policies Relevant to EOSC Deployment: Status, gaps, and steps<br> towards harmonisation’ in Strasbourg. During the workshop, the findings of the regional EOSC projects on national open science, funding, and access<br> provisioning policies were presented. The workshop was timely as it was organised within the last year of the<br> regional EOSC projects. The workshop was also organised right after the EOSC Policy Event organised by EOSC<br> Future in collaboration with the European Commission, the EOSC Association, the EOSC Steering Board and the<br> University of Strasbourg which tackled the same topic but more on a European policy level and context. Ludek Matyska, EOSC Synergy opened the event and welcomed more than 100 online and on-site participants.<br> At the opening, he stressed the importance of implementing EOSC at all levels and having a proper geographical<br> coverage, which is one of the main themes of the event. <strong>Workshop themes</strong> Open Science and EOSC National Policies Funding policies Access Provisioning Policies See the slides presented

The event, free of charge and open to all interested stakeholders, took place virtually on the 9th and 10th of December, 2021, and the main points were: Use Cases: The speakers brought real-life examples of how they are transforming the traditionally slow deliberative policy making process in the fields of health, climate change and mobility, to one that is more agile and responsive. We heard directly from cities themselves on how they are developing better evidence-based policies which adapt as new data comes to light, and which are trusted and contributed to by relevant stakeholders who feel engaged in the process. Tools: We saw how city managers and policy makers are co-creating data-driven decision-making ecosystems with cutting edge tools which enable them to visualise, analyse and even predict the complex impact of decisions across multiple domains, time and space. The event was hands-on with AI, big data and digital twin demos and was inspired by what stakeholders could potentially achieve for their administration. Strategies: Learned how to manage legal, ethical and standards challenges and constraints in our increasingly digital world. From best practices to principles and legislation our speakers helped the audience understand and navigate the complex environment in pragmatic ways that helped them start their own journey.

This EOSC in practice story was developed within the<strong> Cos4cloud project </strong>and targets a very wide user base as it is addressed to any researchers, teachers, students, companies, institutions and, more generally, anyone interested in knowing, studying or analysing biodiversity information. The story presents <strong>Cos4Bio</strong>, a co-designed, interoperable and open-source service that integrates biodiversity observations from multiple citizen observatories in one place, allowing experts to save time in the species identification process and get access to an enormous number of biodiversity observations. This resource is available on the <strong>EOSC Portal Catalogue and Marketplace</strong> The full list of EOSC in practice stories is available here

As defined in the SSHOC workplan, task 2.3 SSHOC web presence will cover all activities related to the design, development, roll-out and continuous update of the SSHOC web presence. An evolved SSHOC web platform will ensure a service-oriented approach to the SSHOC marketplace developed in WP7 and will act as the main project entry point providing a multi-view of the SSH landscape, according to the main research lines of the ERICs involved, namely Art and Humanities, Social Science, Linguistics. The SSHOC web platform will be conceived and structured to ensure visibility and easy access to the technologies and services resulting from WP3, as well as innovation mechanisms in data production (WP4), use cases (WP5) and training materials (WP6), targeting data producers and data re-users in the SSH disciplines, as well as industry players. The web platform will also serve as main repository for all published content and allow access to project deliverables and external resources. It will have specific sections dedicated to events and workshops; it may feature sections to collect user feedback and online surveys. It will be able to optionally host any software repository developed within SSHOC and will provide direct access points to the ERICs websites and other relevant websites, existing catalogues and virtual labs. This task will also provide branding for the Marketplace (WP7) and offer support to improve its Graphical User Interface (GUI) and end-user friendliness. Specific branding of the new services will also be provided, making their look &amp; feel homogeneous under the SSHOC umbrella. In M36, December 2021, the fifth iteration of the SSHOC web platform was achieved (Milestone 7), this document will outline the milestone, its role and the means of verification to its achievement. This document was written in M40, upon the finalisation of the SSHOC project.