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European Cloud Initiative to give Europe a global lead in the data-driven economy

The Commission presented on 19 April its blueprint for cloud-based services and world-class data infrastructure to ensure science, business and public services reap benefits of big data revolution.

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ICT Research & Innovation Research Infrastructures Social Science & Humanities Excellent Science European Research Council European Research infrastructures, incl. e-infrastructures Science with and for Society EU countries

date:  20/04/2016

See also:  Full press release

A new European Open Science Cloud will offer Europe's 1.7 million researchers and 70 million science and technology professionals a virtual environment to store, share and re-use their data across disciplines and borders.

Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, said: "We listened to the scientific community's plea for an infrastructure for Open Science and with this comprehensive plan we can get down to work. The benefits of open data for Europe's science, economy and society will be enormous."