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FIDELIS Network for TDRs


Strengthening the backbone of open science
 

Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs) are a critical pillar of the research ecosystem, ensuring secure and sustained access to digital research objects. They serve as essential infrastructure in the research data lifecycle, enabling researchers to share, access, and reuse data and other digital objects while ensuring the long-term preservation of research outputs. As the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) continues to expand, the role of TDRs grows ever more significant, facilitating active preservation and ensuring that digital research objects maintain their FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) characteristics over time​.

 

Become a provisional FIDELIS network member

 


 

Building a resilient and inclusive network
 

From day one, the FIDELIS project is anchored in a diverse and extensive network of repositories, spanning multiple disciplines and geographic regions. This solid foundation enables the project to pilot its initiatives in real-world settings, engaging with early adopters who will play a key role in shaping and expanding the FIDELIS Network. The project’s hands-on, iterative approach ensures that best practices are tested, refined, and widely adopted​.

To support repositories in their transition toward trustworthiness and FAIR compliance, FIDELIS will develop common frameworks for repository policies and workflows. These frameworks will provide guidance and structured support, helping repositories implement and sustain best practices in data management. Furthermore, a peer-to-peer support system will facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity building, ensuring that TDRs can learn from one another’s experiences and challenges​.

Moreover, FIDELIS prioritises co-creation, actively engaging repositories in shaping the Network. By maintaining a user-centric approach, the project ensures that the Network evolves in alignment with repository needs and priorities. Repository owners will be invited to provide input on requirements and feedback early on and during the integration process. 

What are the benefits of joining the FIDELIS Network?


As the provisional members of the FIDELIS Network, you can contribute in shaping the future of TDR in Europe. Some of the benefits include :

  • Shape the FIDELIS Network, its governance and sustainability.
  • Engage in the pilot support offer in 2025. This offer will consist of various solutions – services, tools, methodologies, and policies – being provided by project partners, EOSC projects and provisional members of the network.
  • Engage with the other Network members, hearing about future projects and relevant EOSC developments, and potentially meeting future project partners. Be among the first to learn about FIDELIS cascading grants for later support actions.
  • Free membership until January 2027! 
     

The FIDELIS Network is having its introductory webinar! 

The FIDELIS Network will be based on the needs of European digital repositories, offering a range of support and training opportunities in their work on becoming trustworthy and sustainable. If you want to learn how the FIDELIS Network can help your repository, join the first introductory webinar to the FIDELIS Network.

Learn more about the Webinar


A high-Impact and long-term vision of FIDELIS

FIDELIS is driven by a long-term vision to build a healthy, vibrant, and self-sustaining network of TDRs that will strengthen the EOSC ecosystem. With over 200 digital repositories already connected through its partners, the project will leverage these existing networks to engage repositories across diverse disciplines, including Geosciences, Oceanography, Earth Science, Social Sciences and Genetics.


Beyond building expanding the network, FIDELIS will foster harmonization and interoperability among repositories, laying the foundation for an EOSC federation of TDRs. Through a structured training and support program, the project will also enhance the skills and capabilities of repositories, ensuring their long-term sustainability and increasing their impact within the broader research infrastructure.
 
 
Become a provisional FIDELIS network member
 
 
 
 
 

Expert Curation Network - EOSC EDEN

 
The EOSC EDEN Project will establish an expert curation network with representation from organisations, repositories ( both generalist and specialist), collections, catalogues, and at various digital object type levels. Through this network, we will define and agree upon specific roles and responsibilities for curation tasks, including quality assessments ( technical and standards compliance vs scientific) and value assessments based on the purposes and intra- and cross-disciplinary reuse demands of data and other digital objects. Additionally, two curation network events will be organised for intensive learning and discussions with curation specialists. More details will follow.