EUDAT is one of the largest infrastructures of integrated data services and resources supporting research in Europe. It is sustained by a network of several European research organisations, data and computing centres that renewed their commitment to EUDAT by signing the new EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure Agreement on 19 June 2026. The new Agreement succeeds the original 2016 Agreement and extends the collaboration for a further 10 years.
This infrastructure and its services have been developed in close collaboration with over 50 research communities spanning across many different scientific disciplines and involved at all stage of the design process.
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Our vision
EUDAT’s vision is Data is shared and preserved across borders and disciplines. Achieving this vision means enabling data stewardship within and between European research communities through a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI), a common model and service infrastructure for managing data spanning all European research data centres and community data repositories.
European researchers and practitioners from any research discipline can preserve, find, access, and process data in a trusted environment, as part of EUDAT. EUDAT offers heterogeneous research data management services and storage resources, supporting multiple research communities as well as individuals, through a geographically distributed, resilient network distributed across multiple European nations and data is stored alongside some of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers.
See EUDAT's contributions to the European research landscape.
Membership
Membership in the CDI is organised into four tiers — Observing, Thematic, Contributing and Leading Members — reflecting each organisation's level of engagement, resourcing and role in EUDAT's governance.
See How to join EUDAT for details.
Funding
The EUDAT CDI is an association of members with operations managed through its legal entity in Finland, EUDAT Ltd.
Our funding comes primarily from the following sources:
- Membership subscriptions of CDI Members
- The European Union (EU), via the European Commission (EC), for the participation in related projects. More about the EUDAT projects.
Before becoming a self-sustained network, EUDAT has received funding from the European Union’s Framework Programme 7 & Horizon 2020 programmes, DG Connect e-Infrastructure & Open Science Cloud Unit under 2 separate contracts:
EUDAT – Sept 2012 – Feb 2015 - FP7 Contract No. 283304
EUDAT2020 – March 2015 – Feb 2018 - H2020 Contract No. 654065
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