Education Infrastructure
Providing persistent environments for open courseware development and delivery, enabling schools and universities to operate continuous, collaborative learning systems without managing their own infrastructure.
Open Science
Supporting reproducible and transparent research workflows, integrating collaboration, data sharing, and open peer review into unified environments for institutions and research groups.
Open Technologies
Delivering fully open source, maintained systems that can be used, adapted, and improved in real conditions, ensuring security, interoperability, and continuous technological development.
Open Science Commons Cloud provides persistent infrastructure for open science and education, enabling schools, universities, and research groups to operate continuous, real-world environments without managing their own technical systems. It supports the development, delivery, and maintenance of open courseware, collaborative workflows, and research processes under strict standards of transparency, reproducibility, and security.
Open courseware development, localization, and deployment: OSCC provides the infrastructure required to design, implement, and sustain open courseware across institutions and regions. Educational resources are created, reviewed, and maintained within shared, version-controlled environments, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and adaptability to diverse local contexts. The system embeds open science principles into the full lifecycle of courseware, including transparent authorship, reproducible content pipelines, and continuous peer review. Courseware is not treated as static material but as evolving systems, iteratively improved through institutional collaboration, validated in practice, and redeployed across educational settings without fragmentation or duplication of effort.
Open technologies and integrated research workflows: OSCC delivers fully open source, maintained systems that integrate learning platforms, collaborative workspaces, videoconferencing, secure data management, and open peer review into a unified infrastructure. All components are version-controlled, interoperable, and designed for long-term stability, ensuring reproducibility and traceability across workflows. Development and use occur within the same environments, allowing institutions to operate, adapt, and improve the systems they rely on. This integration aligns technological development with educational and research practice, enabling continuous refinement of tools, workflows, and user experience within a single, coherent infrastructure.
OSCC addresses a structural limitation in current education and research systems, where infrastructure is often fragmented, temporary, or dependent on proprietary platforms. By providing a persistent, shared, and reproducible environment, it enables institutions to operate continuously rather than episodically, ensuring that teaching, collaboration, and research are not constrained by technical barriers. This approach establishes infrastructure as a common good, where knowledge, tools, and processes remain accessible, verifiable, and collectively maintained over time, supporting long-term institutional capacity and cross-border cooperation.
OSCC operates as a shared infrastructure supporting institutions and contributors across multiple countries and regions. It is designed for deployment across the COST area and globally, enabling collaboration at local, national, and international levels. The system brings together educators, researchers, developers, and public interest organisations working across education, science, and technology. It supports both institutional adoption and active contribution, allowing environments to be used, adapted, and improved collaboratively. The current infrastructure is already operational and capable of supporting hundreds to thousands of users per deployment. It is under active development and expansion, with growing participation and increasing institutional interest. The objective is to scale this infrastructure to serve a broad network of schools, universities, research groups, and organisations, ensuring equitable access to open science and education systems regardless of location or resources.