In a €22bn move to boost research and innovation investments, the EU Commission has awarded Europe’s Open Science Cloud (EOSC), alongside ten other special European programmes, ‘European Partnership’ status to tackle societal challenges like climate change, sustainability, and zero emissions on an epic scale.

More than 73,000 users collaborate on new online platform set up by the European Open Science Cloud Initiative, where scientists share COVID-19 data and accelerate our understanding of the virus to help develop treatments and vaccines quicker.

As privacy concerns grow over contact-tracing app technology, a new monitoring system funded under the European Open Science Cloud initiative will launch on 10th July that allows users with strong symptoms of coronavirus to take full ownership of their personal data while participating in national track-and-trace schemes.