Final summary of EuroScienceGateway main achievements, impacts, key results, sustainability data management and exploitation plans

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This deliverable provides the final project summary of EuroScienceGateway (ESG), a Horizon Europe and EOSC initiative (Grant Agreement 101057388, Sept 2022–Aug 2025) coordinated by Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. It summarizes ESG’s main achievements, impacts, FAIR data management, sustainability and exploitation plans, and dissemination outcomes.

Technically, ESG delivered a production-grade, federated research gateway built on Galaxy and an expanded Pulsar Network, enabling scalable, data-intensive analysis across heterogeneous European compute and storage. Key innovations include Bring-Your-Own-Compute/Storage (BYOC/BYOS), a smart meta-scheduler (TPV Broker), Galaxy Job Radar dashboard, and streamlined deployment/admin tooling—altogether improving throughput, data locality, and operational transparency.

The project operationalized FAIR principles for computational workflows by packaging and publishing Workflow RO-Crates with persistent identifiers via WorkflowHub, advancing EOSC interoperability. Federated AAI (e.g., EGI Check-in, LS Login, IAM4NFDI) supports secure access across institutions. ESG contributed >20 workflows, >40 tutorials, and >10 peer-reviewed publications, and collaborated with 20+ initiatives. Six national Galaxy instances and 10+ Pulsar endpoints were launched; the European Galaxy instance achieved ISO/IEC 27001 certification.

Community impact was substantial: registered users on the European Galaxy portal grew from ~30,000 to >130,000, with monthly actives doubling to >6,000, underpinned by >20 online/onsite workshops and large-scale training through the Galaxy Training Network and Training-Infrastructure-as-a-Service (TIaaS).

Sustainability is ensured through distributed governance, national/institutional hosting of Galaxy/Pulsar services, continued curation of workflows and training materials, and alignment with EOSC service models and funding pathways. The report closes with exploitation routes for beneficiaries and stakeholders and a record of dissemination and outreach activities across the European research ecosystem.

SEEK ID: https://workflowhub.eu/publications/47

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16909970

Teams: EuroScienceGateway

Publication type: Tech report

Publisher: Zenodo

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16909970

Date Published: 20th Aug 2025

URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16909970

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Authors: Armin Dadras, Oana Kaiser, Björn Grüning, Sebastian Luna-Valero, Enol Fernandez-del-Castillo

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Dadras, A., Kaiser, O., Grüning, B., Luna-Valero, S., & Fernandez-del-Castillo, E. (2025). Final summary of EuroScienceGateway main achievements, impacts, key results, sustainability data management and exploitation plans. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.16909970
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