Neovia Innovation defines, coordinates and implements activities dedicated to scientific community building and animation of ecosystems, at national, European and international levels. The company plays a key role in connecting research communities, infrastructures and policy actors across Europe. Its portfolio includes major national and European projects funded under Horizon Europe, EuroHPC, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) or national research agencies. These include initiatives such as ODISSEE and ECLAT, through which it contributes to strengthening the data continuum in support of astrophysics and physics research.
Leveraging connections to foster the SPECTRUM Community of Practice
Within SPECTRUM, Neovia Innovation leads activities dedicated to community building, communication and stakeholder engagement. As the consortium partner responsible for establishing and driving the Community of Practice, Neovia Innovation ensures that experts from High Energy Physics, Radio Astronomy and e-Infrastructures can effectively share insights and identify synergies.
Through a combination of regular shared collaboration spaces, interviews with experts from HPC centres and a range of scientific communities, as well as surveys involving all six thematic working groups, the Community of Practice plays a key role in ensuring the success of SPECTRUM’s final deliverables. These include the Technical Blueprint for the compute and data continuum and the Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda (SRIDA).
Supporting the ODISSEE project and the ECLAT laboratory to cope with data deluge
Neovia Innovation also contributes to the ODISSEE project to help Europe’s research ecosystem tackle unprecedented data volumes generated by flagship research infrastructures such as CERN’s High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) and the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO). By supporting project coordination and leading dissemination activities, Neovia facilitates collaboration among 14 academic and industrial partners to develop AI-driven, energy-efficient methodologies that enable the processing of Exabyte-scale datasets and help redefine the data continuum, paving the way for Europe’s strategic autonomy.
In parallel, Neovia contributes to structuring and promoting ECLAT (Extreme Computing Lab for Astronomical Telescopes), a national-scale centre of excellence created by CNRS in partnership with Inria, the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (also a partner of SPECTRUM) and Eviden. ECLAT brings together 14 research laboratories and teams to co-design the next-generation of cyber-physical systems for astronomy.