Establishment of a neutral infrastructure with internal and external development resources. 

Founding of an association that promotes the goals of the Research Data Cluster (CFD) at a professional level, bundles services and project results, and thus coordinates the concerns of the entire national research landscape and formulates the participation, rights and obligations of the participants in a binding manner based on a sustainable set of rules.

ARI&Snet enables: 

• Reduction of operational risk at universities 
• Bundled human resources 
• Shared, secure, state-of-the-art infrastructure 
• Sustainable operating models 
• Agile development opportunities in a dynamic research environment 
• Networking & cooperation

Connection to RIS Synergy: 

• Use of the RIS Synergy "neutral zone" 
• State-of-the-art cloud application platform for the operation and further development of RIS Synergy applications and "shared services" 
• Establishment and operation of a (managed) cloud infrastructure for container-based application operation 
• Central identity and access management (human and machine)
• Initial benefits: Input tool, organisational charts, RIS network registry, forschungsdaten.at, documentation, catalogues, authentication and rights management, Pilot ARI&Snet

AP1 Project Management (PM) 

Professional PM from project start to final documentation: 

(1) Coordination & management of the ARI&Snet project. 

(2) Planning & implementation of the necessary milestones as well as creation and monitoring of the schedule and results. 

(3) Ensuring and transparently presenting project finances and services.

AP2 Operations & Governance 

The first priority is to establish the association and set up a set of rules that govern and sustainably expand the association's rights, obligations and tasks. 

(1) Governance 

(2) Operations 

(3) Knowledge Transfer 

(4) EOSC Mission

AP3 Shared Services Marketplace 

(1) Establishment and operation of a national shared services marketplace for researchers, research services, etc. 

(2) Roll-out of initial services for the research data cluster 

(3) Gradual expansion and addition of further services 

(4) Development of billing models and evaluation of further financing options

AP4 Innovation Centre 

(1) Organisation and coordination of training and know-how transfers / peer-to-peer knowledge transfer 

(2) Joint purchasing and coordination of external development resources

(3) Structured support for the transfer of pilot projects into regulated application operation

Pilot project "ARIVO – Austrian Research Infrastructure for Controlled Vocabularies and Ontologies" 

The "ARIVO" project is being carried out as a pilot project for joint knowledge creation. The results of the pilot project will be integrated into the other services of ARI&Snet.

AP5 Public Relations

The acceptance of a new infrastructure such as ARI&Snet is linked to the services available through it, trust in the structure and public visibility. To achieve this, it is necessary to disseminate successes in a targeted manner, communicate competencies and opportunities, and actively engage with networks:

(1) Development of a communication concept (website, social media, etc.) 

(2) Consistent corporate design 

(3) Implementation of awareness campaigns, dissemination of project results 

(4) Stakeholder management 

(5) Establishment of an ARI&Snet seal of quality