Supporting the implementation and adoption of EOSC by helping resource providers verify legal and ethics onboarding requirements.

The current version of the EOSC rules of participation report edited by the EOSC Executive Board Rules of Participation (RoP) Working Group (WG) states the standards and conduct required of EOSC participants.

The rules themselves are high level in order to be generally applicable and longlived. However, the lack of details and specific compliance criteria can make it difficult for providers to understand all the needed requirements, if they have no legal background or experience, which is not unusual in many companies, especially SMEs. Moreover, openness, transparency, and inclusiveness are among the key principles that have been defined by RoP. Ensuring these principles can be a particularly demanding task when dealing with legal and ethics aspects. Therefore, a self-assessment tool, which can help EOSC service providers understand the main priorities of EOSC RoP and the actions they have to undertake to be compliant with the core principles of the RoP, is needed.

The solution proposed to adress the mentioned challenge is a tool called RoLECT. It was developed by Athena Research & Innovation Center, whose aim is to build knowledge and devise solutions and technologies for the digital society. The company is one of the NI4OS-Europe partners and a member of the EOSC Association