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The first step in the workflow consists in knowing the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as an European initiative, and its implementation via the [EOSC Portal](https://eosc-portal.eu/) where the **[EOSC Catalogue & Marketplace](https://search.marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/search/all_collection?q=*)** is also available.
Beyond this knowledge lies the aspiration to join and/or contribute to the EOSC. There are various ways to engage with the EOSC, as a user or as a future provider, we are here interested in "How to become an EOSC Provider?"

The second step consists in registering as Provider of EOSC. 
Only institutions can register as providers, not individuals. An authorised representative needs to register its organisation as a provider of the EOSC. This is done by filling in a form with information about your organisation. NB: the organisation needs to be a legal entity or to be connected to a legal entity already registered in EOSC

Once registered and approved as EOSC Providers, it is possible to add resources to the EOSC Catalogue. This process is called **onboarding** your services to the EOSC. 

There are two options to onboard resources:
- via the web-based Service Providers Dashboard.
- via the Portal Application Programming Interface (API).

This fourth step relates to a proactive or structured approach to EOSC Onboarding & Integration. Indeed, some institutions might already have their own service catalogue, or their own solutions to monitor their services and support their users, while other institutions are still pretty new to this service management approach. 

Whatever is the situation of your institution, including EOSC Onboarding & Integration into your resource management routines requires some strategic thinking and technical decisions to align with the EOSC processes. 

It is possible to **add value to already onboarded services**, by integrating them with EOSC Core Services. Here are the EOSC Core Services available for integration:
- Monitoring 
- Helpdesk
- Accounting for services 
- Accounting for research products
- Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI)
- Order Management

Factsheets (short version) and [Interoperability Guidelines (long version)](https://search.marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/search/guideline?q=*&standard=true&exact=false&radioValueAuthor=A&radioValueExact=A&radioValueTitle=A&radioValueKeyword=A&fq=eosc_guideline_type:(%22ir_eosc_guideline_type%5C-eosc_core_interoperability_guideline%22)) are here to describe benefits and integration options available per Core Services. Once you are aware of the benefits of integrating with the EOSC Core Services and of the available integration options, concrete technical steps can be taken. 

Some of the benefits of having integrated your resources with the EOSC Core Services is that you can build on that, for example by mining the EOSC. It can help you to show how valuable EOSC is to your user community, it can help you for reporting purposes, but also provide insights into the existing Research Infrastructures EU landscape. Reusing data provided by the EOSC Core Services can help you.

As a service and data provider, you might be interested in offering EOSC workflows to your communities. The idea, still under development, is that different data and services can be put together by the users in a seamless way to perform research. This last step will be quite straightforward for Data and Services rightfully onboarded and integrated with the EOSC and thanks to the EOSC Interoperability Framework and Guidelines. 

Because this final step can be seen as an achievement of the EOSC Service Providers Maturity Model, we recommend service providers to look into the previous steps of this workflow to self-assess the maturity of their institution towards the EOSC. 

Sally Chambers

Laure Barbot

Martin Kirnbauer

*This is a draft workflow* 

The Service Providers Maturity Model is suggested to assess (or self-assess) the level of integration with the **European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)** for any provider interested to join. 

7 steps are identified in this model that can also be seen as an ideal EOSC integration workflow. 

This workflow has been created as part of the [EOSC-Future project](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101017536), and complements the available documentation of the [EOSC Providers Hub](https://eosc-portal.eu/eosc-providers-hub).


EOSC Service Providers Maturity Model

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Workflow steps(7)

1 Getting a Basic Awareness of EOSC

2 Registering as Service Provider

3 Onboarding your First Services and Data Sources

4 Embedding EOSC participation into day-to-day operations

5 Integrating with EOSC Core Services

6 Gaining insights in EOSC

7 Composing your own Workflows