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SERVICE AREAS

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Research IT Solutions


The EnhanceR members have experience from hundreds of research IT projects. On request, EnhanceR assesses your research IT 
needs and provides an offer from its member institutions.​

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Central Operations for Swiss EGI federated Computer Centers

 

EnhanceR provides the central operations for Swiss computer centers in the EGI federation. In 2020, the computer systems at CSCS, PSI, University of Bern and University of Geneva belong to the federation. Use the contact form to inquire about this service.

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eScience Grid Certificates


Together with its member University of Bern EnhanceR provides the Swiss National Authority for eScience Grid Certificates.

You can request Grid host and User certificates here.

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openRDM.swiss

 

openRDM.swiss offers research data management adhering to FAIR principles as a service to the scientific community, based on the powerful openBIS platform. The service is available as a cloud-based version, hosted on a trusted cloud infrastructure with all data securely stored in Switzerland. Alternatively, self-hosting using local IT infrastructure at the respective institution can also be agreed.

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Open IRIS


Open IRIS is a free non-commercial platform to enable research resource (such as lab equipment) discovery and sharing for researchers within, and across labs and organizations.

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Swiss Academic Cloud

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SWITCHengines provides compute and storage services in the form of virtual machines to researchers, lecturers and IT-services of Swiss universities and related institutions.

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SWITCH Cloud is a new offering tailored to the particular needs of the Swiss education, research and innovation system. It meets your specific requirements with regards to flexibility, security and performance and is fully controlled by SWITCH. The cloud solution perfectly complements existing offerings, particularly any of your applications which deal with highly sensitive data.

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European Open Science Cloud Services (EOSC)

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The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a vision of the European Commission. Its realization is implemented with a set of EC funded projects. EnhanceR facilitates access to the services for the European Open Science Cloud, which can be found on the EOSC portal.

​​EnhanceR member SWITCH is maintaining the Swiss observer role in EOSC-hub.​

EnhanceR facilitated the ETHZ participation with its openRDM service in the INFRAEOC-7A project EGI-ACE.

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EGI

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EnhanceR was an associated member in the EGI Federation from 2010 to 2024 (previsouly as SwiNG). This membership enabled Swiss access to EGI resources and projects on a national level.​

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