Project Details

Project acronym:  LUMEN

Full project title: Linked User-driven Multidisciplinary Exploration Network

Project duration: 36 months from 1 January 2025 – 31 Dec 2027

Number of partners: 20 partners from 10 countries

Contact: communication.lumen@maxweberstiftung.de

Funding: HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01-05

Project page on Cordis: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101187940

Website: https://lumenproject.eu/

Project Description

The LUMEN project is an initiative to advance cross-domain collaboration and discovery processes in four academic fields: Mathematics (Maths), Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), Earth System Science (ES) and Molecular Dynamics (MD). Through interdisciplinary solutions spanning all four domains, LUMEN sets out to significantly improve discovery by innovation, simplifying initial research phases and facilitating access to advanced AI-powered tools for researchers. LUMEN aims to transform and strengthen EOSC services by promoting innovative and customisable solutions for data discovery. LUMEN thereby seeks to attract new users while simultaneously fostering Open Science principles. 

By expanding existing discovery platforms in the SSH (GoTriple) and Maths (Centre Mersenne) domains and developing new platforms for the two other domains, the project will deploy a set of interoperable platforms. These will include cross-platform features as well as domain-specific tools tailored to the needs of researchers. Eventually, this set of interconnected and interoperable platforms will work as a fully operational multidisciplinary ecosystem of discovery platforms, enabling seamless cross-disciplinary knowledge exchange and collaboration.

Partners:

  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
    • Université Paris Cité (UPCité), France
    • Institut de Recherche pour le Développment (IRD), France
    • Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), France
  • Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Area for Social Sciences and Humanities (OPERAS), Belgium
  • Net7 SRL (Net7), Italy
  • E-Science Data Factory (eSDF), France
  • Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), Germany
  • The University Court of Abertay University (AU), United Kingdom
  • Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra), Portugal
  • Know Center Research GmbH (KNOW), Austria
  • Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland (MWS), Germany
  • Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk (PSNC), Poland
  • Foxcub (FOXCUB), France
  • Industry Commons Foundation (ICF), Sweden
  • FIZ – Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur GmbH (FIZ), Germany
  • Sveuciliste u Zadru (UNIZD), Croatia
  • Instytut Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk (IBL PAN), Poland
  • Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita di Bologna (UNIBO), Italy
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH), Germany

Project Outcomes:

  • White-label platform offering discovery services and interdisciplinary features to the communities
  • Federation of platforms in 4 different scientific domains
  • FAIR Semantic Management Space
  • AI-driven discovery assistant
  • Multiplatform innovative tools & services for the discovery platforms
  • Data mesh architectural framework
  • Federated data sharing governance