[1] A European Union committee on research endorsed a plan for the cloud's development in May 2018.
[2] The European Open Science Cloud officially launched in November 2018, starting to provide access to services via their EOSC Portal.
[3] Public meetings about the project have emphasized the ideological motivations for promoting open science.
[4][5] The development of EOSC is governed by three bodies, as defined by the European Commission Staff Working Document Implementation Roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud: The EOSC infrastructure is built by leveraging on efforts and services developed and operated by several providers.
Moreover, the European Commission specifically funded several projects contributing to the development of EOSC including: