Earlier this year, under the umbrella of the RDA TIGER project, RDA Europe ran a second open call for Cascading Grant proposals, aiming to enhance the activities of RDA Working Groups through the adoption and further development of Working Group outputs. This call followed the first announcement of Cascading Grant awardees, released in January 2025.
The RDA TIGER project is pleased to announce the second round of Cascade Grant awardees. These targeted, short‑term projects are designed to lead to impact on the Open Science landscape and the interoperability of Open Science solutions within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Read on for a snapshot of the awardees and their exciting projects.
Enhancing Scholarly Knowledge Graph Interoperability through SKG-IF Integration in TeslaRIS
Project Leader(s): Dragan Ivanovic and Lidija Ivanović, University of Novi Sad (Serbia)
The project will improve Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKG) interoperability by implementing an Interoperability Framework (SKF-IG) in TeslaRIS, an open-source research information system used at the University of Novi Sad. This will enable seamless data exchange, foster Open Science collaboration, and promoting scalable adoption across European research platforms and institutions.
Impact
- Open Science: Enhances the FAIR principles by.providing an advanced framework for smooth (meta)data exchange between scholarly knowledge graphs.
- RDA Network: Helps standardise and streamline data exchange practices, driving innovation in the global data landscape and offering a sustainable solution that can be adopted by other institutions in the RDA network.
- EOSC: Supports the EOSC Interoperability Framework by enabling interoperability between various Open Science Graph initiatives, ensuring that research outputs are integrated into the EOSC ecosystem.
Enhancing Machine-Actionability of the INFRA-ART Spectral Library through FAIR Mappings and Metadata Alignment (FAIRMap4ART)
Project Leader(s): Ioana Maria Cortea, National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics
FAIRMap4ART will boost discoverability, reuse, and interoperability of INFRA-ART datasets by aligning metadata with FAIR principles and RDA standards, strengthening integration within EOSC and the broader open science ecosystem.
Impact
- Open Science: Supports transparency, accessibility, and machine-actionability of research data at the dataset level.
- RDA Network: Aligns with several RDA’s outputs and recommendations to ensure that the INFRA-ART database meets international standards and serves as a replicable model for other research initiatives.
- EOSC: Directly supports the goals of the EOSC Interoperability Framework, addressing the priorities of semantic interoperability and machine actionability of datasets.
Developing an EOSC-compatible National PID Strategy
Project Leader(s): Dr. Michelle Doran (National Open Research Forum) & Jenny O’Neill (HEAnet), Ireland
This project, delivered through a collaboration between Ireland’s National Open Research Forum and HEAnet (Ireland’s National Research and Education Network and EOSC Mandated Organisation), will build on Ireland’s existing national PID strategy and align it with EOSC PID policies and RDA recommendations. The result will be clear, actionable guidance for coordinated and sustainable PID adoption.
Impact
- Open Science: Strengthens persistent identifier infrastructure for a more transparent, accessible, and interoperable research ecosystem.
- RDA Network: Builds on and extends the work of the RDA National PID Strategies Interest Group through international case study contributions.
- EOSC: Directly supports the EOSC SRIA Priority Area on Persistent Identifiers by harmonising national practices with EOSC technical frameworks
Building Immune Digital Twins (BIDT)
Project Leader(s):
- Dr Anna Niarakis, Full Professor of Computational Systems Biology, University of Toulouse, Head of the CoSysBio group, Centre of Integrative Biology, Toulouse, France (Leading Chair)
- Dr Reinhard Laubenbacher, Dean’s Professor of Systems Medicine, Director, Laboratory for Systems Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, US
- Dr Gary An, Green and Gold Professor of Trauma and Critical Care, Vice Chair of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
- Dr Peter Hunter, Director, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Dr Noriko Hiroi, Professor, Kanagawa Institute of Technology/Visiting Researcher, Keio University, Japan
- Dr Mohit Kumar Jolly, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- Dr Liesbet Geris, Professor of Biomechanics, Skeletal Biology & Engineering Research, University of Liège, Belgium, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Dr Kristin Reiche, Head of Biomarker Center and Bioinformatics Unit,Fraunhofer IZI
- Dr James Glazier, Professor of Physics, Adjunct Professor of Informatics and Biology, and Director of the Biocomplexity Institute at Indiana U., Bloomington.
The RDA BIDT Working Group brings together experts in immunology, computational modelling, data science, clinical research, and ethics to build and explore virtual models of the human immune system. These virtual replicas have the potential to revolutionise personalised medicine via large-scale simulations and in silico perturbations.
Impact
- Open Science: Building an open-access model repository and developing infrastructures to integrate, reuse, adapt, and expand models as immune digital twin components.
- RDA Network: Developing a textbook of best practices (guideline document) with input from working group members from accross the globe, sharing best practices with the RDA network and beyond.
- EOSC: Contributes to the metadata and ontologies challenge, as well as tackling gaps in interoperability to bring the first immune digital twin model to life.
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