The deliverable "D8.6 Best practices for service onboarding the EOSC hub", produced in the context of WP8 “EOSC Integration” of NEANIAS project, has been submitted to the EU.

The NEANIAS EU project develops thematic services for EOSC communities in the field of Underwater, Atmospheric and Space research. The integration of the thematic services into the EOSC ecosystem together with the investigation of the possibility of onboarding a number of core services to EOSC as well are among the main project targets to pursue. Furthermore, the reuse of EOSC services for the purposes of NEANIAS services is another key challenge of the project towards EOSC integration.

This white paper reports on the accomplishments of NEANIAS activities towards EOSC integration as they were realised by the time of its preparation. It also highlights the difficulties encountered and the solutions adopted in some cases. Good practices and lessons learnt are also presented in this document.

At the time of writing this document, the project has already onboarded eleven (11) thematic services (TRL7 or greater) and three (3) core services (TRL8 and 9) to the EOSC Marketplace.

This white paper has been written based on the current EOSC landscape, which is a continuously evolving environment, and provides up-to-date information as regards several fields related to EOSC integration, such as architecture, application programming interfaces (APIs), onboarding process, access mechanism, federated services and so on.