The Open Science Agora Consortium, led by Athena Research Center, with EGI Foundation, OpenAIRE AMKE and Netcompany Intrasoft SA as key partners, are the recipients of the European Commission's DG CNECT public procurement tender, "Managed Services for the European Open Science Cloud Platform (EOSC) - LOT1" to build, deploy and operate the Core Federation Services of the EOSC EU Node. The EOSC EU Node is expected to provide access to a diverse portfolio of FAIR data and professional-quality interoperable services across various domains, including data handling, computing, processing, analysis, and storage.