Coordinating central-western Europe’s plug-in to the European Open Science Cloud is a challenge. But through the collaboration of key players, the foundations have been established through EOSC-Pillar within its first year. Read about the main updates from the EOSC-Pillar project: EOSC-Pillar, One Year On The National Initiatives Survey and its Importance Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy - Working towards an EOSC Federated FAIR Data Space - A Space to Federate them all The Project in Numbers Look into the Future