Enacting Open Science by gCube

The Open Science movement is promising to revolutionise the way science is conducted with the goal to make it more fair, solid and democratic. This revolution is destined to remain just a wish if it is not supported by changes in culture and practices as well as in enabling technologies. This paper describes the gCube offering to enact Open Science-friendly Virtual Research Environments. In particular, the paper describes how a complete solution suitable for realising Open Science practices is achieved by a social networking collaborative environment in conjunction with a shared workspace, an open data analytics platform, and a catalogue enabling FAIR principles on every research artefact.