CSC is a Finnish center of expertise in ICT providing services for research, education, culture, public administration and enterprises to help them thrive and benefit the society at large. Established in 1971, CSC is owned by the state of Finland and Finnish higher education institutions. CSC supports a European-wide customer base of thousands of researchers in biosciences, environmental science, linguistics, physics, chemistry and mathematical modelling, as well as social sciences and humanities. CSC's national HPC infrastructure provides Finland’s widest selection of scientific software and databases, training and expert support, and storage and data services. In addition, one of the pan-European pre-exascale supercomputers, LUMI, is located in CSC’s datacenter in Kajaani. CSC has been in key role in many research data related European projects acting as initiator, work package leader and coordinator.