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 destinedto remain just a wish if it is not supported by changes inculture 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.
Keywords: Open Science, gCube, D4Science, Social Networking, Analytics, Publishing