Modern research is beyond restricted frames of individual research institutions. As a movement, “Citizen Science” calls people with scientific interests to contribute to everyday research activities. This movement is expected to attract scientists, specialists, students and simple enthusiasts on creating a mutually beneficial relationship between society and science. An online environment that supports, promotes this initiative is expected to have great acceptance, visibility and therefore financial stability. OpenBio.eu is an online environment, which belongs to the area of supplementary and auxiliary services, targeting the broad research and scientific community. Through OpenBio.eu a researcher can import, edit, query, re-use and combine tools and data in an open and collaborative environment. Its main philosophy is that it focuses on researchers with basic IT knowledge that wish to apply complex tools and computational workflows. Through OpenBio.eu, researchers can browse in a wide variety of research objects that will be rich annotated with description, comments and grading provided from fellow users. Most importantly, all research objects will be directly executable in any computation environment. This is a unique feature that is not present in any existing scientific workflow management system. The implementation of this unique feature is possible through the advancements of modern virtual computing technology. Moreover, OpenBio.eu is a collaborative system, which promotes scientific synergy by bringing together users in a fashion that resembles modern social media. Users can locate, collaborate with other users and also grade and comment on their activity. The overall purpose of OpenBio.eu is to become an open, social and active medium for scientific workflow co-creation. In total there are more than 50 existing environments that promise to assist researchers in their everyday activities. Almost all of them employ the same funding model. They offer a limited part of their functionality as free whereas a certain price is charged to allow the use of all features. This model is known as «freemium» and is considered the standard financial model for online services. OpenBio.eu will adopt a relevant model. Any object (tool, data, workflow) in OpenBio.eu platform will be freely accessible to any user. A charge will be applied only if users select to make private the research object that they insert. The charge will be in the order of 10 euros per month and it will be gradually adjusted in order to benefit users that make high use of the system. The pricing policy will be adjusted according to the traffic and acceptance of the platform and after evaluating its operating costs. Scientific publishing houses, research institutions and funding organisms are expected in the near future to become more receptive to open science by overcoming past tedious and restrictive scientific practices. They are also expected to suggest to researchers to adopt open source policies and also to make use of open science tools like OpenBio.eu. OpenBio.eu, renders scientific tasks immediately easily reproducible even by no specialists. Therefore we believe that the use of an environment like this, will not only be a standard practice but also a prerequisite condition for publication from well respected scientific journals and conferences. In general, given the plethora of existing tools that offer a (yet very limited) forms of collaborative research and their great acceptance, we believe that the research community will directly recognize the advantages of OpenBio.eu and it will place it in their everyday scientific inventory as an innovative and necessary tool.