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LifeWatch ERIC

Research Infrastructure

The e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (LifeWatch ERIC) is a distributed Research Infrastructure to advance biodiversity research, to address the big environmental challenges and support knowledge-based strategic solutions to environmental preservation. This mission is achieved by providing access to a multitude of data sets, services and tools enabling the construction and operation of Virtual Research Environments (VREs) or Virtual Labs.

Aim

LifeWatch ERIC seeks to understand the complex interactions between species and the environment, taking advantage of High-Performance, Grid and Big Data computing systems, and the development of advanced modelling tools to implement measures aimed at preserving life on Earth.

Combining a wide range of ICT tools and resources with specialised knowledge, LifeWatch ERIC‘s mission is to be a first–class provider of information and services for the biodiversity research international community by:

  • Offering new opportunities for large-scale scientific development
  • Enabling accelerated data capture with innovative new technologies
  • Supporting knowledge-based decision-making for biodiversity and ecosystem management
  • Providing training, dissemination and awareness programmes.

LifeWatch ERIC is developing an Agro-Ecology Virtual Lab that will  facilitate agro-ecological transition, through a co-designed and co-developed tool for improving problem-solving capacity for researchers, farmers, and providing evidence-based policy-making capacities for government and funding bodies.

Short background information

LifeWatch ERIC enters the 2006 ESFRI Roadmap and was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) since March 2017. The Statutory Seat and the ICT e-Infrastructure Technical Offices are located in Spain. They jointly assist in the coordination and management of the day-to-day institutional relationships and administrative, legal, financial issues. It also coordinates the implementation of e-Services demanded by the Service Centre in Italy, the Virtual Laboratories and Innovations Centre in The Netherlands, as well as other distributed facilities located in other Member Countries of the LifeWatch ERIC which are encouraged to establish Thematic Centres in accordance with its overall architectural scheme.

 

Funding

ERIC Member States, European and national projects.

Methods, stakeholder engagements and tools

  • Using an innovative methodology, a modular Virtual Lab will be provided, which will then incrementally engage distributed resources and provide e-Services, either individually or in any type of possible combination (integration) towards the development of workflows which may offer access, management and analyses to a wide range of data.
  • Such a Virtual Lab guarantees the formation of workflows capable of exploring all the information collected from end-to-end in each of the processes and practices (from the data collected by sensors to the socio-economic ones). This Agro-Ecology Virtual Lab will facilitate agro-ecological transition, through a co-designed and co-developed tool for improving problem-solving capacity for researchers, SMEs and entrepreneurs, and providing evidence-based policy making capacities for government and funding bodies. In addition, citizen science activities are planned.
  • Because agroecology it depends on the customization to local or regional characteristics, the proposed service provides support for the customization of the tool based on the specific community of users needs.

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