ENVRI Community at ICRI 2024

3-5 December 2024, Brisbane, Australia

About ICRI

Hosted biennially, the International Conference on Research Infrastructures is the major professional forum for the global research infrastructure community. ICRI 2024 will bring together policymakers, research institution leaders, facility operators, users and researchers, to discuss pressing topics of interest, trends and challenges facing research infrastructures around the world.

ICRI 2024 will be hosted in the beautiful city of Brisbane (Meanjin in Aboriginal language), the capital of the state of Queensland in Australia, traditionally owned by the Turrbal and Jagera People.

Relevant sessions and side events

ICRI 2024 in Brisbane brings together global experts to discuss key advancements in Research Infrastructures (RIs). This event offers invaluable sessions, with highlights for the ENVRI community including:

Main Conference Session
Tuesday, December 3 | 2:00 pm
Improving Critical Ocean and Earth Observations
This breakout session focuses on strengthening Earth observation capabilities and developing sustainable practices across RIs.

ENVRI Community Side Events

Empowering RIs for Global Impact: Digital Tools and Collaborative Solutions
Monday, December 2 | 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
This session, led by the EGI Foundation, highlights digital projects like ENVRI-Hub NEXT, iMagine, RI-SCALE, SPECTRUM, and PHENET. Learn how advanced tools and AI integration are transforming RI capabilities and expanding data accessibility for broader impact.
Leveraging RIs for Climate Change Resilience
Monday, December 2 | 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Organized by the IRISCC project, this session addresses the role of RIs in global climate action, discussing drought, flooding, and air quality impacts from both EU and international perspectives. The session will feature talks from ICOS, eLTER and RIs from outside the Europe

Join us to engage with digital and collaborative solutions that are driving impactful change across environmental and climate research infrastructures.

More information

Go to the ICRI 2024 website for more information: https://icri2024.au/

Launch Event: OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects and services

On 15 January 2025, from 11:00 to 12:30 CET, join us online for the launch of the 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects and services.

This Open Call is the last of the two calls (total worth ~16 million EUR) foreseen in the frame of OSCARS to support research communities from any scientific domain to take up open science and foster the involvement of scientists in EOSC.

Participants will learn more about the scope and content of the call, and will have the chance to raise any question about its scope, content, conditions, and the application process.

Researchers from all scientific disciplines are welcome to apply to the 2nd OSCARS Open Call before January 15th, 2025, with proposals for the development of Open Science projects or services, that together will drive the uptake of FAIR-data-intensive research throughout the European Research Area (ERA).

Projects are funded with a lump sum between 100,000 and 250,000 EUR, and can be proposed in the fields of any of the Science Clusters and beyond, by any researcher or group of researchers.

By the end of OSCARS, it is expected that a series of valuable scientific results and new services will be available, leading to an increased uptake of Open Science by researchers and to promote cross-border and cross-domain cooperation in the long run.

WHY ATTEND?

To learn about OSCARS and the funding opportunity given by the 2nd OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects and services.
To ask any question about the call, and get useful answers to increase the chances of submitting a successful proposal.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Researchers from all scientific disciplines
Data scientists
Members of research infrastructures

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

OSCARS is a four-year EU-funded project that strives to foster the uptake of Open Science in Europe by consolidating the achievements of world-class European research infrastructures in the ESFRI roadmap and beyond into lasting interdisciplinary FAIR data services and working practices.

Webinar on Lessons Learned from ENVRI-Hub Next Landscape Analysis

Date: 3 September 2024
Time: 10:00 – 12:00 CEST
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Overview:

Join us for a 2-hour interactive webinar, “Lessons Learned from the ENVRI RIs Landscape Analysis,” where we will share key insights and findings from the recent landscape analysis questionnaire on metadata, vocabularies, AAI, and licenses across ENVRI Research Infrastructures (RIs).

Objectives:

Share key findings from the landscape analysis questionnaire
Foster discussions and collaboration among ENVRI RIs

Presenters:

RI representatives who participated in the questionnaire will contribute short presentations during the webinar.

Agenda:

10:00 – Welcome and Summary of questionnaire – Vocabulary (Markus Fiebig, ACTRIS)
10:15 – Summary of questionnaire – Licences (Shridhar Jawak, NILU)
10:25 – Summary of questionnaire – AAI (Shridhar Jawak, NILU)
10:35 – Motivations, questions, challenges as seen by RIs (3 min each)
- ACTRIS ERIC – Markus Fiebig
- AnaEE – Dario De Nart
- eLTER – Jan Bumberger
- EPOS – Daniele Bailo
- Euro-Argo ERIC – Delphine Dobler
- IAGOS – Damien Boulanger
- ICOS – Maggie Hellström
- LifeWatch ERIC – Lucia Vaira
- SeaDataNet – Peter Thjisse
- EISCAT – Carl-Fredrik Enell
- EMSO ERIC – Aljaz Maslo
- SIOS – Lara Ferrighi
11:15 – Discussion
11:50 – Conclusion

Participation:

We encourage all ENVRI-Hub Next Consortium Members and ENVRI community RIs to join this valuable opportunity to learn from each other and explore potential collaborations.

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ENVRI at EGI2024

At the annual EGI conference, international scientific communities, computing and service providers, European projects, security experts, community managers, and policymakers gather to take research and innovation in data-intensive processing and analytics forward, in a safe and open environment with room for in-depth discussion, new insights, networking, … and a lot of fun!

ENVRI at EGI2024

ENVRI-Hub NEXT takes part in the session “Powering Collaboration: Technical Computing and Data Continuum Requirements” on Wednesday, 2 October 16:45-18:oo, where Ulrich Bundke, Scientist at Forschungszentrum Jülich presents “ENVRI-Hub-NEXT: an Ambitious Leap in Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Data Access”.

LifeWatch ERIC is holding the demonstration “Improving Biodiversity Data and Services discoverability: the LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue”, introducing this centralised platform for discovering and disseminating data and services, on 2 October at 14:30.

Come visit us at the Exhibition, as ENVRI-Hub NEXT will be featured at the EGI booth, while LifeWatch ERIC will have its booth. An ENVRI-Hub NEXT poster will also be available during the dedicated session.

Official Website

ENVRI-Hub NEXT all-hands meeting

The ENVRI-Hub NEXT all-hands meeting is also co-located with EGI2024 on the 3-4 October. Project partners will meet to discuss technical updates, the timeline for the first deployment of ENVRI-Hub NEXT, collaboration opportunities with other initiatives, as well as a deep dive into communications, user engagement and training. Check agenda and info on indico.

Sensors and Drones in Atmospheric Sciences: Training Schools by ATMO-ACCESS

November 11-15, 2024

The Cyprus Institute campus in Nicosia (Cyprus) and Empa campus near Zurich (Switzerland)

The ATMO-ACCESS project supports innovative training and education activities related to atmospheric research infrastructures. It is crucial for the future success of European atmospheric facilities to ensure that new generations of researchers acquire knowledge and skills to take advantage of all the essential tools for their research. These two hybrid Training Schools will run in parallel and focus on the operation and scientific exploitation of sensor systems used in urban and remote areas for ground-based applications (Autumn School at EMPA, Switzerland) and on drones (Autumn School at the Cyprus Institute, Cyprus).

This intensive course is suitable for both M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in atmospheric and Earth system sciences who are working with sensor data from atmospheric variables, related to climate change and air pollution.

The application deadline is July 26th, 2024. The list of accepted applicants will be published on the ATMO-ACCESS website latest by mid September 2024.

Click here to read more on the event page.

The Data we need for the Ocean we care for – Satellite event at 2024 UN Ocean Decade Conference

Blue-Cloud Event

9 April 2024 17:00–18:30

World Trade Center, Room 9-10, Barcelona, Spain

Data collection, analysis and application are key enablers for ocean data innovation. Data integration/interoperability is needed. A workshop organised as an off-site event of the 2024 UN Ocean Decade Conference, 9 April 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, will deep dive into cases of success in data sharing practices from European research infrastructures, and how to maximise this potential at global level for contributing to the SDGs and the Digital Twins of the Ocean programmes.

The workshop will be opened by the European Commission’s Directorate-General Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) and will showcase best practices of marine data federation from the Blue-Cloud2026 and the iMAGINE European projects, with specific insights on applications for marine biology and the fishery domain. With input by EMODnet, Copernicus Marine and leading marine research infrastructures, Blue-Cloud (https://blue-cloud.org) is contributing to the open science transformation by an easier discovery and access of blue data, open to all to implement open science and AI. The iMagine initiative (https://www.imagine-ai.eu/) provides a portfolio of image datasets, high-performance image analysis tools empowered with Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Best Practice documents for scientific image analysis.

The OceanTeacher Global Academy (OTGA) and the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) of IOC/UNESCO will also join the workshop to dive into the education and training needs to ensure data management practices and standards are put in place at a global level.

Last but not least, representatives from the European Digital Twins of the Ocean (EU DTO) Programme and its global counterpart, the DITTO programme, will complement with insights from the global efforts to build awareness around the ensuring cross-regional data sharing towards the development of digital twins of the ocean.

More info on the Blue-Cloud website here.

ICOS Science Conference 2024 – Abstract Submission is Open

The 6th ICOS Science Conference will be held in France from Tuesday 10th to Thursday 12th of September 2024 in Versailles Palais des Congrès and online. In addition there will be an ice-breaker networking event on Monday the 9th and excursions or other side events on Friday the 13th so make sure to reserve the whole week in your calendar.

This year’s theme is “From GHG observations through science to services”. The sessions reflect ICOS’s three domains – Atmosphere, Ecosystem and Ocean – and incorporate broader themes such as climate services, science communication and cooperation between Research Infrastructures.

The Call for Abstracts for ICOS Science Conference is now open! The abstract submission deadline is Monday, 8 April, 2024 at 13:00 CET.

Learn more about the sessions and how to submit an abstract on the conference website.

Open and FAIR environmental data for societal benefits, an ENVRI-FAIR policy event

June 20 @ 2:45 pm – 4:45 pm

The ENVRI-FAIR project (2019–2023) is coming to an end, and the achieved results are impressive. In a community effort, the European environmental Research Infrastructures have converged towards the provision of fully open and FAIR data and services that are crucial to provide solutions for the major challenges of our planet: climate change and its impacts on the Earth system, our ability to respond to and predict natural hazards, and our understanding and prevention of ecosystem loss. This event will highlight the main achievements of the ENVRI Community and their concrete applications to benefit our societies. It will open up for future ways to increase the societal impact of the European environmental cluster.

The event will take place on 20.6.2023, from 14:45-16:45 CEST, online and at Lund University, room Lux Aula, Helgonavägen 3 223 62 Lund, Sweden.

Programme
14.50-15.00
Welcome to the European Community of Environmental RIs, ENVRI
Andreas Petzold Coordinator of the ENVRI-FAIR project
Werner Kutsch Chair of the Board of European Environmental Research Infrastructures

15.00-15.10
ENVRI enables open science
Anca Hienola Co-Coordinator of the ENVRI-FAIR project
All environmental data and services provided by the ENVRI Community are ready to be integrated into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

15.10-15.30
ENVRI makes cross-disciplinarity a reality
Niklas Blomberg Director of the European life sciences infrastructure, ELIXIR
Rory Fitzgerald Director of the European Social Survey, ESS
Breaking silos is a major achievement, not only inside the ENVRI Community, but beyond the environmental cluster.

15.30-15.40
ENVRI supports the work with FAIR data and services in the cloud
Peter Thijsse Project Manager at MARIS
Blue-Cloud is an example of advanced services (harmonised data access, Virtual Research Environments…) using FAIR data in the cloud that support the research community and businesses.

15.40-16.00
Questions and answers

16.00-16.15
ENVRI gives access to Europe’s environmental data
Ulrich Bundke Data Manager of ENVRI-FAIR
Angeliki Adamaki Project Manager at Lund University-ICOS Carbon Portal
The ENVRI-Hub demonstrator is the major achievement of ENVRI-FAIR and represents a crucial step in making European data from the environmental cluster accessible to all.

16.15-16.30
Questions and answers

16.30-16.40
Together towards higher societal impact: the future of ENVRI
Andreas Petzold Coordinator of the ENVRI-FAIR project

EOSC Future Train-the-Trainer Active Learning Course

June 26 @ 10:00 am – June 29 @ 12:00 pm

The EOSC Future project is excited to announce its Train-the-Trainer Active Learning Course online June 26-29 2023, 10.00 – 12:00 CEST. This four-day online course covers four different modules for trainers to enhance their understanding of EOSC and various related topics alongside their ability to integrate it into their training activities.

The first module, Preparing to Train about EOSC, will provide trainers with an overview of EOSC, its role in enabling open science, and its main components. The second module, Using the EOSC Portal, will delve into the various services and functionalities available on the EOSC Portal and how trainers can utilise them in their training activities. The third module, Addressing Legal and Ethical Issues relating to EOSC Use, will cover the legal and ethical issues involved in EOSC use, and the ways in which trainers can address these issues in their training activities. Finally, the fourth module, Crafting your own Training using the EOSC Knowledge Hub and Other Resources, will provide trainers with hands-on experience in creating their own training using EOSC resources and the EOSC Knowledge Hub.

Trainers can sign up for one, all, or a combination of the modules, depending on their interests and needs. The course will be delivered online via Zoom from 26-29 June 2023.

Registration is open until 19 June 2023 on the event page. As there is limited space for participants, registration may close early when the maximum attendance list is reached. Should you not be available on these dates, look forward to a repeat of this course from 11-16 September 2023!

Start: June 26 @ 10:00 am
End: June 29 @ 12:00 pm

Website: https://eoscfuture.eu/eventsfuture/eosc-future-train-the-trainer-active-learning-course/

EOSC Symposium 2023

September 20 – September 22

We are pleased to inform you that the dates and location are set for this year’s EOSC Symposium. From 20-22 September 2023, the extended EOSC community will come together in Madrid, Spain.

EOSC Symposium 2023 will be organised by EOSC Future, together with the EOSC Tripartite collaboration (the EOSC Association, the EOSC Steering Board and the European Commission), in the context of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

THIS YEAR’S SUB-THEME: PAVING THE WAY FOR A EUROPEAN DATA SPACE FOR SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

Last year’s event, which took place in Prague on 14-17 November 2022, marked the EOSC Symposium’s return as an in-person event, with over 400 participants. This year, the event will be fully hybrid, facilitating broader exchanges – in person and online – between stakeholders from ministries, policy makers, research organisations, service providers, research e-infrastructures and research communities from across Europe and beyond.

You can get a glimpse of discussions from EOSC Symposium 2022 in the event recap video here.

GET ENGAGED & STAY TUNED

A call for applications will open in April. In the meantime, you can sign up for the event waiting list via the #EOSCsymposium23 website.

Start: September 20
End: September 22

Website: https://symposium23.eoscfuture.eu/