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ENVRI-Hub NEXT & EVERSE Training Webinar: Research Software Quality Assessment

Research Software Quality Assessment: from local development to production environments

NEW DATE: Wed 21 May 2025 | 11:00-13:00 CEST

A joint online training event by ENVRI-Hub NEXT and EVERSE.

This hands-on training session aims to provide developers with a practical approach to code quality assurance (QA), including: research software FAIRness and sustainability, containerisation, and security assessment of their applications, all integrated within GitLab CI pipelines.

The main goal is to equip developers with the tools and procedures needed to maintain code quality, build secure container images, and automate deployments efficiently from local development to production environments.

Participants will be provided with a git account to upload their code into a preconfigured quality pipeline.

Target audience

Application developers and research software engineers across all scientific domains.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Docker, Quality Assurance (QA) concepts, and DevOps pipeline fundamentals.

Learning objectives

    • Compare good practices for code deployment, management, and monitoring.
    • Use a preconfigured pipeline to assess your code.
    • Run a quality pipeline in your own environment.

Trainer panel

    • Miguel Viana, DevSecOps Engineer, LIP – Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics
    • João Machado, Research Assistant, LIP – Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics
    • Zhiming Zhao, Associate Professor, Informatics Institute, UvA – University of Amsterdam

Agenda (all times CEST)

11:00 – 11:05 Welcome and introduction
11:05 – 11:35 Good practices in research software quality assessment: the ENVRI-Hub use case
11:35 – 11:50 The EVERSE framework for research software quality assessment
11:50 – 12:00 Q&A
12:00 – 12:45 Hands-on exercise:
Step #1 Use a preconfigured quality pipeline to assess your code
Step #2 Run a quality pipeline in your own environment
12:45 – 13:00 Debrief in plenary and wrap-up

How to register

Places for the hands-on session are limited to guarantee the ideal trainer-to-trainee ratio. Your registration request will be reviewed before approval.

Register now

EGU25: ENVRI Lunch talk programme

Get your daily dose of highlights from environmental research infrastructures and supporting projects during EGU25! Join our Lunch Talks at the ENVRI Community booth (Entrance Hall, booth 64-65) Monday till Thursday between 12:45 and 13:45. No registration required. Listen to our experts, and join the conversation. Full programme below:

Monday, April 28

ENVRI community core projects: innovation and access

12:45-12:55
“ENVRI-Hub NEXT: Advancing Cross-disciplinary Collaboration and FAIR Data Integration in Environmental Research” by Ulrich Bundke, FZJ & ENVRI-Hub NEXT Technical Coordinator

A brief introduction to the ENVRI-Hub NEXT project: ENVironmental Research Infrastructures delivering an open access Hub and NEXT-level interdisciplinary research framework providing services for advancing science and society

12:55-13:05
“ENVRINNOV: introducing innovation support for, and by, the ENVRI community” by Marina Papageorgiou, ENVRINNOV Project Coordinator

Join this talk to find out how ENVRINNOV can support innovation for your RI and help facilitate collaboration with science and industry to drive development and adoption of new technologies and services. The ENVRINNOV project is developing a common innovation roadmap for the ENVRIs, along with online resources, training and networks to promote innovation for, and by, the community

13:05-13:15
“ATMO-ACCESS: Offering Sustainable Access to Atmospheric Research Facilities” by Ariane Dubost, ACTRIS-FR Communications officer

Showcase of ATMO-ACCESS Transnational and Virtual Access opportunities targeting atmospheric research community and beyond!

13:15-13:25
“Navigating Climate Risks: How to Discover and Access IRISCC Services” by Paivi Haapanala

Demonstration of how users can find, navigate and apply for access to IRISCC services

13:25-13:35
“OSCARS: Open Science. Built by you” by Anca Heinola, Finnish Meteorological Institute

OSCARS flips Open Science on its head by funding researchers directly to create the services and tools they actually need. Through cascading grants, competence centres, and a focus on community-driven innovation, OSCARS builds a more usable, flexible, and truly researcher-shaped EOSC.

13:35-13:45
“Introduction to the IAGOS services for EU projects” by Hannah Clark

Contributions from IAGOS to the projects ATMO-ACCESS, IRISCC and RI-URBANS

Tuesday, April 29

Virtual access and modelling

12:45-12:55
“From Data to Discovery: EGI’s Advanced Computing for Environmental Research” by Marta Gutierrez, Community Support Specialist EGI Foundation

Showcase our services to the environmental research community together with success stories

12:55-13:05
“AnaEE, experimenting and modelling the future of ecosystems” by Biljana Đorđević, Scientific Officer

AnaEE is linked with many RI in the ENV and H&F domain. Its catalogue app is the basis for 4 projects, and several RI in project.

13:05-13:15
“Collaborative virtual labs in the cloud with Notebook-as-a-VRE” by Gabriel Pelouze, LifeWatch

Presentation of NaaVRE, which allows users to create workflows from Jupyter notebooks and run them in the cloud, and the co-development of virtual labs

13:15-13:25
“ENES-RI: towards a sustained climate modelling research infrastructure” by Giovanni Chellini,  ENES-RI Scientific Officer

Presentation of the ENES-RI sustained climate modelling infrastructure currently under preparation as a continuation of IS-ENES

Wednesday, April 30

Services and Opportunities from ENVRIs and projects in the atmosphere, ecosystem and multi-domains

12:45-12:55
“ICOS Greenhouse Gas Observation Data & Services” by Claudio D’Onofrio, Project Manager at ICOS Carbon Portal

In this talk we will present ICOS data products and access with our in-house VRE

12:55-13:05
“SIOS Services for high Arctic research” by Heikki Lihavainen, Director of SIOS

Presenting SIOS Services with showcases, including POLARIN project providing TA and VA to Polar stations and ice breakers

13:05-13:15
“eLTER’s services for researchers” by Ulf Mallast, Head of eLTER Service Development

Introducing eLTER’s new researcher-focussed services that promote access to data, research sites and socio-ecological platforms

13:15-13:25
“Transdisciplinary services for research in AgroEcology, a new approach” by Michel Boër, coordinator

Agroserv is the first infra-serv project in agroecology. We feature common services between several RIs, 5 living-labs, and specific integrated catalogue of 150 services

13:25-13:35
“ACTRIS Services for Science, Society, and Innovation” by Giulia Saponaro, Senior Officer, Communications and External Relations

Interested in atmospheric research? Learn how ACTRIS connects you with world-class facilities, data, and an expert community to advance your research and tackle today’s atmospheric challenges

Thursday, May 1

Marine domain Research Infrastructures, projects and training opportunities

12:45-12:55
“GEORGE – Next Generation Technologies for Ocean Observations” by Janne-Markus Rintala, Project Cooridator

Presentation on the key technology innovations and training opportunities for RI professionals

12:55-13:05
“Argo in polar latitudes” by Birgit Klein, Argo Germany lead

Extending Argo towards the ice covered areas

13:05-13:15
“AMRIT services for the European and Global Ocean Observing Systems” by Sara Pero

Introduction to the AMRIT project and how it is supporting Marine RIs integration

13:15-13:25
“EMSO Academy: Advancing Marine Science Expertise” by Sara Pero

From summer school to training, the EMSO opportunities for enhancing skills in marine science

13:25-13:35
“SeaDataNet – Evolution of the infrastructure and current status” by Alessandra Giorgetti

SeaDataNet has been developed since 2006 as a pan-European marine data infrastructure based on over 100 national oceanographic data centres and almost 900 data providers. SeaDataNet services and standards are used by regional and European data infrastructures to format, harmonise and make accessible measurement data.

13:35-13:45
“Blue-Cloud 2026 – Federated European FAIR and Open Research Ecosystem for oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters” by Dick M.A. Schaap, Blue-Cloud 2026 Technical Coordinator

Giving an overview of Blue-Cloud VRE, Virtual Labs, WorkBenches, and Data Lakes and its federation with EDITO

 

In addition to the booth presence, the ENVRI community supports and promotes several key sessions that highlight the role of RIs in advancing environmental science. You can read more about the ENVRI Sessions and Splinter meetings on the main ENVRI at EGU event page.

ENVRI at EGU 2025: Join Us in Vienna!

The ENVRI community is delighted to announce its participation in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025, taking place in Vienna from 27 April to 2 May 2025. The conference serves as a platform for showcasing advancements in geosciences and interdisciplinary research, and we are proud to highlight the role of the ENVRI community and supporting projects in advancing environmental science.

Visit the ENVRI Booths

This year, the ENVRI community will host two medium-sized booths (Booths 64 and 65), prominently located at the entrance to the conference venue. These booths will serve as hubs for:

Join the Lunch Talks at the ENVRI Community booth Monday till Thursday between 12:45 and 13:45. Read more about the Lunch Talk programme.

Explore Relevant Sessions

In addition to the booth presence, the ENVRI community is excited to support and promote several key sessions that highlight the role of RIs in advancing environmental science:

Monday, 28 April

ITS3.11/ERE6.3 – ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE THROUGH INTEGRATED RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES

Orals | Mon, 28 Apr, 08:30–12:30 (CEST) Room 2.24
Posters on site | Attendance Mon, 28 Apr, 16:15–18:00 (CEST) | Display Mon, 28 Apr, 14:00–18:00 Hall X4
Posters virtual | Attendance Thu, 01 May, 14:00–15:45 (CEST) | Display Thu, 01 May, 14:00–18:00 vPoster spot 2

Convener: Anna Santoro | Co-conveners: Gustavo Naumann, Quertenmont Pierre, Elena Garbarino

  • Focus: High-level outcomes from integrated RIs, with an emphasis on policy impacts, governance, and the strategic future of environmental science.
  • Ideal Contributions: Large-scale impacts, strategic insights, and policy-oriented research outcomes.

ITS3.1/CL0.14 – MERGING SOCIAL SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Orals | Mon, 28 Apr, 14:00–17:55 (CEST) Room 2.24
Posters on site | Attendance Mon, 28 Apr, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) | Display Mon, 28 Apr, 08:30–12:30 Hall X5
Posters virtual | Attendance Thu, 01 May, 14:00–15:45 (CEST) | Display Thu, 01 May, 14:00–18:00 vPoster spot 2

Convener: Hilde Orten | Co-conveners: Claudio D’Onofrio, Hannah Clark, Angeliki Adamaki, Solmaz MohadjerECS

  • Focus: Exploring the intersection of social sciences and environmental studies.
  • Topics: Climate action plans, environmental governance, biodiversity conservation, disaster risk reduction, and resilient communities.

TM15 – Discover New Research Opportunities: How to Get Access to World-Class Facilities, Tools, and Data with Transnational and Virtual Access

19:00–20:00 (CEST) | Room N1

Convener: Magdalena Brus | Co-conveners: Päivi Haapanala, Janne Rinne

Wednesday, 30 April

SPM19 – ENVRINNOV Innovation through Collaboration Training

Convener: Ariane Dubost | Co-convener: Valentina Tegas
Wed, 30 Apr, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) | Room 2.61

 

The Horizon Europe-funded project “ENVRINNOV – ENVironment Research Infrastructures Innovation Roadmap,” is working towards developing a common Innovation Roadmap for the environmental research infrastructures (ENVRIs) community. As part of the project, a series of capacity building sessions is being developed to promote collaboration and establish a shared understanding of Innovation concepts and processes in the ENVRI community, including on Technology Development, Technology Transfer, and Industrial Approach.

The first session will take place during EGU and aims to:

– Provide a general introduction to the concept of innovation in the context of ENVRIs, and how it can benefit RIs and the ecosystem.
– Demonstrate how the ENVRINNOV project can support ENVRIs in their innovation process.
– Explore ways of enhancing communication and collaboration between ENVRIs and the private sector as a means to accelerate innovation.

If you are interested in taking part, please register here.

Draft event programme is attached here.

For any additional information, you may contact a.dubost@opgc.fr

 

TM11 – Science, No Fiction: Touchdown. The Environmental Open Science Starship Returns to Earth – The Next Generation of Open Scientists!

19:00–20:00 (CEST) | Room N1

Convener: Jacco Konijn | Co-convener: Magdalena Brus

Thursday, 1 May

ESSI2.7 – BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN USER NEEDS AND SUSTAINABLE EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA SOLUTIONS: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES AND COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES

Convener: Convener: Christian Pagé | Co-conveners: Hannes Thiemann, Christin Henzen, Heinrich Widmann, Christopher KadowECS, Wolfgang zu Castell, Paul Kucera

Orals | Thu, 01 May, 08:30–12:30 (CEST) Room -2.92
Posters on site | Attendance Thu, 01 May, 16:15–18:00 (CEST) | Display Thu, 01 May, 14:00–18:00 Hall X4

ESSI2.3 – ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL AND EARTH SCIENCES WITH RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES AND E-INFRASTRUCTURES: CASE STUDIES ON CROSS-DISCIPLINE DATA SHARING AND VIRTUAL RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTS

Convener: Eugenio Trumpy | Co-conveners: Massimiliano Assante, Angeliki Adamaki, Jacco Konijn, Magdalena Brus, Anca Hienola, Marta Gutierrez

Orals: Thu, 01 May, 14:00–15:45 (CEST) | Room -2.92
Posters on site: Attendance Thu, 01 May, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) | Display Thu, 01 May, 08:30–12:30 Hall X4

  • Focus: Technical and scientific advancements in data integration, interoperability, and collaboration.
  • Ideal Contributions: Case studies, tools, and practical solutions showcasing innovations within the ENVRI community.

How You Can Participate

We invite all ENVRI RIs and supporting projects to:

  • Attend our sessions!
  • Engage with the Booth and talk to our experts
  • Join the ENVRINNOV Splinter Meeting: We warmly invite all members of the ENVRI community, as well as anyone interested in innovation in environmental research infrastructures, to participate in this interactive and engaging pilot training session. Feedback from this first session, will help shape further training to be made available to the community.

For more information or questions about the ENVRI presence at EGU 2025, including contributions to the booth, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

We look forward to seeing you at EGU 2025, as we highlight the collective strength and impact of the ENVRI community in advancing environmental research!

ENVRI-Hub NEXT at ISGC 2025

Date: 16-21 March 2025
Location: Taipei

The rapid evolution of AI is reshaping scientific discovery across a wide range of research fields. At ISGC 2025, the focus will be on the practical deployment of AI technologies, particularly how they have been successfully integrated to accelerate research and address complex challenges. From machine learning models to large language models (LLMs), AI’s transformative impact is undeniable, and the conference will showcase real-world use cases and share valuable lessons learned in deploying these technologies. By showcasing the practical uses, ISGC 2025 aims to provide participants with actionable insights into how AI can be applied to enhance their research and drive innovation in their fields.

In parallel, hybrid quantum computing is emerging as a promising game changer, similar to the rise of AI in recent years. As quantum computing continues to complement traditional supercomputers, it holds the potential to solve problems that were previously thought intractable. ISGC 2025 will explore the current state of hybrid quantum systems, discussing their deployment and the challenges in integrating these cutting-edge technologies. Together, AI and quantum computing represent the future of computational science, offering unprecedented opportunities for innovation. ISGC 2025 will foster an environment for sharing ideas and solutions, helping participants refine their approaches and collaborate to overcome the challenges of deploying these transformative technologies.

ENVRI-Hub NEXT at ISGC 2025

Marta Gutiérrez David, Community Support Specialist at the EGI Foundation, is giving a keynote speech “Bridging Environmental Research Infrastructures in Europe, ENVRI-Hub Next” on 20 March at 11:45 local time.

The project ENVRI-Hub NEXT builds on years of collaboration to provide interoperable datasets, services, a knowledge base supported by AI-driven search engine and training across key Earth system domains—atmosphere, marine, ecosystems, and solid Earth—while leveraging advanced distributed e-infrastructures such as EGI.

This keynote will explore the technical foundations of the ENVRI-Hub gateway and its role in enabling environmental research infrastructures (RIs) to jointly investigate the full chain—from essential climate variables to global climate indicators and Earth system feedback mechanisms. The ENVRI-Hub is evolving towards establishing an Environmental Node, aligning with Europe’s vision of building the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation as a network of Nodes to support cross-disciplinary scientific research and innovation.

Official website

Join the ENVRI-Hub User Group

Are you a researcher, data scientist, or environmental professional passionate about open science and environmental research? Join the ENVRI-Hub User Group, an engaged community working together to shape the next generation of environmental research infrastructure services.

Sign Up Here

Why Join the ENVRI-Hub User Group?

As a member, you will:

✔ Engage with a Community: Connect with researchers, data scientists, and experts shaping the future of environmental research tools.
✔ Boost Your CV: Gain hands-on experience in consulting, testing, and validating digital research tools. Earn an official online certificate for completed training, which you can showcase on LinkedIn and your CV.
✔ Influence Future Training: Define your training needs and help shape tailored capacity-building programs to enhance research skills.
✔ Advance Your Expertise: Participate in customized training sessions to expand your knowledge of ENVRI-Hub services and environmental research tools.
✔ Test and Validate Cutting-Edge Tools: Collaborate with developers to test new interfaces and features, ensuring they meet real-world research needs.
✔ Provide Valuable Feedback: Share insights on how ENVRI-Hub services can be improved.
✔ Get Early Access: Be the first to test new tools and services before public release.
✔ Stay Updated: Receive exclusive insights into ENVRI-Hub developments, milestones, and upcoming features.

What’s Expected of You?

We value your time! Participation is flexible and low commitment:

  • Provide feedback via short surveys or usability testing.
  • Test new tools and share your experience with our team.
  • Attend occasional virtual or face-to-face meetups (optional but aligned with key conferences such as EGU).
  • Act as an ambassador by sharing ENVRI-Hub within your network.

What is the ENVRI-Hub?

The ENVRI-Hub is a one-stop platform providing seamless access to environmental research infrastructures, tools, and services across disciplines. Whether you’re working on climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem services, or other environmental challenges, the ENVRI-Hub equips you with interoperable data and tools aligned with FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)—empowering groundbreaking research.

Ready to Join?

Become a founding member of the ENVRI-Hub User Forum and help shape the future of digital environmental research!

Sign Up Here

ICRI 2024: Summary of the ENVRI Community’s Contributions and Key Highlights

The International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI) 2024 served as a key event for the global research infrastructure (RI) community to discuss the role of RIs in tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges. This year’s conference, held in Brisbane, was especially significant in framing climate change and sustainability as central themes in the global research agenda. Throughout the conference, the ENVRI community played a vital role in shaping the discourse, presenting new insights, and reinforcing the value of environmental RIs in addressing climate risks and advancing global sustainability.

ENVRI Community Activities at ICRI 2024

The IRISCC project side event at ICRI 2024 focused on climate risks, showcasing how environmental RIs are directly contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation. IRISCC highlighted the importance of international collaboration among RIs, with the aim of building resilience through data sharing and integrated climate services. The event provided a platform for discussions on the role of RIs in addressing climate risks, emphasising their impact on global policymaking and environmental strategies. The side event featured talks from ICOS (Werner Kutsch), eLTER (Michael Mirtl), and IRISCC (Janne Rinne).

Another major highlights were the ENVRI-Hub NEXT, iMagine and PHENET presentations, which took place during a side event organised by EGI showcasing digital tools and collaborative solutions for RIs. Presented by Eija Juurola (ACTRIS ERIC), the session demonstrated how ENVRI-Hub NEXT is advancing interoperability among environmental data and services. The session also showcased the solutions developed in the iMagine project. Presented by Ingrid Puillat (EMSO ERIC), the talk explained how RIs cn utilised AI for high-performance image analysis. Finally, Stijn Dhondt (EMPHASIS) presented the PHENET project and outlined the real-world challenges and opportunities in managing and analysing large phenotyping datasets.

Main Conference Programme: ENVRI Community Representation

In addition to the side events, the ENVRI community was well-represented in the main ICRI 2024 programme. Several leading environmental RIs contributed to the discussions on the role of RIs in global science and climate action:

These presentations underscored the critical role of environmental RIs in providing the data, tools, and collaborations necessary for advancing climate science and sustainability efforts worldwide.

GERI: the Global Collaboration of ecosystem RIs

One of the side events at ICRI 2024 focused on the Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI), a partnership of site-based research infrastructures dedicated to understanding the function and dynamics of indicator ecosystems across global biomes. The European partners, eLTER and ICOS, collaborate with international counterparts including TERN(Australia), SAEON (South Africa), CERN (China), and NEON (USA).

The session provided an overview of recent GERI activities, including a comprehensive landscape analysis of research infrastructures and use case studies—such as investigations into ecological drought—leveraging data shared across partner RIs. Discussions also addressed the critical need for concerted funding mechanisms across continents, engaging representatives from potential funding bodies to explore pathways for sustainable and collaborative support of GERI’s mission.

The Brisbane Statement: A Call for Climate Action

The Brisbane Statement, which emerged from ICRI 2024, served as a key outcome of the conference. This statement placed climate change at the forefront of global research priorities and called for stronger international cooperation to address the climate crisis. It highlighted the pivotal role of Research Infrastructures (RIs) in driving climate action, promoting a green transition, and fostering sustainable development through innovation in research.

The Brisbane Statement urged stakeholders to continue strengthening international RI collaborations, ensuring that RIs remain central to global efforts in combating climate change. It also emphasised the need for RIs to contribute to policy development, technological advancements, and the integration of diverse data and perspectives in tackling the interconnected challenges of climate change, health, food security, and sustainable energy.

Conclusion

ICRI 2024 reaffirmed the ENVRI community’s role in driving the global climate action. By highlighting the crucial role of RIs in supporting a green transition and addressing the urgent challenges of our time, the conference underscored the importance of continued collaboration, digital innovation, and interdisciplinary efforts to ensure a sustainable and resilient future for all.

Webinar on Lessons Learned from ENVRI-Hub Next Landscape Analysis

Date: 3 September 2024
Time: 10:00 – 12:00 CEST
Register now

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.

Register now

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.

ENVRI community contributes to ENVRI-Hub NEXT: Advancing Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Data Access

Eight Environmental Research Infrastructures (ACTRIS ERIC, AnaEE ERIC, EPOS ERIC, EuroArgo ERIC, IAGOS, ICOS ERIC, LifeWatch ERIC and eLTER) are integral of the ENVRI-Hub NEXT project that will bring the gateway to interdisciplinary environmental research data – ENVRI-Hub – to the NEXT level. Launched on February 1, 2024, and funded by Horizon Europe under Call: HORIZON-INFRA-2023-DEV-01, the project convenes a consortium of 21 partners for a face-to-face meeting at the EGI Foundation in Amsterdam’s Science Park from February 6 to 8, 2024.

Project Overview

ENVRI-Hub NEXT aims to expand multidisciplinary environmental sciences by fostering operational synergies between the participating environmental research infrastructures and beyond. The project leverages complementarities in data and services provision, enhancing the integration of cutting-edge information technology and contributing to a more integrated, productive, and globally competitive ENVRI Science Cluster.

 

Objectives and Ambition

The participating ENVRIs are actively contributing to addressing the growing demand for environmental scientific knowledge. Our involvement aligns with the project’s goal of further integrating research infrastructures across subdomains (Atmosphere, Marine, Solid Earth, and Biodiversity/Ecosystems) and horizontally, with the e-infrastructures to leverage the full potential of the ENVRI cluster for integrated environmental research.

To transform integrated Earth observation into a concept for a global climate observation system, ENVRI-Hub NEXT aligns with the World Meteorological Organization’s set of Essential Climate Variables (ECV) and global climate indicators. These variables provide empirical evidence crucial for understanding and predicting climate evolution, guiding mitigation and adaptation

Project Duration and Impact

The project is coordinated by the EGI Foundation and is set to run until January 2027, contributing to the European Open Science Cloud and promoting collaboration across environmental research infrastructures.

More information

For more information on the ENVRI community’s role and contributions, please contact communications(at)envri.eu. Stay tuned for the official project website launch at www.envri-hub-next.eu. In the mean time, follow our updates on LinkedIn or X.