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ENVRINNOV Training Session #2 — A Great Success!

The second ENVRINNOV training session of 2026 took place online on 24 February, 2026, bringing together more than 20 participants for an insightful online webinar. Led by Marie-Aude Richard from Réseau C.U.R.I.E, the session explored key aspects of innovation management within research infrastructures, including innovation potential mapping and core principles of technology transfer.

The variety of RIs present at the session was interesting, as it reached people beyond the ENVRI community.

We now look forward to the third and last session on May 6th 2026, at EGU 2026 in Vienna, where we plan a dedicated focus on intellectual property and technology transfer.

If you are attending EGU 2026 and you’d like to attend our session, you can sign up here.

Help Us Improve the ENVRI Innovation Hub

The ENVRI Innovation Hub (EIH) online platform developed through the ENVRINNOV project, brings together a collection of tools, templates, policies and practical resources to support co-creation for the development of new technologies and services across the Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI) community.  

We are now looking for volunteers to help us make sure the platform is as useful, practical, and easy to use as possible. 

We warmly invite members of the ENVRI community to join our testing group. This can be particularly relevant to those working in the management and administration of Research Infrastructures (RIs), innovation officers, industry liaison officers, those working in external relations, strategy or the development of new services as well as researchers working in R&D. 
Your experience and feedback will help us shape resources that genuinely support your work and the wider community. 

To join our test group, complete the short sign-up form below. Testing is expected to begin in March 2026, and we will share more details with participants closer to the time. 

ENVRI Innovation Hub (EIH) online platform- call for testers – Fill in form 

Thank you in advance for helping us strengthen the ENVRI Innovation Hub and support innovation across the community. 

More information about ENVRINNOV is available on the project website: https://envri.eu/envrinnov/ 

Sign up here.

ENVRINNOV is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or REA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. 

ENVRI at EGU26

Discover the ENVRI contributions at the upcoming EGU26 in Vienna, submit your abstracts and join us there!

The ENVRI community is delighted to announce its participation in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2026, which will take place in Vienna from 3 to 8 May 2026.

The EGU General Assembly 2026 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early-career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.

Meet us at the ENVRI Community booth #27 of the EGU26 exhibition to learn about projects such as ENVRI-Hub NEXT, ENVRINNOV, and IRISCC.

This page is being constantly updated with content from other ENVRI-related projects and RIs.

Explore Relevant Sessions

The ENVRI community is excited to support and promote several key sessions that highlight the collaborative role of RIs in advancing environmental science:

ITS1.20/ESSI4.3 – Co-Creating Climate Services: Linking Essential Variables with Actionable Decision Support

Convener: Anca Hienola | Co-conveners: Tomohiro Oda, Theresia Bilola, Federico Drago, Matti Heikkurinen, Gregor Feig, Anca Anghelea

The paradigm of Essential Variables (EVs) – ECVs, EOVs, EBVs – provides a data-driven foundation for global environmental monitoring (GCOS, GEO, UN SDGs). Yet, their full potential is hampered by interoperability gaps, fragmented governance, and siloed infrastructures, limiting integrated use and translation into local action.

Conversely, local demand for actionable information is growing. Earth Observation data, often as Analysis-Ready Data (ARD), must be transformed into locally relevant, co-created Action-Ready Information (ARI) for climate solutions. This requires integrating global EVs with local data and knowledge.

This session bridges these fronts. We explore technical, infrastructural, and socio-technical advancements to evolve EVs into a truly interoperable, global common language and ensure their effective translation for local decision-making. We welcome contributions on:

– Interoperability Foundations: Semantic frameworks (iADOPT, SOSA/SSN), FAIR principles, and lessons from research infrastructures (ENVRI, CRDCs) aligning EVs across domains and global programmes.
– From ARD to ARI: Case studies on transforming EV-based products into local insights via co-creation, integrating satellite data with in-situ, citizen science, and indigenous knowledge.
– Cross-Scale Infrastructure: Architectures and platforms (e.g., digital twins) enabling seamless data flow from global systems to local applications.
– Policy & Capacity: How interoperable EVs strengthen global policy (IPCC, SDGs) and how local insights inform action, including funding, capacity building, and governance models.

We invite scientists, data engineers, social scientists, and policymakers to connect the “essential” with the “actionable”, forging a coherent path from global observation to local solution.

ESSI2.5 – Bridging Earth Science Research Through Integrated E-infrastructures And Virtual Research Environments (VREs): From Digital Services To Digital Twins

Convener: Massimiliano Assante | Co-conveners: Christian Pagé, Magdalena Brus, Lesley Wyborn, Chris Atherton, Jacco Konijn, Eugenio Trumpy

Scientific discovery today increasingly depends on the availability of digital services and infrastructures that span the entire research workflow. While sensors, simulations, and lab experiments produce massive data, many tools for analysis remain fragmented in stand-alone systems, often hindering collaboration and a comprehensive understanding of complex Earth systems.

To address this, e-Infrastructures and Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are revolutionising how research is conducted. By providing a cohesive ecosystem, these platforms allow researchers from diverse disciplines to manage the research lifecycle: from data acquisition and processing to modeling and dissemination in the spirit of Open Science. This integration enables the research community to transition from isolated tools to interoperable systems like Digital Twins.

This session aims to highlight how interoperable e-Infrastructure services can be used to build VREs and Virtual Labs to provide end-to-end support, strengthening research capacity through collaboration between service providers and scientists. We bring together case studies and new approaches from all domains of the Earth sciences, focusing on both technological implementations and scientific applications.

Contributions in this session will:
– Demonstrate practical examples of how digital services, VREs, and e-infrastructures enhance research workflows in Earth and environmental sciences.
– Present innovative approaches to integrating tools across domains and providers, including outcomes from collaborative projects, virtual laboratories, and digital twins.
– Highlight technical implementations, including research software applications, semantic approaches, modeling practices, and the management of large-scale data.
– Share lessons learned from user-driven design, community engagement, training and support strategies.
– Address challenges of interoperability and sustainability in distributed digital services, highlighting pathways to foster collaboration across infrastructures and research domains.

By bringing together service providers, research infrastructures, and end-users, this session will provide a unique overview of the digital landscape and its impact on science. It will foster dialogue on how different infrastructures can collaborate more effectively to provide integrated, sustainable solutions, embedding Open Science principles across the research lifecycle, and advance both science and society.

Solicited authors:
Tim Rawling

ESSI2.6 – Shaping the European landscape for Earth System Science – Making transnational data use of research infrastructures

Convener: Wolfgang zu Castell | Co-conveners: Sebastien Payan, Jean-Philippe Malet, Sören Lorenz

Knowledge discovery in Earth System Science (ESS) relies on observational, experimental and simulation data being available for all compartments (atmosphere, land surfaces, ocean, solid Earth, biodiversity) of the Earth system. On top of that, leveraging the potential of large-scale AI tools and generative AI requires data to be interoperable in a machine-actionable, AI-ready way. Towards this goal, several research infrastructures are aggregating, structuring and distributing science data for researchers to be exploited and combined through a portfolio of services. Hereby, programs to foster these activities have been initiated by national as well as international initiatives, resulting in a colorful mix of domain-oriented, geographically-oriented, or target group-oriented research infrastructures.

Shaping the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), all of them share the goal of offering seamless access to high-quality and reusable research data and services following the FAIR principles and Open Science paradigms. We aim to implement this goal as a network of actors on both the national as well as the international level, making best use of the given opportunities.

The aim of the session is to foster the ongoing discussion on how to jointly shape the European research infrastructure landscape for EES driven by high-level and cross-disciplines scientific use cases and best practice scenarios.

We welcome contributions:

  • showcasing successful examples of creating synergies among different research infrastructures,
  • demonstrating efforts in building new products based on integrating services from multiple providers,
  • identifying gaps by highlighting needs deriving from specific research questions,
  • presenting use cases which should be taken-up by joining forces among research infrastructures.
  • Representatives of some international research infrastructures will be invited to elaborate on these actions.

ITS1.19/AS4.8 – ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES WITH INNOVATION AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES

Convener: Jean Sciare | Co-conveners: Janne-Markus Rintala, Marina Papageorgiou

Environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and ocean degradation demand new ways of observing, monitoring, and understanding the Earth system. Research Infrastructures (RIs) in the ENVRI community—spanning atmospheric, marine, terrestrial, and solid earth sciences—provide the backbone of European environmental observation and long-term data stewardship. Yet, the growing complexity of environmental change requires innovative technologies and services to enhance monitoring, strengthen interoperability, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into actionable insights.

This session brings together researchers, technologists, and stakeholders to showcase advances illustrating (1) the role of emerging technologies and (2) service-oriented approaches in shaping the future of environmental monitoring.

Emerging technologies include advanced instrumentation, miniaturized and autonomous sensors for atmospheric, hydrological, soil, and marine processes, as well as unmanned aerial systems, drones, satellite constellations, and IoT networks that link in-situ with remote sensing. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how environmental data are processed, harmonized, and applied in predictive modelling.

The ocean, a key climate regulator, remains critically under-observed for carbon fluxes, particularly beyond shipping routes. Addressing this gap, the GEORGE project—a collaboration between EMSO ERIC, EURO-ARGO ERIC, ICOS ERIC, research institutions, universities, and industry—develops novel tools and methods to measure carbonate chemistry (e.g., pH, alkalinity, dissolved inorganic carbon, pCO₂) across diverse marine environments.

Services are equally vital. Trans-National Access (TNA) schemes offered by ENVRIs provide opportunities for researchers to use state-of-the-art facilities, advanced instrumentation, and high-quality data services beyond national systems. These services foster collaboration, accelerate innovation, and support co-created solutions to pressing challenges. The convergence of cloud-based infrastructures, FAIR data principles, interoperability frameworks, and user-centered service design ensures that resources are not only technically robust but also widely accessible and impactful for science, policy, and society.

Short Courses

SC2.18 – HARNESSING THE ENVRI-HUB: DATA, TOOLS, AND SERVICES FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

Co-organized by AS6/CL6/ERE5/GM11/NH15
Convener: Kety Giuliacci | Co-conveners: Eleonora Parisi, Zhiming Zhao

Earth and environmental sciences thrive on data diversity: from ocean temperatures to biodiversity records, from climate indicators to geological observations. Yet, this very diversity can also be a barrier: different datasets are described with different standards, stored in different formats, and are difficult to connect across research infrastructures. The ENVRI-Hub provides a set of tools to overcome these challenges. It offers researchers a unified framework to discover, access, and reuse complex and multidisciplinary data.

This short course will give researchers a practical introduction to how ENVRI-Hub workflows can directly support their own projects, to build more reproducible and impactful science.

How You Can Participate

We invite all ENVRI RIs and supporting projects to:

  • Attend our sessions
  • Visit our ENVRI Community Booth #27
  • Join the ENVRI-Hub NEXT Short Course

We look forward to seeing you at EGU26, as we highlight the collective strength and impact of the ENVRI community in advancing environmental research!

Check out what we did in 2025!

ENVRI Innovation Map presented at the ENVRI board meeting

Representatives of CARE-C at the Cyprus Institute, who lead the coordination of the ENVRINNOV project, recently presented the first version of the ENVRI Innovation Roadmap to the European Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI) board at a meeting held on 7 October 2025 in Marseille, France.

More specifically, the Director of CARE-C, Prof Jean Sciare and the Centre’s managing coordinator Mrs Marina Papageorgiou, presented the initial ENVRI innovation Roadmap, including the ENVRI Innovation Hub (EIH), developed by the ENVRINNOV consortium.

The Innovation Map aims to provide a shared direction for strengthening the innovation capacity, visibility, and impact of the Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI) community. It outlines the steps towards more coordinated action to support the development and uptake of new technologies, services, and tools that address the evolving needs of science, policy, and industry.  To achieve this, the establishment of the ENVRI Innovation Hub EIH) is essential, in order to set up a shared support structure, which can provide flexible, tailored innovation management, facilitation, and support services that reflect the diverse and evolving needs of the ENVRI community.

During the meeting, in which several different Research Infrastructures (RIs) across Europe took part, attendees provided initial feedback and agreed next steps.

The ENVRI Board is the core, representative body of the ENVRI Community, formally established in July 2024 to replace its predecessor, BEERi. It brings together research infrastructures (RIs) across Europe that meet specific criteria—such as being operational, multi-national, and/or part of the ESFRI Roadmap. Its main roles are to coordinate and promote ENVRI activities, serve as a “go-to” advisory body for expert advice, facilitate interaction among RI directors, and liaise with key stakeholders, including the European Commission, Parliament, and international bodies. The Board also works to highlight how the work of its member RIs connects with policy, to stimulate collaboration across clusters, and to strengthen shared practices in environmental research infrastructures.

“Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or REA. Neither the European Union, nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.”

ENVRINNOV leads session at the 2025 INTERGEO Conference

As part of ENVRINNOV’s mission to establish synergies with key actors of the Research and Innovation ecosystem, and plan for the successful implementation of the ENVRI Innovation Roadmap, project partners took part in the INTERGEO Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on 7 October 2025.

The ENVRINNOV-led session brought together experts from European environmental research infrastructures to discuss how long-term environmental data can be better integrated into geospatial applications, supporting science-based decision-making and sustainable development.

The session, hosted by Mariana Salgado (ICOS ERIC), included talks by three experts from leading Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRIs):

    • Jaana Bäck (eLTER RI) – ‘Long-term ecosystem data for geospatial applications’
    • Tuukka Petäjä (ACTRIS ERIC) – ‘Atmospheric data and remote sensing synergies’
    • Leo Rivier (ICOS ERIC) – ‘Carbon flux data validation’

Together, the speakers showcased how ENVRIs contribute to advancing open science and innovation in the geospatial domain. Their presentations addressed three main themes:

  1. What ENVRIs offer: Open-data principles and the diversity of research infrastructures, such as ICOS’s flux towers, ACTRIS’s aerosol observations, and eLTER’s long-term ecosystem monitoring.
  2. Data and project highlights: Live demonstrations of key geospatially relevant datasets and current innovation projects.
  3. Innovation gaps and opportunities: How the geodesy and geoinformation communities can further leverage ENVRI data beyond academia—for example, in commercial applications.

Following the presentations, participants took part in the interactive “Hack the ENVRI DATA” challenge, proposing practical applications of ENVRI data — from urban planning to precision agriculture. The exercise encouraged lively discussion on data accessibility, usability, and opportunities for closer collaboration between environmental and geospatial communities.

INTERGEO is the world’s leading trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation, and land management, offering a key platform for cross-sector exchange and innovation.

The session was jointly organised by ICOS, eLTER, and ACTRIS under the umbrella of the ENVRINNOV project. By demonstrating the potential of shared data and tools, the ENVRINNOV session at INTERGEO 2025 showcased how greater cooperation between the environmental and geospatial sectors can lead to new insights and better-informed decisions for a sustainable future.

 

 

“Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or REA. Neither the European Union, nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.”

 

Webinar: Key Exploitable Results Management

Key Exploitable Results Management

Turning Results into Impact: Master KERs Management and Reporting

The Key Exploitable Results (KERs) Management Webinar is a joint initiative by the IRISCC, ENVRINNOV, and ENVRI-Hub NEXT projects. The webinar will explore KERs and how they contribute to project impact and EC reporting. The session will provide awareness, alignment, and practical guidance on KERs, including value definition, ownership, reporting requirements, and strategies to enable uptake.

This webinar is designed to clarify responsibilities, de-risk IP/licensing, and harmonise KER reporting across projects.

Information

  • Date: 29 October 2025
  • Time: 11:00-12:00 CET
  • Trainer: Elia Bellussi, Senior Strategy and Innovation Officer at EGI Foundation
  • Watch the recording

Why Attend

Participants will learn to:

  • Understand what KERs are and why they matter for project impact.

  • Connect KERs to EC reporting and project KPIs, including TRL progression.

  • Clarify roles and responsibilities for KER management.
  • Standardise reporting to EC Funding & Tenders Portal.

  • Reduce risks and accelerate uptake, dissemination, and exploitation.

Who Should Participate

  • KER Champions, WP Leaders and Task Leads relevant for specific KER
  • Innovation Managers
  • IP Managers, Communications, and Exploitation Staff
  • Anyone interested in innovation, management of the project results and exploitation.

Agenda

  • 11:oo – Welcome & framing – Purpose, scope, and expected outcomes (awareness + alignment, not deep training)
  • 11:05 – Why KERs? – Value & needs → measurable impact, KPIs, TRL progression, Reviews & EC Portal compliance, de-risking IP/licensing, enabling uptake/pilots</strong”>
  • 11:25 – Roles & responsibilities (RACI-lite) – KER Champion, WP/Task Lead, Innovation Manager, IP Manager & Comms/Exploitation, quick RACI slide
  • 11:45 – Q&A
Watch the recording

ENVRINNOV-led session at the 2025 Intergeo Conference

About the conference

 

INTERGEO, the world’s leading trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management, will take place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany from October 7 to 9, 2025.

INTERGEO covers all key areas of the geo industry: geoinformation, surveying, GIS, remote sensing, drone technology, smart cities, climate protection and sustainable urban development. It is the central platform for discussing and promoting forward-looking solutions to global challenges such as climate change, urbanization and resource management.

 

About the session

 

Time and date: 11:10-11:40, 7 October 2025

Location: Main stage

Format: Panel discussion and interaction with the audience

Speakers

  • Jaana Bäck (eLTER RI) – ‘Long-term ecosystem data for geospatial applications’
  • Tuukka Petäjä (ACTRIS ERIC) – ‘Atmospheric data & remote sensing synergies’
  • Leo Rivier (ICOS ERIC) – ‘Carbon flux data validation’

Host: Mariana Salgado (ICOS ERIC)

After the talks, the ‘Hack the ENVRI DATA’ challenge will take place.

The audience will be invited to brainstorm one downstream use case for ENVRI data (e.g., urban planning, precision agriculture). Following that,  panelists will provide rapid feedback on feasibility/data access and there will be a general discussion in the end.

The session is organised by ICOS, eLTER and ACTRIS, within the context of the ENVRINNOV project.

 

 

ENVRINNOV- Videos of Innovation Strategy Pilot Cases published

As part of the ENVRINNOV’s project mission to develop an Innovation Roadmap for the ENVRI community, outlining strategies and mechanisms to strengthen collaboration among key innovation stakeholders in the co-creation of new technologies and services, four pilot case studies were conducted.

These pilots, carried out by five Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) in the Atmosphere, Biosphere, and Geosphere domains, served as practical demonstrations of how collaborative innovation can be implemented across subdomains.

All pilot cases have been successfully completed (more details here) and an informative video has been developed by the respective organisation, for each case study. You can find all videos below:

 

  • Pilot Case: “Drone-sensor system to detect and quantify methane emissions” (led by CEA and the Cyprus Institute).

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsXfQUeHjZo&

  • Pilot Case: “Development of multi-function electronics to control in-situ instruments for trace species detection” (led by KIT)

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5S84iGamXM

  • Pilot Case: “Scientific services – Atmosphere “(Led by University of Helsinki)

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQ0dXKr2E0

  • Pilot Case: “Scientific services – Biosphere, targeting the scientific community’s need for better estimates of environmental impacts of drought stress to ecosystem productivity” (Led by University of Helsinki)

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pyhXyglEAQ

  • Pilot Case: “Intra-RI Technological Development”: facilitating the development of interoperable/harmonized technologies by RIs and their effective transfer within ENVRIs “(Led by UFZ)

Link: https://youtu.be/hLqu6Q_xZTg

ENVRINNOV Training Session at EGU2025 Highlights Innovation potential of ENVRI-Industry Collaboration

The ENVRINNOV (ENVIronment Research infrastructures INNOVation Roadmap) project partners, led by CNRS, successfully organised a training session entitled “Environmental Research Infrastructures and Industry: How Can We Better Collaborate for Innovation?” during the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025, which took place in Vienna, Austria on 30 April 2025.

The session featured interactive discussions, including an ice-breaker quiz, a “tour de table” exchange, and presentations of success stories. Participants examined the role of research infrastructures in fostering innovation, shared insights from industry collaborations, and identified challenges and enablers based on experiences from previous projects.

Speakers included:

  • International Cooperation officer at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Dr Ariane Dubost, who presented key insights from the ENVRI-FAIR meeting on language challenges.
  • Management Coordinator at the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) of the Cyprus Institute (CyI) Marina Papageorgiou who focused on the role of Research Infrastructures (Ris) in Innovation and how he ENVRINNOV project can support ENVRIs in their innovation process.
  • Communication Officer at EMSO ERIC Sara Pero, who introduced the Physical Access to the RI and facilitated the presentation of success stories of collaboration between the industry and RIs and
  • Industry experts, Sales Engineer at Droplet Measurement Technologies, Adrien Danner, Chief Scientific Officer at Seagrass Blue, Craig Syms, and Project Manager and Senior Oceanographer Marc Lucas from CLS Group, who discussed their experience collaborating with RIs

During the training, over thirty participants were able to develop their knowledge in the field of innovation and collaboration. Attendees were encouraged to engage in ongoing dialogues and contribute to shaping the future of environmental research and innovation.

This  was the first of a series of capacity-building activities designed to promote a shared understanding of innovation processes within the ENVRI ecosystem. For more information and to participate in upcoming activities, please visit: bit.ly/contact_envrinnov

 

“Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or REA. Neither the European Union, nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.”

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.