Environmental Research Infrastructures Providing Shared Solutions for Science and Society

ACRONYM
ENVRI PLUS
Title
Environmental Research Infrastructures Providing Shared Solutions for Science and Society
General information
ENVRIPLUS is a cluster of research infrastructures (RIs) for Environmental and Earth System sciences, built around ESFRI roadmap and associating leading e-infrastructures and Integrating Activities together with technical specialist partners. ENVRIPLUS is driven by 3 overarching goals: 1) favoring cross-fertilization between infrastructures, 2) implementing innovative concepts and devices across RIs, and 3) facilitating research and innovation in the field of environment to an increasing number of users outside the RIs. ENVRIPLUS organizes its activities along a main strategic plan where sharing multi-disciplinary expertise will be most effective. It aims to improve Earth observation monitoring systems and strategies, including actions towards harmonization and innovation, to generate common solutions to many shared information technology and data related challenges, to harmonize policies for access and provide strategies for knowledge transfer amongst RIs. ENVRIPLUS develops guidelines to enhance trans-disciplinary use of data and data-products supported by applied use-cases involving RIs from different domains. ENVRIPLUS coordinates actions to improve communication and cooperation, addressing Environmental RIs at all levels, from management to end-users, implementing RI-staff exchange programs, generating material for RI personnel, and proposing common strategic developments and actions for enhancing services to users and evaluating the socio-economic impacts. ENVRIPLUS is expected to facilitate structuration and improve quality of services offered both within single RIs and at pan-RI level. It promotes efficient and multi-disciplinary research offering new opportunities to users, new tools to RI managers and new communication strategies for environmental RI communities. The produced solutions, services and other project results are made available to all environmental RI initiatives, thus contributing to the development of a consistent European RI ecosystem.
Start
May, 2015
End
July, 2019
Funding (total)
14683000
Funding (GEOMAR)
265000
Funding body / Programme
    EU / Horizon 2020, Research Infrastructures
Coordination
University of Helsinki (UH), Finland
Partners
ntegrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS), Finland
University of Helsinki (UHEL), Finland
EURO-ARGO ERIC, France
EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION (EISCAT), Sweden
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy
Institut Francais de Recherche pour L'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), France
Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), France
ETHZ
University of Bremen, Germany
University of Amsterdam. Netherlands
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHS), Switzerland
University of Salento (UNILE), Italy
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France
Umweltbundesamt (EAA), Austria
University of Gothenburg (UGOT), Sweden
Marine Biological Association (MBL), UK
University of St. Andrews (USTAN), UK
German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), Germany
Research Council of Norway (RCN), Norway
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
University of Tromsoe (UiT), Norway
EuroGOOS, Belgium
Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN), Spain
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland
Lund University, Sweden
Tuscia University (UNITUS), Italy
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Norway
Cardiff University, UK
University of Edinburgh (UEDIN), UK
EGI.eu, Netherlands
CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland
CINECA, Italy