Category:ENVRIplus

ENVRIplus was a Horizon 2020 project bringing together Environmental and Earth System Research Infrastructures, projects and networks together with technical specialist partners to create a more coherent, interdisciplinary and interoperable cluster of Environmental Research Infrastructures across Europe. It is driven by three overarching goals: 1) promoting cross-fertilization between infrastructures, 2) implementing innovative concepts and devices across RIs, and 3) facilitating research and innovation in the field of environment for an increasing number of users outside the RIs.

ENVRIplus aligned its activities to a core strategic plan where sharing multi-disciplinary expertise would be most effective. The project aimed to improve Earth observation monitoring systems and strategies, including actions to improve harmonization and innovation, and generate common solutions to many shared information technology and data related challenges. It also sought to harmonize policies for access and provide strategies for knowledge transfer amongst RIs. ENVRIplus developed guidelines to enhance transdisciplinary use of data and data-products supported by applied use-cases involving RIs from different domains. The project coordinated actions to improve communication and cooperation, addressed Environmental RIs at all levels, from management to end-users, implemented RI-staff exchange programs, generated material for RI personnel, and proposed common strategic developments and actions for enhancing services to users and evaluating the socio-economic impacts.

ENVRIplus was expected to facilitate structuration and improve quality of services offered both within single RIs and at the pan-RI level. It promoted efficient and multi-disciplinary research offering new opportunities to users, new tools to RI managers and new communication strategies for environmental RI communities. The resulting solutions, services and other project outcomes were made available to all environmental RI initiatives, thus contributing to the development of a coherent European RI ecosystem.