The current preparatory phase is developing the LifeWatch Masterplan containing information about the construction process and organization process. The Masterplan will be published later. Complementary to the LifeWatch Masterplan, the LifeWatch Construction Database offers information on the Construction Projects, the Construction Components and the Construction Issues defining the LifeWatch European Research Infrastructure. The LifeWatch Construction Database provides a specification of all products and activities necessary to construct the infrastructure and start the initial operations.

LifeWatch is an e-Science infrastructure that serves to explore, describe and understand patterns in biodiversity and the processes that maintain biodiversity in space and time at the gene, species, and ecosystem (landscape) level.