“Marine SABRES in Fairs” at the European Researchers’ Night 2025

Marine SABRES inFairs - European Researchers Night 2025

Lecce, Italy

On September 26, 2025, LifeWatch ERIC participates in the European Researchers’ Night, contributing to its programme and engaging with participants, thanks to its research stand “Marine SABRES in Fairs: protecting and restoring biodiversity, sustainable blue economy, and ecotourism”.

At the ‘Marine SABRES in Fairs’ stand, LifeWatch ERIC will present the project’s results and materials: thematic videos, the documentary trailer and, in preview, a demonstration of the scientific game dedicated to students (aged 10-18) to explore the links between human activities, changes in marine ecosystems and impacts on people’s well-being.

More info: https://www.lifewatch.eu/2025/09/12/marine-sabres-in-fairs-europeans-researchers-night-2025/

High-Level Meeting on Energy Transition and Climate Sustainability

ENERGYTRAN High-Level Meeting

San José, Costa Rica

On September 18th, 2025, LifeWatch ERIC will participate in the High-Level Meeting on Energy Transition and Climate Sustainability, hosted at the Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CONARE). International experts will be presenting the preliminary results of the ENERGYTRAN project, which seeks to foster collaboration between Europe and Latin America to address shared challenges in the fields of energy transition and climate action.

The meeting will gather a wide range of high-level participants, including representatives of international cooperation organizations, national institutions, and academia, strengthening dialogue between Europe and Latin America on the pressing issues of climate sustainability and energy transition. Among the confirmed institutions are: Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos (OEI); Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnología (CeNAT); Fundación CRUSA; Costa Rica por Siempre; German Cooperation (GIZ); Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE); Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC); Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica; Tecnológico Nacional de México (TecNM); Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE),.

The programme will cover a diverse set of themes, from international cooperation in energy transition and sustainability, to the role of public institutions and academia, concluding with the presentation of initial results of ENERGYTRAN. Maite Irazabal will represent LifeWatch ERIC, showcasing the preliminary results of the project.

For more information about the ENERGYTRAN project, please visit the official website: https://energytran.oei.int/

MARBEFES Autumn School 2025

MARBEFES Autumn School

Seville, Spain

The Autumn School “Protecting marine biodiversity for nature and humans” will take place in Seville (Spain) from 8 to 10 October 2025. It will offer participants travel, accommodation and lunch (see terms and conditions), for the duration of the programme, and has the objective of presenting one of the main project’s results: a set of easy-to-use-tools to help practitioners and policy makers maximise the ecological value and optimise a sustainable socio-economic use of the marine system for current and future generations.

RESTORE4Cs trainings for scientists and policy makers

RESTORE4CS trainings

Malaga, Spain

Join the RESTORE4Cs Autumn Series of trainings for scientists and policy makers in November 2025!

The trainings will take place in Malaga (Spain), from 3 to 6 November, and they will focus on the main project output: a digital Decision Support System (DSS) that will provide stakeholders and wetland practitioners at all levels with more reliable estimation of cost and benefits in order to drive and prioritise wetlands restoration actions.

RESTORE4Cs Autumn School 2025 for the Scientific Community: November 3-6, 20 participants
RESTORE4Cs Training for Policy Makers: November 5-6, 10-15 participants
For more and upcoming details on the detailed programme, travel conditions and applications, follow up on the RESTORE4Cs website: https://www.restore4cs.eu/restore4cs-autumn-series-2025-save-the-date

Environmental Challenges and Open Science course

EnergyTran e-learning

San José, Costa Rica & Online

EULAC-ENERGYTRAN project launched the pilot e-learning course “Environmental Challenges and Open Science”, which will take place from 22 to 26 September 2025 in San José, Costa Rica.

This hybrid course will be delivered in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation into English and Portuguese, and is free of charge, offering a unique opportunity for participants to explore how open science practices can address global environmental issues, with a special focus on the Latin American and Caribbean context.

Speakers will represent a wide range of prestigious institutions, including: UNESCO; University of Minho / OpenAIRE; Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica; RedCLARA; Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnología (CeNAT), Costa Rica; Polytechnic University of Timișoara; INES TEC (Portugal); Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC); Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

From LifeWatch ERIC, Julio Paneque will lead a session focused on open and FAIR science tools and use cases, presenting innovative approaches developed within the ENERGYTRAN project and beyond.

Location: In person, San José (Costa Rica) – 25 seats available. Online: 15 virtual seats.

Registration: by 15 August 2025

LifeWatch ERIC at EUROSOIL 2025

Eurosoil

Seville, Spain – VII EUROSOIL 2025

EUROSOIL is the official meeting of the European Confederation of Soil Science Societies (ECSSS): a great opportunity for knowledge transfer in the Soil Sciences community, and one of Europe’s most important international conferences on soil sciences and sustainable land management.

Every four years the meeting gathers a large audience to share their scientific and technical findings through presentations, workshops, and products or services exhibitions. The objective: raising awareness in society, encouraging communication by facilitating the exchange of ideas and information, and creating business opportunities.

The VII EUROSOIL 2025 edition takes place in parallel with the Iberian Congress of Soil Sciences (CICS), from 8 to 12 September 2025 at the FIBES Seville Congress Palace (Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos), spanning a wide range of topics relevant for society, academia, and industry.

Xavier Rotllan-Puig will represent LifeWatch ERIC with the oral presentation: “Empowering Soil Research through Virtual Research Environments: LifeWatch ERIC Services under the AgroServ and SUS-SOIL Projects”. The talk will demonstrate how LifeWatch ERIC services are advancing soil research, education, and policy across Europe, within the framework of the SUS-SOIL project. It will also present services developed under the AGROSERV project, in collaboration with UTAD (Portugal) and Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

Learn more about the event here: https://eurosoil2025.eu/EUROSOIL2025

From Data to Digital Twins: Empowering Biodiversity Digital Twins with Research Infrastructures

From Data to Digital Twins

The BioDT Project is reaching its end, and has organised a final webinar on 14 May 2025, exploring the role of Research Infrastructures in powering biodiversity Digital Twins.

This session brings together key partners from GBIF, eLTER, DiSSCo, and LifeWatch ERIC (the latter represented by Joaquin Lopez Lerida).

We will talk about how data, expertise, and technologies contribute to the development of the BioDT prototype Digital Twins, and how the project supports our missions!

To read the full agenda and register, visit:

https://biodt.eu/events/data-digital-twins-empowering-biodiversity-digital-twins-research-infrastructures

RESTORE4Cs School Competition on Coastal Wetlands

school competition on coastal wetlands

The RESTORE4Cs project launched a School Competition to take place on 16 May 2025, online, dedicated to students aged 12 and over across Europe.

The initiative is designed to introduce students to the world of coastal wetlands, their essential ecological functions, their role in biodiversity, and how they contribute to climate resilience.

The competition features a Serious Game, that help students understand these key concepts and explore the broader topics of ecosystem services, biodiversity and sustainable management practices.

You can register your class by 15 May (at noon). Learn more: https://www.restore4cs.eu/restore4cs-school-competition

Biodiversity Digital Twins and the Destination Earth Ecosystem

Rome, Italy

The BioDT Project is reaching the end of its mandate and is organising, in collaboration with Destination Earth (DestinE), its final event taking place in Rome on 3 April 2025.

The event, available also for online participation, will highlight BioDT’s key results relevant for the European Commission’s Digital Twin strategy and its integration with the DestinE ecosystem.

Sustainability, interoperability, and the potential adoption of BioDT’s results by European Research Infrastructures and data spaces will be the key topics to drive discussions, scientific presentations and panel debates. Moreover, participants will assist to live demonstrations of prototype Digital Twins (pDTs) developed during the project.

For the agenda, registration, and further details, visit:

https://biodt.eu/events/biodiversity-digital-twins-and-destination-earth-ecosystem

FAIR-IMPACT Workshop on Data FAIRness assessment with F-UJI

F-UJI webinar

The FAIR-IMPACT Project supports the ambitious goal to realise an EOSC of FAIR data and services, by promoting the implementation of FAIR-enabling practices, tools and services in Europe and beyond. In order to expand Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable solutions across EOSC, the project is identifying proven domain solutions and facilitating their interoperable uptake across scientific domains.

By doing so, it will contribute to transforming the way researchers share and exploit research outputs within and across research disciplines, and to the facilitation of scientific multi-disciplinary cooperation, improving public trust and reproducibility in science.

Within this framework, the project organises a series of public workshops, the FAIR Implementation Series, and on 20 March is happening the next one, called “Using F-UJI to Assess the FAIRness of your Data“.

The workshop will introduce the automated FAIR data assessment tool (F-UJI) and showcase experiences of performed assessments and demos on how to use the tool.

For registration and detailed agenda, please visit:

https://fair-impact.eu/events/fair-impact-events/using-f-uji-assess-fairness-your-data