Researchers

Welcome to our researchers’ page.
Here you will find specialised content for researchers and academics, from events, to training resources, to funding opportunities.

LifeWatch ERIC Community

We launched our online space where you can meet with other scientists and stakeholders, join working groups, search through our calls and announcements, post on the board of opportunities and access our Directory of Scientific Skills.
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Resources & Services

VREs
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Datasets
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Services
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Workflows
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Research Sites
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Training Resources
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Training Resources

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e-Science for NIS Research Workshop - Training and running practical activities on workflows and VREs
e-Science for NIS Research Workshop - Training and running practical activities on workflows and VREs
LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue | updating
LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue | updating
Ecosystem vulnerability to alien and invasive species | updating
Ecosystem vulnerability to invasive and alien species
Phytoplankton VRE Documentation | updating
Phytoplankton Virtual Research Environment Documentation
S5: Habitat vulnerability to NIS and impact on biotope
S5: Habitat vulnerability to NIS and impact on biotope
S4: eDNA metabarcoding as a tool for early detection of nonindigenous freshwater species
S4: eDNA metabarcoding as a tool for early detection of nonindigenous freshwater species
S3: Mapping the invasion: detection and monitoring through remote sensing
S3: Mapping the invasion: detection and monitoring through remote sensing
S1: Long term monitoring of hard-bottom marine communities
S1: Long term monitoring of hard-bottom marine communities
International Summer School "Data FAIRness in Environmental and Earth Science Infrastructures"
International Summer School "Data FAIRness in Environmental and Earth Science Infrastructures"
ENVRI Community International Winter School on DATA FAIRness- Resource Access Tools
ENVRI Community International Winter School on DATA FAIRness- Resource Access Tools

Welcome to the LifeWatch ERIC consultation

We need your help and vision to better understand users’ priorities in biodiversity and ecosystem research. By completing this questionnaire, you will help the LifeWatch ERIC e-infrastructure develop the e-services you need to perform the best research. The consultation only takes few minutes to complete.
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Welcome to the LifeWatch ERIC consultation

We need your help and vision to better understand the landscape of biodiversity and ecosystem research. We need your help and vision to better understand users’ priorities in biodiversity and ecosystem research. By completing this questionnaire, you will help the LifeWatch ERIC e-infrastructure developing the e-services you will need to perform the best research. The consultation only takes few minutes to complete.
Go to the survey

FAQs

Do you have questions regarding the organisation and functioning of LifeWatch ERIC?
Consult our FAQ.

LifeWatch ERIC is the e-Science European infrastructure for biodiversity & ecosystem research, investing in three essential components: open access resources, reproducible analytics and mobilised communities. It tackles the constraints affecting biodiversity and ecosystem research, enabling the exploration of new frontiers in ecological science and supporting society in addressing planetary challenges.

LifeWatch ERIC offers scientists access to data, web-services, VREs, workflows and training opportunities to support biodiversity and ecosystem research.

You can access all LifeWatch ERIC Resources through its MetaData Catalogue. Please send an email to our Web Portal Officer to receive access: lucia.vaira[at]lifewatch.eu.

You can share your research outputs by publishing metadata of datasets, services, VREs and workflows on the LifeWatch ERIC MetaData Catalogue. Get in touch with our Web Portal Officer to request access: lucia.vaira[at]lifewatch.eu.

No, all LifeWatch ERIC resources are free of charge.

EcoPortal is one of our intiatives. In the last decade, ecological research groups and infrastructures have contributed to the definition and the production of core and domain ontologies as well as of vocabularies and domain-relevant reference lists.

In order to support the scientific community in the management and integration of these different approaches, LifeWatch ERIC has created EcoPortal, an online space designed to collect semantic resources and provide the necessary services for enabling discovery and interoperability.

LifeWatch ERIC envisages the creation of a repository for semantic resources with associated essential curation services.

LifeBlock is a Blockchain-based platform for engaging, tracking and securing biodiversity and ecosystem research resources worldwide, making use of anti-tampering, provenance and traceability e-Services to guarantee the availability of FAIR-compliant data. It allows for the analysis of multiple unstructured inputs from remote and in-field sensing, Remote Sensing-GIS datasets and original studies in order to produce value estimates.

Click here for a comprehensive presentation on LifeBlock.

The Internal Joint and Collaborative Initiative (IJI) has been created in order to:

  1. Boost the integration of tools and services into the LifeWatch ERIC web portal;
  2. Focus on a major scientific issue in biodiversity and ecosystem research with relevant socio-economic implications in different fields;
  3. Produce the new and synthetic knowledge that is needed by institutions, administrations and managers to find solutions for major environmental problems on various scales;
  4. Involve the LifeWatch ERIC national scientific communities, key international research groups and other European research Infrastructures with related interests and running activities; and,
  5. Make this effort an example of the functioning of the LifeWatch ERIC e-Infrastructure through its dissemination and outreach activities.

The topic of non-indigenous and invasive species (NIS) has been chosen as the first demonstration case of the functioning of the LifeWatch ERIC e-Infrastructure. The development of virtual research environments within the e-Infrastructure will help address some of the main issues on NIS in the field of ecosystem and habitat type vulnerability and in the context of climate change, as well as help highlight societal needs and potential solutions to be tested.

Training and support materials are available on our Training Platform. Please click and register to enrol in courses and browse our resources.

LifeWatch ERIC is currently working on its Community Platform, where you will be able to join and create working groups, browse our calls and submit opportunities on our board, as well as access our directory of scientific skills. Stay tuned for its release!

Please visit our contact page.

Latest News for Researchers

Semantic Academy: the registration for the LifeWatch ERIC Intensive School is now open!
In recent years, one of the major challenges in Environmental and Earth Sciences has been managing and searching larger volumes of data, collected across multiple disciplines. Many different standards, approaches, and tools have been developed to support the Data Lifecycle from Data Acquisition to Data Curation, Data Publishing, Data Processing and Data Use. In particular, modern semantic technologies provide a promising way to properly describe and interrelate different data sources in ways that reduce barriers to data discovery, integration, and exchange among biodiversity and ecosystem resources and researchers. Therefore, we are delighted to announce the launch of the 2023 edition of The Semantic Academy - The LifeWatch ERIC Intensive School: Boost your research with semantic artifacts. And this time, we are back in person! This school is organized by LifeWatch ERIC and will take place in Lecce, from 25 to 29 September 2023.This edition’s title is “Boost your research with semantic artifacts”. This course is built as a five-day intensive school providing the knowledge on how to create semantic artifacts for a specific domain and use them to annotate and analyse data in a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). It will cover topics such as Data Science, Semantics, Ontology, Vocabularies, Virtual...
LifeWatch ERIC and GBIF join forces in support of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
LifeWatch ERIC and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) are meeting from 30 May to 2 June, 2023, to support the Kunming-Montreal package of decisions adopted by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, approved at the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, in December 2022.
Bioinspired robots in Lecce: MAPWORMS Plenary meeting
Micro-CTvlab and MedOBIS Repository were present at the plenary meeting of the MAPWORMS project in Lecce, on 15-16 May 2023. MAPWORMS is a Horizon Europe project which aims to propose robots that are inspired by simplified forms of marine Annelida, able to perform tasks in response to environmental stimuli, thus adapting to the working environment with a shape-morphing strategy with unique features in terms of powering and eco-friendliness. Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) is being used to visualize the morphological and anatomical features of the annelids. These data will also be used to create a virtual gallery in the Micro-CTvlab, a virtual laboratory which was developed during the LifeWatch Greece project and offers virtual galleries and online tools for the 3D manipulation of micro-CT datasets. Furthermore, distributional/georeferenced data produced during the MAPWORMS project, will be deposited in the MedOBIS Repository, which is the Mediterranean Node for OBIS and is hosted by the IMBBC, HCMR in Crete. Its development started in 2003, and it was operational by 2005 as a Tier 3 of EurOBIS. Under the European projects EMODnet Biology and LifeWatchGreece, it became a Tier 2 node and extended to cover the entire Mediterranean Sea. Mrs Dimitra Mavraki has been appointed as...
LifeWatch ERIC at the ALL-Ready Second Regional Workshop
On 11 May, LifeWatch ERIC hosted, at its ICT Core in Seville, the second regional workshop of the European project ALL-Ready: "Accelerating Agroecology Transition: Your potential role and benefits of contributing to a European network of Living Labs and Research Infrastructures". LifeWatch ERIC is is one of the main partners in this highly strategically relevant project. Its Agroecology team, led by José Manuel Ávila, Daniel Caro and Iria Soto, coordinated the morning session of the workshop together with Gerald Schwarz (Thünen Institute), Isidora Stojacic (BioSense Institute), Ophélie Bonnet (INRAE), Isabelle Couture (ENoLL - European Network of Living Labs), Jo Bijttebier and Sylvie Fosselle (ILVO Living Lab Agrifood Technology). In the presentation, Gerard Schwarz marked the objectives of the implementation plan, stressing the importance of ensuring relevance for actors across Europe and specifying that this work in progress is to be finalised in early autumn 2023: To provide a structured framework to sustainably implement, monitor and adapt the European Network in the long term; To ensure its effective contribution to the partnership on Agroecology; To deliver benefits to the agroecological community in Europe. During the workshop, the participants formed several groups to exchange experiences and discuss solutions about the challenges of Agroecology Living Labs and Research...
LifeWatch ERIC at the EOSC Future General Assembly and Project Meeting
On 3–5 May, LifeWatch ERIC participated in the EOSC Future General Assembly and Project Meeting, held in Seville, Spain. The event was hosted by LifeWatch ERIC in Casa de la Ciencia, where all the entities who are the backbone of EOSC Future gathered. Christos Arvanitidis, LifeWatch ERIC CEO, is very pleased with the level of participation and cooperation shown in the various sessions of this meeting: "Our assessment is very positive and increases expectations regarding the achievement of the objectives for the development of this platform". On the first day of the Meeting, LifeWatch ERIC's CEO, Christos Arvanitidis, opened the first session by welcoming the participants and explaining the objectives of WP6, which is the Work Package coordinated by LifeWatch ERIC. Then Sally Chambers from Dariah (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) hosted the session "Onboarding and Integration: Challenges & Solutions", indicating two main objectives: To clarify the differences between the five resource types which can be on boarded into the EOSC-Exchange; To explore the Resource Providers have faced when onboarding and integrating their resources into EOSC Exchange and use the methods of 'user stories' to explore how to ease the process. The second part of the session was focused...
Opening up good practices and e-research collaboration opportunities in the Mediterranean with PRIMA Foundation
The LifeWatch ERIC ICT-Core held an extensive working meeting at their headquarters in the Cartuja Science and Technology Park in Seville, with Octavi Quintana, Director of PRIMA Foundation.PRIMA’s Director left an important legacy as Director of "European Research Area", Directorate-General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission, while fostering the development of Research Infrastructures and policies. LifeWatch ERIC and PRIMA – The Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area – are exploring collaboration opportunities with the intention of extending good practices and use of e-research tools in Mediterranean countries.The aim of the PRIMA Foundation is to build research and innovation capacities and develop much-needed, shared and innovative solutions for a more sustainable management of water and agri-food systems in the Mediterranean basin. PRIMA focuses in particular on new research and innovation approaches to improve: sustainable management of water in arid and semi-arid Mediterranean areas; sustainable farming systems under Mediterranean environmental constraints; sustainable Mediterranean agri-food value chain for regional and local development. LifeWatch ERIC CTO, Juan Miguel González-Aranda, introduced the team and explained the major initiatives in applied research and innovation, and the digital tools that LifeWatch ERIC is designing and developing to protect biodiversity and ecosystems, both...
LifeWatch ERIC strengthens international outlook at the EU-LAC Knowledge Forum
On 24–25 April, LifeWatch ERIC participated in the working groups of the EU-LAC Knowledge Forum, held in Montevideo, Uruguay. The event was organised by the EU-LAC International Foundation, with the Uruguayan International Cooperation Agency (AUCI) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) as main partners. Its purpose was to generate input to feed the agenda of the high authorities of the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean at the Summit of Heads of State and Government in the field of access to knowledge, higher education, and science, technology, and innovation. This CELAC-EU Summit of Heads of State and Government is scheduled for 17–18 July 2023, within the programme of the Spanish presidency of the European Union. 120 representatives of international or national organisations and entities participated in the EU-LAC Knowledge Forum. In addition to the plenary sessions, the work in the forum was structured in 3 face-to-face and 3 virtual groups to exchange good practices, experiences and balances of cooperation in science, technology and innovation, higher education and opportunities. LifeWatch ERIC was represented by its CTO, Juan Miguel González-Aranda, and by Maite Irazábal Plá, EU-LAC Fundraising, Networking & Projects Manager. Within the framework of the international expansion process of...
LifeWatch Netherlands in ambitious new project LTER–LIFE
The planet is changing rapidly; to understand and forecast how ecosystems are affected by global change, ecology should become a predictive science. LifeWatch Netherlands is an integral part of ambitious new project LTER–LIFE, starting summer 2023, in which it will contribute virtual laboratories to answer fundamental questions on the functioning and resilience of ecosystems. LTER-LIFE is a Large-Scale Research Infrastructure in the making, one of the nine projects awarded within the Dutch national roadmap for large-scale reseach infrastructre. It will provide a state-of-the-art e-infrastructure to study and predict how changes in climate and other human-induced pressures affect ecosystems and biodiversity, capitalising on recent advances in Big Data science. This will enable ecologists to link scattered long-term data on plants, animals, and the environment; share methods for data analysis, modelling, and simulation; and build digital replicas of entire ecosystems (“Digital Twins”), transforming our ability to understand how ecosystems will respond under different scenarios and mitigation measures. In addition to fostering crucial scientific breakthroughs, the LTER LIFE infrastructure will also enable research on societal questions, such as how biodiversity will benefit from specific interventions to reduce nitrogen deposition in the Veluwe area, or how mitigation measures will impact the species composition, and...
LifeWatch Belgium User Story: There’s no plaice like an offshore wind farm
Offshore wind farms are built at a high rate in European waters as part of the green transition, taking up marine space that is often not available anymore to other users such as the fisheries sector. However, knowledge on the ecological effects of wind farms on commercial flatfish was lacking. Understanding the ecological impacts of an offshore wind farm on a fish species requires knowledge on its movements within and its association to the wind farm area. Therefore, a tagging study making use of an acoustic receiver network was carried out in the Belwind wind farm (Belgium), by PhD student at the Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO) and Ghent University, Jolien Buyse. This study aimed at detecting the presence of plaice Pleuronectes platessa, an important commercial flatfish species, and to study its small-scale movements around the turbine foundations. Acoustic telemetry was chosen as a method to study their residency, site fidelity and small-scale movements around the hard substrates in order to gain insight into their behaviour within an offshore wind farm. The residency of a fish, calculated from the presences of the fish over a certain period, represents its level of association to the study area. A...
LifeWatch ERIC to Host Upcoming ALL-READY Regional Workshop
We are excited to announce the upcoming 2nd ALL-READY Regional Workshop, entitled "Accelerating the Agroecology Transition: Your potential role and benefits of contributing to a European Network of Living Labs and Research Infrastructures". This interactive discussion session will take place on 11 May 2023, at the LifeWatch ERIC ICT-Core premises in Seville, Spain, and will also be available online as a hybrid event. The workshop is organised by LifeWatch ERIC, Thünen Institute and INRAE as part of the ALL-Ready project, and will focus on exploring the potential of a European Network of Living Labs and Research Infrastructures to enable the transition towards agroecology throughout Europe. The European Partnership under Horizon Europe for Accelerating Farming Systems Transition by Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures is currently being prepared by the SCAR Agroecology Strategic Working Group. ALL-Ready is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) funded by the European Commission with the aim of preparing a framework for a future European network of Living Labs and Research Infrastructures. The workshop will not only raise awareness of the future Horizon Europe Partnership on Agroecology but also build on the knowledge gained at the previous workshop in November 2022. The event will provide a platform for exchange...
FAIR-IMPACT first Open Calls launched!
The FAIR-IMPACT project has just launched the first of three Open Calls for Support, offering two defined support actions designed to enhance the FAIRness of data, semantic artefacts and data-related services.  Support action #1: FAIRness assessment challenge. More harmonised use of semantic artefacts such as ontologies, terminologies, taxonomies, thesauri, vocabularies, metadata schemas and standards is a key element to achieving a high level of FAIRness. However, it can often be difficult to find and use semantic artefacts as they themselves are not always FAIR. This targeted support action will help a cohort of dataset providers or semantic artefact developers to self-assess and work towards maximising the level of FAIRness of their resources. Support action #2: Enabling FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate for content/metadata discovery and consumption. The findability of both data and metadata is central to the FAIR principles. FAIR-IMPACT will provide a method to increase the discoverability of the metadata and content using a combination of two approaches; RO-Crate and Signposting. These two approaches are being used in combination as a pragmatic approach to making digital scholarly and research objects more FAIR.  Both support actions will provide successful applicants with financial support to enable participation in a series of virtual workshops, expert guidance...
The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency inaugurated in Seville
The 18 April 2023 saw the inauguration of the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency, ECAT. Like LifeWatch ERIC, it is headquartered in Seville, where the inauguration took place. ECAT is part of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission – its in-house science and knowledge service – and works in close cooperation with the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT). Its objectives are to systematise ethics in the use of digital technologies, and to generate and disseminate FAIR data – in line with the mission of LifeWatch ERIC. ECAT will provide the Commission with in-house technical and scientific expertise to ensure that algorithmic systems used by the Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Online Search Engines comply with the risk management, mitigation and transparency requirements in the DSA. This includes, amongst other tasks, the performance of technical analyses and evaluations of algorithms. An interdisciplinary team of data scientists, AI experts, social scientists and legal experts will combine their expertise to assess their functioning and propose best practices to mitigate their impact. This will be crucial to ensure the thorough analysis of the transparency reports and risk self-assessment submitted by the designated companies, and to carry out...
LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities Meet to Discuss Strategic Working Plan
LifeWatch ERIC is a distributed European Research Infrastructure Consortium, currently composed of three Common Facilities and eight National Nodes. From 12–14 April, the personnel of LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities from Spain, Italy and The Netherlands gathered in Alghero (Italy) at the premises of the University of Sassari. ICT developers, scientists, training and communication experts, under the guidance of LifeWatch ERIC CEO, CTO and the Directors of Service Centre and the vLab and Innovations Centre joined together for a technical meeting focusing on the ongoing activities and advancements foreseen by the LifeWatch ERIC strategic working plan for the period 2022–2026. Many were the issues under discussion, spanning from LifeWatch ERIC e-services, new generation Virtual Research Environments, remote sensing technology development and integration, on which the various members of the team contributed, bringing in their specific competences and expertise. “LifeWatch ERIC’s most essential ingredient is its people” said CEO Christos Arvanitidis, “these three days have been a great opportunity to further foster collaboration and align the efforts made by the different components of the infrastructure. LifeWatch ERIC is at work to offer a new personalised way to access and use LifeWatch ERIC services and VREs, combining at the same time what’s provided...
SOURCES workshop: Integrating historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation
LifeWatch ERIC contributed to the international 'SOURCES' workshop, in which more than 40 researchers from countries such as France, Germany, Canada, the United States, Poland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Denmark and Spain took part in Seville. Its objective was to integrate historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation, part of WP3 of the SUMHAL Project, promoted by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and LifeWatch ERIC, and it is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). SUMHAL’s aim is to contribute to the conservation of biodiversity in natural or semi-natural systems of the western Mediterranean, based on high-tech infrastructures, and collaboration between highly specialised research personnel and the public. Understanding the state of ecosystem and biodiversity distribution patterns in the past is crucial to understanding the complex relationships between human societies and environmental change and guiding natural resource management However, the information needed to generate this knowledge is scarce and often unavailable for researchers. It is often contained in a diverse array of historical sources (frequently ignored by environmental sciences) and equally diverse natural archives (e.g., archaeological or palynological records). SOURCES brought together a diverse group of scientists...
MARCO-BOLO project launched to better understand marine biodiversity decline and restore ocean health
Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme and the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), MARCO-BOLO (MARCO-BOLO (MARine Coastal BiOdiversity Long-term Observations) is a €7.3 million, 4-year project that will structure and strengthen European coastal and marine biodiversity observation capabilities, linking them to global efforts to understand and restore ocean health. The project kick-off meeting took place in Paris from 14 to 15 March 2023, gathering more than 80 participants from the project’s 28 partner institutions emanating from 14 countries and collaborating projects and partners.  The meeting also included representatives from the European Commission, the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON), EU4OceanObs, and related European-funded Horizon Europe and H2020 projects OBAMA-next, BIOcean5D, DTO- Bioflow, EuropaBON. The project is coordinated by the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC), one of the leading European Research Infrastructures, which aims at advancing ocean science to better address global environmental and societal issues. MARCO-BOLO’s key objectives The project has the following key objectives: Improve acquisition, coordination and delivery of marine, coastal and freshwater biodiversity observations to relevant users. Enable technologies for cost-effective, timely and accurate biodiversity observations. Test new tools, technologies and models to better understand biodiversity decline. Empower European biodiversity observatory operators, data producers and users by creating and...
Semantic Academy: the registration for the LifeWatch ERIC Intensive School is now open!

Semantic Academy: the registration for the LifeWatch ERIC Intensive School is now open!

In recent years, one of the major challenges in Environmental and Earth Sciences has been managing and searching larger volumes…
Read More
LifeWatch ERIC and GBIF join forces in support of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

LifeWatch ERIC and GBIF join forces in support of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

LifeWatch ERIC and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) are meeting from 30 May to 2 June, 2023, to support…
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Bioinspired robots in Lecce: MAPWORMS Plenary meeting

Bioinspired robots in Lecce: MAPWORMS Plenary meeting

Micro-CTvlab and MedOBIS Repository were present at the plenary meeting of the MAPWORMS project in Lecce, on 15-16 May 2023.…
Read More
LifeWatch ERIC at the ALL-Ready Second Regional Workshop

LifeWatch ERIC at the ALL-Ready Second Regional Workshop

On 11 May, LifeWatch ERIC hosted, at its ICT Core in Seville, the second regional workshop of the European project ALL-Ready: “Accelerating…
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LifeWatch ERIC at the EOSC Future General Assembly and Project Meeting

LifeWatch ERIC at the EOSC Future General Assembly and Project Meeting

On 3–5 May, LifeWatch ERIC participated in the EOSC Future General Assembly and Project Meeting, held in Seville, Spain. The event was…
Read More
Opening up good practices and e-research collaboration opportunities in the Mediterranean with PRIMA Foundation

Opening up good practices and e-research collaboration opportunities in the Mediterranean with PRIMA Foundation

The LifeWatch ERIC ICT-Core held an extensive working meeting at their headquarters in the Cartuja Science and Technology Park in…
Read More
LifeWatch ERIC strengthens international outlook at the EU-LAC Knowledge Forum

LifeWatch ERIC strengthens international outlook at the EU-LAC Knowledge Forum

On 24–25 April, LifeWatch ERIC participated in the working groups of the EU-LAC Knowledge Forum, held in Montevideo, Uruguay. The event…
Read More
LifeWatch Netherlands in ambitious new project LTER–LIFE

LifeWatch Netherlands in ambitious new project LTER–LIFE

The planet is changing rapidly; to understand and forecast how ecosystems are affected by global change, ecology should become a…
Read More
LifeWatch Belgium User Story: There’s no plaice like an offshore wind farm

LifeWatch Belgium User Story: There’s no plaice like an offshore wind farm

Offshore wind farms are built at a high rate in European waters as part of the green transition, taking up…
Read More
LifeWatch ERIC to Host Upcoming ALL-READY Regional Workshop

LifeWatch ERIC to Host Upcoming ALL-READY Regional Workshop

We are excited to announce the upcoming 2nd ALL-READY Regional Workshop, entitled “Accelerating the Agroecology Transition: Your potential role and benefits…
Read More
BES Annual Meeting 2023
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 12-15 December 2023. The British Ecological Society is the oldest ecological society in the world. Its Annual...
The concepts of Keystone taxa and Core Microbiome
Online, 15 January 2024. Microbiomes play a critical role in sustaining life on Earth. However, we still need to fully...
BioDT Hackathon: Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) – Second End-Users Workshop
Oslo, Norway, 23-25 January 2024 Join the BioDT hackathon to learn how digital twinning can revolutionize global agriculture. Discover how crop...

Events for Researchers

12/12/2023
BES Annual Meeting 2023
15/01/2024
The concepts of Keystone taxa and Core Microbiome
23/01/2024
BioDT Hackathon: Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) – Second End-Users Workshop
ALL-Ready Regional Workshop

ALL-Ready Regional Workshop

Seville, Spain, 2 November 2022. The ALL-Ready project is organising an interactive regional workshop on “Accelerating Agroecology Transition: Your potential…
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Synchronisation Force 1st Workshop

Synchronisation Force 1st Workshop

Online, 8 November – 12 December 2022. The Synchronisation Force 1st Workshop aims to discuss common challenges and priorities related to…
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Service documentation for EOSC providers Workshop 1: Describing your service for onboarding

Service documentation for EOSC providers Workshop 1: Describing your service for onboarding

Online, 9 November 2022. On 9 November, from 13:00-15:00 CET, the EOSC Future project, in which LifeWatch ERIC is partner,…
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EOSC Symposium 2022

EOSC Symposium 2022

Prague, Czech Republic/online, 14–17 November 2022. The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague,…
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SFE2, GFÖ & EEF Joint Meeting

SFE2, GFÖ & EEF Joint Meeting

Metz, France, 21–25 November 2022. During the last century, a period now known as the Anthropocene, ecologists and evolutionists alerted the…
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European Big Data Value Forum 2022

European Big Data Value Forum 2022

Prague, Czech Republic, 21–23 November 2022. The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) brings together industry professionals, business developers, researchers…
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Train-the-Trainer: An active learning course on understanding & using EOSC

Train-the-Trainer: An active learning course on understanding & using EOSC

Online, 21–24 November 2022. In November, EOSC Future is organising a 4-day online course for trainers to enhance their understanding…
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Workshop: e-Tools & resources to address key questions on Non-indigenous & Invasive Species

Workshop: e-Tools & resources to address key questions on Non-indigenous & Invasive Species

Metz, France, 21 November 2022. LifeWatch ERIC ICT staff, in collaboration with scientists already engaged in developing research activities on…
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Symposium: Advanced facilities for the ecological research: the European Research Infrastructures

Symposium: Advanced facilities for the ecological research: the European Research Infrastructures

Metz, France, 24 November 2022. The European Commission is strongly promoting the establishment and operation of European Research Infrastructures (ERIs),…
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FAIR Data Day - Reusing data to advance science

FAIR Data Day - Reusing data to advance science

Utrecht, The Netherlands, 29 November 2022. The FAIR Data Day 2022 is an event organised by the National Programme Open Science…
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BES Annual Meeting 2023
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 12-15 December 2023. The British Ecological Society is the oldest ecological society in the world. Its Annual...
The concepts of Keystone taxa and Core Microbiome
Online, 15 January 2024. Microbiomes play a critical role in sustaining life on Earth. However, we still need to fully...
BioDT Hackathon: Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) – Second End-Users Workshop
Oslo, Norway, 23-25 January 2024 Join the BioDT hackathon to learn how digital twinning can revolutionize global agriculture. Discover how crop...
Bulgaria

The Bulgarian National Distributed Centre is represented by the  Agricultural University-Plovdiv.

To know more about how Bulgaria contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

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Spain

The Spanish National Distributed Centre is supported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Regional Government of Andalusia and the Guadalquivir River Basin Authority (Ministry for Ecological Transition-MITECO). Moreover, Spain is the hosting Member State of LifeWatch ERIC, the location of its Statutory Seat & ICT e-Infrastructure Technical Office (LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities). 

To know more about how Spain contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

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Slovenia

The Slovenian National Distributed Centre is led by the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). It focuses on the development of technological solutions in the field of biodiversity and socio-ecosystem research.

To know more about how Slovenia contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

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Portugal

The Portuguese National Distributed Centre is managed by PORBIOTA, the Portuguese e-Infrastructure for Information and Research on Biodiversity. Led by BIOPOLIS/CIBIO-InBIO – Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, PORBIOTA connects the principal Portuguese research institutions working in biodiversity.

To know more about how Portugal contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

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Netherlands

The Dutch National Distributed Centre is hosted by the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. Moreover, The Netherlands hosts one of the LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities, the Virtual Laboratory and Innovation Centre.

To know more about how The Netherlands contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

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Italy

The Italian National Distributed Centre is led and managed by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and is coordinated by a Joint Research Unit, currently comprising 35 members. Moreover, Italy hosts one of the LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities, the Service Centre.

To know more about how Italy contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

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Greece

The Greek National Distributed Centre is funded by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology and is coordinated by the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, in conjunction with 47 associated partner institutions.

To know more about how Greece contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

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Belgium

The Belgian National Distributed Centre makes varied and complementary in-kind contributions to LifeWatch ERIC. These are implemented in the form of long-lasting projects by various research centres and universities distributed throughout the country and supported by each respective political authority.

To know more about how Belgium contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

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