E-Science European Infrastructure For Biodiversity And Ecosystem Research

LifeWatch ERIC is the e-Science European Research Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, a distributed Research e-Infrastructure to advance biodiversity research and to provide major contributions in addressing the big environmental challenges, such as the impact of Climate Change on Earth Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. This mission is achieved by providing access to a multitude of data sets, services and tools enabling the construction and operation of Virtual Research Environments (VRE) which provide the environments for integrating data, software and computation as developed in pan-European infrastructure cooperation, by making use of “state-of-art” ICT (Big Data, Deep Learning & AI, Blockchain, among others). This allows the accelerated capture of data with new innovative technologies and knowledge-based decision-making support for the management of biodiversity and ecosystems.

Role in ALL-Ready

LifeWatch ERIC is leader of Leader of WP6, and it participates in all its tasks:
• Task 6.1 Virtual Research Environment and Blockchain demonstrator for data provenance, traceability &chain of custody, network identification support and Agro-Ecosystems Services valorization & accountability;
• Task 6.2 Guaranteeing Open Data FAIRness;
• Task6.3 Data Management Plans–DMP;
• Task 6.4 Innovation and IPR management.
It also collaborates in WP2 (Task 2.2–Mapping and analysis of living labs, research infrastructures and funding mechanisms for agroecology research and innovation) and WP7 (Task 7.1 Development and implementation of the Communication Plan; Task 7.3 Project Final Conference). LifeWatch ERIC has experience in all the above mentioned type of activities.

Key persons involved

• Dr. Juan Miguel González-Aranda
• Dr. José Manuel Ávila Castuera
• Elisa Morón López
• Antonio José Sáenz Albanés
• Francisco Manuel Sánchez Cano