Joining Forces in shaping the European Open Science Cloud
Convener:
Wolfgang Castell
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Co-conveners:
Sebastien Payan,
Jean-Philippe Malet,
Alessandro Rizzo,
Jörg Seegert
There has been substantial effort put into building a suite of research infrastructures for Earth and environmental sciences within the European research ecosystem. At the same time, various countries have implemented respective national infrastructures, shaping communities on Earth and environmental sciences across boundaries of traditional disciplines.
To really serve the scientific community on the long run, this ecosystem has to provide services on a reliable and sustainable basis. Likewise, further communities have to be approach to foster a systemic understanding of System Earth and allow for developing solutions to grand challenges such as adaptation to climate change or counteracting loss of biodiversity. Such solutions will hard to be derived, if data is hindered in flowing freely between silos build by organizational and/or national boundaries. Furthermore, to really make use of the European AI Factories or lighthouse projects like Destination Earth, a joint data space for Earth and Environmental sciences has to be created making use of the complementary opportunities provided by national as well as transnational initiatives.
Starting at EGU 2025 Data Terra (France) and NFDI4Earth (Germany) have initiated a forum for discussion, bringing representatives of various national and European research infrastructures together and allowing users to join the discussion, presenting their needs and expectations in shaping the European Open Science Cloud for Earth system sciences.
The aim of the meeting is to bring together perspectives of users, data providers, infrastructure providers and policy makers to discuss pathways for integrating existing initiatives into a virtual network of infrastructures serving the Earth and Environmental science community.
The oral presentations are given in a hybrid format supported by a Zoom meeting featuring on-site and virtual presentations. The button to access the Zoom meeting appears just before the time block starts.