eLTER EnRich-Bridging phases towards the Integrated European Long- Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure
The Horizon Europe eLTER EnRich aims at catalysing the eLTER ESFRI process towards a successful conclusion, transforming the eLTER Europe network in a Research Infrastructure (RI) aligned with the vision and role in the European system of RIs identified by ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures).
The role of eLTER RI is to enable frontier research for a sound understanding of ecosystem change or adaptation in response to multiple global change pressures/pulses, thus providing an essential tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the Green Deal, and for the transition to a sustainable and resilient Europe. To this end, EnRich is implementing a model-based systems engineering approach to better capture the complexity of the distributed RI and to support dynamic decision making towards a research infrastructure capacity that is well co-ordinated across ~20 formally involved countries. The eLTER System Architecture (SA) allows us to design a baseline 'Skeleton RI' with well selected initial key services as a starting point for incremental extensions during the operational phase. Cyberinfrastructure components of highest relevance for the eLTER service portfolio will be driven from the SA and implemented in close collaboration with related projects and RIs.
The role of CNR-IAC in eLTER EnRich is to support the whole process by converting the description of the services into machine-readable workflows to feed-in the System Architecture. That includes data and modelling services which contributes to the RI service portfolio.
