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FAIR EArth Sciences & Environment services
https://doi.org/10.3030/101058956
www.fairease.eu
Funder identifier: 101058956 (EU contract id)
Principal funding codes: 3852 - Horizon Europe - Research Infrastructures
Acronym: FAIR-EASE
Period: September 2022 till August 2025
Status: In Progress

Thesaurus terms Automated data processing; Other earth sciences not elsewhere classified
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique- Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (CNRS-IFREMER), more
  • Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), more
  • Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), more
  • University of Algarve; Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences; Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), more
  • European Marine Biological Research Centre (EMBRC-ERIC), more
  • Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), more
  • Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more
  • Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI), more
  • Italian National Research Council (CNR), more
  • University of Bologna; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), more
  • Marine Institute Ireland (MI), more
  • Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Departement Paleontologie; Afdeling Antropologie en prehistorie; Eenheid Archeozoölogie (RBINSC), more
  • Université de Liège; Faculté des Sciences; Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution; Laboratoire d'Océanologie Biologique, more
  • Trust-IT Services (Trust-IT), more
  • Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples (SZN), more
  • University of Naples, more
  • Université de Lille, more
  • Sorbonne Université, more
  • University of Southampton; National Oceanography Centre (NOC), more

Earth and environmental sciences require a large panel and volume of data from satellite, in-situ observations, models, omics  
experiments... Earth system domains are interconnected and even if interfaces between domains appear of primary importance for several studies with large societal impacts, such as climate change, agriculture and food, human safety and health, the present digital architecture is based essentially on distributed and domain-dependent data repositories inducing real difficulties for integrated uses of all the environmental data. To go beyond this state-of-the-art, the overall objective of FAIR-EASE is to customize and operate distributed and integrated services for observation and modelling of the Earth system, environment and biodiversity by improving the TRL of their different components implemented in close cooperation with user-communities, the European Open Science Cloud and research infrastructures in their design and sustainable availability.  

The project will: (1) Improve a FAIR-EASE data discovery and data access service, relying on pre-operational existing services, in order to provide users with an easy and FAIR tool for discovery and access to environmental multidisciplinary and aggregated data-sets as managed and provided by a range of European data infrastructures; (2) Set up a FAIR-EASE Earth Analytical Lab, with EOSC connectivity supporting, through web-based interfaces, predefined processing tools and on-demand data visualization services for remote analysis and processing of heterogeneous data facilitating the cross-disciplinary collaboration, reducing the time to results and increasing productivity; and (3) Develop a number of multidisciplinary Use Cases (UCs) to contribute requirements for the FAIR-EASE system components and to validate and demonstrate the capabilities of the FAIR-EASE service for supporting open science.