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EU-funded projects ESPAS and ENVRI started

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EISCAT participates 2 new consortia funded by the EU FP7. The projects ESPAS, serving space weather and Sun-climate studies, and ENVRI, e-infrastructure related project by the environmental ESFRI projects, recently had their kick-off meetings at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia in Rome, Italy, on 10-11 November and 23-25 November 2011, respectively.

The ESPAS project, serving space weather and Sun-climate studies, will provide the e-Infrastructure necessary to support the access to observations, modeling and prediction of the Near-Earth Space environment. This includes the plasma and energetic particle environments as well as the neutral atmosphere at altitudes above 60 km. The primary goal of ESPAS is to facilitate user access to heterogeneous data from multiple providers, ranging from ground-based observations acquired with multiple instruments and techniques, to data from satellite experiments, using a mixture of in-situ and remotely sensed techniques.

ENVRI is a cluster project for the benefit of environmental Research Infrastructures, which are listed on the current ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) Roadmap: EMSO, EURO-ARGO, ICOS. LIFEWATCH. EISCAT_3D, EPOS, and SIOS. The central goal of the ENVRI project is to implement harmonised solutions and generate guidelines for the common needs of all the environmental ESFRI projects, with a special focus on such issues as architectures, metadata frameworks, data discovery in scattered repositories, visualisation and data curation.

Funding applications were recently sent for 2 additional projects COOPEUS AND IMPRES:

The COOPEUS project brings together scientists and users involved in Europe’s major environmental research infrastructure projects within ESFRI, i.e. EISCAT, EPOS, LifeWATCH, EMSO, and ICOS, with their US counterparts that are responsible for the NSF funded projects AMISR, EARTHSCOPE, DataONE, OOI and NEON. The aim of COOPEUS is to interlink these activities.

The acronym of the project IMPRES stands for European Integrated Research Infrastructures for Monitoring and Predicting Space Weather. The IMPRES project aims at integrating the key research infrastructures in Europe for the observation and study of the ionosphere and magnetosphere. For more information see the The IMPRES project web page at: http://www.eiscat.rl.ac.uk/users/impres/

Created by Esa
Last modified 2011-11-28 08:38