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GEO-INQUIRE: Geosphere Infrastructures for Questions into Integrated Research
Geo-INQUIRE will enhance access to key data, products, and services for monitoring and modeling dynamic geosphere processes with greater detail and precision. It addresses cross-domain barriers (land-sea-atmosphere) using innovative data management, simulations, and AI methods. The project includes interoperable data infrastructure, 150 virtual and transnational access facilities, and training programs to foster multidisciplinary, cutting-edge research.
Geo-INQUIRE will provide and enhance access to selected key data, products, and services, enabling the dynamic processes within the geosphere to be monitored and modelled at new levels of spatial and temporal detail and precision. Geo-INQUIRE aims to overcome cross-domain barriers, especially the land-sea-atmosphere environments, and will exploit innovative data management techniques, modelling and simulations methods, developments in AI and big data, and extend existing data infrastructures to disseminate these resources to the wider scientific community, including the EOSC landscape.
Geo-INQUIRE benefits from a unique partnership of 52 partners consisting of major national research institutes, universities, national geological surveys, and European consortia. Geo-INQUIRE will enhance and make interoperable the activities of the involved partners and conduct dedicated training programs for their optimal use. A portfolio of 150 Virtual Access (VA) and Transnational Access (TA, both virtual and on-site) installations will be offered to the scientific community.
While many such resources are already available at a high level of maturity, Geo-INQUIRE will ensure that they not only reach the highest level of scientific excellence through targeted actions on availability, quality, and spatial and temporal resolution, but also that they follow FAIR principles, adopt proper standards and open licenses, and aim at cross-disciplinary interoperability. Furthermore, the integration of different data, including new observables, products, and services will be optimized through TA activities via 7 test beds, which will also host workshops and summer schools dealing with the available resources.
Ultimately, Geo-INQUIRE, with its enhanced data, product, and service portfolio, will enable the next generation of scientists to carry out leading-edge research addressing societal challenges from a multidisciplinary perspective, making intelligent use of these resources.
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101058518
Program and Call for proposals
HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01 / Topic: HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01-07 - Research infrastructures services advancing frontier knowledge
Start date
10/01/2022
End date
09/28/2026
Duration in months
48
TOTAL COST
13.923.475,77 €
Cost for PLOCAN
41.125,00 €
Total funded
13.923.475,77 €
Financed for PLOCAN
41.125,00 €
Coordinator
Helmholtz Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches Geoforschungszentrum (DE)
Partners
GFZ (DE) - CNRS (FR) - INGV (IT) - EUCENTRE (IT) - UU (NL) - UNINA (IT) - IGF-PAS (PL) - EPOS-ERIC (IT) - BRGM (FR) - UiB (NO) - CSIC (ES) - ORFEUS (NL) - UBI (PT) - ORB (BE) - NOA (EL) - EMSC (FR) - IMO (IS) - NGI (NO) - IFREMER (FR) - UNIPV (IT) - EMSO-ERIC (IT) - LMU (DE) - CINECA (IT) - VLIZ (BE) - BSC CNS (ES) - ECCESL-ERIC (NO) - UMA (ES) - GEM (IT) - CNR (IT) - ISPRA (IT) - AGH (PL) - NORSAR (NO) - INFN (IT) Affiliated entities: UGA (FR) - UCA (FR) - UBO (FR) - LRU (FR) - OCA (FR) - IPGP (FR) - UNISTRA (FR) - HCMR (EL) - MI (IE) - UPC (ES) - PLOCAN (ES) - INERIS (FR) - OGS (IT) - TNO (NL) - SOTACARBO (IT) - SINTEF (NO) Associated partners: ETHZ (CH) - UCL (UK)