Article 2 Task and activities, ERIC Components
United Kingdom
The main task of LifeWatch ERIC shall be to establish and operate the infrastructure and information systems necessary to mobilise and integrate data and algorithms for biodiversity and ecosystem research, including enhancing understanding, linkages and synergies with other societal challenges such as climate change adaptation and mitigation, and to provide analytical capabilities.
To this end LifeWatch ERIC shall undertake and coordinate a variety of activities, including but not limited to:
The operation of a distributed research infrastructure that shall encompass enabling capabilities for demand-driven biodiversity data mobilisation; integrated access to distributed data resources; the provision of services for data discovery, analysis, modelling and visualisation; web-based and site-based support for users; and digital environments for scientific cooperation and experimentation.
The support to and cooperation with national and international facilities on the basis of service level agreements, with respect to data mobilisation and data sharing; computational capacity; and development of new infrastructure capabilities — including exploration of a role as a broker coordinating requirements and delivery plans between national and international facilities, institutions and organisations if so requested by them.
The building of capacity in order to foster new opportunities for large-scale scientific development; to enable accelerated data capture with new technologies; to support knowledge based decision-making for the management of biodiversity and ecosystems; and to support training programmes.
The maintenance of a capacity for the upgrading of the research infrastructure, the innovation and valorisation of knowledge and technology, and the development of new analytical capabilities.
The undertaking of any other tasks closely related to the above mentioned activities that the General Assembly may decide.