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1. E-ScienceEuropeanInfrastructure forBiodiversity and EcosystemResearch Consolidating synergies among Iberian e-Biodiversity communities through IBERGRID-IBERLIFE & EOSC (Synergy) initiatives Dr. Juan Miguel González Aranda LifeWatchERIC ChiefTechnologyOfficer IBERGRID 2019 & EOSC SynergyKick-off Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) September 24th, 2019

2. CONTENTS PART I.Anapproach to LifeWatch ERIC as a distributed e-Infrastructure PART II. AnoverallvisiononhowLifeWatch ERIC isengaging EOSC PART III. IBERLIFE: Context of Iberiane-Biodiversityinitiatives PART IV. Someconclusions

3. PART I Anapproach to LifeWatch ERIC as a distributede-Infrastructure

4. LifeWatchERICis a European e-Science distributed Infrastructure focused on how to measure the impact of Global Climate Change issues on Earth Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research. Hot Ecological Topics (The Big Five) Desafíos «Challenges»

5. e-ScienceEuropeanInfrastructureforBiodiversity and EcosystemResearch LifeWatch Common Infrastructure Distributed LifeWatch Centre Distributed LifeWatch Centre COORDINATING COUNTRY: ES MEMBER COUNTRIES: BE, EL, ES, IT, NL, PT, SL OBSERVER COUNTRIES: SK REQUESTED ADMISSION: CY, IL, UA, RO Virtual Labs & Innovations Centre (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Service Centre (Lecce-Regione Puglia, Italy) Headquaters, Statutory Seat & ICT e-Infrastructure (Andalusia, Spain) Thematic Centresare in member countries (and REGIONS) and develop components of the e-Science facilities

6. And not only! H2020-INFRASSUP-RESINFRA

7. https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=DOUE-L-2017-80526

8. The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook (GBIO) Framework (Hobern et al. 2012) identifies 20 components as essential elements of biodiversity informatics and organized as four layers: Culture, Data, Evidence and Understanding. The engagement of the (distributed) ICT component of LifeWatch ERIC with other pan-European Research Infrastructures focusing on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (GBIF, DiSSCo, e-LTER and AnaEE, among others), is being achieved in a number of ways. This approach is facilitating meeting GBIF’s overall objective stated as: “Connecting data and expertise: a new alliance for biodiversity knowledge” (Hobern et al, 2019).

9. LifeWatch ERIC UNDERSTANDING:Building modeled representations of biodiversity patterns and properties, based on any possible EVIDENCE, based on the following components: Multiscale species modelling; Trends and predictions; Modelling biological systems; Visualization and dissemination; Prioritizing new data capture.

10. 2nd Global Biodiversity Information Conference ‑GBIC2‑ held under the auspices of GBIF in Copenhague‑Denmark (July 2018): One of the main conclusions was that the Evidence layer is the fertile interface to develop sound synergies for collaboration (counting on previous cited RI, among others) in order to support in turn GBIF through the development of concrete activities: • Co-design, development and deployment of a multi-purpose Virtual Research Environment (VRE) specifically by integrating existing distributed e-Resources and e-Services, and by engaging their associated Communities of Practice; • Co-design and co-implementation of relevant e-Services in LifeBlock (LifeWatch ERIC blockchain-based technology platform); LifeWatch ERIC ORCHESTRA-model based ICT Architecture

11. Therefore, LifeWatch ERIC will serve as an ICT “Backbone” to support common & rest of distributed facilities and initiatives and their users’: Researchers, Decision Makers & Managers, Citizen Scientists.

12. Marine Virtual Research Environment “A marine virtual research environment providing open data services in support of marine biodiversity and ecosystem research” Analyse Develop Access Use online tools that facilitate data analysis of marine biodiversity and ecosystem data. Analysis is performed on data from known data resources and/or data uploaded by the user. Retrieve and access data resources holding marine biodiversity and ecosystem data. A range of data systems offering data on species names, traits, distribution and genes. Build your own marine virtual lab making use of a range of available web services that access and process data. Service catalogues and ‘how to’ manuals help you to develop your own system. https://www.lifewatch.eu

13. https://www.lifewatch.eu

14. All together: RESEARCHERS, Managers & Decision Makers, and Citizens (Science) + ECOSYSTEM SERVICES SpeciesTraits

15. LifeWatchERIC will create and deploy pilot use cases relying heavily on the paradigm of ES and aims to increase the reliability of benefit transfer by developing Virtual Research Environments –VRE- engaged to a Blockchain-based platform (“LifeBlock”) capable to analyze multiple unstructured inputs from remote and in-field sensing, Remote Sensing-GIS datasets and original studies in order to produce value estimates. The application of VRE will make it possible to integrate for the first-time environmental parameters and socioeconomic conditions with aspects of biodiversity conservation and its role in the provision of ecosystem services in diverse frameworks, in order to provide new transfer functions that might eventually replace (or at least complement) the meta-regression techniques primarily used at present. EcosystemServices (ES)

16. In particular, Objective #15focusedonBiodiversity & EcosystemResearch and Sustainable Management topics • It is necessary to • UNDERSTAND: • Environmental critical thresholds & ecosystems “resilience” • Relationship between BIODIVERSITY & ESSENTIAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES • TEEB Ecological and Economic Foundations since 2010 SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: doing what IPCC did for Climate Change for biodiversity Nagoya – 2010 – CBD targets The mission of the Strategic Plan is to “take effective and urgent action to halt the loss of biodiversityin order to ensure that by 2020 ecosystems are resilient and continue to provide essential services, …

17. FOR EXAMPLE, biological invasions NON-INDIGENOUS INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES are listed as one of the five major causes of biodiversity loss, alongside habitat destruction, over-exploitation, climate change and pollution (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005), and measures to control their introduction and establishment are urgently needed (Aichi Target 9; CBD 2010). The European and global scale databases available on alien and invasive species distribution, abundance and traits (e.g., DAISIE; EASIN; IUCN; WoRIMS; AquaNIS; European Regional Databases;etc.). …and the tools, e-Services & VREs already developed and operational on LifeWatch ERIC national nodes for data resources integration, analysis and modelling offer an unique opportunity for a LifeWatch-ERIC Proof of Concept on this topic of such great scientific, social and economic interest.

18. In fact, the active participation on integrating collections data as the main resource needed for the integration of GLOBIS-B developments (EBVs) and results (Kissling et al., 2016) jointly species traits in LifeBlock platform, to feed Ecosystem Services needed to supply Biodiversity Ecosystem Services VRE, to further support thematic areas (in particular, Invasive Alien Species, through the LifeWatch ERIC Common Facility and Distributed Nodes Internal Joint Initiative, a.k.a. IJI). has been recently approved for oral presentation during the session "SI22-DiSSCo as a model for regional development of collections infrastructure" in the Infrastructure track at the forthcoming joint Biodiversity_Next conference in Leiden, The Netherlands, October 20-25, 2019.

19. PART II AnoverallvisiononhowLifeWatch ERIC isengaging EOSC

20. https://eosc-portal.eu European Open Science Cloud

21. How to integrate ERIC ? Ourapproach EOSC HUB LifeWatch Thematic Services European Open Science Cloud AAI Storage ERIC FORUM Interoperable Friendly FAIR principles Open Machine-Actionable LifeWatch ERIC : Virtual ResearchEnvironments & e-Services (e.g. Blockchain-based) deployment (alsoaddressed to decisionmakers & managers) ENVRI+ FAIR Cluster Common-Shared e-Services Withtherestof ENVRI+ Cluster relatedERICs, ESFRIsandinitiatives (ICOS, EMSO, ACTRIS, DANUBIUS-RI, SeaDataNet, etc.) LifeWatch ERIC distributed ICT e-Infranstructure (VREsdeployment) (Meta-)Data interoperability Existing Cloud Computing and other related technologies support Providers (INDIGO DataCloud, EGI, EUDAT, PRACE, etc.)

22. PART III IBERLIFE: Context of Iberian e-Biodiversityinitiatives

23. PORTUGAL: PORBIOTA& IBERLIFE PORBIOTA integrates LifeWatch ERIC Portugal initiative IBERLIFE = Iberian (ES-PT) LifeWatch ERIC initiative 1st IBERLIFE Meeting held in parallelduring IBERGRID 2014 (Aveiro, Sept 2014), followedbyseveral bilateral Ministerial meetings.

24. LIFEWATCH SPAIN CommunityisstructuredbyitsJointResearchUnit (acronymJRU LW.ES) Composed of 33Organizations & Institutions(September 2019) GOVERNANCE SCHEME INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA Instituto …among others

25. GuaranteeingPortuguese and Spanish connectivity, and in turn with the rest of EU and international (Latin America and Caribbean, etc.). GuaranteeingSupercomputing & HPC in tightly collaboration withPortuguesecolleagues such as LIP, among others. Federation of theSpanish and Portuguesenationalgridinitiativeswhichprovidescoreservices to IBERLIFE initiative and in turn to the EOSC throughLifeWatch ERIC.

26. “Research Infrastructures (RIs) are at the center of the quadruple helix (Pór, 2005), where research, academy, private companies (including SMEs), civil society organizations and public administration meet by applying an incremental and iterative process for creating new knowledge” (González-Aranda et al., 2010). • “Moreover, RIs can be considered as research-focused inter-organizational knowledge systems which are tight related with and the space where they are located, making them valuable assets when thinking about territorial competitiveness considering a multi-level (European, National, Regional), and trans-national, trans-regional and trans-boundary perspectives” (Carlsson, 2003; González-Aranda et al., 2013).

27. This interest was reflected in the attendance to this workshop, over 80 persons from 15 countries and over 20 regions http://www.rich2020.eu/symposium2016 Madrid, April 2016 Italy, Portugal & Spain regional cooperationresults

28. 64,000,000.00 € Beneficiary co-funding 20 % At least,36% of theoverallprojectbudgetmust be allocated to fund INTERNATIONALIZATION OF R+D+I ACTIVITIES developed and/orcarriedoutbyLifeWatch ERIC in collaborationwithother RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES (ERIC, EOSC, Copernicus, etc.). Ministry co-fundingforAndalusiaRegion 80 %

29. PART IV Someconclusions

30. LifeWatch ERIC is a particularly relevant case of distributed e-Infrastructure to vertebrate Iberian e-Biodiversity communities, either at national or regional perspective with a strong potential for: • Capitalizing already existing investments • Improving ICT & environmental developments that may be useful for biodiversity and ecosystem research & management and for other purposes • Special attention must be placed to the expected impact in the regional industrial sectors (particularly SMEs) • Expected IMPACT:LifeWatch ERIC as a structuring tool for the European Research Area, also supporting policy decision making addressing Societal Challenges which demand scientific knowledge in a Global Climate Change context, including Citizen Science activities. • As a result, the existing knowledge and e-Services related with biodiversity and environmental information from cooperating initiatives among territories should be better connected. This a real challenge for Environmental RIs which also includes specific topics such as shared ICT developments, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Open Access (RDA), Copernicus and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) connections.

31. In that sense, ongoing initiatives such as IBERLIFE-IBERGRID (based on the former LifeWatch EGI.eu Competence Center developments) and common Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research & Management programmes established at Mediterranean, Atlantic, Latin America-Caribbean and Sub Saharan contexts, provide a common ground to reinforce the development of PT-ES shared distributed e-Infrastructures. In fact, it is already considered as an example of good practices to integrate physical and virtual media through LifeWatchERIC. • Therefore, it makes sense that EOSC Synergy initiative (coordinated by IBERGRID) supports LifeWatch ERIC to engage EOSC, also involving-jointly ENVRI+ FAIR, EOSC-HUB and ERIC FORUM, among others. • In addition, Regional Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization (RIS3) in synergy with Horizon Europe must guarantee past H2020 funding instruments from being simple extensions of Preparatory Phase projects, enabling “realistic” constructions and granting the sustainable operation of new-born facilities. This a crucial issue as normally Preparatory Phases are usually conceptual-based exercises and they do not take into consideration the actual commitments of the countries (including their regions), and particularly, their engagement with EOSC. To that purpose, LifeWatch ERIC has developed a “realistic” Construction & Business Plan based on “real” needs and users’ requirements, including a “feasible” Governance Scheme and Funding Strategy in order to guarantee LifeWatch ERIC Sustainabilityby following a sequence of releases, starting with a down-scaled level and a incremental & iterative construction methodology (“SecDevOps”) with a proper QARM Plan associated.

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