{"paper_id":"2f5e5081-d249-462d-9e6c-1aa926f378e1","body_text":"Grant Proposal\nAuthor-formatted document posted on 06/06/2023\nPublished in a RIO article collection by decision of the collection editors.\nDOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e107578\nDashboard for the State of the\nEnvironment\nAlex Vermeulen,  Dick Schaap,  Angeliki Adamaki,  Tjerk Krijger, Raul \nBardaji, Andreu Fornos, Ivan Rodero, Damien Boulanger, Cathrine Myhre, \nRichard Rud, Zois Zogopoulos, Claudio D’Onofrio,  Gwenaelle Moncoiffé\n\nThe Dashboard is developed within the second Science Project (SP2) of the EOSC Future\nas contribution from the ENVRI cluster to the EOSC platform. \nEligibility \nThis SP has a truly interdisciplinary and cross-domain character. It involves many research\ngroups which are organized in several RIs and ERICs. The Dashboard will also be open for\nexternal  scientist  groups  which  are  not  members  of  the  EOSC  Future  Consortium  to\nconnect additional environmental indicators. It will make full use of previous experiences of\nthe ENVRIs in many related projects.\nContribution to EOSC \nThe SP will demonstrate how different services and multi-disciplinary data resources from\nmultiple research groups can be combined and used to generate scientifically justified\nenvironmental indicators in an easy way. The components will make use of existing RI\nservices  that  will  be  on-boarded  to  EOSC,  while  also  the  new  Dashboard  service\ncomponents will be integrated in EOSC for wider access and possible re-use by other\nresearch groups. Moreover, use will be made of several EOSC core services, including the\nEOSC AAI federation, the monitoring service and the EOSC Helpdesk.\nQuality \nIn this SP use will be made of high-quality data resources as managed by the ENVRIs and\nof analytical workflows which have a scientific basis, mobilizing the long experience of\nresearchers involved in the RIs.\nRelevance \nThe environmental data as managed by the ENVRIs provide a major source of information\nto determine the state and following trends and drivers in the development of our Earth\nsystem. This will facilitate to monitor environmental boundary conditions and to inform\nusers from all levels of society on short to long term developments. This will be of imminent\nenvironmental, economic, and societal value. It will contribute to several EU initiatives and\nDirectives such as the Green Deal [2].\nImplementation, Plan of work\nThis Science Project aims at bringing to the EOSC Future platform engagement of the\nENVRI cluster and external research communities as well as multidisciplinary and web-\nbased use cases which are of major interest for the society. To achieve the goals, the\nproject will \n• Determine the scope and range of environmental indicators, feasible within the\nScience Project and attractive for society and for co-creation,\n• Specify  and  develop  the  analytical  pipelines  for  each  of  the  environmental\nindicators, determining which datasets are needed, how these must be processed,\n3\nAuthor-formatted document posted on 06/06/2023. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e107578\n\ncurated,  and  elaborated,  and  combined  with  ancillary  data  in  comprehensive\nmodels,\n• Specify how use can be made of datasets, algorithms, and models as managed\nand operated by the ENVRI-FAIR RIs and scientific communities, as well as by\nexternal  researchers,  possibly  in  other  domains,  such  as  socio-economy,  and\npossibly also from industry, and how co-creation processes can be supported,\n• Bundle the analytical pipelines and data sources,\n• Develop  and  design  a  flexible  Dashboard  service  as  a  front-end  that  will  be\nintegrated into the EOSC portal for publishing the environmental indicators,\n• Promote the dashboard for attracting more participation of scientific groups, refining\nquality of indicators as well as expanding number of indicators.\nUse of resources \nOpen-access and FAIR data sets are provided by RI partners in the ENVRI cluster and\nother relevant RIs and data repositories. Technical support is provided by the EOSC for on-\nboarding, computing resources, and interactions with several technical groups to facilitate\nthe integration with EOSC core services.\nPartners \nICOS ERIC (member of ENVRI cluster); Lund University (on behalf of ICOS, member of\nENVRI cluster); MARIS (on behalf of SeaDataNet, member of ENVRI cluster); EMSO ERIC\n(member of ENVRI cluster); OGS (on behalf of SeaDataNet, member of ENVRI cluster);\nIFREMER (on behalf of EuroArgo, member of ENVRI cluster); NOC-BODC (on behalf of\nSeaDataNet, member of ENVRI cluster); NILU (on behalf of ACTRIS, member of ENVRI\ncluster); NERC-CEH (on behalf of eLTER, member of ENVRI). \nImpact\nThe Dashboard can serve both scientists and the public by giving access to environmental\ndata and services that are developed at the infrastructure level. The ENVRI services will be\ndeveloped further within the EOSC environment and the user communities will continue\ngrowing. The impact of the project can be seen at strategic, scientific and policy level. \nStrategic \nThe Dashboard for the State of the Environment will provide the EOSC with a highly\nrelevant societal service and it will demonstrate how multiple research communities can be\norchestrated and supported by EOSC to generate and operate a common service.\nScientific/User communities \nWith the Dashboard the ENVRIs aim to engage a vast scientific community from research\nand industry sectors addressing analyses of environmental processes by means of data\ngathering and processing, and modelling. Through ENVRI-FAIR, and within the EOSC-\n4\nAuthor-formatted document posted on 06/06/2023. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e107578\n\nFUTURE framework, new services will be added to the EOSC portal, which will attract both\nadditional  researchers  as  co-creators  and  end-users from  policy,  management,  and\neconomic activities.\nEU policies \nThe Dashboard for the State of the Environment will be an excellent dissemination platform\nto  showcase  the  usefulness  and  relevance  of  the  observations  provided  by  the\ninfrastructures to societal issues like Climate Change, eutrophication of surface waters by\npollution by nutrients and air pollution. It will generate insights for the general public and\npolicy makers on the current state of the environment and the recent trends and will lead\nthe interested audience to additional services and data that the infrastructures can offer. \nThe elements of the dashboard that will be developed are all extremely relevant to the\nSustainable Development Goals of the United Nations [3] and directly target the goals of\nthe European Green Deal on Climate Change. \nEngagement plan \nTwo of the most important issues that concern modern societies are climate change and\ntrustworthy  information.  The  role  of  the  ENVRIs  is  to  provide  good  quality  data  and\nservices to the scientific communities. In this project data and services from ENVRIs will be\nused to produce several environmental indicators, i.e. physical variables resulting from\nmeasurements, trends calculated using data etc. which are provided to the EOSC users in\nthe  form  of  a  Dashboard.  With  this  new  service  the  EOSC  user  can  combine  the\nenvironmental indicators in a customised collection that is visualised on an easy-to-use\ninteractive interface, the Dashboard front-end. This way the EOSC users (regardless of\ntheir  scientific  background)  can  capture  the  current  state  of  the  environment  and\nunderstand the impacts of a changing climate on the environment and the societies. More\nadvanced scientific users will get the chance to explore the elaborated data products and\nmodels offered by the ENVRIs by getting access to their services via the Dashboard.\nAuthenticated and authorised users will be able to further interact with the Dashboard by\ncontributing relevant indicators with simple and well documented workflows that are offered\nto them via the interactive interface. This way more scientific communities will be engaged,\nin and around the environmental field. Advanced EOSC users from computer sciences or\nIT fields that support other infrastructures will have access to the design and source codes\nof the Dashboard to engineer similar workflows and create services using the EOSC\nresources.\nTarget groups \nThis Science Project targets involvement of scientists who work in environmental research\nfields as well as in data science, not only in academia but also in the industry. Being\nrelated to climate change this Science Project also targets scientists from social sciences,\npeople working with policy makers or in citizen science projects. While the front-end of the\nDashboard service will target the wider society (citizens, policy makers, environmental\n5\nAuthor-formatted document posted on 06/06/2023. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e107578\n\nmanagers among others) as it gives easy access to an increasing range of environmental\nindicators and trends.\nDissemination measures \nThe project partners use all EOSC and ENVRI channels to promote the Environmental\nDashboard  as  a  showcase  of  collaboration  within  the  ENVRI  cluster  (with  the  initial\ncontributions  covering  3  environmental  domains,  ocean,  atmosphere,  and  ecosystem/\nbiodiversity)  as  well  as  demonstrating  the  benefits  of  being  active  partners  in  the\nestablishment of the EOSC platform. In particular: \n1. The description of the Science Project is submitted for publication with the other\nEOSC Future Science Projects for publication in this special issue.\n2. (Technical) white papers describing the analytical workflows set up by the ENVRI\nproviders as well as the engineering of the Dashboard design as a new (integrated)\nEOSC service are considered once the services reach the required technical level.\n3. The Dashboard has been presented as one of the cross-domain ENVRI use cases\nin ENVRI-FAIR Workshops that took place in 2022-2023. More of these events will\nbe scheduled as the ENVRI-FAIR project is reaching completion. \n4. The motivation and prototype of the Dashboard was presented in sessions related\nto interdisciplinary science at the International ENVRI Summer School 2022 (July\n2022, Lecce, Italy).\n5. At the conference of EGU23 (European Geoscience Union General Assembly, April\n2023, Vienna, Austria) the Dashboard was invited to participate at the session\n“Open Interoperability Frameworks Built by Scientists for Scientists to Meet Global\nSocietal Challenges”. This is an annual event that gathered 19K scientists from all\nover  the  world  and  provided  an  excellent  opportunity  to  promote  the  Science\nProject and the EOSC platform. There were many opportunities for dissemination\nlike  the  session  the  ENVRI  community  organised,  public  talks  at  the  EGU\nexhibition, and other sessions open to a broader audience. \n6. More  webinars  are  being  scheduled  as  part  of  the  more  general  EOSC\ndissemination plan, but also thanks to the project partners who are already well-\nestablished research infrastructures in their fields and use their communication\nchannels to demonstrate the Science Project. The Dashboard is also invited by\nother EU projects and initiatives to be presented or demonstrated. Webinars as part\nof training activities will also be organised once the training material and tutorials on\nthe use of the Dashboard are published.\n7. Social  media  dissemination  takes  place  by  EOSC  and  ENVRI  communication\nteams. \n8. Research Infrastructures being hosted by universities will schedule more outreach\nactivities once the Dashboard is populated with more environmental indicators. \n6\nAuthor-formatted document posted on 06/06/2023. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e107578","source_license":"CC-BY-4.0","license_restricted":false}