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A series of meetings, led by European research project VRE4EIC, brought together representatives from European initiatives involved in environmental multidisciplinary data-driven sciences.

VRE4EIC – a Europe-wide Virtual Research Environment to Empower multidisciplinary research communities and accelerate Innovation and Collaboration – is releasing its first results since its launch in 2015.

The e-VRE – enhanced Virtual Research Environment – reference architecture, and component software for the e-VRE.

The Horizon 2020-funded project aims to provide 70,000 European researchers with tools to support collaboration and multidisciplinary data-driven science in order to tackle societal challenges such as climate change and energy sustainability.

In Rome, the project strengthened its links with the EPOS and ENVRIplus projects, which are implementing interoperable research infrastructures.

A roadmap was also discussed between VRE4EIC and EPOS to establish a relationship between EPOS ICS – Integrated Core Services – which enables accessibility to assets of the Thematic Core Services and VRE4EIC.

The talk concluded in a discussion into future implementation plans of ENVRIplus and EPOS, including integration under VRE4EIC.

Keith Jeffery, scientific co-ordinator of the project, said: “The week was a great success with much integration of both existing products and future plans leading towards smooth interoperation of EPOS and ENVRIplus with VRE4EIC.”

VRE4EIC was awarded a €4.4m investment from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.