LifewatchGreece participated in the ENVRI FINAL EVENT, "Common Operations of Environmental Research Infrastructures" that took place during 7-8 October 2014 in Amsterdam. The following 6 topics were discussed:

1) What are the (scientific) challenges of the environmental Research Infrastructures for the 10 years ahead and what should we start doing now?
2) Many environmental infrastructures have a distributed structure to produce and process data. How to best organise and/or improve the cooperation between distributed entities?
3) The environmental infrastructures often depend on other facilities, such as national facilities or external IT services. What should be done to optimise effective solutions?
4) Our environment is a global system. How to improve in this regard the international role of European environmental research infrastructures?
5) What can be recommended on career development for staff within and among environmental research infrastructures?
6) Are there new ways of interactions between research infrastructures and their users, and to structure user’s feedback to the infrastructures?

The main discussion points on the above topics can be found here.

Here you can also find the ENVRI sustainability document and its summary. 

For more information you can visit http://envri.eu/home and in particular the ENVRI reference model at http://confluence.envri.eu:8090/display/ERM/Start.