LifeWatch ERIC is European Research Infrastructure Consortium providing e-Science research facilities to scientists investigating biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services and services in order to support society in addressing key planetary challenges.

Established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium by the European Commission in 2017, LifeWatch ERIC accelerates the research effort of the scientific community by delivering the European state-of-the-art e-Infrastructure on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research – a Digital Twin which:

• provides access to, and support for, key scientific services by applying cutting-edge ICT technology;
• enables reproducible analytics;
• is co-designed and co-created with the user communities;
• is tuned with the needs for research that provides key insights for society, in particular science-based policy.