DiSSCo-linked projects
Our connection to the world
Building a Research Infrastructure is an enormous and complex undertaking. For this reason, DiSSCo joins forces with other projects that support the development and goals of DiSSCo by addressing specific parts of the Research Infrastructure.
To ensure overall alignment of activities across these projects, the respective project coordinators participate, along with the DiSSCo Coordinator, in the Strategic Alignment of Projects group (SAP) whose mission is to facilitate communication between them and ensure complementarity and the best use of available resources.
Auxiliary groups with focus on specific areas of the programme (the Synchronisation Groups) support and enhance the work of the SAP.
DiSSCo-linked projects
DiSSCo Prepare
How to build a Research Infrastructure? To find out is the objective of the latest addition to the portfolio of DiSSCo-linked projects, DiSSCo Prepare. It will improved DiSSCo’s readiness to deliver its services, e.g. in terms of adapting to user needs, serving high-quality and trustworthy data, and implement the technical infrastructure.
ICEDIG
ICEDIG – Innovation and consolidation for large scale digitisation of natural heritage – is the first official step towards DiSSCo. It refines certain elements of the DiSSCo Research Infrastructure. It addresses the technical, financial, policy and governance aspects necessary to operate such a large distributed initiative for natural sciences collections across Europe.
SYNTHESYS+
The SYNTHESYS programme might be best known for the access it provides to natural science collections since 15 years. But it does so much more than that! Networking Actions and Joint Research Activities are equally part of SYNTHESYS. In its latest iteration SYNTHESYS+ it also provides virtual access to digital collections – a big step towards DiSSCo.
MOBILISE
To build and extend the network that supports DiSSCo is the task of the MOBILISE COST Action. The far reaching networking and training project will strengthen knowledge exchange and capacity building. The best part: It is open to join for all institutions in COST countries involved in research for biodiversity and geodiversity informatics.
ENVRI-FAIR
Bringing together Environmental and Earth System Research Infrastructures to look for synergies is the ultimate goal of projects for the cluster of these RIs, the latest being ENVRI-FAIR. It started in January 2019 and will connect the cluster to the European Open Science Cloud.