The ENVRI EOSC Node is a thematic federating layer in the EOSC Federation, providing coherent and interoperable access to high-quality in situ and derived environmental research data and services operated by European environmental Research Infrastructures.
The Node reduces fragmentation across environmental domains by operationalising proven ENVRI interoperability solutions, leveraging the ENVRI-hub as a lightweight integration layer for federated discovery and access. Its scope is federation, integration and interoperability, not centralised data hosting.
In its initial stages, the node will federate resources from five leading environmental RIs, ACTRIS ERIC, LifeWatch, SIOS, IAGOS and EPOS, providing authoritative observational data, a Catalogue of Services, an LLM-enabled Knowledge Base and reusable interoperability components for cross-domain environmental science. The longer-term vision foresees to onboard other pan-European environmental RIs, offering extensive federation and coordination across the whole environmental domain.
Key objective: To provide the environmental thematic federating layer of EOSC by enabling interoperable discovery, access and reuse of distributed, authoritative environmental data and services while preserving Research Infrastructure autonomy, stewardship responsibilities and RI-defined access policies.
Science areas: Environmental science, Earth system science, atmospheric science, climate science, marine science, terrestrial and freshwater science, biodiversity and ecosystem science, solid Earth science, Polar and Arctic environmental observations.
Interactions with other EOSC Nodes
How to access the Node
Rules of Participation
End users: Open access for discovery. Authenticated access is used for restricted resources through ENVRI ID and EOSC AAI. RI-specific access policies apply, following the principle “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.
Service providers: Participating services must comply with EOSC technical and policy requirements and relevant RI-defined governance and stewardship responsibilities.
Access points
Via ENVRI home page (envri-hub.envri.eu)
Node capabilities
Federated services
- ENVRI Catalogue of Services: federated discovery and access to data and services from multiple environmental RIs
- LLM-enabled ENVRI Knowledge Base: dialogue-based agent, semantic discovery and indexing of research artefacts
- ENVRI Competence Center: thematic onboarding support, interoperability guidance and training
- ENVRI ID: federated AAI aligned with the AARC Blueprint Architecture and intended for integration with EOSC AAI
- Virtu
Data repositories
Distributed repositories and data services operated by ACTRIS ERIC, LifeWatch ERIC, SIOS, IAGOS and EPOS ERIC. Additional repositories and data services from other RIs may be onboarded at a later stage.
Compute and storage
The Node does not provide generic compute or HPC as its own standalone service. It reuses EOSC generic capabilities and partner-provided federated cloud/compute/storage resources for use cases, including EGI-supported operational and compute services.
VRE
- Jupyter
- Galaxy or other VRE front ends supporting workflow execution across federated cloud infrastructures
File sync-and-share
Not specified as a standalone Node service. Data access is provided through ENVRI services, ENVRI-hub and RI-operated repositories.
Other
- Thematic onboarding support
- Interoperability guidance
- FAIR assessment of data services
- Training and targeted technical workshops
- Semantic discovery and indexing
- Monitoring, incident management, helpdesk escalation and FitSM-aligned service management
