TwinShip consortium reviews first year accomplishments and plans next steps
In February, the TwinShip Horizon Europe Project consortium met at the Port Authority in Valencia for its second General Assembly. We just recently completed our first year, so this was a great opportunity to wrap up our accomplishments and discuss next steps towards reaching our ambitious goal.
The year is coming to an end and this usually means one thing: It’s time for the AquaINFRA partner meeting again! As always, it was very nice to meet everyone in person this year in Oslo. We usually communicate via email and video calls. For the past three years, we have been developing the AquaINFRA research data infrastructure. It consists of an interaction platform for locating aquatic resources and a Virtual Research Environment based on Galaxy for analyzing data and creating workflows. Integrating the analysis scripts developed by AquaINFRA researchers into the Galaxy platform took some time, but it was worth the effort, as we learned at this year’s plenary. Many of the use cases demonstrated their progress and showed executable workflows. Some even created a Data-to-Knowledge Package. Although we’re aware that there are still some challenges ahead of us, it was very nice to see our ideas become reality and the pieces come together. We have one year left until the project ends.
Partners from across Europe gathered for the ENFORCE* General Assembly (GA) from October 8th to 10th, 2025. The event was hosted at the University of Crete’s Natural History Museum in Heraklion, Crete.
Assisting researchers to find spatio-temporal research materials
The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI = Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur) is an interdisciplinary initiative that aims to increase the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of scientific resources. NFDI is composed of several discipline-specific consortia from humanities and social sciences (e.g., NFDI4Culture), engineering sciences (e.g., NFDI4Ing), life sciences (e.g., NFDI4Biodiversity), and natural sciences (e.g., NFDI4Chem). Another consortium focuses on the Earth System Sciences (ESS) and is called NFDI4Earth.
“NFDI4Earth will provide simple, efficient, open, and – whenever possible – unrestricted access to all relevant Earth system data, scientific data management and data analysis services. Major implementation guidelines are the FAIR principles which do impact the whole research data life cycle.” (https://www.nfdi4earth.de/about-us)