"The Geological Service for Europe Project (https://www.geologicalservice.eu/) aims to establish a sustainable organisation (GSE) from 2027 that will provide European institutions, academia, research organisations, national and regional policymakers, industry and citizens with up-to-date, high-quality EU/national level aggregated geoscientific information and advice about sustainable use and management of the subsurface.
The project will bring the subsurface into the light - drawing together the baseline data and knowledge needed to manage Europe's natural resources and reach Net Zero
The data core of the GSE is and will be the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI). EGDI provides access to Pan-European and national geological datasets, tools, trainings and services from the Geological Survey Organisations of Europe.
The existing EGDI system will be taken to a new level by transforming the current data infrastructure into a knowledge infrastructure. EGDI will become a fundamental element of the GSEU, supporting the delivery of knowledge to policy makers and other stakeholders.
EGDI gives access to more than 800 map layers as well as a large number of documents (reports, images, spreadsheets, etc.). The layers can be shown on maps and all the information can be searched in a free text search system.
During the GSEU Project, new components will be implemented and developed in EGDI to meet the needs of scientific users and support research in the areas of expertise for decision support, visualisation, Big Data approaches and the enhancement of a comprehensive Linked Data knowledge base.
Moreover, the IT infrastructure will be consolidated and made highly scalable. The improvement of the existing repositories, search system and semantic web technologies will facilitate the transition to a knowledge infrastructure.
This event aims at promoting interaction between science and industry to find best development areas of geosciences and sustainable solutions for georesources exploitation. GSEU will meet EGDI users to collect feedback and make the platform more usable and more useful."