Workshops, Personalised Training and summer school of Geo-INQUIRE EU-project - Enhancing cross-disciplinary research

The Geo-INQUIRE (Geosphere INfrastructure for QUestions into Integrated REsearch) project, supported by Horizon Europe, aims to improve geoscience research infrastructures and services to make high-level data and products available to the broad geosciences research community. The goal of the Geo-INQUIRE project is to encourage curiosity-driven research to understand Geosystem processes at the interface of the solid Earth, oceans and atmosphere using big data sets, high-performance computing methods and state-of-the-art facilities.

The project places great emphasis on supporting the dynamic development of data and services through the effective use of Research Infrastructures such as EPOS, EMSO, ECCSEL and ChEESE. Training, networking and community building are the key to supporting it. The methodology ensures the strengthening of the participation of both young and experienced researchers and the inclusion ofoften underrepresented communities. It incorporates also new and cross-cutting perspectives, while addressing current major environmental and economic challenges as well as stimulating curiosity-based and interdisciplinary research.

Project dissemination activities include a series of open online training and more specialized on-site workshops focusing on data, data products and software solutions. Scientists, early-career scientists and students are communities that are able to explore various fields of science related to the geosphere, even those not directly related to their field, with possible connection through research infrastructures. Through lectures and use cases, we show and teach how to use data and information from interdisciplinary research infrastructures. We raise awareness on the potential and possibilities of Research Infrastructures contributing to Geo-INQUIRE, as well as data integration and the importance of FAIR principles. The training offer is constantly updated on the project website www.geo-inquire.eu.

In autumn 2025 the second summer schools will be organised in Catania, Sicily, and will be dedicated to cross-disciplinary interactions of solid Earth with marine science and with atmospheric physics. The second call of the personalised training program, supporting short research stays, will be announced in 2025. Moreover, after the first two successful calls, the 3rd call for Transnational Access to Research Facilities is open until the end of February 2025. The final 4th call will open in late spring/early summer. Data and products generated through Transnational Access will be made available to the scientific community at large in strict adherence to the FAIR principles.

Geo-INQUIRE is funded by the European Commission under project number 101058518 within the HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01 call.