Overview
The Preparatory Phase will be dedicated to establishing a management framework with efficient centralized coordination to achieve the following objectives:
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Strategic
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To establish efficient coordination and management of the infrastructure at European level that will govern the process of building the necessary components, the expenditure assessment and the outreach at the project level.
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To reach mutual agreement among the countries involved regarding the core legal entity and its governance structure as well as commitments for funding that will ensure the construction of the infrastructure and its long-term operation.
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Technical
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To integrate existing national research infrastructures through the novel EPOS Data Centres representing a network of community service providers for distributed data storage and processing. The design of the EPOS Data centres will be discussed during the PP.
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To develop an innovative and coherent e-infrastructure architecture, which will form the platform and data service infrastructure (not community specific) by means of the EPOS Core Services, for interdisciplinary data and metadata exchange, processing tools and computational simulations through the EPOS user interface. This will favour a catalytic process and synergic efforts for coordinating and harmonising all available resources.
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To link EPOS with other international Earth Observing Systems.
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To promote coherent training, educational and dissemination programmes and outreach.
These objectives will be achieved in the work plan through eight complementary work packages (WPs).
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