GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals should:

• Develop a strategy, standardised methods and recommendations for the collection, processing, visualisation and exploitation of soil data and knowledge resulting in particular from R&I projects. Data and information gathered should take into account representation from all types of soils, geographic regions and land uses in Europe. Attention should be given to issues of compatibility and interoperability with relevant existing databases and knowledge repositories (e.g. including data from long-term experiments, modelling and monitoring) as well as with services from digital infrastructures, platforms and services.
• Develop and test a prototype for a long-term knowledge and data repository, taking due account of the requirements emerging from the evolvement of the EUSO. The repository developed under the project should be open-access, user-friendly and allow to integrate knowledge from research projects and harmonised scientific data from different sources and technologies including in-situ and remote measurements (e.g. from earth observation). The repository is expected to become later part of the EUSO.
• Explore and take advantage of the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to process and use information and data while enhancing their FAIRness (findability, accessibility, interoperability and re-usability) and turning them into relevant, open and accessible knowledge to support potential users.
• Provide examples for practice-oriented “user cases” to show how potential users (e.g. researchers, land managers, businesses or public authorities, decision-makers) can capitalise on and re-use existing information and data from the knowledge repository.