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Work Plan

Work Packages

Catalogue of Services

Lead: UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA

WP1 focuses on assessing and enhancing existing services to meet the demands of researchers and individuals seeking to address challenges related to climate change. It aims to create an integrated catalogue of services, analyze gaps, and develop strategies for sustainability, ultimately supporting interdisciplinary research efforts to understand and mitigate the impacts of climate change on the biosphere.

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Microbial single-cell genomic analyses: customisation of innovative services

Lead: UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES

WP2 aims to enhance understanding of soil and plant microbiomes as holobionts through genomic analysis, linking microbial diversity to functions, identifying genetic variations, and characterizing ‘healthy’ microbial communities to address climate change stressors, organized into two tasks focusing on optimizing existing services and fostering international research collaborations for innovative use cases.

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Establishment and validation of synthetic microbial communities

Lead: AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

WP3 aims to establish a standardized workflow for creating synthetic microbial communities from soil and plant samples to support vulnerable terrestrial ecosystems affected by climate change, focusing on sampling, isolating, characterizing microorganisms, assessing microbiome diversity, and validating synthetic communities for future research and applications, with tasks including sampling strategy establishment, microorganism isolation and characterization, bioinformatic analysis, and testing SMCs’ protective effects on plants against climate-induced stresses.

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TA/VA4 – Transnational and Virtual Access Programme

Lead: UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO

WP4 aims to offer simplified and harmonized access to customized services, both in-person and virtually, for curiosity-driven research on climate change risks to terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems, encompassing fields such as microbial resources, plant sciences, agriculture, forestry, climate, environment, biodiversity, and data science, providing integrated and joint services across research infrastructures.

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Data management and access

Lead: LifeWatch ERIC

WP5 aims to establish a project data architecture and information technology infrastructure, integrating data sources via an ontology, utilizing distributed IT infrastructure for sustainable data management, and implementing user-friendly interfaces and advanced semantic search functionality to enhance effectiveness and timeliness of data management.

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Legal, regulatory, ethical, and intellectual property affairs

Lead: CABI

This work package aims to assess current laws and regulations governing culture collections and microorganisms, focusing on their applicability to complex environmental samples, such as those relevant for understanding climate change impacts and mitigation strategies, identifying gaps, engaging stakeholders for proposed solutions, and reviewing quality management and ethical approaches to ensure alignment with best practices.

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Community building, training, and user engagement

Lead: AnaEE-ERIC

WP7 is tasked with coordinating the training of platform managers, engaging users, and fostering community building to ensure a participatory approach across all project activities, establish connections with existing initiatives and communities related to ecosystem and biodiversity studies, and provide a standardized methodology and guidance for joint training activities within research infrastructures.

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Increasing visibility and outreach

Lead: SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE INOVAÇÃO

WP8 aims to implement outreach and visibility actions to promote the service offerings of MICROBES-4-CLIMATE, including the development of a communication strategy, enhancing access to the Transnational Access (TNA) program, and fostering European and international cooperation through various online and in-person initiatives and events.

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Project Management and Ethics

Lead: MIRRI-ERIC

WP9 oversees and manages all aspects necessary for the smooth execution of project activities, including project coordination, administrative support, quality assurance, ethics management, data management, risk management, and communication, ensuring efficient and timely implementation through a structured governance system.

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Project Steering  Committee

The Scientific Steering Committee is composed of the Work Package Leaders and the Project Coordinator (Ana Portugal Melo, MIRRI-ERIC)

WP1

Aurora Zuzuarregui & Rosa Aznar

UVEG-CECT

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WP2

Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse

UNIV RENNES

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WP3

Tanja Kostic

AIT

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WP4

Nelson Lima

UMINHO

WP5

Ana Mellado

Lifewatch ERIC

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Matthew Ryan

CABI

WP7

Michel Boër

AnaEE-ERIC

WP8

Francisco Rocha

SPI

WP9

Ana Portugal Melo

MIRRI-ERIC