The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) is the sole distributed pan-European Research Infrastructure (RI) for solid Earth Science, enabling open access to high-quality, multidisciplinary data, products, and services. Based on the achievements of the previous EU projects on the design, implementation, and pre-operation of the EPOS RI, the EPOS ON project will support the consolidation of the infrastructure and pave the way for its further evolution. The project will enable the EPOS RI to meet long-term sustainability conditions for operation, relying on its ability to create value for the scientific and IT communities and to produce new insights for contributing to societal challenges related to risk management and environmental impact reduction. 

In particular, EPOS ON aims to enhance the EPOS services portfolio; develop new institutional and scientific collaborations by fulfilling the needs of different communities; increase user engagement; shorten the gap between science and the private sector by enabling knowledge transfer and technological innovation; strengthen EPOS collaboration with non-European research infrastructures.

Project Consortium includes 34 European institutions with Germany represented by GFZ-Potsdam. Section 2.5 leads the Task 2.2 “Integration of new communities and stakeholders to the EPOS RI” by propagating its own experience in the establishment of a new EPOS Thematic Core Services “Tsunami”. Additionally, Section 2.5 will be involved into WP3 “Contribution to tackle Societal Challenges”, Task “Tsunami Early Warning Support services” and several other tasks in almost all the Workpackages.