EOSC FAIR-EASE (Horizon Europe)
Published July 21, 2025 | Version v1
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FAIR-EASE - D.4.1: FAIR-EASE Services - sustainability plan

Creators

  • 1. Institut de recherche pour le developpement
  • 2. ROR icon Institute of Natural Sciences
  • 3. MARIS B.V.
  • 4. Euro-Argo ERIC
  • 5. EDMO icon French National Center for Scientific Research (head office)
  • 6. EDMO icon Clermont Auvergne University

Contributors

  • 1. ROR icon British Oceanographic Data Centre
  • 2. ROR icon Flanders Marine Institute
  • 3. GEOMATYS
  • 4. EDMO icon Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Wadden Sea Station Sylt
  • 5. Université de Liège Faculté des Sciences
  • 6. ROR icon INGV Sezione di Bologna
  • 7. ROR icon Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  • 8. ROR icon Ifremer
  • 9. ROR icon Université Clermont Auvergne
  • 10. IFREMER
  • 11. Ifremer Centre de Bretagne
  • 12. SCOP arl POKaPOK
  • 13. EDMO icon French National Center for Scientific Research (head office)
  • 14. ROR icon University of Naples Federico II
  • 15. ROR icon Centro de Ciências do Mar do Algarve
  • 16. Neovia Innovation

Description

This document presents the sustainability plan of the results from FAIR-EASE. Sustainability consists 
of several ingredients including technical, financial, political and promotional aspects. This is also 
grounded in a rich, federated and evolving ecosystem, participates in the building of the European 
Open Science Cloud, fosters close collaborations with other EOSC and non-EOSC related projects, 
and participates in a wide variety of European policies.  
The recent organisation of EOSC into a Federation of Nodes has been taken into consideration as a 
way to guarantee a long term potential sustainability for some of the FAIR-EASE results.  
It  is  noteworthy that  if  all  FAIR-EASE  results  have  reached  a  technological  readiness  level  of  7, 
increasing  this  level  necessitates  another  economic  model  (from  project  funding  to  recurrent 
funding  scheme)  where  sustained  funding  is  ensured.  This  remains  the  bottleneck  of  the 
sustainability plan. As FAIR-EASE results are interrelated, levels from upstream results (access to 
data services, analyses tools) impacts downstream results (services to end-users). 

Files

FAIR-EASE_D1.4_FAIR-EASE services – sustainability plan.pdf

Files (2.7 MB)

Additional details

Funding

European Commission
FAIR-EASE - FAIR EArth Sciences & Environment services 101058785