1. COOPEUS CONNECTING RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES
A PROGRAM SUPPORTED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION IN COOPERATION WITH THE NSF

2. The COOPEUS project brings together scientists and users of
US’ and Europe’s major environmental related research infrastructure projects.
* By interlinking infrastructure programs, new synergies are generated leading to a truly global integration of existing infrastructures. * The key of this integration process will be the efficient access to and the open sharing of data and information produced by the environmental research infrastructures information systems such as GEOSS.

3. environmental research infrastructures:
COOPEUS Partners
environmental research infrastructures:
Atmospheric radar Eiscat (EU) – AMISR (US)
Ocean observations EMSO (EU) – OOI (US)
Biodiversity Lifewatch (EU) – DataOne (US)
Solid Earth dynamics EPOS (EU) – IRIS, UNAVCO (US)
Carbon observations ICOS (EU) – NEON/ (US)

4. COOPEUS Goals:
COOPEUS aims to catalyze international collaboration among environmental research infrastructures by:
easing data accessibility through harmonization of data policies
promoting interoperability of Research Infrastructures on all levels (System, syntactic, structural and semantic interoperability) including standards/best practices
improving data and information quality by defining the minimum requirements on workflow descriptions and on QA/QC

5. COOPEUS- the framework Overall Structure
Identify Needs and Rationales
Testbeds
Establish basic implementation requirements
Policies
Select user scenarios
Core Standards
Legal Issues
Prioritize identified challenges for future collaborations
Give recommendation for future implementations