Outlined e-JERICO Strategic Plan for implementation
Creators: name: Charcos Llorens, Miguel
name: Fernandez, Juan Gabriel
name: Ramis Ferrer, Constanza
name: Villoria, Juan Miguel
name: Legrand, Sébastien
name: Gorringe, Patrick
name: Brévière, Emilie
name: Mader, Julien
name: Gaughan, Paul
name: Durand, Dominique
name: Henning, Wehde
name: Delauney, Laurent
name: Tintoré, Joaquin
Publisher: name: JERICO DS
Year: 2024

description: After more than 10 years of fruitful partnerships, JERICO-RI aims to provide an integrated solution in Europe to face the challenges of the coastal marine systems due to natural and anthropogenic stressors by supporting, with high-quality integrated data of the coastal areas and related services, European initiatives such as the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the EU Water Framework Directive, the Regional Seas Conventions such as OSPAR and HELCOM and consortiums such as ICES, among others. The community identified the need to create a JERICO e-infrastructure, formerly known as e-JERICO, that would support JERICO-RI activities. Two phases laid the foundation and the concepts for the full-scale technical development of eJERICO: first, the JERICO Coastal Ocean Resource Environment Pilot (JERICO-CORE Pilot), was designed to respond to the necessity of creating a common digital framework that includes a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) and Thematic Services (TS). After this pilot phase, the Design Phase was the responsibility of JERICO-DS project supporting the Design Study towards a structured operational European RI included in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) roadmap. WP3 from JERICO-DS studied the key aspects for the design, implementation, and operation of e-JERICO in the long term, based on the lessons learned from JERICO-CORE pilot. This document, Deliverable D3.5: The e-JERICO Strategic Plan, presents the outcomes of the Design Phase and is the result of Task 3.7 of JERICO-DS whose objective was to develop the e-JERICO Strategic Plan aligned with the general JERICO-RI' strategy as well as with the strategies from national and international leading organisations and stakeholders in the coastal ocean. Accordingly, this deliverable D3.5 presents the e-JERICO Strategic Plan structured in four well defined phases: design, implementation, operation and closing.
After an initial introductory section, section 2 presents an in-depth analysis of the e-JERICO framework, including the analysis of the current status together with the gaps and experiences gained from the design and execution stages of the JERICO-CORE pilot, as well as the specific achievements developed in support of e-JERICO. The outcomes for a sustained e-JERICO have been also studied and include an analysis of the e-JERICO requirements, technical solutions, governance strategy and operational approach. Finally, five working streams along the process of implementing the e-JERICO roadmap have been identified and the developments of e-JERICO along the ESFRI Roadmap phases described in detail.
Section 3 describes the detailed e-JERICO project planning along the four phases described in the ESFRI Roadmap: preparatory, implementation, operational and closing. For each one of them, detailed milestones, initial planning and outcomes together with a useful visual summary are presented.
Section 4 presents the economic analysis, the schedule &amp; resource planning for the different components of e-JERICO and, using different scenarios, shows for all of them the benefits and added value of synergies and collaboration between EU Research Infrastructures.
Section 5 explains the risk strategy and presents a mitigation plan, emphasising the project's proactive approach to managing potential challenges and uncertainties.
Finally, section 6 outlines the major conclusions.