10 years of LifeWatch Slovenian Consortium
LifeWatch Slovenia is one of the national nodes composing LifeWatch ERIC, European Infrastructure consortium providing e-Science research facilities, data resources, web services and Virtual Research Environments (VRE) to biodiversity and ecosystem research. The Research Infrastructure Roadmap 2021-2030, listed LifeWatch among the projects within the priority areas for the establishment of the NRRI in the field of Sustainable Energy Resources and Environmental Technologies.
Resources & Services
We are part of LifeWatch ERIC, the e-Science infrastructure for research on biodiversity and ecosystems.
LifeWatch ERIC
LifeWatch ERIC facilitates the sharing and aggregation of open data and its integration and analysis through advanced modeling tools. Its VREs, together with computing capacity and the most innovative technologies, allow for testing scenarios of change in the organization and conservation of biodiversity, ecosystems and their services in response to different pressures.
LifeWatch Slovenia
Slovenian researchers cooperating in this infrastructure are seeking to raise Slovenian science to an internationally comparable level in environmental sciences.
LifeWatch is part of the Slovenian Strategy for Smart Specialization (S4) and Horizon 2020, focusing on the development of technological solutions in the field of biodiversity and socio-ecosystem research.
Since 2015, the Slovenian Consortium, LifeWatch-SI, has been promoting the importance of integrating and networking information & data in order to:
- coordinate biodiversity research in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems;
- plan common access to a vast array of data from various databases and observatories;
- predict computing capabilities with analytical and modelling tools in virtual laboratories;
- support training and educational programs that will enable a proper understanding of biodiversity
Projects
News & Events
New paper analyses patterns and drivers of subterranean biodiversity hotspots
LifeWatch Slovenia members Magdalena Nǎpǎruş-Aljančič and Tanja Pipan (Karst Research Institute – ZRC SAZU) co-authored a new, open-access article in BioScience, titled “Patterns and Drivers of Subterranean Biodiversity Hotspots across the Globe”. The
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The cave-dwelling olm: a sentinel for environmental change – LifeWatch Slovenia on Nautilus Magazine Home
The cave-dwelling olm: a sentinel for environmental change – LifeWatch Slovenia on Nautilus Magazine ProteusWatch vLab’s Research, part of the LifeWatch Slovenia Consortium, has been featured on Nautilus Magazine.
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Representatives of the Slovenian LifeWatch consortium at the LifeWatch ERIC BEeS Conference in Heraklion
Between June 30 and July 3, 2025, the LifeWatch ERIC BEeS (Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience) Conference took place in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in which representatives
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LifeWatch ERIC BEeS 2025: Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference
LifeWatch ERIC BEeS 2025: Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference Heraklion, Greece, 30 June – 03 July 2025 The BEeS (Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience) Conference 2025
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LifeWatch Slovenia at BES Annual Meeting in Liverpool, December 10-13, 2024
LifeWatch Slovenia at BES Annual Meeting in Liverpool, December 10-13, 2024 From 10 to 13 December 2024, over 1500 ecologists gathered in Liverpool for Europe’s
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5th International SOS Proteus Conference, December 7-8, 2024, Kranj, Slovenia
5th International SOS Proteus Conference, December 7-8, 2024, Kranj, Slovenia Upon the 30th anniversary of the taxonomic description of black proteus (Proteus anguinus parkelj), and
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The LifeWatch-SI consortium consists of 10 partners from nationally and internationally recognised scientific institutions, universities, a regional park, a national museum, and an NGO, all active in the field of biodiversity and ecosystem research, with ZRC SAZU serving as the national coordinator and headquarters of LifeWatch-SI.
