European leadership

D4Science-II will take steps to ensure the sustainability of the D4Science e-Infrastructure ecosystem. To become a backbone of excellence in European research, the life of the ecosystem will have to extend beyond the life-cycles of this (and any potential future) project. In this direction, D4Science-II will establish synergies with initiatives such as EGI and the DRIVER Confederation and investigate relevant models for sustainability.

European scientists in the D4Science-II communities will be the initial users of the first ever e-Infrastructure ecosystem, taking advantage of unprecedented computational power and information richness and addressing their research problems with several new methodologies.

Scientists around the globe will be drawn to the ecosystem for their own work while other ecosystems will be formed based on the techniques developed in the project, if not the D4Science e-Infrastructure and software itself. This will increase and reinforce the European leadership in the relevant technologies as well as the impact and global relevance of the D4Sience e-Infrastructure and the ecosystem based on it as a unique platform for supporting science.