EMPHASIS

The European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) has identified “Plant Phenotyping” as a priority for the European research area and EMPHASIS has been listed on the ESFRI Roadmap as an infrastructure project to develop and implement a pan-European plant phenotyping infrastructure.

ESFRI Roadmap

The strategy of the EMPHASIS project is the development and implementation of a pan-European plant phenotyping infrastructure to make it available and accessible to a wide user community in Europe.

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EMPHASIS-PREP

EMPHASIS-PREP is a EU funded project that aims at bringing the EMPHASIS project to the level of legal, financial, and technical maturity required for implementation. EMPHASIS-PREP will provide the basis for the establishment the legal framework, the business plan and preparation of an information system for a sustainable and innovative pan-European infrastructure for plant phenotyping.

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Within this prject the project partners will work  in close cooperation with the European plant phenotyping community and all stakeholders to address the four major steps of EMPHASIS-PREP:

1. mapping (infrastructure, funders, access procedure and models, stakeholder community, e-infrastructure, imaging approaches, legal and governance scenarios);
2. gapping - analysing the gaps and limitations based on the mapping activities;
3. developing strategies to address the gaps;
4. combining the strategies in a business plan for future operation of EPMPHASIS within a corresponding legal framework.