We propose to develop the technology to build a national agroecology dataspace, which will facilitate user access to multiple relevant datasets held by separate state agencies. This will enable data-driven research to be carried out which has not been possible heretofore due to data exchange difficulties. Many pressing national issues require data from multiple providers, such as evaluating soil health, assessing the combined impact of land use changes on climate change, water and biodiversity and evaluating the impact of agroecological measures such as results-based payments schemes to achieve national climate, nature restoration and environmental targets. Issues of data stewardship including security, personal data protection, FAIR and open access will be addressed. Multiple stakeholders will provide input to ensure that data governance meets the requirements of all entities along the data chain.
The Irish coordinating partner, ICHEC, will be responsible for developing the dataspace with input from multiple stakeholders in agroecology research and implementation. We are looking for partners in participating countries (BE, EE, FI, DE, HU, LV, PL, RO, ES, TR) who are willing to either co-develop the technology or to deploy the dataspace technology developed by the lead partner in their jurisdiction, supported by a partner or stakeholder with agro-ecology expertise to provide guidance on use cases, datasets, sources and governance issues.

The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) at the University of Galway provides e-infrastructure, services and expertise to academia, industry and the public sector. In addition to its core remit of supporting Excellence in Science on the national high-performance computer, ICHEC enables the application of HPC for developing efficient services and solutions based technologies such as artificial intelligence, high performance data analytics, Earth Observation, quantum computing and cybersecurity across a number of sectors including environmental sciences, healthcare, agriculture, energy, financial services and ICT.

By operating Ireland's national supercomputer and the National Quantum Learning Platform, ICHEC enables researchers, enterprises and the public sector to innovate solutions for complex social, economic and environmental challenges.

ICHEC works in partnership with industry and public authorities in joint R&D activities, skills development, and provisioning HPC and data management services to accelerate and de-risk their digital transformation and green transition.

ICHEC is also the National HPC Competence Centre in Ireland under the EuroHPC Competence Centre (EuroCC) initiative.