The EU project for the eLTER research infrastructure (eLTER-PLUS) belongs to the INFRAIA-01-2018-2019 HORIZON 2020 program and is based on three main pillars: networking, joint research activities and transnational, remote and virtual access.

eLTER PLUS will conduct a performance test of the emerging eLTER RI, challenging, evaluating and strengthening its operations. Selected sites and platforms in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal ecosystems will be used to study ecosystem integrity, climate change impacts and ecosystem services at risk on a pan-European scale.
Alongside these exemplary case studies eLTER PLUS will identify and evaluate innovative observation and analysis methods, elaborate detailed specifications of eLTER RI according to community needs (standard observations, site design), support community and pilot education and training priority services (IT and other support).