Working Group 2 – Volcano Observations Meetings of the WG2: -November 2010: KO meeting (Rome; IT) -April 2011: Splinter meeting during the EGU 2011 (Vienna; AT) -September 2011: First Workshop during (Erice; IT) … and … -March 2012: First Regional Workshop (Santorini; GR) -April 2012: Second Workshop (Vienna; AT) WG2 Objectives: To optimize the best architecture for the multidisciplinary distributed Research Infrastructure among the observatories; To guarantee the technical interoperability of the distributed Research Infrastructures; To guarantee the adoption of common standards and practices for the implementation phase; To facilitate the access to data centers and to the use of modeling and processing tools WG2 Tasks: 1.Integrated infrastructure of European Volcano Observatories: to identify the roadmap (steps, initiatives for the promotion, design, etc.) to create the infrastructure. 2.Definition and role of the WG2 stakeholders: to identify the stakeholders in the domain of volcanological data (National Research Organizations, funding agencies, data providers, data users, …); guidelines for stakeholder interactions; possible stakeholder contacts and commitments; etc. 3.Volcanological DB and relationship with WP7: This Task is aimed at contributing to the implementation of the EPOS Core Service. 4.Data Policy: This task is complementary to the previous one and would give the guidelines for the data policy of volcanological products (i.e., data types, data availability, type of access, etc.). WG2 brings the activities of EPOS outside the “continental” Europe European volcano observatories “In situ” complex Research Infrastructures that install/maintain systems to “observe” active volcanoes Italy: Naples (Osservatorio Vesuviano), Catania (INGV-CT), Palermo (INGV-PA) France: Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble, Institut des Sciences de la Terre d’Orléans. Iceland: Icelandic Meteorlological Office (ICAO state volcano observatory);Institue of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland Portugal (Azores Islands): Centro de Vulcanologia e Avaliação de Riscos Geológicos (CVARG-Univ. Açores); Centro de Informação e Vigilância Sismovulcânica dos Açores (CIVISA). Spain (Canary Islands): Instituto Geogràfico National (IGN); Volcano Monitoring Program; Institute of Technology and Renewable Energy Greece: Institute for the Study and Monitoring of the Santorini Volcano (ISMOSAV), National Observatory of Athens United Kingdom: The Montserrat Volcano Observatory, British Geological Survey (Tristan da Cunha, Ascension). Data from WOVO and European centers of volcanological researches Research Infrastructures where the volcanological research (laboratories, modelling, informatics facilities, etc.) is predominant with respect to the monitoring activity (preliminary survey) Italy: INGV Pisa, Bologna, Rome1; CNR-IGG; CNR-IREA, University of Florence, University of Bari, University of Naples, Universities of Rome, University of Catania, University of Palermo, University of Cagliari, University of Urbino, University of Bologna, Universities of Milano, University of Cosenza. France: Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble, Institut des Sciences de la Terre d’Orléans. Iceland: Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik; Nordic Volcanological Center at IES (NORDVULK), Reykjavik; Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik; Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Reykjavik; Icelandic Geosurvey, Reykjavik. Norway: University of Bergen; University of Oslo; Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller Sweden: Uppsala University; Stockholm University; University of Gothenburg; Chalmers Technical University, Gothenburg (NOVAC) Portugal: Centro de Vulcanologia e Avaliação de Riscos Geológicos (CVARG-Univ. Açores); Centro de Informação e Vigilância Sismovulcânica dos Açores (CIVISA) Spain:CSIC-Madrid, CSIC-Jaume Almera, University of Granada, IGN. Greece: National Observatory of Athens, University of Thessaloniki Unite Kingdom: British Geological Survey; Bristol University, Leeds University, University College London, Cambridge University, Oxford University, Edinburgh University, Lancaster University, Open University, University of East Anglia, Durham University, Reading University, Ireland: University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, Denmark: University of Copenhagen; University of Aarhus; Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Finland: University of Helsinki; Outcomes of the IR Survey (Questionnaires) WG Participants (approved by IACP 2011) + …200 joint to the Collaborative Area, from 23 countries and more that the International Institutions