LifeWatch ERIC full Members must:
- Support and facilitate the objectives, tasks and governance of LifeWatch ERIC;
- Identify a representing entity and maintain a National LifeWatch Support Committee to promote adoption of relevant standards in national resources and tools creation projects;
- Promote the uptake of services among scientific communities and researchers of different biodiversity-related areas of knowledge, including ecosystem science and bioinformatics, and gather providers’ and users’ input and feedback;
- Commit financially towards a common budget: In Cash Contribution (15%) and In Kind Contribution (85%) (see Annex 2);
- Support any other activity agreed within the framework of LifeWatch ERIC resulting from the Statutes or Implementing Rules;
- Maintain their membership until the end of the five-year period in force at the moment of their accession.
Observers do not have any financial commitment.