Dear ORFEUS Community,
the FDSN recently requested its members to indicate their level of financial support to
the activities of the Federation.
Upon recommendation of the ORFEUS ExeCom, the ORFEUS Board of Directors decided that
ORFEUS will be a "supporting“ member in 2025. This means a contribution of 5000 USD (and 6
votes on financial matters).
This is the largest possible contribution envisaged by the FDSN for an individual member
and is notably the same level of support chosen by other international initiatives like
EarthScope and the CTBTO. This level of support is appropriate for ORFEUS due to its
representation and coordination roles of the community of Euro-Mediterranean seismic
networks and seismological data centers.
The ORFEUS contribution is intended to show the clear support of ORFEUS for this
initiative. Further, ORFEUS recognises that many of its participating institutions may not
be able to secure additional semi-long-term funding to external agencies, and the ORFEUS
contribution provides a way to accomplish this.
This does not prevent individual data centers and/or EIDA nodes from providing additional
financial contributions to the FDSN, as already announced by a few on the FDSN mailing
list.
ORFEUS will reassess this choice every year. ORFEUS remains open to exploring options for
increasing the level of contribution in the future.
Best wishes,
Carlo.