LifeWatch ERIC is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium providing e-Science research facilities to scientists investigating biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in order to support society in addressing key planetary challenges. Established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium by the European Commission in 2017, LifeWatch ERIC is currently composed of eight European Union Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain), which operate from national nodes, known as Distributed Centres, while its Common Facilities are located in Spain (Statutory Seat & ICT-Core), Italy (Service Centre) and the Netherlands (vLab & Innovations Centre). LifeWatch ERIC aims to accelerate the research efforts of the scientific community by delivering a European state-of-the-art e-Science Research Infrastructure on biodiversity and ecosystem research: a Digital Twin which: i) provides access to, and support for, key scientific services by applying cutting-edge ICT technology, ii) enables reproducible analytics, iii) is co-designed and co-created with the user communities and, iv) is tuned with the needs for research that provides key insights for society, in particular science-based policy.