ORFEUS and its Data Center (www.orfeus-eu.org)

We will present the current status and on-going developments within the Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology (ORFEUS) and its data centre. The recent rapid developments within ORFEUS are strongly embedded in the framework of the EC Research Infrastructure project NERIES in which earthquake data availability within Europe is given a new impulse. In this abstract we mention some highlights.