ePLANETe is a multi-faceted approach to sustainability. It is built as a "Knowledge Gateway".

The whole architecture provide information organised through a multi-layer approach like this:

• Top level: Doorways
  • Second level: Spaces
    • Third level: Galleries

You can use six different manners to navigate inside ePLANETe:

• Regular mode: Use the hierarchical menu.
• Diving mode: Use the ePLANETe diagram. Experience a top-down exploration through the Doorways (look also at the naviguation menu than can deliver quicker access on the leftside column).
• Horizontal mode: Use the Crosslinks. Each object (you can call it also meta-profile) may have one-to-many relation to other objects in ePLANETe. We call these relation"Crosslinks". It is more like a "Rhizome" or bottom-up navigation.

• Community mode. You may be a member of a specific or several Community(ies), to which some Projects might belong. Most of the time a Community has its own Portal. Inside you will get informations coming from the Galleries organized and oriented to the Project meaning and outcomes. A Portal is targeted to offer a public visit. But the Single Sign On mecanism (SSO) enables a seemless access to all resources available in ePLANETe, including Portals.
• Library mode. There is a big collection of documents stored in a repository called the "Babel Gardens". It notably provides powerfull plain text search engine.
• Search mode. Use the top right corner search box to retrieve any information available through this ePLANETe Portal.