Past Projects

BIRDIE Project


The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is leading a consortium of research institutions on a new biodiversity data pipeline project nicknamed the ‘BIRDIE Project’ (September 2020 - August 2023), funded by JRS Biodiversity Foundation. The project aims to develop a wetlands and waterbirds data-to-decision pipeline that will use statistical tools to extract policy-relevant information from key data.

Study for Reporting Obligations for Ocean Observation


This tender responds to the call launched by the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), acting under the powers delegated by the European Commission. The subject for this call is “Study for Reporting Obligations for Ocean Observations (CINEA/EMFAF/2021/3.4.9)” (acronym: AllOceanObs) with the reference number CINEA/2021/OP/0009 (August 2022 - November 2023).

EDITO-Infra


The main aim of the “EU Public Infrastructure for the European Digital Twin” project (EDITO-Infra) is to build the EU Public Infrastructure backbone for the European Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) by upgrading, combining and integrating key service components of the existing EU ocean observing, monitoring and data programmes Copernicus Marine Service and the European Marine Observation & Data Network (EMODnet) into a single digital framework.

GREAT


Funded by the Digital Europe program, the “Green Deal Data Space (GDDS) foundations and Community of Practice” (GREAT) project (September 2022 - March 2024) will establish:

  • The Minimum Viable GDDS for the first implementation phase of the data federation of the future GDDA.
  • The reference blueprint of the GDDS technical architecture.
  • The governance scheme, and
  • Implementation roadmap,
  • Building on the strong involvement and support of a cross-sectoral pan-European community of practice of data and service providers, users and intermediaries.

Ocean Biodiversity Information System Strategic Consultant Advice


The overarching objective of the assignment ‘Consultant Strategic Advice for the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)’ was to gain insight on the current and future needs of key OBIS stakeholders, assess OBIS nodes’ capacity to support those needs and identify gaps and opportunities for improvement in stakeholder engagement, including developing new partnerships, to deliver on the objectives of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. 

EMOD-PACE


The EMODnet PArtnership for China and Europe (EMOD-PACE) project (EuropeAid/139904/DH/SER/CN) (February 2020 - December 2022) is funded through the Foreign Policy Instruments (Directorate-General FPI, Partnership Funding Instrument (PI)). EMOD-PACE is a complex multi-partner marine science & data project with 18 European partner organisations. The project started officially in February 2020 and ran for a period of 30 months. The project delievred a major part of the EU contribution to the EU-China Blue Partnership for the Oceans.

Blue-Cloud


Blue-Cloud is a European H2020 project with the overarching aim of federating and piloting innovative services for Marine Research & the Blue Economy as a core contribution to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). EOSC aims to provide a virtual environment with open and seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data, across borders and scientific disciplines.

iAtlantic


The European Horizon 2020 Project iAtlantic (June 2019 - November 2023) takes an interdisciplinary scientific approach to collect Atlantic deep and open-ocean ecosystem data and integrate it with ocean circulation and connectivity models linked with climatic data and forecasts. By bridging ocean observing systems, exchanging data, researchers, and equipment from across the entire Atlantic, the project aims to predict where and when potentially synergistic effects of global change and multiple ecosystem stressors will occur.

Economic impact of Maritime Spatial Planning


The objective of the contract (September 2018 - Febuary 2020) was to conduct a study on the economic impacts of maritime spatial planning (MSP), assessing its role in the blue economy. The study evaluated how MSP benefits specific blue economy sectors, feeding results and recommendations into relevant EU policies and Competent Authorities in charge of implementing MSP.

Seas, Oceans & Public Health in Europe (SOPHIE)


This European Horizon 2020 Coordination and Support Action (CSA) brings marine and environmental scientists together with medical and social scientists, public health and other experts to foster interdisciplinary research on the interconnections between Oceans had Human Health in Europe. The project is gathering information from many different sources: from citizens; from research findings; from data repositories; and from existing European policies.

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EMODnet

The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is a network of European organisations working together to observe the oceans, to make the collected marine data freely available and interoperable, to create seamless data layers across sea-basins and to distribute the data and data products through the Internet. The primary aim of EMODnet is to unlock existing but fragmented and hidden marine data and make them accessible for a wide range of users including private bodies, public authorities and researchers.

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