TENDERS - EMODnet MEDSEA project
Programme: DG MARE – EMFF European Maritime and Fisheries Fund - Tender MARE/2012/11 - Lot 2 The Mediterranean Sea
Project title: Growth and innovation in ocean economy-Gaps and priorities in sea basin observation and data
Acronym: EMODnet MEDSEA
Duration: 24/09/2014 – 30/09/2018
EU contribution: EUR 1.095.000
ISMAR budget: EUR 170.000
Web site: http://www.emodnet-mediterranean.eu
Summary:
The Checkpoint regional projects have established a method for ‘valuing’ the marine data made available through initiatives such as EMODnet and Copernicus for the benefice of key downstream applications to foster the blue economy.
The challenges provide a way to value data and make informed choices about suitability of a dataset to solve their particular problem.
As with other EMODnet Checkpoints, EMODnet MedSea assesses basin-monitoring systems on the basis of the data needs from 7 end-user applications. These are of paramount importance for: (i) the blue economy sector (offshore industries, fisheries); (ii) marine environment variability and change (eutrophication, river inputs and ocean climate change impacts); (iii) emergency management (oil spills); and (iv) preservation of natural resources and biodiversity (Marine Protected Areas).
Contact person in ISMAR: g.fabi@an.ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), (Italy)
- Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), (France)
- CLU Srl, (Italy)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), (Italy)
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), (Greece)
- Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (IFREMER), (France)
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), (Greece)
- Oceans Catalonia International (OCEAM-CAT), (Spain)
- Balearic Island Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), (Spain)
- University of Cyprus-Oceanography Centre (OC-UCY), (Cyprus)
