«DANUBIUS Implementation Phase Project – DANUBIUS-IP», Grant Agreement № 101079778 (01.10.2022 – 30.09.2025)
Program: Horizon Europe, HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-02-02
The purpose and tasks of the project:
DANUBIUS-IP is a coordination and facilitation project to support the ongoing development of “The international center for advanced studies on river-sea systems” (DANUBIUS-RI) – an ecological research infrastructure connecting rivers and seas – at the stage of exploitation.
The aim of the project is to ensure the successful launch of DANUBIUS-ERIC and enable DANUBIUS-RI to move into the operational phase.
The project offers 7 work packages, which together should:
– develop a new RI management structure during the transition to DANUBIUS-ERIC;
– implement the Science and Innovation Agenda with the support of flexible scientific services with quality assurance;
– demonstrate the value of RI through examples of the unique services that RI can offer to end users across Europe and internationally;
– to expand the DANUBIUS-RI community and increase its position in European and international environmental RI;
– ensure broad awareness of DANUBIUS-RI’s potential to have significant social and economic impact.
Expected results:
– Ensure the successful launch of DANUBIUS-ERIC by effectively transitioning from the current management structure to a DANUBIUS-ERIC specific one.
– Developing and strengthening the capacity of DANUBIUS-RI by connecting RI to major relevant European initiatives (such as EOSC), successfully implementing FAIR and open data policies and enabling full connectivity to the virtual world of specific DANUBIUS-RI services.
Project coordinator: The National Research-Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology (GEOECOMAR), Bucharest, Romania.
Partnership:
– Wasserkluster Lunz Biologische Station GmbH, Austria
– Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
– Ustav Vyzkumu Globalni Zmeny AV CR VVI, Czechia
– Universite De Lorraine, France
– Bundesanstalt Fuer Gewaesserkunde, Germany
– Bundesanstalt Fur Wasserbau, Germany
– Helmholtz-Zentrum HEREON, Germany
– Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece
– Dimokritio Panepistimio Thrakis, Greece
– Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary
– University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
– Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Italy
– Corila – Consorzio Per Il Coordinamento Delle Ricerche Inerenti Al Sistema Lagunare Di Venezia, Italy
– European Multidisciplinary Seafloorand Water Column Observatory – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (EMSO ERIC), Italy
– Integrated Carbon Observation System European Research Infrastructure Consortium, Finland
– Institutul De Chimie Academia De Stiinte A Moldovei, Moldova
– Stichting Deltares, Netherlands
– Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya, Spain
– Autoridad Portuaria De Sevilla, Spain
– Stichting Ihe Delft Institute for Water Education, Netherlands
– National Institute for Research and Development for Biological Sciences, Romania
– The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
– United Kingdom Research and Innovation, United Kingdom
– Plymouth Marine Laboratory Limited, United Kingdom
– Odessa State Environmental University, Ukraine
Project web-site: https://www.danubius-ri.eu/