Project description
Promoting groundbreaking developments in mesocosm technology
Large enough to allow experiments on whole ecosystems in close to natural conditions, mesocosms are controlled and replicated experimental water enclosures. These facilities are useful in predicting effects of future environmental and anthropogenic pressures on the complex aquatic ecosystems. In this context, the EU-funded AQUACOSM-plus project represents a European network of aquatic experimental mesocosm facilities, with the mission to address the dramatic challenges aquatic ecosystems are facing. The project will work to increase competence in mesocosm science in Hungary and Romania. It will develop near-real-time open data flows and improved metadata, developing new technological capabilities for mesocosm research. Scenario testing will also be carried out for climate change-related pressures on aquatic systems from upstream fresh waters to the sea.
Objective
AQUACOSM-plus advances European mesocosm-based aquatic RI by integrating the leading mesocosm infrastructures into a coherent, interdisciplinary, and interoperable network covering all ecoregions of Europe. AQUACOSM-plus widens the user base by extending TA provision (> 13000 person-days), and strengthening the offered services, with 10 new partners, including a NGO and doubling of SMEs. We initiate actions to increase competence in mesocosm science in new EU member states (Hungary and Romania), and emphasize training of young scientists through summer schools covering various disciplines including effective science communication. AQUACOSM-plus develops near-real-time Open Data flows and improved metadata, thus promoting Open Mesocosm Science in collaboration with leading EU-supported initiatives in the EOSC and fosters wider sharing of information, knowledge, and technologies across fields and between academia, industry, and policy makers/advisers.
AQUACOSM-plus develops new technological capabilities for mesocosm research, to effectively execute scenario-testing for Climate Change -related pressures on aquatic systems from upstream fresh waters to the sea. These developments include mobile large-scale mesocosm approaches, leading-edge imaging technologies, and affordable methods to obtain high-frequency data on community change and greenhouse gas fluxes in mesocosm settings.
AQUACOSM-plus will progress beyond current achievements by actively pursuing RI-RI collaboration with European environmental RIs (LTER, ICOS, DANUBIUS, JERICO) at all project activity levels (NA, JRA, TA). Multidisciplinary joint research, combining observational data and modelling approaches with targeted mesocosm experiments, is a key step towards successfully tackling current and future Grand Challenges. This involves shared capacity building via symposia, expert summits, and open workshops, with the aim of co-designing future aquatic research actions and their RI demands.
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12489 Berlin
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Participants (34)
1113 Budapest
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06800 Ankara
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400015 Cluj-Napoca
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5838 Bergen
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5020 Bergen
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1011 JV AMSTERDAM
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901 87 Umea
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903 47 Umea
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19013 Attikia Anavissos
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LL74 8SG Tyn Y Gongl
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3293 Lunz Am See
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00790 Helsinki
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80539 Muenchen
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751 05 Uppsala
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750 07 Uppsala
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405 30 Goeteborg
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223 70 Lund
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D02 CX56 DUBLIN 2
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75794 Paris
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34090 Montpellier
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75230 Paris
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8000 Aarhus C
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7000 803 Evora
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28006 Madrid
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WA6 0AR Cheshire
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26129 Oldenburg
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24148 Kiel
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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0579 Oslo
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06844 Dessau-Rosslau
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75007 Paris
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OX10 8BB Oxford
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36310 Vigo Pontevedra
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41328 Goteborg
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