Project description
A virtual environment for marine and inland water restoration
To restore oceans, seas and coastal and inland water health, scientists and stakeholders need a technologically advanced environment. The EU-funded AquaINFRA project will develop a virtual environment equipped with FAIR multidisciplinary data and services to support marine and freshwater scientists and stakeholders in their restoration efforts. This virtual environment will allow stakeholders to store, share, access, analyse and process research data across research infrastructures, disciplines and national borders based on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the other existing operational dataspaces. AquaINFRA will develop an EOSC-based research infrastructure combining the marine and freshwater domains, including cross domain and cross-country search and discovery mechanism development and building services for spatiotemporal analysis and modelling through virtual research environments.
Objective
The overall objective of the project is to develop a virtual environment equipped with FAIR multi-disciplinary data and services to support marine and freshwater scientists and stakeholders restoring healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters. The AquaINFRA virtual environment will enable the target stakeholders to store, share, access, analyse and process research data and other research digital objects from their own discipline, across research infrastructures, disciplines and national borders leveraging on EOSC and the other existing operational dataspaces. Besides supporting the ongoing development of the EOSC as an overarching research infrastructure, AquaINFRA is addressing the specific need for enabling researchers from the marine and freshwater communities to work and collaborate across those two domains. A specific goal of AquaINFRA will be to develop an EOSC based research infrastructure combining the marine and freshwater domains, which will include the development of a cross domain and cross-country search and discovery mechanism as well as building services for spatio-temporal analysis and modelling through Virtual Research Environments. A set of strategic use cases including a Pan-European use case as well as more focused use cases in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea will provide the setting for co-designing and testing services in the targeted research communities. The AquaINFRA project results are expected to contribute to the utilisation of EOSC as an overarching research infrastructure enabling collaboration across the domains of marine and freshwater scientists and stakeholders working on restoring of healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters.
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9220 Aalborg
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00520 Helsinki
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00160 Helsinki
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02101 Espoo
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00790 Helsinki
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7034 Trondheim
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0579 Oslo
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51005 Tartu
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1007 Riga
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44801 Bochum
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12489 Berlin
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48155 Munster
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21502 Geesthacht
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20146 Hamburg
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08193 Bellaterra
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28006 Madrid
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2080 MSIDA
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1180 Wien
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01069 Dresden
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76131 Karlsruhe
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
LL74 8SG Tyn Y Gongl
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.