Objective
AQUARIUS will provide a highly comprehensive suite of integrated research infrastructures appropriate to addressing significant challenges for the long-term sustainability of our unique oceans, seas and freshwater ecosystems. For the first time, diverse research infrastructures will be combined to facilitate the work of researchers and key stakeholders focused on challenges and opportunities for both marine and freshwater systems. An impressive range of 57 research infrastructure services will be made available to include research vessels, mobile marine observation platforms, aircraft, drones, satellite, sensors, fixed freshwater and marine observatories and test sites, experimental facilities, and sophisticated data infrastructures. AQUARIUS will support the development phase of the EU Mission to Restore our Ocean and waters by 2030, the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, the European Green Deal, and international climate initiatives. It will also be an essential component in achieving the European Digital Twin of the Ocean and the UN Decade for Ocean Sciences. The needs of researchers will be met through a robust and transparent system of transnational access funding Calls, facilitated by centralised user-friendly access portal. The Call programme will be informed through stakeholder engagement and brokerage events. Projects to be selected for Access must convincingly integrate multiple infrastructures and contribute to the core policy objectives of Mission Ocean, that is, to protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity; to prevent and eliminate pollution of our oceans, seas and waters; and to ensure a sustainable, carbon-neutral and circular blue economy. A thematic and geographic focus will be the hallmark of the proposed transnational Calls, aligning with the Lighthouse Regions, that is, the Baltic and the North Sea Basins, Black Sea, Atlantic/Arctic, and Mediterranean Sea along with their associated rivers.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsfreshwater ecosystems
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robotsdrones
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesoceanography
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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00560 Helsinki
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28006 Madrid
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19013 Attikia Anavissos
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5817 Bergen
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3900 Nuuk
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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21502 Geesthacht
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27570 Bremerhaven
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- Limerick
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900581 Constanta
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2632 BD Nootdorp
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00790 Helsinki
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00185 Roma
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603 00 Brno
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0579 Oslo
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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8400 OOSTENDE
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75005 Paris
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8005-139 FARO
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4450 208 Matosinhos
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75006 Paris
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31400 Toulouse
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69117 Heidelberg
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601 76 NORRKOEPING
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13572 Marseille
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4000 Liege
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00143 Roma
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1249-093 Lisboa
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5838 Bergen
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35200 Telde
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07121 Palma
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2400 Mol
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00143 Roma
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024053 Bucharest
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FO110 TORSHAVN
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216 13 LIMHAMN
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40127 Bologna
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34010 Sgonico-Trieste
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29280 Plouzane
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220 Hafnarfjörður
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08034 Barcelona
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3526 KV Utrecht
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06100 Ankara
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750 07 Uppsala
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