Project description
Uniting Europe’s volcanological forces for a safer future
Europe’s volcanological community has long grappled with a pressing challenge: fragmentation and isolation. The power and unpredictability of volcanic eruptions present an ongoing challenge. Disjointed efforts and limited collaboration have hindered our understanding and response to volcanic eruptions. This has hampered our ability to fully understand and respond to volcanic events. In this context, the EU-funded EUROVOLC project will bridge gaps between scientists, stakeholders, and infrastructures in order to construct a unified and harmonised European volcanological community. By linking in situ volcano observatories and volcanological research institutions, EUROVOLC will overcome fragmentation at various levels, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing. Its overall aim is to pave the way for safer and more efficient research and resource utilisation.
Objective
EUROVOLC will construct an integrated and harmonized European volcanological community able to fully support, exploit and build-upon existing and emerging national and pan-European research infrastructures, including e-Infrastructures of the European Supersite volcanoes. The harmonization includes linking scientists and stakeholders and connecting still isolated volcanological infrastructures located at in situ volcano observatories (VO) and volcanological research institutions (VRIs). EUROVOLC will overcome fragmentation at various levels, including community, project and discipline fragmentation by addressing four main themes: Community building, volcano-atmosphere interaction, sub-surface processes and volcanic crisis preparedness and risk management. Examples of networking activities under these themes include collaboration and networking between VOs, VRIs and civil protection agencies, networking of atmospheric gas and aerosol observations as well as observations of subsurface processes, and initiation of access to multidisciplinary observations from Krafla Volcano Laboratory as a test bed. Joint research activities include production of services to initialize volcanic ash transport and dispersal models during eruptions, integrated modelling of pre-eruption data, and a complete catalogue of European Volcanoes. Trans-national access to European Volcano observatories will be facilitated and virtual access to various modelling and assessment tools for responding to volcanic unrest and eruptions will be offered. Through these activities EUROVOLC will integrate the European volcanological community and open up and provide a wider, simplified, and more efficient access to key, multidisciplinary European research infrastructures located at leading VOs and VRIs to conduct improved volcanological research, drive best practice at volcanological observatories and open pathways for enterprise to better exploit georesources in volcanic areas such as geothermal energy.
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108 Reykjavik
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Participants (22)
00143 Roma
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00185 Roma
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101 Reykjavik
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1211 Geneve
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LS2 9JT Leeds
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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28006 Madrid
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9500 Ponta Delgada
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4 Dublin
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75238 Paris
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103 Reykjavik
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M13 9PL Manchester
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50121 Florence
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50124 Firenze
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EX1 3PB Exeter
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00187 Roma
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63000 Clermont Ferrand
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75794 Paris
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13677 Acharnes
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101 Reykjavik
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00193 Roma
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13677 Acharnae
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