Project description
Reinforcing geoscientific research capability in Croatia
Three geoscience research institutes – the Croatian Geological Survey (HGI-CGS), the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and the British Geological Survey of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (BGS-UKRI) –joined forces to strengthen HGI-CGS’s research potential. Croatia’s HGI-CGS will benefit from a range of research tools, technologies, software and methods. The EU-funded GeoTwinn project will also develop active collaboration and partnership between people; involving talented scientists within HGI-CGS and highly productive scientists within GEUS and BGS-UKRI, who in a number of cases are world-leading experts in their field. It will organise two-way scientific exchanges and training programmes in the fields of 3D geological surveying, advanced groundwater flow and contaminant transport modelling, geological hazards and geothermal energy.
Objective
This proposal addresses the need to spread excellence and widen participation across the European Union by the twinning of research institutions. We propose to twin the Croatian Geological Survey (HGI-CGS) with two world-leading geoscience research institutes, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and the British Geological Survey of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (BGS-UKRI), to significantly strengthen HGI-CGS’s research, and in a number of areas transform its capability. The overarching objective is: to deliver a coordinated and targeted programme of training, knowledge exchange and collaboration, involving world-leading experts, to embed cutting-edge research techniques, tools and knowledge within HGI-CGS, leading to a significant and measurable improvement in their geoscientific research capability. HGI-CGS will benefit from a range of research tools, technologies, software and methods at the disposal of GEUS and BGS-UKRI. However, central to this project is the development of active collaboration and partnership between people; between talented scientists within HGI-CGS and highly productive scientists within BGS-UKRI and GEUS, who in a number of cases are world-leading experts in their field. Through close collaboration of scientists working on a range of geoscience topics, facilitated through scientific workshops, two-way scientific exchanges and bespoke training programmes, the project will support HGI-CGS to strengthen research in four important geoscience subject areas, which are at the core of most world-leading geological surveys and geological research institutes: (i) 3D geological surveying and modelling; (ii) groundwater flow and contaminant transport modelling; (iii) geological hazards; (iv) geothermal energy. The project will also enhance research and innovation related to environmental issues: a shift to a low-carbon economy, climate change adaptation and risk management, environmental protection and resource efficiency.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.4.b. - Twinning of research institutions Main Programme
Topic(s)
Call for proposal
(opens in new window) H2020-WIDESPREAD-2016-2017
See other projects for this callSub call
H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2017-Twinning
Funding Scheme
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
10000 Zagreb
Croatia