Objective
ATLAS creates a dynamic new partnership between multinational industries, SMEs, governments and academia to assess the Atlantic’s deep-sea ecosystems and Marine Genetic Resources to create the integrated and adaptive planning products needed for sustainable Blue Growth. ATLAS will gather diverse new information on sensitive Atlantic ecosystems (incl. VMEs and EBSAs) to produce a step-change in our understanding of their connectivity, functioning and responses to future changes in human use and ocean climate. This is possible because ATLAS takes innovative approaches to its work and interweaves its objectives by placing business, policy and socioeconomic development at the forefront with science. ATLAS not only uses trans-Atlantic oceanographic arrays to understand and predict future change in living marine resources, but enhances their capacity with new sensors to make measurements directly relevant to ecosystem function. The ATLAS team has the track record needed to meet the project’s ambitions and has already developed a programme of 25 deep-sea cruises, with more pending final decision. These cruises will study a network of 12 Case Studies spanning the Atlantic including sponge, cold-water coral, seamount and mid-ocean ridge ecosystems. The team has an unprecedented track record in policy development at national, European and international levels. An annual ATLAS Science-Policy Panel in Brussels will take the latest results and Blue Growth opportunities identified from the project directly to policy makers. Finally, ATLAS has a strong trans-Atlantic partnership in Canada and the USA where both government and academic partners will interact closely with ATLAS through shared cruises, staff secondments, scientific collaboration and work to inform Atlantic policy development. ATLAS has been created and designed with our N American partners to foster trans-Atlantic collaboration and the wider objectives of the Galway Statement on Atlantic Ocean Cooperation.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmarine biology
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesoceanography
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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RIA - Research and Innovation action
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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Participants (25)
8000 Aarhus C
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9901-862 Horta
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9900-014 Horta
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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1077 KB Amsterdam
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29280 Plouzane
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AB119DB Aberdeen
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28359 Bremen
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3526 KV Utrecht
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EH8 8AS Edinburgh
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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4 Dublin
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WC1E 6BT London
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H91 Galway
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L69 7ZX Liverpool
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5230 Odense M
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9019 Tromso
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PA37 1QA Dunbeg Oban
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SO51 0HN Romsey Awbridge
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28006 Madrid
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NC 28403 Wilmington
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8 Dublin
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1170 Bruxelles
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EH14 4AS Edinburgh
1000 Brussel
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.