Objective
AQUACOSM-plus advances European mesocosm-based aquatic RI by integrating the leading mesocosm infrastructures into a coherent, interdisciplinary, and interoperable network covering all ecoregions of Europe. AQUACOSM-plus widens the user base by extending TA provision (> 13000 person-days), and strengthening the offered services, with 10 new partners, including a NGO and doubling of SMEs. We initiate actions to increase competence in mesocosm science in new EU member states (Hungary and Romania), and emphasize training of young scientists through summer schools covering various disciplines including effective science communication. AQUACOSM-plus develops near-real-time Open Data flows and improved metadata, thus promoting Open Mesocosm Science in collaboration with leading EU-supported initiatives in the EOSC and fosters wider sharing of information, knowledge, and technologies across fields and between academia, industry, and policy makers/advisers.
AQUACOSM-plus develops new technological capabilities for mesocosm research, to effectively execute scenario-testing for Climate Change -related pressures on aquatic systems from upstream fresh waters to the sea. These developments include mobile large-scale mesocosm approaches, leading-edge imaging technologies, and affordable methods to obtain high-frequency data on community change and greenhouse gas fluxes in mesocosm settings.
AQUACOSM-plus will progress beyond current achievements by actively pursuing RI-RI collaboration with European environmental RIs (LTER, ICOS, DANUBIUS, JERICO) at all project activity levels (NA, JRA, TA). Multidisciplinary joint research, combining observational data and modelling approaches with targeted mesocosm experiments, is a key step towards successfully tackling current and future Grand Challenges. This involves shared capacity building via symposia, expert summits, and open workshops, with the aim of co-designing future aquatic research actions and their RI demands.
Call for proposal
H2020-INFRAIA-2019-1
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
12489 Berlin
Germany
Participants (29)
1113 Budapest
06800 Ankara
400015 Cluj-napoca
5838 Bergen
5020 Bergen
1011 JV Amsterdam
901 87 Umea
903 47 Umea
19013 Attikia Anavissos
LL74 8SG Tyn Y Gongl
3293 Lunz Am See
00790 Helsinki
80539 Muenchen
751 05 Uppsala
2 Dublin
75794 Paris
8000 Aarhus C
7000 803 Evora
28006 Madrid
WA6 0AR Cheshire
26129 Oldenburg
24148 Kiel
00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
0349 Oslo
06844 Dessau-rosslau
75007 Paris Cedex 07
OX10 8BB Oxford
36310 Vigo Pontevedra
41328 Goteborg
