Imagine if all the world's water maps and health reports were kept in different locked cabinets in different languages. This project builds a single digital library where all that information is organized and easy to find. It lets experts see how river pollution affects the ocean in one view, making it much faster to plan how to clean up our waters.
Researchers and companies waste significant time manually searching for and cleaning water data because marine and freshwater datasets are stored in separate, incompatible silos across different countries.
A virtual research environment and a Data Discovery and Access Service (DDAS) that acts as a central gateway for aquatic digital resources.
If you are a water quality assessment firm dealing with fragmented data from different countries — this project developed a Data Discovery and Access Service (DDAS) that provides a seamless pan-European hydrography. This allows you to find and reuse aquatic digital resources without manual searching across borders.
If you are a shipping operator dealing with complex coastal and marine environmental regulations — this project developed a virtual research environment that integrates marine and freshwater data. This helps in analyzing the impact of human activities on coastal waters more accurately.
If you are a utility company dealing with the transition from inland river systems to coastal outlets — this project developed a cross-domain search mechanism. This enables you to process research data across national borders to better manage water flow and biodiversity.
Based on available project data, no specific pricing or commercial cost is mentioned; it is developed as an EOSC compliant research infrastructure for the scientific community.
The project is building a pan-European infrastructure and integrating with the EOSC federation, suggesting a scale designed for continental use across 10 countries.
The project focuses on Open Science and FAIR principles, meaning the data and services are intended to be open, shareable, and reusable.
It leverages existing operational data repositories such as EMODnet, Copernicus Marine Service, and Digital Twins.
The project period runs from 2023-01-01 to 2026-12-31.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward research and academia, featuring 7 universities and 10 research organizations. With only 1 industry partner and 2 SMEs (a 5% industry ratio), the project is primarily driven by scientific goals rather than immediate commercialization, though the inclusion of 10 countries ensures broad European standardization.
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