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Climate change and European aquatic RESources (CERES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

CERES advances a cause-and-effect understanding of how future climate change will influence Europe’s most important fish and shellfish populations, their habitats, and the economic activities dependent on these species. CERES will involve and closely cooperate with industry and policy stakeholders to define policy, environment, social, technological, law and environmental climate change scenarios ...
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Training Of Youth for Preparedness Against Marine Induced Hazards

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

TROYO aims to combine scientific excellence of professionals in Coastal Engineering field with enunciable skills in marine hazards for youth to endeavor a better understanding of marine hazards and their effects of human life and manmade coastal structures and prepare guidelines and online tools for safety and preparedness. Raising awareness and preparedness against marine hazards are crucial for ...
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EMSO implementation and operation: DEVelopment of instrument module (EMSODEV)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The EMSODEV general objective is to catalyse the full operations of the EMSO distributed Research Infrastructure, through the development and deployment of the EMSO Generic Instrument Module (EGIM). EGIM will provide accurate, consistent, comparable, long-term measurements of ocean parameters, which are key to addressing urgent societal and scientific challenges (e.g. climate change and hazards). ...
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Real time monitoring of SEA contaminants by an autonomous Lab-on-a-chip biosensor (SEA-on-a-CHIP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,

Early warning systems that can provide extreme sensitivity with exquisite selectivity are required to assess chemical contamination of estuarine and coastal areas. SEA-on-a-CHIP aims to develop a miniaturized, autonomous, remote and flexible immuno-sensor platform based on a fully integrated array of micro/nano-electrodes and a microfluidic system in a lab-on-a-chip configuration combined with ele ...
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EUropean Provision Of Regional Impact Assessment on a Seasonal-to-decadal timescale (EUPORIAS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Recent advances in our understanding and forecasting of climate and climate change have brought us to the point where skilful and useful predictions are being made. These forecasts hold the potential for being of great value for a wide range of decision-makers who are affected by the vagaries of the climate and who would benefit from understanding and better managing climate-related risks. Howeve ...
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Priority environmental contaminants in seafood: safety assessment, impact and public perception (ECSAFESEAFOOD)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Seafood has been recognized as a high quality, healthy and safe food item. Yet, some seafood can accumulate environmental contaminants with potential impact on human health. Limited information is available for those without maximum limits set by authorities for seafood, like priority contaminants, biotoxins from harmful algal blooms and marine litter. In order to increase seafood safety to consum ...
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Support to Aquaculture and Fishery Industry (SAFI)

Start date: Sep 5, 2013, End date: Oct 1, 2016,

The objective of SAFI project is to exploit Earth Observation resources to support fishery and aquaculture industries in marine coastal regions. The service, based on additive value brought by a network of SMEs, is adapted to each category of targeted users, and aims to realize the following points by making the best use of emerging EO products:1-Develop a service to assist aquaculture deployment ...
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Architecture and roadmap to manage multiple pressures on lagoons (ARCH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The ARCH research project “Architecture and roadmap to manage multiple pressures on lagoons” aims to develop participative methodologies in collaboration with policy makers, local authorities and stakeholders to manage the multiple problems affecting lagoons (estuarine coastal areas). These areas represent ecosystems that are very vulnerable for climate change, increasing urbanisation and industri ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate -III (MACC-III)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

MACC-III is the last of the pre-operational stages in the development of the Copernicus Atmosphere Service. Its overall institutional objective is to function as the bridge between the developmental precursor projects - GEMS, PROMOTE, MACC and MACC-II- and the Atmosphere Service envisaged to form part of Copernicus Operations.MACC-III will provide continuity of the atmospheric services provided by ...
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IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY BY REDUCING POST HARVEST LOSSES IN THE FISHERIES SECTOR (SECUREFISH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Food security is a major concern for all countries in the face of population increase and diminishing energy and water supplies. Over one billion people in low and middle income countries suffer from malnutrition. To meet the UN Millennium Development Goals to eradicate hunger and poverty, it is essential to reduce post harvest losses, including in the fisheries sector. The overall objectives of S ...
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Oxygenation by efficient air diffusion system for aquaculture farms (cages and earthen ponds) (AirX)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The AirX Research for SMEs project will develop a novel efficient air diffusion system for oxygenation in aquaculture farms. The target market are cage and earthen pond farmers (seabass and seabream) in Mediterranean, which periodically experience problems with reduced growth rate, increased feed conversion factor (FCR), stress and mortality of stock due to low oxygen content in the water (usually ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate Interim Implementation (MACC II)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

MACC II (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate – Interim Implementation) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for prototype operational GMES services for the atmospheric domain. From late-2011 MACC II will continue the operation and development of the GMES service lines established by the MACC project and prepare for its transition in 2014 to become the atmospheri ...
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REsearch to improve PROduction of SEED of established and emerging bivalve species in European hatcheries (REPROSEED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"Secure and stabilised hatchery production of bivalve seed is the unifying objective of the REPROSEED project. Development of innovative new methods will lead to high quality seed of guaranteed physiological health, sanitary status and genetic diversity. By considering the biology of bivalve life stages and the trophic and microbial environment of rearing conditions REPROSEED researches ways of co ...
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Ecosystem-based Responsive Fisheries Management in Europe (EcoFishMan)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

EcoFishMan seeks to develop a responsive fisheries management system (RFMS) based on results-based management (RBM) principles. The intended context of application of the RFMS is complex, mixed-fisheries and multi-stakeholder fishery sectors like those found in the EU/Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) area. It will be an ecosystem-based sustainable management system under a precautionary framework tha ...
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Applied simulations and Integrated modeling for the understanding of toxic and harmful algal blooms (ASIMUTH)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Harmful algal blooms are known to periodically produce toxicity in shellfish and to kill farmed fish throughout Europe. The Atlantic coast of Europe is often affected by such blooms causing devastation to aquaculture industries due to closures of farms and large scale fish kills. The management of shellfish toxicity is well developed along the Atlantic margin in response to EU Directives, and the ...
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Hormone-free non-seasonal or seasonal goat reproduction for a sustainable European goat-milk market (FLOCK-REPROD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"FLOCK-REPROD will provide the European dairy goat industry with the innovative, economically and environmentally-viable technology necessary to enable the hormone-free production of goat’s milk and related products (e.g. cheese). It will achieve this by controlling reproduction via artificial insemination (AI) all year round. FLOCK-REPROD technology will allow the EU dairy goat industry to operat ...
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Collaborative, Complex and Critical Decision-Support in Evolving Crises (TRIDEC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Description TRIDEC focuses on new technologies for real-time intelligent information management in collaborative, complex critical decision processes in earth management. Key challenge is the construction of a communication infrastructure of interoperable services through which intelligent management of dynamically increasing volumes and dim ...
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Interaction in coastal waters: A roadmap to sustainable integration of aquaculture and fisheries (COEXIST)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"Coastal areas are subject to an increase in competing activities and protection (Natura 2000, Marine Strategy Directive) and are a source of potential conflict for space allocation. COEXIST is a broad, multidisciplinary approach to evaluate these interactions with the ultimate goal to provide a roadmap to better integration, sustainability and synergies among different activities in the coastal z ...
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geoland2 - towards an operational GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (geoland2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

geoland2 intends to constitute a major step forward in the implementation of the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS). The three components (Local, Continental and Global) of the LMCS are addressed. The goal of geoland2 is (i) to prepare, validate and demonstrate pre-operational service chains and products that will underpin the LMCS, and (ii) to propose and demonstrate a concrete functional o ...
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Management and monitoring of deep-sea fisheries and stocks (DEEPFISHMAN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"Deepwater fisheries pose particular difficulties for management. Target species are difficult to assess with high levels of uncertainty, they are generally vulnerable to overfishing and sustainable levels of exploitation are low. Ecosystems are impacted by fishing due to the removal of target species, bycatch of numerous fish and other organisms and the crushing of benthos such as e.g. cold water ...
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Development of a novel production system for intensive and cost effective bivalve farming (ShellPlant)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

The ShellPlant project proposes to develop a plant for closed production of bivalves (primarily high valued scallops and oysters). The plant will include a cultivating system for bivalves in an innovative rack system, an algae photo bioreactor and a feeding and water exchange system with intelligent controls. The coordinator company Bioframe has done several tests with a floating closed system for ...
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