EU Project MINKE
Description MINKE aims to integrate key European marine metrology research infrastructures, to coordinate their use and development and propose an innovative framework of “quality of oceanographic data” for the different European actors in charge of monitoring and managing the marine ecosystems. This project, through the different Integration Activities (Networking, Transnational-Virtual Access and Joint Research), aims to lay the groundwork for creating the necessary synergies among the different involved actors in the quintuple helix model of innovation, creating a new community with complementary capabilities for Ocean & Coastal Observation, that will facilitate the transition towards a blue growth socio-economic system.
EU Call H2020-INFRAIA-2020-1
Total Funding € 4.994.955,00
IAAC Department Fab Lab Barcelona
Consortium: Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (Coordinator); Institut Francais De Recherche Pour L’Exploitation De La Mer; Hellenic Centre For Marine Research; Consorcio Para El Diseno, Construccion, Equipamiento Y Explotacion De La Plataforma Oceanica De Canarias; Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya; Istituto Nazionale Di Oceanografia E Di Geofisica Sperimentale; Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche; Istituto Nazionale Di Ricerca Metrologica; Service Hydrographique Et Oceanographique De La Marine; Norsk Institutt For Vannforskning; National Oceanography Centre; Agenzia Nazionale Per Le Nuove Tecnologie, L’Energia E Lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile; Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt; Universite D’Aix Marseille; Universidad Catolica Del Norte; Anel.Lides SL; Laboratoire National De Metrologie Et D’Essais; 52 North Spatial Information Research Gmbh; Suomen Ymparistokeskus; Joint Programming Initiative On Healthy And Productive Seas And Oceans; European Multidisciplinary; Seafloorand Water Column Observatory – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (EMSO ERIC)
Website https://minke.eu/

Objective

MINKE will integrate key European marine metrology research infrastructures, to coordinate their use and development and propose an innovative framework of “quality of oceanographic data” for the different European actors in charge of monitoring and managing the marine ecosystems. MINKE proposes a new vision in the design of marine monitoring networks considering two dimensions of data quality, accuracy and completeness, as the driving components of the quality in data acquisition. This new vision will be framed in a quintuple helix model of innovation, incorporating all the elements involved in the monitoring network design:

? the context (ocean health), identifying the Essential Ocean variables (EOVs) as the key parameters to monitor
? the civil society (NGO, Makers community, Social media and Citizen Science platforms) as the key actors to ensure data completeness
? the academia researching new methods to ensure the accuracy and the global quality of the final products, developing tools for integrating the information of top-qualified oceanographic instruments and low-cost instrumentation.
? the industry improving the performance of the observations with new instrumentation, data-transmission systems and cost-effective technologies
? the governments that provide the legal and socio-economic frameworks to develop the proposed network

The present proposal, through the different Integration Activities (Networking, Transnational-Virtual Access and Joint Research), aims to lay the groundwork for creating the necessary synergies among the different involved actors in the quintuple helix model of innovation, creating a new community with complementary capabilities for Ocean & Coastal Observation, that will facilitate the transition towards a blue growth socio-economic system.

 

Fields of science

natural sciences > biological sciences > marine biology
social sciences > political science > political policy > civil society

Organicity