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Project
Acronym: EUROFLEETS2 
Name: New operational steps towards an alliance of European research fleets 
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Project status: From: 2013-03-01 To: 2017-02-28 (Completed)
Contract number: 312762 
Action line: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1 
Type (Programme): FP7 
Funding scheme: CSAs 
Project cost: 10.873.089,46 EUR
Project funding: 9.000.000,00 EUR
Project coordinator
Organisation Name: Institut Francais Recherche pour L'exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER) 
Organisation adress: Technopole Brest Irois 
Organisation country: France 
Contact person name: Mr. Jacques Binot 
Contact person email: Email 
Croatian partner
Organisation name: Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva 
Organisation address: Unska 3 
Contact person name: Prof.dr.sc. Zoran Vukić
Contact person tel:
6129840  Contact person fax: 6129809 
Contact person e-mail: Email 
Partners
Organisation nameCountry
Institut français de recherche pour l‟exploitation de la mer (IFREMER) France 
Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI) Germany 
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS) Italy 
Instituto Español de Oceanografia (IEO) Spain 
Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR) Greece 
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR) Italy 
Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare Pentru Geologie si Geoecologie Marina (GEOECOMAR) Romania 
Marine Institute (MI) Ireland 
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Spain 
Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (RBINS-MUMM) Belgium 
Instytut Oceanologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk (IOPAN) Poland 
Institut Polaire Français Paul Emile Victor (IPEV) France 
Institute of Oceanology-Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IOBAS) Bulgaria 
Universitaet Bremen (MARUM) Germany 
Mariene Informatie Service MARIS BV (MARIS) Netherlands 
Fundacao EurOcean (EUROCEAN) Portugal 
Tallinna Tehnikaülikool (TUT) Estonia 
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee Vzw (VLIZ) Belgium 
Havforskninginstituttet (IMR) Norway 
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU-AQUA) Denmark 
Polarforskningssekrtarietet (SPRS) Sweden 
Turkiye Bilimsel Ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) Turkey 
Fondation Européenne de la Science (ESF) France 
Gronlands Naturinstitut (GINR) Geenland 
Havstovan (FAMRI) Faeroe Islands 
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (IOF) Croatia 
Sveuciliste u Zagrebu Fakultet elektrotehnike i racunarstva (UNIZG-FER) Croatia 
Universitat de Girona (UdG) Spain 
Deutsches Forschungszentrum Für Künstliche Intelligenz GMBH (DFKI) Germany 
Prollion (PROLLION) France 
Ship Studio SARL (SHIPS) France 
Short description of project
EUROFLEETS2 is the enhancement of EUROFLEETS1, with the aim of developing a new pan-European distributed infrastructure with common strategic vision and coordinated access to Research Vessels (RVs) and marine equipment. EUROFLEETS2 will furthermore undertake specific actions to consolidate research fleets’ organization, methodology and tools through operational initiatives (like virtual fleets) leading to more interoperable and cost effective European research fleets. EUROFLEETS2 main objectives are: * Promotion of operational coordination and integration of RVs. Modern European RVs are made accessible under EUROFLEETS2 (8 of Ocean/Global class and 14 of Regional class) plus 6 mobile pieces of equipment. Further integration is proposed within an innovative multi-platform experiment. The corresponding call aims to identify a flagship proposal, with a proven scientific excellence; * Completion of strategic perspectives for the European research fleets with a polar component; * Promotion of exchanges of mobile equipment on board European RVs to foster interoperability; * Enhancing the impact of research fleets on innovation by fostering the involvement of industry in specific activities, both as end user (e.g. development and testing of new equipment or deep-sea exploration for new resources) or as supplier; * Development of new training actions including a pilot floating university, and of new technological innovations to be widely used on board European RVs; * Making a new step towards a long term sustainable group of European Regional RVs with a view to applying for its insertion into the ESFRI roadmap.  
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
 


   

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