EU awards €7.6 million to AquaINFRA, an innovative project to create a virtual environment for marine and aquatic research
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AquaINFRA is an EU Horizon Europe project funded under the HORIZON-INFRA-2022-EOSC-01 call, coordinated by Aalborg University (Denmark), connecting 21 international partners from 10 countries across Europe, the UK, and Scandinavia.
The 4-year AquaINFRA project (started on 1st January 2023) aims to support the advancement of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and will develop a project-based interactive platform as a result. This platform will incorporate FAIR multi-disciplinary data and services to assist both marine and freshwater scientists and stakeholders in the restoration of healthy oceans, coastal, and inland waters.
The international AquaINFRA consortium is made up of 21 partners and is led by Aalborg University. This international collaborative effort will see the development of an innovative AquaINFRA Interaction Platform (AIP). Through a single user interface, the platform will permit data discovery and processing.
The AIP will act as the main entry point for scientific communities focused on aquatic research with the aim to exchange knowledge and connect with the EU flagship initiative, European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Included in this development will be the creation of a cross-domain and cross-region search and discovery mechanism, and the establishment of services for spatio-temporal analysis and modelling through Virtual Research Environments (VREs). The AquaINFRA VRE is designed to allow stakeholders to store, access, share, analyse, and process research data and information from their own fields in addition to other international research of various disciplines and infrastructure