The last MarinERA Report No.10: A Marine RTD Infrastructure Strategy for Member States is available for download
June 23, 2009
The MarinERA technical report A Marine RTD Infrastructure Strategy for Member States is available to download here.
In the frame of the MarinERA project, the consortium aimed to:
- Determine the strengths and weaknesses of the existing European infrastructures;
- Support a coherent and strategy-led approach to policy making on research infrastructure in Europe;
- Optimise the use of existing large scale marine infrastructure facilities, including improving transnational access to them;
- Progress toward a European scale management of appropriate marine infrastructures allowing their more efficient and more competitive use by the science community;
- Launch a joint infrastructure research project.
Therefore, the MarinERA core infrastructure group (the MarinERA Secretariat, Task Leaders and Marine Infrastructure Forum Chairman) agreed to implement an action plan to address relevant aspects of a Marine RTD Infrastructure Strategy. This MarinERA Infrastructure Strategy was articulated around operational tools (infrastructure portal, organisation of topical workshops and fora), interactions with other networks (OFWG, ERVO, EuroGOOS, FP6 Networks of Excellence, ERA-NETs, etc.) and in synergy and compliance with relevant European policies and strategies (Integrated Maritime Policy, MSFD, European Marine and Maritime Research Strategy, etc.).
The MarinERA Infrastructure Strategy was deliberately designed horizontally across the different MarinERA infrastructure tasks to avoid duplication and to best allow interactions between the scientific tasks and disciplines, within and outside the consortium project mandate.
This publication presents the outputs and impacts of the MarinERA Infrastructure Strategy on the European marine policy landscape. It highlights that it has successfully addressed all of the concepts encapsulated in its original objectives and beyond to achieve a level of cooperation that will endure after the lifetime of MarinERA.
