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NAUTILOS

Short description of the action

NAUTILOS, a Horizon 2020 Innovation Action project funded under EU’s the Future of Seas and Oceans Flagship Initiative, aims to fill in marine observation and modelling gaps for biogeochemical, biological and deep ocean physics essential ocean variables and micro-/nano-plastics, by developing a new generation of cost-effective sensors and samplers, their integration within observing platforms and deployment in large-scale demonstrations in European seas.

The principles underlying NAUTILOS will be those of the development, integration, validation and demonstration of new cutting-edge technologies with regards to sensors, interoperability and embedding skills. The development will always be guided by the objectives of scalability, modularity, cost-effectiveness, and open-source availability of software products produced.

Bringing together 21 entities from 11 European countries with multidisciplinary expertise, NAUTILOS has the fundamental aim to complement and expand current European observation tools and services, to obtain a collection of data at a much higher spatial resolution, temporal regularity and length than currently available at the European scale, and to further enable and democratize the monitoring of the marine environment to both traditional and non-traditional data users.

Name of organisation
NAUTILOS Project
Type of organisation
Other
Other type of organisation
Horizon 2020 Project
Type of action proposed
Citizen engagement, citizens-science, youth-led initiatives, communities of practice, ocean and water literacy, outreach, awareness raising and participatory approaches
The action contributes to the following objective or enabler
Protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity
Prevent and eliminate pollution of our ocean, seas and waters
Ocean and waters knowledge system
Public mobilisation and engagement
List of Partners

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE CNR, Italy; HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH HCMR Greece; NORSK INSTITUTT FOR VANNFORSKNING NIVA, Norway; SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS SYKE, Finland; INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER Ifremer, France; CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS CNRS, France; ETT SPA, Italy; EDGELAB SRL, Italy; UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE, Portugal; NKE INSTRUMENTATION NKE, France; AQUATEC GROUP LIMITED AQUATEC, United Kingdom; SUBCTECH GMBH SCT, Germany; CEIIA - CENTRO DE ENGENHARIA E DESENVOLVIMENTO CEIIA, Portugal; HAUTE ECOLE SPECIALISEE DE
SUISSE OCCIDENTALE HES-SO, Switzerland; CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA - RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT CSEM, Switzerland; UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI UL-FE, Slovenia; FUNDACAO EUROCEAN EUROCEAN, Portugal; DEUTSCHES
FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUR KUNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH DFKI, Germany; UNIVERSITA DELLA CALABRIA DIAM, Italy; IMAR - INSTITUTO DO MAR IMAR, Portugal; EUROPROJECT OOD EP, Bulgaria

Start date of the action
End date of the action
Budget allocated for the action
9050000
Basin coverage
Mediterranean Sea
Website link
Email
sandra.sa@eurocean.org
Country
Argentina
Bulgaria
Finland
France
Greece
Italy
Norway
Portugal
Slovenia
United Kingdom
Other country
European Union