Projects

Research

The financing of INCD GeoEcoMar’s research activity is carried out by participating in domestic and international tenders or by direct contracting with partners from the country or abroad.

In order to increase the scientific and technical capacity of INCD GeoEcoMar, the following main funding directions are pursued: internal project competitions organized by the Ministry of Education and Research or other ministries or government agencies, structural funds, extra-budgetary sources and attracted ones (eg donations, sponsorships).

List of projects in alphabetical order (A–Z)

ALIGN-CCUS: Accelerating Low-carbon Industrial Growth through CCUS

The ALIGN-CCUS project aims to accelerate the transition of current industrial and energy sectors towards a future in which economic activities generate low carbon emissions, with carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) playing a key role. ALIGN addresses specific challenges within the CCUS chain for industrial regions in ERA-NET countries, enabling the large-scale and efficient deployment of CCUS by 2025.

AMBIACVA: Excellence research to highlight environmental and biotic changes in ancient and current aquatic systems

Within this project, in addition to the implementation of consolidation mechanisms for the traditional research directions of INCD GeoEcoMar, provided for in the Institutional Development Strategy, it is envisaged the stimulation of the emergence of new directions and research topics, fields that respond to current challenges at a global level and to use the new technologies currently available for the researchers, thus:

the balanced development of the RDI staff with teams of INCD GeoEcoMar specialists, in the fields related to the institute’s main direction of research-development-innovation, the study of old and current marine-coastal-deltaic and fluvial systems;
the development of the specialization process in the narrow geological, ecological, biological, geochemical and geophysical subfields, in parallel with training in interdisciplinary fields (including innovation management, research marketing, intellectual property);
specializations for carrying out multidisciplinary analyzes of emerging pollutants in the Danube – Danube Delta – Black Sea system (eg microplastics, substances with a harmful impact on organisms);
the development of innovation activity, by making inventions related to devices, equipment and methods, useful in various research directions of the institute, e.g.: seismoacoustics, magnetometry, gravimetry, mineralogy, paleontological studies, sedimentology, pollution in the coastal, deltaic and fluvial areas , geoarchaeology;
deepening the concept of “green” protection against floods and/or erosion;
the development of research in bioinformatics analysis, with applications in molecular biology and Environmental DNA (eDNA) for the purpose of investigating aquatic communities;
specializations in integrated investigations in the fields of geology, geophysics and biogeochemistry for the analysis of processes and phenomena that take place in the abyssal part of the Black Sea;
expansion of archaeogeophysics studies in the submarine field;
because in INCD GeoEcoMar a large amount of data is acquired through the specific activities, it is necessary to analyze large data flows; therefore, knowledge will be improved in the following areas:
- methods of ordering and obtaining statistical information;
- data quality assessment;
- management of data gaps;
- data grouping operations;
- methods applicable to calendar date data.

ANACONDA: Co-creAting New wAter quality and Biodiversity Management ProduCts from expansiOn missioN DAta

The project focuses on two domains – Inland Water Management and Ecosystem and biodiversity monitoring, because these two domains are related, also making it easier for end-users to use the results.

Furthermore, relevant guidelines, regulations, and governmental strategies already integrate the two domains. This applies for example to the Green Deal, the European Water Framework Directive, and the EU Biodiversity strategy for 2030.

The project will have three test sites: Forth catchment in the United Kingdom, Volkerak-Zoommeer in the Netherlands and the Danube Delta in Romania.

Analysis and Interpretation of data on Macrozoobentos from Samples collected in the JOSS-GE-UA 2019 Expedition; Setting Threshold Values for Macrozoobentos Indicators and Contributions to the JBSS Final Scientific Report

Within the framework of the contract, GeoEcoMar had the responsibility to participate as an expert in macrozoobentos in the Joint Black Sea Surveys 2019 of the EMBLAS Plus project, in charge of supervising all aspects of the sampling, analysis and assessment of macrozoobentos. Moreover, the institute was responsible with the processing of macrozoobenthos data collected from all partners involved in EMBLAS Plus, thus contributing to the setting of threshold values for indicators.

Analysis of the Potential for the Sustainable Use of Vegetation in the Danube–Danube Delta–Black Sea System

The project’s general objective is to enhance the participation of Romanian consortia and organizations in the activities of the pan-European infrastructure DANUBIUS-RI, focusing on integrated studies related to the sustainable use of bioresources in the Danube–Danube Delta–Black Sea system.

By implementing the planned activities, the project will primarily contribute to consolidating Romania’s role within DANUBIUS-RI, while also fostering the development of scientific potential in a region that is unique in Europe and of significant interest to the European scientific community—the Danube Delta, a natural laboratory of European importance.

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