Proiecte
Management Support Project for the preparation of the Preparatory Phase – H2020 of the International Center for Advanced Studies for River-Sea Systems
| Responsabil: | Prof. Adrian Stănică, CS I |
| Coordonator: | The National Research-Development for Marine Geology and GEoeocology - GeoEcoMar |
| Beneficiar: | GeoEcoMar |
| Finanțator: | Autoritatea Națională pentru Cercetare Științifică și Inovare (ANCSI) |
| Durata: | 3 months |
| Data începerii: | 15.04.2016 |
| Data finalizării: | 15.07.2016 |
Management Support Project for the preparation of the Preparatory Phase – H2020 of the International Center for Advanced Studies for River-Sea Systems
The pan-European distributed infrastructure project “International Center for Advanced Studies for River-Sea Systems” – under the coordination of Romania – has reached an important point in its maturity. Thus, DANUBIUS-RI has received the status of a Flagship project in the EU Strategy for the Danube Region since 2013 and, most notably, has recently been accepted as an ESFRI project.
Thus, on March 10, 2016, in Amsterdam, with the launch of the ESFRI 2016 Roadmap, the Pan-European Distributed Infrastructure Project for Advanced Research in River-Sea Systems DANUBIUS-RI was one of the 6 newly admitted projects on the list of pan-European ESFRI infrastructures. This inclusion on the ESFRI list confirms, on the one hand, the importance of DANUBIUS-RI as a science, education and innovation hub and its degree of maturity, but on the other hand, it obliges us to continue its implementation at standards of scientific excellence and at a sustained and alert pace. Following the inclusion of DANUBIUS-RI on the ESFRI 2016 Roadmap, the European Commission (Directorate-General for Scientific Research and Innovation) decided to support the implementation of the project (development of the pan-European infrastructure) through a dedicated support project (INFRADEV 2-2016).
DANUBIUS-RI is thus the first pan-European infrastructure project that brings together specialists from all fields relevant to the study of freshwater and marine environments. The project is also the first to pay special attention to processes in transitional environments (deltas and estuaries). Both through its structure – and through its operating logic, DANUBIUS –RI will support the interdisciplinary research activities that will follow phenomena from the river-sea continuum – in a sequential way that will encourage interdisciplinarity (from observations, field measurements, to analyses, modeling and the integration of natural aspects with social and economic ones for the implementation of governance plans). In these aspects, the project is unique both in Europe and the world.
Supporting the activities to be carried out by the DANUBIUS-RI consortium to resume the implementation of the pan-European distributed research infrastructure after its inclusion on the ESFRI Roadmap 2016.
This project supports both the implementation of the Preparatory Phase proposal and the strengthening of Romania’s position as coordinator of the DANUBIUS-RI project.
Harmonizing the national approach so as to meet the trans-disciplinarity requirements defined as the basic principle for the R&D activity of DANUBIUS-RI.
Conducting a “national skills audit”, which would identify, catalogue and centralize information related to existing skills at national level in the areas of expertise and fields of activity of the DANUBIUS-RI centres. These include research centres and the existing infrastructure at national level in these centres, identification of directions that are not developed at national level, but which are included in the scientific plan/development plan of DANUBIUS-RI. Also, as a result of these activities, the so-called “core competencies” of the national affiliated network DANUBIUS-RI will be defined.