Use Cases

Eurofleets+ is a Horizon 2020 funded initiative aimed at providing open and free-of-charge access to state-of-the-art European research vessels and marine equipment through Transnational Calls. Its objectives include easing access to and management of marine data and enhancing the sustainability of marine research infrastructures. Active between 2019 and 2023, Eurofleets+ brought together a wide network of 42 partners from various European marine research institutes and universities, funding 28 projects across 23 Transnational Access (TA) cruises. During these cruises, 164 multidisciplinary data sets were generated (Fig. 1) and made easily discoverable and publicly accessible via marine data management and data exchange infrastructures. Tailored guidelines provided by Responsible Data Centres (RDCs) associated with Eurofleets+ (HCMR, OGS, and RBINS), facilitated easier management of metadata and data, including data validation and curation, before publication on data repositories and infrastructures such as the EMODnet Ingestion, SeaDataNet SEA ScieNtific Open data Edition (SEANOE) data citing service, and SeaDataNet CDI service.

Venice Lagoon Plastic Free (VLPF) is a non-profit organization based in Venice (Italy), listed on the National Single Third Sector Registry (RUNTS), the EMODnet data providers list, supporter of the WWF Plastic Smart City Initiative and signatory of the EU Charter Restore our Ocean and Water mission. The VLPF team is the co-designer of the REMEDIES Shoreline ML App together with Infordata Sistemi (Italy), developed under the Horizon Europe REMEDIES project. EMODnet was used to retrieve relevant historical marine litter data in order to plan and enrich our work on the pan European marine litter database. In addition, downloaded data are used for advanced statistics and data comparison during the development of the Beach Litter Monitoring App. EMODnet also provided valuable services such as the beach litter format validator, which assisted in generating correct datasets that then were submitted to the EMODnet ingestion portal.

The in situ data and wave nowcast products provided by EMODnet Physics and Data ingestion are useful tools for Outdoor Portofino, a company that promotes sport tourism and environmental education, to safely plan activities and promote sustainability for eco-friendly tourism. The company offers a wide package of lessons, tour guides and renting for outdoor activities and promotes marine conservation projects.