Innovation in the Deep Atlantic Ocean

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Atlantic Area

Date of latest update: 2023-03-02

Description

Description (EN):

The Atlantic Action Plan aims to revitalize the Marine and Maritime Economy, recommending closer collaboration among member states such as to set up sustainable strategies for natural resources exploitation while promoting innovation and regional strategies that secure and enhance the marine and coastal environments. The European Atlantic Region (EAR) has the largest potential for “blue growth” due to, among others, its size, maritime tradition, and vast deep-sea areas available for exploitation. The iFADO project aims to create marine services at regional and subregional scale using the European Atlantic waters as case study. By filling current technical gaps, iFADO will use the Marine Strategy Framework Directive implementation to demonstrate the application of innovative products. The project will combine traditional monitoring with cost-effective, state-of-the-art technologies: remote sensing, numerical modelling and emerging observation platforms such us gliders and oceanic buoys. This project aims to downscale the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service products and to combine the conventional monitoring programmes with emerging technologies such as gliders, ocean buoys and satellite data, to develop tailor-made and innovative products.

Achievements (EN):

The Atlantic Action Plan aims to revitalise the Marine and Maritime Economy and set up sustainable strategies for natural resource exploitation while promoting innovation and regional strategies that secure and enhance the marine and coastal environments. The European Atlantic Region has the largest potential for “blue growth” due to its size, maritime tradition, and vast deep-sea areas available for exploitation. In this context, the iFADO project aims to create marine services on a regional and subregional scale using the European Atlantic waters as a case study. iFADO uses the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) implementation to demonstrate the application of innovative products, by combining traditional monitoring with cost-effective, state-of-the-art technologies: remote sensing, numerical modeling, and emerging observation platforms such as gliders and oceanic buoys. Through international collaboration, the project achieved the extension of some monitoring programmes to observe deeper areas in the Atlantic Ocean through shared efforts and methods, thus contributing to the MSFD. International glider missions were carried out, connecting the westernmost part of the Atlantic Area (Azores) and the southernmost area (Canary Islands), testing methods for the intercomparison of the numerical models and the integration of data obtained by different methods, such as remote sensing, in situ, gliders and numerical modeling. iFADO collaborated with other institutions and projects performing monitoring activities in the Atlantic waters, providing visibility to their activities and sharing methodologies for indicators calculation. The project is involving citizens to obtain more effective ways to collect data in offshore waters by promoting the use of existing mobile apps for ocean data collection with a special focus on the sailing for pleasure community. Citizens are also approached by ocean literacy events in the five participant countries. "Through traditional means of ocean monitoring, researchers take point data. Through new vehicles (iFADO gliders), it is possible to continuously obtain data in real time along a trajectory, which allows us to have a vertical idea of the ocean. Some of these vehicles make trajectories in the ocean between 200m and 1000m, mapping vertically some of the oceanographic parameters that are very important for studies of oceanography, climate change, etc.” Ana Martins Full Professor and Researcher at University of the Azores.

Website: http://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

- Assist the MSFD competent authorities; - Provide services at regional/local scales necessary to enhance the blue economy development; - Contribute to the challenges posed by climate change; - Provide tools for the optimisation of observing strategies for better forecasting; - Capitalise on individual partner initiatives and historical data based on an EAR perspective.

Expected Outputs (EN):

- One case study per country (subregion), one specific for the Macaronesian and for the Atlantic Area region: harmonisation strategies; institutional integration and opportunities for development; - A joint scientific special issue; - A decentralised database based on web services allowing data owners to control access to their data; - Good practices manuals for the use of new technologies and evaluation of MSFD (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) indicators; - Near-surface chlorophyll satellite derived products tailored for the Atlantic Region that allow quantification of phytoplankton, and their Functional Types; - Operational models downscaled from the CMEMS (Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service) and calibrated for each Atlantic subregion; - Forum to enhance the technological transfer to administrations related with the implementation of the MSFD for the Atlantic Area region; - 1 final international scientific conference and 5 workshops focused on MSFD implementation through technical solutions; - 6 dissemination, capacity building and aware raising events related to the MSFD for the general public and stakeholders; - Increased number of end-users for the technical solutions developed at research centres through the CMEMS user uptake and service evolution; - International capacity building between researchers, administrators, and developers related to the MSFD implementation.

Thematic information

Coastal management and maritime issues Sustainable management of natural resources

Specific Objective: Strengthening the transfer of innovation results to facilitate the emergence of new products, services and processes

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (12)

Lead Partner: INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO

Address: Lisboa, Portugal

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ifado.eu

Total budget: EUR 471 500.00

ERDF budget: EUR 353 625.00

Natural Environment Research Council

Name: Natural Environment Research Council

Address: Swindon, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 345 814.00

ERDF budget: EUR 259 360.50

Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

Name: Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

Address: Lisboa, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 240 650.00

ERDF budget: EUR 180 487.50

Universidade da Madeira

Name: Universidade da Madeira

Address: Funchal, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 160 650.00

ERDF budget: EUR 120 487.50

Instituto Español de Oceanografia

Name: Instituto Español de Oceanografia

Address: A Coruña, Spain

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 351 975.00

ERDF budget: EUR 263 981.25

Plataforma Oceánica De Canarias

Name: Plataforma Oceánica De Canarias

Address: Telde, Spain

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 390 875.00

ERDF budget: EUR 293 156.25

Fundo Regional para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Name: Fundo Regional para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Address: Ponta Delgada, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 291 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 218 250.00

Faculdade Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Name: Faculdade Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Address: Lisboa, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 180 430.00

ERDF budget: EUR 135 322.50

NOVELTIS

Name: NOVELTIS

Address: Labege, France

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 248 670.00

ERDF budget: EUR 186 502.50

Pole Mer Bretagne Atlantique

Name: Pole Mer Bretagne Atlantique

Address: Brest, France

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 227 273.00

ERDF budget: EUR 170 454.75

Foras na Mara

Name: Foras na Mara

Address: Galway, Ireland

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 347 143.00

ERDF budget: EUR 260 357.25

Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Name: Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Address: Plymouth, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 376 655.00

ERDF budget: EUR 282 491.25

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Summary

Project name (EN): Innovation in the Deep Atlantic Ocean

Project name (ES): Innovación en el marco del Océano Atlántico profundo

Project name (PT): Inovação no quadro do Oceano Atlântico profundo

Project name (FR): Innovation dans le cadre de l'Océan Atlantique profond

Project acronym: iFADO

Project start date: 2017-11-04

Project end date: 2021-11-03

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 632 635.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 724 476.25

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 724 476.25.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Studies / surveys

Identification, selection and demonstration of technical solutions for the monitoring of French Marine Protected Areas

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/page/63

Publication date: 2023-02-20

Document date: 2021-11-03

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Reports

iFADO Good practice: A Pre-Commercial Procurement on Earth Observation Services

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/page/63

Publication date: 2023-02-20

Document date: 2021-11-03

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

iFADO Good practice: An Offshore Test Platform for Research and Industry

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/page/63

Publication date: 2023-02-20

Document date: 2021-11-03

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Atlantic Area

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2021-08-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

71 / 71 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

718 / 718 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.atlanticarea.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-12-03, 2023-02-02 and 2024 01 30. Fields project name and description (from 23 projects) translated from Spanish into English using the European Commission's eTranslation machine translation service.

The projects which fields include an eTranslation English text are the ones with the following acronyms: @BluePortS, 4H-CREAT, ACCESS2SEA, AGEO, AGRITOX, ALERTOX-NET, AtlanticFoodExport, ATLANTIC-KET-MED, AT-VIRTUAL, AYCH, CABFishMAN, CircularSeas, COCKLES, CONSORTEX, FAN-BEST, iFADO, IN 4.0, JONAS, MONITOOL, NANOCULTURE, PROTOATLANTIC, SIRMA and USER-FACTOR.

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