At 09th April 2019, Eurofleets+ performed a Townhall Meeting to introduce the project, ship time opportunities and education and training in Eurofleets+.
The Townhall Meeting “Eurofleets+: New opportunities for excellent marine science” was convened by Dr. Nicole Biebow from the Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung. In three different presentations, a broad audience of interested researchers early-career researchers and senior scientists, including beneficiaries from previous Eurofleets projects, could learn about (1) the Eurofleets+ project background, (2) ship time opportunities and (2) education and training activities.
These are the presentation highlights:
Presentation (1), speaker: Aodhán Fitzgerald (Marine Institute), Project Coordinator of Eurofleets+
- Eurofleets+ is a H2020 project enabling marine scientists to access 27 Research Vessels, 7 ROVs, 5 AUVs and a telepresence unit in multiple locations throughout Europe, The Atlantic, Pacific & Ross Sea. Applicants may respond to three different ship-time calls which will be evaluated on scientific excellence.
- Services provided in Eurofleets+: Trans National Access to Infrastructure, Training & Education, Roadmap and Legacy Planning, Innovation Management, Joint Research Activities, Stakeholder Engagement.
Presentation (2), speaker: Verónica Willmott-Puig (Alfred-Wegener-Institute), Eurofleets+ Evaluation Office
Eurofleets+ Access Programmes:
- SEA: Ship time and marine Equipment Application:
- Access to the vessels and/or marine equipment through a classic call for proposals.
- A minimum of 2 calls, with “Ocean” (opening June 2019) and “Regional” (opening September 2019) vessels
- CO-PI: Co-PI programme
- Aimed at early career researchers to implement their own research together with the SEA programme calls. Access of 2-3 days, attached to an Eurofleets+ cruise.
- Running call, opening autumn 2019
- RTA: Remote Transnational Access
- Remote access to samples or data from a Eurofleets+ vessel.
- Running call, opening autumn 2019
Presentation (3), speaker: Michele Rebesco (National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics), Training and Education
Education and training: program presentation and coming next activities:
- 5 Floating Universities are planned
- Marine Internship Programme
- Teachers@SEA Programme
- Personell Exchange Programme
- Blue skills Labs
- Blue skills workshop webinars
- Coming soon:
- Blue skills robotic labs @ University of Gothenburg, call opens May 2019
- Blue skills ROV Lab @ University of Bremen (MARUM), call opens August 2019
- Floating University on RV Celtic Voyager – Hydrographic survey, call opens October/ November 2019
