EMSO - Partnership

Other related initiatives are in progress

At national level, funds from several sources to be obtained (scientific projects, R&D program for components, ship time…) to implement local sites.

At international level (for instance Mediterranean tsunami warning system under the umbrella of IOC).

The Deep Sea Floor Frontier initiative aims to develop a major coordinated European research and technology effort on deep sea floor science. Deep-SF initiative is approaching European Commission to benefit from Article 169 to integrate national programs.

A first step has already been initiated by the constitution of national groups within ESONET Network of Excellence …

Research :

German Marine Research Consortium (KDM),
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV),
Ifremer and CNRS-INSU,
NOC, Southampton , University of Aberdeen, The Marine Institute, Galway
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR),
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ),
Centro do IMAR da Universidade dos Açores,
Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
University of Tromsö, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
FORTH Institute of Applied and Computional Mathematics
Göteborg University, Stockholm University,
TFH Berlin - University of Applied Sciences

Industry :

Alcatel Submarine Networks Ltd, Fugro Engineers B.V., CSA Group Ltd, MICREL, SERCEL, Guralp Systems Ltd, Atlantide

 This community is supporting the european deep-sea infrastructure needed that will be implemented through EMSO