Danubius RI – International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems

Danubius RI – International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems  

National Institute for Marine Geology and GeoEcology (GeoEcoMar)

• Romania

• Romanian National Institute for Research and Development on Biological Sciences – INSB (Romania)
• WasserCluster Lunz – biologische Station GmbH – WCL (Austria)
• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences -BAS (BulgaRIA)
• Institute of Global Change Research, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic – CzechGlobe (Czech Republic)
• Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Zentrum für Material- und Küstenforschung GmbH – HZG (Germany)
• Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau – BAW (Germany)
• Technische Universität Dresden – TUD (Germany)
• Hellenic Centre for Marine Research – HCMR (Greece)
• Democritus University of Thrace – DUTH (Greece)
• Széchenyi István University – SZE (Greece)
• University College Cork – UCC (Ireland)
• CNR Istituto delle Scienze Marine – ISMAR (Italy)
• Consortium for managing research activities in Venice Lagoon – CORILA (Italy)
• Academy of Science of Moldova – MAS (Moldova)
• Deltares (Netherlands)
• Stichting IHE Delft – IHE (Netherlands)
• Laboratori d’Enginyeria Marítima, Univertitat Politècnica de Catalinya – UPC (Spain)
• University of Seville (Spain)
• Odessa State Ecological University (Ukraine)
• Centre for Ecology and Hydrology – CEH (UK)
• Plymouth Marine Laboratory – PML (UK)
• University of Birmingham (UK)
• University of Stirling (UK)

• Austria
• Belgium
• Czech Republic
• Germany
• Greece
• Italy
• Moldova
• Netherlands
• Spain
• United Kingdom

DANUBIUS-RI (International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems is a pan-European distributed research infrastructure supporting interdisciplinary research on River-Sea Systems, from the river source to coastal waters. DANUBIUS-RI will fill the gap of fragmented research on River-Sea Systems, drawing on existing research excellence across Europe, enhancing the impact of European research while maximising the return on investment. It will provide access to a range of European River-Sea Systems, facilities and expertise; a ‘one-stop shop’ for knowledge exchange in managing River-Sea Systems; access to harmonized data; and a platform for interdisciplinary research, inspiration, education and training. DANUBIUS-RI will offer a source-to-sea perspective to resolve problems arising from human impacts on River-Sea Systems:

• state-of-the-art research facilities and observation systems;
• development and implementation of interoperable and harmonised methods, tools and models, to achieve comparability across the freshwater-seawater continuum;
• data portal to integrate existing data and knowledge across sectors and disciplines, supplemented by new data and syntheses;
• smart observation and analytical technologies developed jointly with SMEs;
• test beds for nature-based management and restoration solutions;
• education and training programmes for scientists;
• engagement with public authorities and policy makers through assessment, evaluation and measures to improve the environmental status of River-Sea Systems;
• outreach to, and education for, the interested wider public.

DANUBIUS-RI is included on the ESFRI roadmap (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures). It has applied for designation as an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium).

https://www.danubius-ri.eu/

• River-sea systems, interdisciplinary research, transitional environments, multiple pressures

• Ecosystem services, Ecological engineering, Ecohydrology, Hydro-climatic extreme events adaptation, Emerging contaminants, Water infrastructures, Climate changes, Sustainable water demands, Resource management, Water technologies, Monitoring and smart systems, Water use, Resilience and sustainability

Distributed Research Infrastructures

• Danubius – RI Contact – danubius.research@geoecomar.ro 

• Access to monitoring sites
• Numerical modeling
• Access to data and metadata
• Training services
• Knowledge transfer
• Multi-scale analysis
• Upstream processing of satellite data,
• Remote-controlled computing capacity
• Logistic and technical support

• Observation networks and tools
• Environmental analysis infrastructures
• Cloud/Data Storage
• Numerical modelling
• Images analysis system

• Ecosystems
• Water Value and Usage
• Sustainable Water Management

Str. Dimitrie Onciul 23-25, sector 2, Bucharest, 024053, Bucharest, Romania

• Level of access: Virtual/Remote Access
• Modality of access: access on the base of Open Access
• Free Access

Note: Infrastructure under development, scheduled direct and online access on the base of Open Access – based on excellent interdisciplinary science with a social and economic impact.

H2020 DANUBIUS-PP