CORDIS · FORCOAST

Earth Observation Services for Fishery, Bivalves Mariculture and Oysterground Restoration along European Coasts

Code: FORCOAST
Programme: H2020
Call: DT-SPACE-01-EO-2018-2020
Status: CLOSED
Period: 2019-11-01 – 2022-10-31

Total cost (whole consortium)2 288 911 €

EU contribution (whole consortium)2 082 058 €

EU contribution to Bulgarian participants75 000 €

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Participants

Organisations	Role	Country	Grant
STICHTING DELTARES	coordinator	NL	496 000 €
FUNDACION AZTI - AZTI FUNDAZIOA	participant	ES	119 881 €
EXPORSADO - COMERCIO E INDUSTRIA DE PRODUTOS DO MAR SA	participant	PT	103 775 €
MARINE INSTRUMENTS SA	participant	ES	100 100 €
CUAN BEO ENVIRONMENTAL COMPANY LBG	participant	IE	100 000 €
MARINE INSTITUTE	participant	IE	100 000 €
JAILOO SRL	participant	RO	90 125 €
ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE	participant	IT	90 000 €
DANMARKS METEOROLOGISKE INSTITUT	participant	DK	89 988 €
INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO	participant	PT	85 000 €
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE	participant	IT	81 250 €
AARHUS UNIVERSITET	participant	DK	80 042 €
INSTITUT ROYAL DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE BELGIQUE	participant	BE	80 000 €
SOFIA UNIVERSITY ST KLIMENT OHRIDSKI	participant	BG	75 000 €
EUROGOOS	participant	BE	68 512 €
TERRASIGNA SRL	participant	RO	66 500 €
UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE	participant	BE	64 250 €
BREVISCO	participant	BE	56 000 €
OYSTER BOAT APS	participant	DK	50 010 €
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE MARINA GRIGORE ANTIPA	participant	RO	45 625 €
EIGEN VERMOGEN VAN HET INSTITUUT VOOR LANDBOUW- EN VISSERIJONDERZOEK	participant	BE	40 000 €

Description

The FORCOAST project addresses the topic “DT-SPACE-01-EO-2018-2020 COPERNICUS MARKET UPTAKE” which seeks to foster market development exploiting the value of Copernicus Earth Observation Products. FORCOAST aims to provide information services that offer high resolution water quality and met-ocean indicators in coastal and nearshore areas, to improve operation, planning and management of different marine activities in the sectors of wild fisheries, oystergrounds restoration, and bivalve mariculture. FORCOAST information products and services will be co-designed with stakeholders, thereby ensuring that these products and services are tailored to meet their needs. FORCOAST is developing, testing and demonstrating, in operational mode, novel Copernicus-based downstream information services that will incorporate Copernicus Marine, Land and Climate Services Products, local monitoring data and advanced modelling in the service. The services will integrate Copernicus Earth Observation Products with local models and other diverse data sources (local, regional or global) with ICT (enhancing new frontiers opened by web, and use of cloud) across the different market segments. FORCOAST will provide consistent coastal data products, based on a standardized data processing scheme. FORCOAST is supporting the concept of developing an advanced platform and cloud computing for Copernicus-based downstream services utilizing one of the DIAS systems. The availability and accessibility of data and derived products generated will stimulate their exploitation by a wide range of user communities in the targeted sectors. FORCOAST will provide those services in eight pilot service uptake sites covering five different regional waters (North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and the coastal Atlantic Ocean).

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