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European Commission

"THE OCEAN OF TOMORROW 2011" CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Joining research forces to meet challenges in ocean management.

° Leaflet
° Press release
° Cordis call for proposals

Oceans offer opportunities for sustainable economic development. However, human activities are exerting increasing environmental pressure on the oceans, threatening marine ecosystems and sustainable maritime activities. In particular, the growing demand for maritime transport, offshore energy, tourism, coastal development, resource extraction, fisheries and aquaculture may have a major impact on the marine environment.
The European Union has taken up this challenge and established a new integrated maritime policy, of which the Communication "A European Strategy for Marine and Maritime Research" (COM (2008) 534) is a fundamental part. The strategy highlights the importance of integration between established marine and maritime research disciplines, in order to reinforce excellence in science and to reconcile the growth of sea-based activities with environmental sustainability. The "ocean of tomorrow" 2011 is the second cross-thematic call for proposals to implement this commitment.

Knowledge for innovations to make the most of sea resources.

The aims of the call are to improve our understanding and the predictive capacity of marine ecosystems’ response to a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors, while fostering innovations to make the most of sea resources.
The call "The ocean of tomorrow 2011" will be implemented through four topics, out of which two of generic nature and two of particular relevance to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea:

Multi-use offshore platforms (€14 milllion)
Marine microbial diversity: new insights into marine ecosystems functioning and its biotechnological potential (€9 million)
Assessing and predicting the combined effects of natural and human-made pressures in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea in view of their better governance (€13 million)
Knowledge-base and tools for regional networks of marine protected areas, integrated management of activities together with assessment of wind energy potential in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea (€9 million)

The call has been published on CORDIS on 20 July 2010 under the Cooperation Themes: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology; Energy; Environment; Transport. It is led by the Directorate 'Biotechnologies, Agriculture, Food' of the Research DG.

THE INFORMATION DAY
The Info Day presenting the call for proposals FP7-OCEAN-2011 "The ocean of tomorrow 2011" took place on 9 September 2010 in the Conference Centre Albert Borschette in Brussels.

250 persons attended the conference.

Morning session : [webstream

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Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, and Maria Damanaki, European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries welcomed the participants. They underlined the need of improved knowledge of the sea to open up new opportunities and drive innovation in the maritime economy.Addressing societal and environmental challenges while at the same time converting them into economic opportunities is a key objective of the Innovation Union that is at the core of the Europe 2020 strategy.

The morning session, chaired by Maive Rute, Director of Directorate E 'Biotechnologies, Agriculture, Food' in DG RTD, went on with a general presentation of the rationale for this call and of the challenges it tackles in the different domains bio-economy, environment, transport, energy. The four topics, their objectives, their expected impacts and the implementation of the call for proposals were described in details.

It was followed by a floor discussion with all Commission services. Questions concerned specific points on the text of the 4 topics as well as more general comments on the call itself.

Afternoon session: [webstream

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The brokerage session organised in the afternoon went smooth in 2 1/2 hours time and allowed participants to better know each others. 40 "flash" presentations were given by participants related to a project idea, to their competence in the specific field, or to their interest in starting or joining a consortium.

10:00	Opening	download
	Máire Geoghegan-Quinn European Commissioner for Research and Innovation		[41.5kb]
	Maria Damanaki European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries		[34.4kb]
10:30	Maive Rute, Director Biotechnologies, Agriculture, Food Directorate - Research DG Call “The ocean of tomorrow 2011”: rationale, context Bio-economy challenges in the context of the call		[30.1kb]
10:50	Manuela Soares, Director Environment Directorate - Research DG Environmental challenges in the context of the call		[22.9kb]
11:00	Andras Siegler, Director Transport Directorate - Research DG Transport challenges in the context of the call		[15.2kb]
11:10	Bruno SCHMITZ, Head of Unit New and renewable energy sources Unit Energy Directorate – Research DG Energy challenges in the context of the call
11:20	Ana-Teresa CAETANO, Management of natural resources Unit Environment Directorate – Research DG Call “The ocean of tomorrow 2011”: description of topics, modalities for implementation		[1.3mb]
11:40	Floor discussion with Commission services Waddah Saab (Transport); Thierry Langlois d'Estaintot (Energy), Ana Teresa Caetano (Environment), Garbine Guiu Etxeberria (Marine biotechnology), Jacques Fuchs, Isabelle Terrier (Fisheries&Aquaculture, call coordination)
12:30	Lunch Break
14:00	Brokerage session - Flash presentations Moderator: Waddah Saab, coordinator for the EU Strategy for marine and maritime research - Surface Transport Unit, Transport Directorate - Research DG

interest	Presentation title	Organisation	Name	Download
topic 1	Sustainable Use of Offshore Platforms	World Maritime University	Neil Bellefontaine		[470kb]
topic 1	Mediterranean offshore platform	Pole Mer PACA	Florian Carré		[1.21mb]
topic 1	SEASTENFLEX	IDESA	Andrés Castro		[1.00mb]
topic 1	Presentation as2con Info day	as2con - alveus ltd.	Teuta Duletic		[35.2kb]
topic 1	Impact analysis on the environment	Oldenburg University	Christopher Haut		[140kb]
topic 1	PLOCAN: A MULTI-USE OFFSHORE PLATFORM	PLOCAN	Jose Joaquin Hernandez Brito		[762kb]
topic 1	Platform for Energy, Aquaculture and Shipping	Strathclyde Marine Institute	Atilla Incecik		[173kb]
topic 1	Offshore Research Platform	University of Oviedo	Enrique Jáimez		[364kb]
topic 1	FINO3 - The offshore laboratory in North Sea	FuE-Zentrum FH Kiel GmbH	Björn Lehmann-Matthaei		[585kb]
topic 1	WavEC-an integrated view on Marine Renewables	Wave Energy Centre - WavEC	Alex Raventos		[829kb]
topic 1	Aqualine AS, Norway	Aqualine AS	Noralf Rønningen		[250kb]
topic 1	INSEAN: maritime engineering research center	INSEAN	Francesco Salvatore		[915kb]
topic 1	The EPHESUS: An Integrated Ocean Farm System	Ege University	Gamze Turan		[477kb]
topic 1	Proposal for multi-use offshore platforms	TECNALIA	Jose Luis Villate		[703kb]
topic 1	Competences-Projets-Interests in FP7-OCEAN-2011	CENTER OF MARITIME TECHNOLOGIES e.V.	Anastasia Walter		[201kb]
topic 2	Hidden Marine Microbial Biodiversity	The Natural History Museum	David Bass		[1.15mb]
topic 2	The sea surface microlayer: vital and unique	Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom	Michael Cunliffe		[781kb]
topic 2	Setting up the Marine B3 Consortium	Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology	Frank Oliver Glöckner		[112kb]
topic 2	New metagenomics-based biotech applications	Bangor University	Peter Golyshin		[0.99mb]
topic 2	Analysis of microbial functionality of arctic deep sea hydrothermal vent systems and cold seeps through metagenomics and metaproteomics	University of Bergen	Anja Hegen		[976kb]
topic 2	Eco-Systems Biology	Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann	Paul Wilmes		[1.97mb]
topic 2	Potential contributions for the ocean of tomorrow	Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology	Maggy Nugues		[867kb]
topic 2-3	Potential interest of MRC/TUBITAK to Ocean	TUBITAK-Marmara Research Center	Çolpan Polat Beken		[238kb]
topic 3	Consilience, Integration and Improvement	Norwegian University of Science & Technology	Murat V. Ardelan
topic 3	The humans: A neglected biological species	NTNU Social Research	Oddmund Otterstad		[828kb]
topic 3	Coastal-grid Observatories Research Alliance	Daedalus Informatics Ltd	Peter Chaniotis		[6.16mb]
topic 3	Environmental impact of ports	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	Rosa Mari Darbra		[306kb]
topic 3	JRC IES Rural, Water and Ecosystem Resources Unit as research partner	JRC Institute for environment and sustainability	Georg Hanke		[154kb]
topic 3	BLACKMED - SUSENEN	Dipartimento di Ricerche Energetiche ed Ambientali (DREAM) - Università di Palermo	Gianfranco Rizzo		[636kb]
topic 3	Marine Environmental Acoustics at NPL	National Physical Laboratory	Stephen Robinson		[759kb]
topic 1-3	Maritime logistics	University Duisburg-Essen, Transport systems and Logistics	Cyril Alias		[2.70mb]
topic 3-4	EurOcean Knowledge Management	EurOcean	Cristina Costa		[1.83mb]
topic 4	COCONET: A COast to COast NETwork of protecte	University of Salento - CoNISMa	Ferdinando Boero		[257kb]
topic 4	Legal research on MPAs	Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) - Utrecht University	Petra Drankier		[102kb]
topic 4	Assessing the Egyptian Mediterranean water	National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries	Suzan Kholeif		[492kb]
topic 4	Project Proposal and Ideas for MPAs by METU	Middle East Technical University	Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner		[6.43mb]
topic 1-4	The Innovation Dimension: Knowledge Mgmt	AquaTT Limited	David Murphy		[600kb]
topic 1-3-4	Marine Law and Ocean Policy Research Services	Marine Law and Ocean policy Research Services Limited	Ronán Long		[854kb]
topic 1-3-4	Technologies for a sustainable development	Unidad de Tecnologia Marina (UTM - CSIC)	Marcos Portabella		[882kb]
topic 1-2-3-4	The ICTINEU3 1200m Research Submersible	Ictineu Submarins	Alex Alcocer		[1.53mb]
topic 1-2-3-4	Marine benthic ecologist	Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen	Martin Solan		[1.04mb]

The only official documentation regarding the call FP7-OCEAN-2011 'The ocean of tomorrow' is displayed on CORDIS website: http://cordis.europa.eu- Contact: RTD-OCEAN-CALL@ec.europa.eu

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