Marine Board

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MarinERA ERA-Net Project Co-ordination of
National and RegionalMarine RTD Activities in
Europe

• Marine Board
• ESF Assembly
• 18 November 2004

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The Context

• The ERA-NET Scheme is about the coordination and
  cooperation of national and regional programmes
  (DG Research Website)
• MarinERA - evolution
• Need for enhanced co-ordination at the European
  level evident
• Tradition of co-operation in marine research
  logistics
• Common issues associated with marine resouces and
  research trans- national
• Response - MarinERA project elaborated by Marine
  Board
• Funded by FP6 grant to the budget 2.94 million
  euros
• Start date 1st November 2004
• Duration 48 months
• Co-ordinator Jean-Francois Minster, CEO Ifremer

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MarinERA Aims Objectives

• Encourage and support marine science initiatives
  in several countries
• Provide a strategic and operational platform for
  interaction between national, EU and
  international agencies
• Efficient trans-national research co-operation in
  marine research
• Reduce fragmentation and duplication
• Enhance co-ordination of marine research
  programmes and infrastructures
• Reciprocal opening of national marine programmes
• Mutual access to infrastructure facilities
  co-ordinated activities
• Establish common / joint marine research
  programmes regional / thematic calls
• Emphasis on inter-disciplinary approach

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MarinERA - Progress towards

• Complementarity
• MarinERA will develop operational mechanisms /
  implementation Marine Boards traditional policy
  / strategy approach
• Maturity of the association facilitates
  implementation
• Map programmes and specialized infrastructures
• facilitate internal market
• Enhance networking of Funding Agencies
• Contribute to Marine Research Policy challenges,
  opportunities, priorities
• Basis for sharing resources opportunities for
  future collaboration
• Interaction platform for marine ERA-Nets
  overarching thematic and regional

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The Consortium

• 15 Partners 13 Member States
• IFREMER, France - COORDINATOR
• Marine Board ESF OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT
• Marine Institute, Ireland
• Research Council of Norway (RCN), Norway
• Juelich Research Centre GmbH Project Management
  Organisation Jülich (FZJ-PTJ), Germany
• Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, Spain
• Academy of Finland (AKA), Finland
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
  (NWO), The Netherlands
• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK
• General Secretariat for Research and Technology,
  Ministry of Development, Greece (GSRT), Greece
• Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation
  (FCT), Portugal
• Belgian Federal Public Planning Service Science
  Policy (PPS Science Policy), Belgium
• Science and Innovation Administration, Ministry
  of the Flemish Community (AWI - Belgium), Belgium
• Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST),
  Malta
• Ministry of Scientific Research and Information
  Technology, Poland (MSRIT), Poland

• Advisory Members
• BONUS
• DFG
• ECORD-Net
• EFARO
• EuroGOOS
• EPB
• French Research Ministry
• IACMST - UK
• ICES
• NoE IP FP6
• (MariFISH AMP-ERA)

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MarinERA Approach

• Collection and exchange of information and best
  practice
• Mapping RTD programmes and infrastructures
• 3 types databases, landbased, ships and
  equipment
• Review of best practices
• Strategic analysis issues and priorities
• Identification of new strategic activities
• Barriers to co-operation
• Common evaluation procedures
• Implementation of joint activities
• Clustering projects - thematic
• MoU for multi-lateral projects
• Common access to infrastructure
• Implementation of trans-national activities
• Marine RTD strategies
• Suite of programmes for joint projects
• Establish and implement

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MarinERA Approach

• Co-ordination Management
• Emphasis on
• Forum of Marine Programmes Managers
• Forum of Marine Infrastructure Managers
• Strategy development
• Synergy
• Dissemination internet portal
• Contractual - legal and financial aspects
  Ifremer
• Operational Management Marine Board

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Resultant Benefits

• Improved co-operation and co-ordination through
  reciprocal opening of national marine RTD
  programmes
• Effective and efficient use of national marine
  RTD programmes
• Added scientific value and cost-effectiveness
• Consideration of issues beyond capacity of
  individual MS

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Conclusion

• MarinERA developed from dynamics of
• Institute networks (Marine Board - IMSE,
  EuroGOOS, EFARO, BONUS, etc)
• ESFRI WG on Marine Infrastructures
• CREST WG on national marine programme
• MarinERA aims to transform strategic policy
  concepts into practical research management
  approaches and implementation