MarinERA

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MarinERA

• Facilitating the Coordination of National and
  Regional Marine RTD Programmes in Europe

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MarinERA, 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
  resources and research trans- national

• MarinERA project elaborated, funded by FP6

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MarinERA Aims

• Provide a strategic and operational platform
  between national, EU and international
  structures
• Reduce fragmentation and duplication
• Enhance coordination of marine research
  infrastructures
• Facilitate reciprocal opening of national marine
  programmes
• Establishment of common marine research programmes

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MarinERA Objectives

• Develop a  marine component  within the ERA
• Provide operational and strategic platform for
  sharing resources, to solve issues at a European
  level
• Facilitate reciprocal opening of national
  programmes, developing joint calls and
  trans-national marine RTD programmes

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MarinERA Progress Towards

• Complementarity
• MarinERA provides the operational aspect of the
  Marine Boards traditional strategy and policy
  approach
• Map programmes and specialized infrastructures
• facilitate internal market
• Facilitate networking of Funding Agencies
• Contribute and support the EU Marine Research
  Policy (challenges, opportunities, priorities)
• Common basis for sharing resources

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The Consortium

• 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 Science and Technology
  (MCYT), 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 (BELSPO), 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 Group
• DFG
• EFARO
• EuroGOOS
• EPB
• French Research Ministry
• IACMST
• ICES
• ERA-NETs
• BONUS
• AMP-ERA
• ECORD-NET
• NoEs
• MARINE GENOMICS
• MARBEF
• EUR-OCEANS

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MarinERA Steering Commitee

• Chair Maurice Héral - Ifremer (Coordinator)
• Management decisions (technical/exploitation/finan
  cial etc.)
• Representatives of the 15 partners
• Representatives of the 13 Advisory members
  (organisations, ERA-Nets, NoEs)
• Meet every 6 months
• Costs covered by the project funds

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MarinERA Technical Commitee

• Executive manager N.Connolly (MB-ESF)
• TC Chair G.OSullivan (MI, Ireland)
• WP1 Information ExchangeGeoffrey OSullivan,
  MI, Ireland
• WP2 Strategic ActivitiesBeatriz Morales, MEC,
  Spain
• WP3 Joint ActivitiesRaymond Schorno, NWO, The
  Netherlands
• WP4 Transnational ActivitiesPhilip Newton,
  NERC, United Kingdom
• WP5 ManagementYann Maubras, Ifremer, France
• Meet every 6 months

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MarinERA Work Plan Gantt Chart
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WP 1 Information Exchange
WP 2 Strategic Activities
WP 3 Joint Activities
WP 4 Trans-national Activities
WP 5 Management of MarinERA
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MarinERA ResultantBenefits Impacts

• Inventories descriptions (national programmes
  and research facilities)
• Guidelines of best practices in funding programme
  management
• Analysis of barriers to cooperation among Member
  States  Position Paper 
• Guidelines of common evaluation procedures and
  research programmes performance indicators
• Position paper on  European Marine
  Infrastructure Strategy 
• Elaboratation of a joint  pilot  call for
  proposals, followed by 1 to 3  operational 
  calls
• Publication of a  Marine Science Research
  Strategy  paper
• Integrated and interactive information system

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MarinERA MIF MPM

• MIF (Marine Infrastructure management Forum)-
  provide information on MS Programmes and to input
  to the various WP on marine programme
  implementation- RV mobile structures,
  observing monitoring systems, land-based
  infrastructure, data management- establishment
  of joint programmes, possibly common calls
• MPM ( Marine Program Management Forum)- exchange
  of info, data collection, process of
  evaluation- facilitate programmes reciprocal
  opening

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Summary

• MarinERA builds upon dynamics of
• Institute networks (Marine Board, EuroGOOS,
  EFARO, BONUS, etc)
• CREST WG on national programmes
• MB - Integrating Marine Science in Europe
• MarinERA aims to transform ideas into practical
  research management approaches

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Contact Details

• Dr Maurice Héral CoordinatorIFREMERRue J.J
  Rousseau, 155F-92138 Issy les Moulineaux,
  Francemaurice.heral_at_ifremer.fr
• Dr Niamh Connolly- Executive ManagerMarine Board
  European Science Foundation1 quai
  Lezay-Marnésia, B.P 9001567080 Strasbourg Cedex,
  Francenconnolly_at_esf.org