Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources iMarine

COMBINATION OF COLLABORATIVE PROJECT AND
COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTION:
INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVE (I3)

Work programme topic:

INFRA-2011-1.2.2: Data Infrastructure for e-Science
Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources
iMarine

Date of preparation: 23 November 2010

Version number: 0.2

Participant no.	Participant organisation name	Part. short name	Country
1 (Coordinator)	GEIE ERCIM	ERCIM	FR
2	Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche	CNR	IT
3	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	NKUA	GR
4	European Organisation for Nuclear Research	CERN	CH
5	Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA	E-IIS	IT
6	University of Strathclyde	US	UK
7	Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas	FORTH	GR
8	Terradue s.r.l.	Terradue	IT
9	Trust-IT Services Ltd.	Trust-IT	UK
10	The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations	FAO	IT
11	Fishbase Information & Research Group Inc.	FIN	PH
12	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - UNESCO	UNESCO	FR
13	Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental	CRIA	BR
14	Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement	IRD	FR

Name of the coordinating person: Jessica Michel

e-mail: [e-mail]

fax: [phone]
Name of the scientific coordinator: Donatella Castelli

e-mail: [e-mail]

fax: [phone]

Proposal abstract

Marine life plays a vital role in the Earth’s ecosystem. Wise and judicious management of all relevant resources is of paramount importance to ensure that all forms of marine life remain sustainable. However, efforts in this direction are severely hindered by extreme compartmentalization and heterogeneity at all levels and sectors: the global, national, and local organizations active in the field; the different scientific disciplines involved; the methodologies used to acquire, format and present data; the procedures used to analyze the data; and several others. The main goal of the iMarine project is, thus, to launch an initiative aimed at establishing and operating an e-infrastructure supporting the principles of the Ecosystem Approach to fisheries management and conservation of marine living resources. iMarine has three main objectives: (i) the establishment of an iMarine Board, formed by representatives of international organisations involved in this domain, which will define a sustainability-driven data-centric e-infrastructure governance model and organizational and technological policy recommendations; (ii) the management and operation of this e-Infrastructure offering user-level and application-level services that support the recommended policies and provide relevant functionality to the stakeholders; (iii) the extension, adaptation and deployment of a rich set of software components that implement these services. Instrumental in the activities of iMarine will be the establishment of an active set of collaborations with other international initiatives. The aim will be to reuse and render interoperable existing policies, technologies, and e-infrastructures. By leveraging on these collaborations and by taking advantage of additional funding that these organizations invest in the project, the number of available resources brought into play will be maximized.

Table of contents

Scientific and/or technological quality, relevant to the topics addressed by the call 16

1.1Concept and objectives 16

1.2Progress beyond the state-of-the-art 20

The Ecosystem Approach and the Emerging EA-CoP 20

Infrastructures for the Emerging EA-CoP 21

Enabling Software Technologies 23

1.3Methodology to achieve the objectives of the project, in particular the provision of integrated services 24

Linking the Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice 25

Infrastructure Development and Operation 28

Technology Development 31

Realising Community Business Cases 33

Outreach 36

Proposal Activities Overall Strategy 37

1.4Networking Activities and associated work plan 39

Overall strategy 39

GANTT Diagram 40

Detailed work description 41

Pert diagram 57

Risk Analysis and Contingency Plans 58

1.5Service Activities and associated work plan 60

Overall strategy 60

GANTT Diagram 61

Detailed work description 62

Pert diagram 75

Risk Analysis and Contingency Plans 76

1.6Joint Research Activities and associated work plan 78

Overall strategy 78

GANTT Diagram 79

Detailed work description 80

Pert diagram 95

Risk Analysis and Contingency Plans 96

Implementation 97

1.7Management structure and procedures 97

Project Structure 97

Project Governance 97

Project Management 98

Procedures and Tools 99

1.8Individual participants 102

GEIE ERCIM (ERCIM), France (Coordinator) 102

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy 102

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece 103

European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland 104

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA (E-IIS), Italy 105

University of Strathclyde (US), United Kingdom 105

Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Greece 106

Terradue s.r.l. (Terradue), Italy 107

Trust-IT Services Ltd. (Trust-IT), United Kingdom 107

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Italy 108

Fishbase Information & Research Group Inc. (FIN), Philippines 109

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – UNESCO (UNESCO), France 109

Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental (CRIA), Brasil 110

Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), France 111

1.9Consortium as a whole 112

Rationale of the consortium 112

Consortium Synthesis 114

1.10Resources to be committed 118

Overall Budget 118

Costs Category 118

Personnel Costs 118

Travel Costs 120

iMarine Board Estimated travel costs 120

Communication & Dissemination Material 120

Subcontracting Costs 120

Additional support to be provided by beneficiaries and stakeholders 121

Impact 122

1.11Expected impacts listed in the work programme 122

Expected Impact Listed in the Work Programme 122

Added Value of Implementing the Action at European Level 124

External Factors Determining Achieved Impacts 125

Impacts in the Context of Other National or International Research 125

1.12Dissemination and/or exploitation of project results, and management of intellectual property 126

Dissemination Measures 126

Exploitation of Project Results 129

Management of Intellectual Property 130

1.13Contribution to socio-economic impacts 131

Socio-Economic Impacts 131

Environmental Impacts 131

Promoting Innovation and Developing Appropriate Skills in Europe 132

Ethical Issues 133

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[17]Profile of the iMarine Board 135

17.1iMarine Board members 135

17.2iMarine Observers 137

17.3iMarine Advisory Council 139

[18]Acronyms 140

[19]Letters of Support 142

19.1LIFEWATCH LoS 142

19.2ICES LoS 143