📋 Tender Overview
Funding
European
European Union
Duration
01/2023
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12/2026
Status Ongoing
Total project cost €8 527 590
EU Contribution €8 527 589
Project website
https://www.neccton.eu/
Project Acronym NECCTON
STRIA Roadmaps
Transport mode
Waterborne icon
Transport policies
Other specified
Overview
Call for proposal HORIZON-CL4-2022-SPACE-01
Link to CORDIS
CORDIS ID: 101081273
Background & Policy context
The ocean’s biodiversity supports the livelihood of almost half of the world's population. However, climate change and human activities endanger this biodiversity, which is why it needs to be continuously monitored. The European Copernicus Marine Service provides such marine monitoring, but the current models and methods have room for improvement. The EU-funded NECCTON project will fuse new data into innovative ecosystem models. This will enable the Copernicus Marine Service to offer products that are even more relevant for marine biodiversity conservation and marine food resource management globally, with special focus on regional European seas.
Objectives
The ocean’s biodiversity supports the livelihoods of over three billion people, providing vital services, including food and nutrient cycling. However marine policy and resource management do not yet consider the latest scientific advances, even when the state-of-the-art operational models of the European Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS) are used.
Our objective is to enable CMEMS to deliver novel products that inform marine biodiversity conservation and food resources management, by fusing new data into innovative ecosystem models that integrate biological and abiotic components, habitats, and stressors of marine ecosystems.
