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DANUBIUS-RI

Intro

The International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems (DANUBIUS-RI) will be a distributed research infrastructure (RI) that brings together world leading expertise and provide access to a range of river-sea (RS) systems, facilities and expertise, to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ for knowledge exchange, access to harmonised data, a platform for interdisciplinary research, education and training and hence provide answers to questions regarding sustainable management and environmental protection of the RS continuum.

Overview

Freshwater and marine systems are central to societal wellbeing, yet they face multiple and confounding pressures from climate change, eutrophication and other natural and anthropogenic environmental perturbations of varying intensities at local and global scales. The International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems (DANUBIUS-RI) will be a distributed research infrastructure (RI) that brings together world leading expertise and provide access to a range of river-sea (RS) systems, facilities and expertise, to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ for knowledge exchange, access to harmonised data, a platform for interdisciplinary research, education and training and hence provide answers to questions regarding sustainable management and environmental protection of the RS continuum.

A fundamentally new approach to research is needed to advance the goal of better-informed and holistically engaged environmental management of RS systems, particularly at the freshwater-marine interface. This requires world-leading science, comprising research that has immediate societal relevance and impact in facilitating interdisciplinary research in the freshwater and marine sciences. The research must span traditional disciplinary and geographic boundaries and be implemented in a consistent and quality assured framework. Recognizing these needs, the concept of DANUBIUS-RI was developed, positively evaluated and included on the 2016 Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).

The H2020 DANUBIUS-RI Preparatory Phase (DANUBIUS-PP) project (December 2016 – December 2019) now supports the further development of DANUBIUS-RI, i.e. to bring it to such a level of maturity that it is ready for implementation as a pan-European distributed RI by ca. 2021.

Related NCR Partners

Deltares

Rijkswaterstaat

Contact Details

Jos Brils (jos.brils@deltares.nl)
+31 6 22 7 99 183

General Info

Duration: from 2016 to 2021

Research positions: 0

Funding

Horizon 2020

Domains

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Rhine-Meuse Estuary
  • River Studies
  • Water Management

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