EUR-OCEANS - EURopean research on OCean Ecosystems under Anthropogenic and Natural forcingS.The EUR-OCEANS Consortium (EOC) builds on the legacy of the EC-funded, FP6 EUR-OCEANS European Network of Excellence (EO NoE), which contributed to the scientific expertise and dissemination of knowledge on marine ecosystems in the context of climate/global change from 2005 to 2008.
The focus of the Consortium is on the impact of climate/global change on marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles, and the construction of scenarios relevant to the emerging International Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
KNOWNSEAS - Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe's Seas
KnowSeas is supported by the European Commission under the Environment Theme of the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
The overall objective of KnowSeas is to provide a comprehensive scientific knowledge base and practical guidance for the application of the Ecosystem Approach to the sustainable development of Europe´s regional seas.
WISER - Water bodies in Europe: Integrative Systems to assess Ecological status and Recovery
The project is funded under the 7th EU Framework Programme, Theme 6 (Environment including Climate Change)
WISER will support the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) by developing tools for the integrated assessment of the ecological status of European surface waters. The project will analyse existing data from more than 90 databases compiled in previous and ongoing projects, covering all water categories, organism groups and environmental stressor types. Field-sampling campaigns will supplement the data on lakes and coastal systems. The data will be used to test and complement existing assessment schemes with a focus on uncertainty affects on classification strength.
